Telecom companies are reducing their involvement in UK market, a trend seen in the recent years. Three of the world’s best telecom companies — Deutsche Telekom (DT), Orange and Telefonica are the latest to sell their stakes in the market. Telefonica is selling O2 to CK Hutchison, and Hutchison will … Read More
The Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is prohibited in UAE, reiterates UAE’s Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA). According to the report, VoIP is banned under the Federal Decree Law No. 3/2003 and only the two telecom operators, Etisalat and Du, are authorized to offer such services. However, neither of the two … Read More
Bharti Airtel the largest telecom operator in India and third largest globally by subscriber base and operations in over 20 countries is contemplating on selling its assets and operations in India’s neighbouring countries Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. In a clarification to the BSE, Airtel said it keeps evaluating various opportunities … Read More
Nokia Networks has inked a deal with Ooredoo Qatar, Qatar’s leading communication’s company to deploy its Flexi Zone small cells in hotspots across the country. Nokia Flexi Zone small cells provide additional capacity and better network coverage when installed in strategic locations. Being small, Nokia Flexi Zone small cells are … Read More
Vodacom, a leading African mobile communications company has launched Radio Access Network (RAN) Mobile Recovery Solution, mobile data centers on wheels to solve unexpected network crisis. The facility enables the company to restore functionality of its defective Mobile Telephone Exchange (MTX) within 48 hours. The MTX sites link the RAN … Read More
With the ever-increasing market presence of the LTE network, companies are trying to cash in the opportunity in an effective way. In this series, Huawei, China Mobile, and Qualcomm Technologies announced that they have commercially verified TDD+ uplink data compression technology on LTE-TDD network. UDC states that this initiative has … Read More
Optus, a popular telecommunications company in Australia has introduced Wi-Fi calling app Wi-Fi Talk enabling the customers to make and receive calls and text messages over a Wi-Fi connection. The app benefits customers when experiencing low 3G/4G connectivity. The free app is available both for iOS and Android users. Also, … Read More
American telecom giant Verizon is working hard to make Voice over LTE (VoLTE) a default feature for its all customers. Presently worldwide carriers are shutting down 2G networks to make room for LTE deployments. Verizon is also walking to it – the company has plans to phase out its entire … Read More
Statistics compiled by TeleGeography show that there were 7.1 billion mobile subscribers as of the end of the first quarter. APAC accounted for 3.7 billion of these, making it by far the largest region for mobile subscribers. Asia added 194 million subscribers between the first quarter of last year and … Read More
T-mobile USA which has rightly termed itself as the ‘un-carrier’ has been in the limelight off late due to its aggressive strategies and disruptive pricing. T-mobile is now the third largest carrier in USA after it surpassed the subscriber base of Sprint earlier this year. Verizon continues to be the … Read More
SK Telecom; a leading mobile operator in Korea, has decided to join LoRA Alliance that is widely known as one of the very few IoT consortia. It’s the first time when an Asian telecom service provider has taken such initiative. So far, LoRa Alliance has remained as a North Atlantic … Read More
The Chinese government, in an attempt to grow the national digital economy, has urged its top broadband service providers to slash down the prices by 30% by the end of the year. As per the reports published in China Daily, Zhang Feng, Spokesperson, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated … Read More
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