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Kenya’s Wananchi closes $140m funding for broadband rollout
Company aims to deploy fixed-line infrastructure across most of sub-Saharan East Africa. Kenyan broadband Internet infrastructure developer Wananchi Group Holdings has closed on $140 million as part of a push from investors to bridge the digital divide in...
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Mozilla preps mobile platform with initial devices, carriers
Firefox OS to launch early 2013 in Brazil on entry-level ZTE smartphone. Mozilla has branded its smartphone operating system as Firefox OS and signed up initial manufacturers and a number of global carriers--including Sprint Nextel Corp.--to support the...
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O2, Orange UK, Bouygues latest telcos to deploy femtocells
France, U.K. become first countries to see all mobile network operators roll out the technology. O2 and Orange UK, and France's Bouygues Telecom have become the latest operators to announce femtocell rollouts, pushing the total number of deployments...
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Google TV to launch in UK next month
Sony plans to offer connected set-top-box, remote control across Europe priced at €200. Google TV is to launch in the U.K. for the first time in July, nearly two years after it made its bumpy U.S. debut.
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MegaFon shelves IPO plans during economic turmoil
Mobile operator is only non-listed telco of Russia's 'big three'. Russian mobile operator MegaFon hasn't set a date for an initial public offering as it isn't happy with market conditions, the company said in St. Petersburg Thursday, the...
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Singapore still struggling to sign-up high-speed broadband subscribers
Take-up of national broadband network services will pick up from 2013, according to opco chief David Storrie. At CommunicAsia 2011, this time last year, executives from Singapore's telecoms regulator the IDA and incumbent operator SingTel admitted that take-up...
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Telcos urged to avoid ‘goldfish principle’ in customer care
Don Peppers advises telecoms operators to be proactive when it comes to looking after customers; highlights Vodafone Turkey as a good example. Telecoms service providers must be proactive about customer service to build loyalty, make more money, and...
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