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Retail Asia19/07/2017
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Global telecoms revenues to grow 2% in 2017

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Worldwide IT spending is expected to increase by 4.5% in 2017 in constant currency terms, a significant improvement on last year’s growth of 2.5%, according to IDC. The latest addition of the research firm’s  Worldwide Black Book forecasts that total IT spending this year will reach $2.1 trillion and is forecast to increase by another 4% in […]
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Retail Asia18/07/2017
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Davao gains first Globe Telecom Gen3 store

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Globe Telecom has opened its first Gen3 store for Davao City, at Gaisano Mall of Davao. It is described as “a new retail experience” by Irra Zarina Escandor, who owns GMI Global Ventures, the first Gen3 store owner in Davao City. Gmall Globe Gen3 store retail manager Ace Cabana says customers will experience lifestyle vignettes […]
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Retail Asia18/07/2017
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South Korea leads APeJ by IoT readiness

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South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia are the most IoT prepared countries for the IoT, according to IDC. The research firm’s Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) IoT Readiness Index  ranked 13 APeJ nations (mix of developed and developing) across 13 critical parameters such as economic stability, technology spends, innovation potential, etc. as articulated in the […]
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Retail Asia18/07/2017
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Globe commences Massive MIMO rollout

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The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has commenced the commercial deployment of massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology to improve the mobile connectivity experience in dense urban areas. The commercial deployment follows initial testing of the technology in the Makati financial district of Metro Manila. The testing demonstrated the ability of the technology to improve capacity […]
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Retail Asia18/07/2017
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Chunghwa taps Ericsson for trial NB-IoT system

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Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom has contracted Ericsson to deliver a trial narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) system, and plans to use the system to test a range of IoT devices and applications at its laboratory. Ericsson will provide an end-to-end NB-IoT solution comprising a radio system, massive IoT RAN software, virtual EPC, virtual subscriber data management and an […]
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Retail Asia17/07/2017
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Chunghwa Telecom to deploy 4CC CA this month

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Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom plans to introduce four-carrier aggregation (CA) by the end of the month to take advantage of its refarmed 1,800-MHz spectrum following the nation’s 2G switch-off. The operator also plans to increase its number of 4G base stations by 40% this year, mostly in urban areas. With the upgrade to four-carrier aggregation, Chunghwa […]
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Retail Asia17/07/2017
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Siemens launches Digitalization Hub in Singapore

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Siemens has launched its first fully integrated Digitalization Hub in Singapore in a bid to bring its expertise and innovations in the IoT to the Southeast Asian market. The company will be co-creating future digital applications with customers and partners to build a digital ecosystem. Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the Hub brings together […]
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Retail Asia17/07/2017
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Telkomsel trials FDD-LTE Massive MIMO

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Indonesia’s Telkomsel has completed Indonesia’s first FDD-LTE massive multiple input multiple output (Massive MIMO) field trial in collaboration with ZTE. The achieved a nearly four-fold increase in data throughput compared to existing 2×2 MIMO FDD-LTE networks to 468Mbps. It was conducted at one of the largest and most densely populated cities in eastern Indonesia – […]
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Retail Asia14/07/2017
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Australia’s Vocus gets two takeover bids

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Australian fiber network operator Vocus Communications has revealed it has secured two competing non-binding takeover bids valuing the company at A$2.2 billion ($1.69 billion). Affinity Equity Partners has submitted a preliminary offer to acquire 100% of Vocus for A$3.50 in cash per share, subject to due diligence and other conditions. Vocus announced. The bid comes days […]
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Retail Asia13/07/2017
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Smart taps Redknee to keep up with demand

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Smart Communications, based in the Philippines, has awarded Redknee a services and support contract for an agile, flexible, and scalable converged billing, charging, and customer care platform. Redknee Unified promises service providers to enhance their competitiveness and maximize value by quickly launching new revenue streams and service offerings with multi-channel customer support. The solution provides a capable […]
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Retail Asia13/07/2017
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Airtel to launch VoLTE later this year

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India’s Bharti Airtel has announced plans to launch VoLTE services later this year to counter new market entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm. Airtel is trialing VoLTE in five cities and plans to become the second operator in the nation after Reliance Jio to launch the technology. The launch could potentially allow Airtel to better compete against […]
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Retail Asia13/07/2017
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Huawei joins CTO as ICT Sector member

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Huawei has joined the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) as an ICT Sector member, the membership category open to the private sector. The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) is the oldest and largest Commonwealth intergovernmental organisation in the ICT field, representing 36 of the member states of the Commonwealth. “It gives me great pleasure to welcome Huawei […]
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Retail Asia13/07/2017
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Nokia wraps up Comptel acquisition

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Nokia said it has completed its acquisition of Comptel, a Finland-based telecommunications software company. Announced last February, the acquisition advances Nokia’s strategy to build a standalone software business at scale by expanding and strengthening its software portfolio and go-to-market capabilities. Comptel bolsters Nokia’s software portfolio by adding capabilities that help digital service providers bring new communications services to market faster, […]
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Retail Asia13/07/2017
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Colt picks NEC, Netcracker for virtualization

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Colt has selected NEC and Netcracker Technology to enable and support its large-scale OSS transformation and for support in the deployment of the next-generation of its infrastructure, including virtualization. Colt will leverage Netcracker’s future-proof, next-generation OSS and Service Orchestration solution, which is a part of NEC/Netcracker’s Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice (AVP). Colt is a global high-bandwidth connectivity provider that […]
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Retail Asia13/07/2017
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VNPT upgrades charging and BSS with Ericsson

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Vietnamese telecoms operator VNPT has contracted Ericsson to upgrade its charging and business support system. Under the deal, Ericsson will provide a new online charging system to support VNPT’s 40 million prepaid and postpaid subscribers. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed. The Ericsson Charging System is replacing VNPT’s legacy infrastructure, and the contract also includes […]
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Retail Asia13/07/2017
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CellMining launches Network NPS to drive subscriber retention

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CellMining in Israel launched Virtual Network NPS, touted as the first technology able to predict network detractors across the entire mobile subscriber base without the need for an NPS survey. By correlating the responses of surveyed subscribers with key quality indicators (KQI) observed and analyzed by CellMining’s Subscriber Network Analytics – such as low-quality VoLTE calls, slow […]
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Retail Asia12/07/2017
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Equinix links to Oracle Cloud in Sydney

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Equinix has announced the launched dedicated, private access to Oracle Cloud in its Sydney, Australia International Business Exchange (IBX) data center. Available via Oracle Cloud Network Service – FastConnect and the Equinix Cloud Exchange, access will be available for Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as well as Platform as a Service (PaaS). This direct access […]
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Retail Asia12/07/2017
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Linux Foundation launches Open Security Controller Project

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The Linux Foundation has launched a new open source project focused on centralizing security services orchestration for multi-cloud environments. The Open Security Controller Project technology will automate the deployment of virtualized network security functions, such as next-generation firewall, intrusion prevention systems and application data controllers, to protect east-west traffic inside the data center, said the foundation in a statement. […]
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Retail Asia12/07/2017
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Smart targets 70% LTE coverage by year end

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The Philippines’ Smart Communications aims to make LTE services available in 70% of the population by the end of the year. A recent study from JP Morgan estimates that Smart’s nationwide LTE coverage reached 51.5% by the end of May, Smart VP of network planning and engineering Mario Tamayo said in a statement. Smart, the wireless […]
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Retail Asia12/07/2017
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China said to ban use of VPNs

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China has reportedly instructed the nation’s operators to bar their customers from accessing the internet via VPNs by February in the latest move to tighten controls over internet access. State-run operators China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom have been ordered to bar their customers from using VPNs to skirt censorship restrictions, citing unnamed people familiar […]
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