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Etisalat funds Maroc Telecom takeover

French conglomerate Vivendi looks set to continue its offloading of telecom interests after Emirates-based Etisalat announced that it has secured funding to buy the French firm out of Maroc Telecom. Etisalat signed a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of...

LG launches smart appliances integrated with Line

Handset and electronics manufacturer LG has launched a range of smart home appliances in its domestic market of South Korea in a bid to steal a march in the connected home sector. The firm has incorporated...

Docomo to begin 5G trials in Japan

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has farmed out trial contracts to several big infrastructure vendors in order to pilot 5G mobile network technologies, promising data rates of 10Gbps. Ericsson, Nokia, NEC, Alcatel-Lucent, Samsung and Fujitsu have all...

Belgium’s Mobistar trials LTE-A

Belgian operator Mobistar claims to have become the nation’s first to successfully test an LTE-A network, claiming mobile data throughput of over 200Mbps. The operator conducted the trial by aggregating frequencies in the 1800MHz and 800MHz...

Telefónica to acquire Spanish pay-TV player

Spanish media group Prisa has accepted incumbent operator Telefónica’s €725m bid for its 56 per cent stake in pay TV platform Canal+’s holding company Distribuidora de Televisión Digital (DTS). The deal gives DTS a market value...

SingTel – Samsung accelerate mobile data growth in...

In a Landmark partnership expected to benefit over 500 million mobile customers across three fast developing regions, SingTel Group and Samsung have unveiled a suite of joint initiatives to bring improved mobile data experiences to customers. The partnership covers five major...

Telekom Austria, America Movil create international fibre net

Telekom Austria Group and América Móvil on Friday unveiled a deal that proposes to create one of the world’s largest fibre networks, with a joint footprint with 200 Points of Presence (PoP) within 47 countries, through the interconnection of...

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