Over the last decade the emerging markets have often been at the leading edge of the newest technologies within the telecoms industry.
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Indian regulator TRAI has lashed out at Facebook’s campaign to protect its Free Basics offering.
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Personalisation will continue to drive customer loyalty in emerging markets across 2016, according to Elitecore’s Dhaval Vora…
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Wireless innovations can safeguard MNOs against economic shifts and enable the next wave of LTE in 2016, according to CNBL’s Dr. John Naylon...
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China Mobile has been heavily pushing its 4G offering, and this effort began to pay off at the end of 2015.
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MTN has stated that “it is not and has never been implicated in corruption related actions” in Cameroon after being implicated in fraud by the country’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (Conac).
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Astellia's Cédric Arnaud-Battandier highlights his key trends for the upcoming year.
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Indonesian operator XL Axiata is planning another infrastructure sale in an attempt to further reduce its debt.
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Brazil’s Oi is currently looking to secure financing from two banks as it seeks to merge with TIM.
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Ciena’s Hector Silva shares his thoughts on the key themes he expects to see in the coming year including network virtualisation, data centre interconnect, and security...
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The potential applications of A2P messaging are set to drive change in emerging markets in 2016, according to Infobip's Silvio Kutic...
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South African operator Cell C has stated its belief that regulating OTT players could have an adverse effect on the industry.
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2016 will be an exciting year for the telecommunications industry in emerging and developing markets, where several consumer and market trends are of concern, according to IBM’s Noha Sadek…
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MTN Nigeria has claimed that it refuses to pay “a dime or penny” of the $3.9 billion fine that it has incurred in the market for failing to comply with security regulation.
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Emerging market operators will be increasingly turning to IP services and OTT in 2016, while the importance of big data analytics is becoming clear. So says Cataleya’s Jay Jayasimha…
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Indian operators Reliance Communications (RCom) and Reliance Jio have formed a partnership to share and trade spectrum.
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SDN and NFV have been on the rise for some time – and this is set to continue into 2016, according to Telco Systems’ Moshe Shimon...
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Millicom is considering a launch of its Tigo mobile brand in Mexico as competition improves following new regulation.
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While voice is still critical in emerging markets, the demand for rapid service deployment will see SaaS on the rise in emerging markets, according to FreeConferenceCall.com’s Bob Wise…
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Ericsson and Huawei have expanded their global patent licensing deal.
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MTN Nigeria has acquired the CDMA operator Visafone after a protracted negotiation period.
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China Unicom and China Telecom have signed a cooperation agreement to compete more effectively against market leader China Mobile.
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So far, the digital economy has not been adequately monetised, says CSG’s Ian Watterson – but this has to change in 2016…
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Transmission for small cell access points and virtualisation in preparation for IoT will be high on the agenda in 2016, according to Intracom Telecom’s Alexandros Tarnaris…
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The biggest game-changer for 2016? That’ll be NFV, according to Overture’s Prayson Pate…
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Ifetel, the new Mexican telecoms regulator that replaced CoFeTel in 2015, will on January 29 launch a tender for a carrier's carrier LTE network.
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2015 was a landmark year for mobile financial services. Throughout the year, we witnessed unprecedented growth in all areas of MFS...
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A successful 2015 in the satellite communications (satcomms) world heralded hopes for further growth in areas where terrestrial networks – heavily reliant on cable and second-generation mobile – have been unable to keep pace with the population’s appetite.
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Hard on the heals of its deal to acquire Cellcom Liberia, Orange is further strengthening its African portfolio by buying Airtel's operations in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone.
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The second-hand smartphone market will hit a value of US$17 billion worldwide, while one quarter of smartphone users will no longer make a traditional phone call in a given week, according to Deloitte.
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The customer experience is central to mobile networks, and throughout 2016 operators will continue to optimise their networks to meet this need, according to CellMining’s Assaf Aloni…
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Orange has announced it has entered into an agreement with Cellcom Telecommunications Limited to acquire, through its subsidiary Orange Côte d’Ivoire, Cellcom Liberia, the leading mobile operator in the West African country.
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Cloud traffic in the Middle East and Africa will quadruple by 2019, according to the Cisco Cloud Index. Personal cloud storage, public cloud services, denser private cloud workloads and the Internet of Everything (IoE) are among the key drivers of growth.
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Plugging gaps in connectivity to connect the unconnected has long been a challenge for emerging markets. WTL’s Simon Pearson suggests how this might be addressed in 2016…
Humanitarian Comms Article Count: 244
Operators Article Count: 3055
Vendors Article Count: 515
Regulation Article Count: 1956
Investment Article Count: 675
Trends & Forecasts Article Count: 932
2014 Trends Article Count: 51
2015 Trends Article Count: 45
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