May 25, 2013
Telecom Lead India: BSNL has launched a scheme for landline and broadband users wherein subscribers above a certain bill amount will get reward points, which can be redeemed to make free calls within its network. BSNL says individual customers whose monthly bill amount is Rs 400 and above or ...
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Telecom Lead Africa: Mobile satellite services operator Thuraya has selected Ericsson for its circuit-switched core network. Ericsson – as per the long-term agreement — will upgrade the Thuraya circuit-switched core network, implement a billing mediation solution and provide support ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: India’s broadband connection speed rose 19 percent in Q4 2012 to slightly above 1.2 Mbps against Q3 last year. Akamai Technologies, in its State of the Internet’ (SOTI) report for Q4 2012, said the average peak connection speeds in India grew 15 percent to 9.2 Mbps from last ...
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Telecom Lead India: Broadband providers will deploy over 120 million routers and residential gateways (RGs) in 2017, posting CAGR of 9.5 percent from 2012. Parks Associates’ latest report — Residential Gateway Trends: Bringing Value Home — sponsored by Jungo, says the average U.S. ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Alcatel-Lucent has shipped its one millionth VDSL2 vectoring line. This newest DSL technology, according to Alcatel-Lucent, enables service providers to offer super-fast broadband by upgrading their existing copper access infrastructure. Federico Guillen, president ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: India’s broadband subscription-base decreased 0.12 percent in February to 15 million from 15.01 million in January 2013, TRAI said. This is significant as this is one of the few occasions where broadband user base declined in India on monthly basis. TRAI says yearly growth in ...
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Telecom Lead India: Taking on Vodafone’s recent mobile Internet schemes, Aircel announced new Pocket Internet plans. Aircel, which pioneered cost effective mobile Internet in India, says its new Pocket Internet 24 (PI-24) offers higher validity of 30 days for 100 MB data for Rs 24. The ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: ZTE Telecom has launched 3G data card in the Indian open market. As part of expanding in Indian data card market, ZTE is initially introducing two models of the data card. The two models available are with 14.4 mbps download speed which is a WiFi enabled hotspot and 7.2 mbps ...
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Telecom Lead India: ZTE has signed a four-year IPTV network construction deal with Telkom Indonesia. The Chinese ICT solutions and products company will construct, operate, and maintain a low-bit-rate IPTV network for Telkom from 2013 to 2016. Telkom, the largest fixed-line operator in ...
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Telecom Lead India: Tikona Digital Networks has powered free Wi-Fi services at the Maharana Pratap Inter-State bus terminus (ISBT) in Delhi. The Maharana Pratap (ISBT) operates bus services from Delhi and seven states. Tikona Digital’s wireless broadband access enables commuters from ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Ericsson has acquired Microsoft’s TV solution Mediaroom business. The acquisition will enable Ericsson to strengthen its presence in video distribution market — across multiple networks and devices — with more than 25 percent market share. Ericsson did not share ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Huawei is leading the broadband CPE market in 2012. ZTE is in the #2 position based on revenue market share. Both vendors benefitted significantly from the FTTH rollouts at China Telecom and China Unicom, according to Infonetics. ARRIS maintains the top revenue share spot in ...
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Telecom Lead India: Google has recognized 4 Internet projects for innovation in Karnataka, India. Karnataka State Innovation Council (KSInC) and Google announced the “Innovation Karnataka” initiative and selected – Kanaja, Sakala, mDhil and RedBus, four innovators from Karnataka. The ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Akado Telecom, a cable network operator, has launched metro optical network in Moscow based on the Infinera DTN and ATN platforms. Akado selected Infinera for flexibility, scalability and simplicity of Infinera’s integrated end-to-end solutions. The new metro ...
Read MoreTelecom Lead Europe: Mobitel (Mtel) Bulgaria is offering television (IPTV) services to TVs, PCs, tablets and mobile phones across the country. Mobitel Bulgaria is one of the few operators to expand IPTV services that are driven by ZTE’s IPTV platform. According to ABI Research, the worldwide ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: British pay TV giant BSkyB is set to buy Telefonica’s UK broadband unit for around $300 million. The deal will make the pay TV giant, in which Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. owns a 39 percent stake, the second-largest U.K. broadband provider. The deal for the ...
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