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April
Canadian operator spends $200m on buying six-month-old Blackiron Data from Primus Telecoms to expand data and cloud
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The former Qtel plans to cover all Qatar’s towns and roads by end of 2014 with LTE service
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VimpelCom’s Italian mobile operator Wind orders upgrade to LTE from Huawei as Telecom Italia opens discussions with Hutch
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Microsoft sells Mediaroom IPTV business to Ericsson but promises to focus on Xbox
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GBI chief Ahmed Mekky has set up the first regionally owned subsea network serving the Gulf, now with an overland back-up into Europe, and is considering expansion into data centres and services, he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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March
Novsoibirsk sees the region’s first SIM-based NFC payment system across public transport network
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Globe Telecom of the Philippines and South Korean operator to launch LTE roaming in April
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February
Huawei in plan with UK broadcaster to use LTE to transmit television programmes to mobiles
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CEO Hans Vestberg announces Ericsson and SAP will offer M2M enterprise products and services to operators
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Gary Marven, CEO of backhaul specialist MLL Telecom, believes that the expansion of 4G will deliver new business
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Each new generation of cellular technology has achieved reduced latency, improving the user experience. However, satellite backhaul has eradicated those advances – until now. By John Finney of O3b Networks
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ZTE to ‘take a more substantial role’ in LTE expansion of KPN’s German operation E-plus
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NTT DoCoMo has commissioned Nokia Siemens Networks and Panasonic to work together on LTE Advanced and small cells
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BT back in UK wireless after 10 years as it is one of five winners of Ofcom spectrum auction
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Customers of Turkcell’s broadband unit can increase speed to 100 megabits for 24 hours by text message
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Mobile operator Vodafone said to be considering bidding for Kabel Deutschland, say reports
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Cisco has deepened its relationship with operators, says the company’s Edwin Paalvast. The company has expanded into location-based systems, cloud networking and other services for fixed and mobile providers
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January
AT&T buys spectrum and licences from rival operator Verizon Wireless in bid to extend LTE to 300m people by end of 2014
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France Telecom-Orange announces first 4G services in Paris, with citywide coverage promised by end of 2013
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ZTE says strategic realignment means company will report a profit in the first quarter of 2013, while Huawei says revenue will grow 10-12% in 2013
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Despite financial difficulties, Ben Verwaayen says the Bell Labs is what makes Alcatel-Lucent different, but R&D must be done with the customer in mind. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Military government of Myanmar asks for declarations of interest by 25 January in two new telecoms licences
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Genband CEO Charles Vogt has an enviable record of driving growth since he took over in 2004, but the challenges are not over, as end users go for OTT services and the industry consolidates and reorganises
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Huawei CEO Guo Ping says 2012 profit was $2.4bn on sales of $35bn, a 10% rise on year before