The government of Australia has announced allocation limits of the 26 GHz spectrum for the country’s next 5G auction set to occur in March 2021. The new spectrum will complement the 3.6 GHz spectrum, which mobile operators are already using to deploy 5G services across Australia, according to RCR Wireless. Paul Fletcher, Australian Minister for […]
Telecoms
According to the Office of the OMBUDSMAN for Telecommunications annual report, the number of complaints relating to nuisance calls in Belgium was 4456 in 2019. Moreover, the number of un-identified malicious calls was 2891 while the number of identified calls was 1578. MP for the Flemish centrist CD&V party, Leen Dierick, sees that the operator’s […]
On August 11, 2020, Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos decided to leave her position on the board of the country’s leading telecommunications operator- Unitel Telecom. This decision came out amid ongoing tensions between Unitel board members. In her resignation statement, dos Santos who holds a 25% stake in the company, said, “After 20 years dedicated […]
On August 12, 2020, The Goa Government approved the state Telecommunications infrastructure policy 2020 which will adopt a single-window permit system- where only the public works department will grant permission to companies for setting up mobile towers, states the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. The companies have to pay Rs 50,000 as a one-time license fee […]
On July 23, Ericsson and Slovenian Telecommunications provider Telekom Slovenije launched the first commercial 5G in Slovenia. Initially, the 5G services cover an estimated 25% of the population through 150 stations installed by Telekom Slovenije. However, the company aims to increase its 5G coverage to 33% of the population by the end of 2020, according […]
On August 6, 2020, the South African Telecom giant, MTN Group, announced its plans to exit the Middle East “in an orderly manner”, starting with Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Iran. According to Reuters, the company’s first step is to sell its 75% stake in MTN Syria to TeleInvest. Moreover, the company is expected to leave […]
Ethiopia is considered the latest country in the world to have a monopolized telecom sector. However, in 2019, the Ethiopian authorities decided to liberalize the sector by securing two licenses to new service operators as well as selling a 40% stake in Ethio Telecom. Ethio Telecom, the company that has been managing the telecom sector […]
Lebanese citizens living in Canada will not have to worry about long-distance call charges. On August 6, 2020, Videotron, a Canadian communications company announced in a press release that it has suspended charges for calls from Canada to Lebanon until August 23, 2020. This move came to allow Videotron customers to reach out to their friends and family after the […]
According to a recent study from market research firm Global Market Insights, Speedy internet penetration across the globe will offer prolific growth opportunities to telecom network infrastructure market. High adoption of wireless devices is a key impetus to the market growth. People are extensively adopting wireless devices across the globe, which has intensified the need […]
71 percent of all digging work that takes place in the UK is now preceded by a thorough search for pipes and cables, according to Digging Up Britain 2020. The report by LSBUD, which provides a free to use, online asset search facility, reveals that a record 2,832,027 enquiries were registered on its collaborative portal […]