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...
Financials
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
SingTel – Samsung accelerate mobile data growth in emerging markets
In a Landmark partnership expected to benefit over 500 million mobile customers across three fast developing regions, SingTel Group and Samsung have unveiled a...
Trends
Voice & Data
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...
Nokia launches first Android phones
Nokia has unveiled its first family of Android phones at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. The X, X+ and XL will...
Telematics Update Webinar: Honda & Michigan DoT explore certification & safety checks for imminent...
Telematics Update has announced that free registration is now open for the live webinar on Auto Safety Technology – What regulation and safety checks...
Vodafone eyes LTE-A by middle of 2014
U.K.-based operator to deploy carrier aggregation in all major cities across its European footprint by March 2016. Vodafone on Tuesday...
