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3 Mar
Doha deal could herald a smart cities gold rush
Orange Business Services’ has landed a multimillion dollar consulting deal with Qatari services provider Meeza for smart cities software in Doha.
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3 Mar
Equatorial Guinea mobile data revenue to nearly triple by 2021
Equatorial Guinea is one of the smallest telecoms markets in Western Africa, but is set to grow faster than most over the next five years.
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28 Feb
The stage is set for Iliad’s arrival to Italy’s telecom market
Competition is set to intensify in the Italian telecom market following the launch of Wind Tre and Iliad’s upcoming market entry.
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27 Feb
Voice over LTE will spread like wildfire in India
Gopal Vittal, chief executive of India’s largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel, recently announced plans to rollout voice over LTE, allowing customers to make calls over the mobile data network.
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22 Feb
A new global Internet of Things network is taking on mobile carriers
Satellite company Inmarsat claims to have a global Internet of Things (IoT) network that could be a threat to traditional mobile carriers.
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21 Feb
Hot on Mexico’s heels: Colombia’s telecoms market is growing fast
With revenue of $7.2bn in 2016, the Colombian telecom and pay-TV markets were the fifth-largest in Latin America, and are one of the fastest growing in the region, just behind Mexico, Uruguay and Bolivia.
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20 Feb
Network bottlenecks are slowing down retailers’ digital efforts
Retailers are keen to bring all sorts of interactive gadgets that rely on internet connections to their stores.
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14 Feb
It’s time to take up arms to battle the robo-calling menace
Consumers have long been in telemarketers’ sights, while legislators and regulators have in turn had those pesky telemarketers in their own crosshairs for almost as long.
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10 Feb
Can blockchain enable peer-to-peer energy networks?
The application of blockchain to energy systems remains speculative but it fits well with the expected evolution of the entire industry — a shift away from centralisation and one-way flows towards more decentralised and transactional management.
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10 Feb
Activity-based working: a perfect storm of cultural and digital transformation
Activity-based working is based on a new paradigm where no employee owns desk or office space or has an assigned workstation.
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7 Feb
What does the new FCC chairman really think of net neutrality?
US president Donald Trump has appointed Ajit Pai to head the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and people are worried it means the death of net neutrality.
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7 Feb
PayPal, Amazon, and Visa are pushing payments any way they can
Adoption of online, in-app, and mobile payments is accelerating and the various players are trying to give the virtual, a real world grounding.
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1 Feb
These are the 7 biggest things in home entertainment tech right now
Tech comes at you fast.
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25 Jan
Live TV’s back (and it’s not just about sports)
Consumers are moving increasingly away from linear TV but live broadcasts are still drawing big audiences and online providers are catching on.