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 […]
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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 […]
Germany’s largest market research institute GfK has collaborated with technology designer Stickee aiming to develop the “Daily Pricing Monitor”- an automated tool designed for telecom data collection. This tool brings together competition and partnership between the telecom operators by providing pricing insights for all models in the Postpay, Pay-as-you-Go, Sim-Free, and Sim-Only services. The Daily […]
Chunghwa Telecom’s revenues have decreased by 4.6 % for the second quarter of 2020, according to Taiwan News. However, the company has continued working on plans for business expansion. “By the end of this year, we plan to complete more than 4000 base stations to ensure 5G coverage in major metropolitan cities and the important […]