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November
Hutchison’s Austrian unit completes roll-out of ZTE system for national roaming with multi-operator core network
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Bharti Airtel connects with BICS HomeSend money transfer service for 17 African operations
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France Telecom-Orange creates enterprise-focused content delivery service in alliance with Akamai
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Equinix works with Dubai operator du to set up carrier-neutral hub for Middle East market
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The ‘other three billion’ who lend their name to the O3b satellite project should start getting service after the launches of eight satellites in mid-2013, says CEO Steve Collar. First customers will include Amazonian residents as well as people on Caribbean cruises and the oil and gas industry, he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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New virtual operator plans to back charities with 25% of profits and 10% of customers’ monthly spend
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Much of IDT Telecom’s business is still selling international voice minutes, though its voice wholesale business is now bigger — but CEO Bill Pereira is planning to use the company’s retail engine to allow its immigrant customers to send gift cards and send cash to the family back home
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October
Self-install satellite broadband, offering 20 megabits down and 2 megabits up, is the promise from wholesale satellite operator SES, Patrick Biewer, CEO of its broadband division, tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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September
The ‘cloud’ remains a buzzword in boardrooms around the globe, with the market size of cloud computing set to increase six-fold by 2020. Masaaki Moribayashi assesses the real demand for the cloud
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Reports say Virgin group in discussions about launching MVNO in Turkey with Turkcell
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Philippines operator to launch services for one million émigré citizens in US, Japan, Middle East and Europe
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UK-based mobile operator will be first full mobile virtual network operator in US
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August
View from the Top: Henrik Liungman of Verizon Global Wholesale explains why 100 gigabit ethernet technology is the means by which wholesale operators will serve the growing bandwidth demands of customer operators and their enterprise end users
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Chairman of US satellite TV company Dish says company is seeking wireless partner to launch LTE service
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The London Internet Exchange, a co-operative of over 400 internet providers, content companies and telecoms operators, put in a major upgrade just two months before the 2012 Olympics expanded demand as never before. CEO John Souter explains the strategy
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June
China Telecom and Thailand’s TOT to lay terrestrial fibres connecting Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Russia
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May
China Telecom Europe becomes first Chinese telecom operator to launch MVNO services outside China
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Creditors grant one-week extension to waiver on covenants attached to $1.6bn of LightSquared debt
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April
Russian operator Rostelecom agrees to launch FDD-LTE services as MVNO on Yota’s 4G network
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March
Leap Wireless subsidiary Cricket to use US WiMax operator’s capacity off-load services for LTE network
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Orange Uganda signs network outsourcing and sale agreement with Ahuja’s Eaton Towers to cut costs
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Iliad’s mobile venture responds after Vivendi, Bouygues and Orange attack start-up for low cost services
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STC seeks partner after Saudi regulator CITC announces plans to issue three MVNO licences in 2012
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February
Ahuja quits but becomes chairman as LTE wholesale project appoints backer Philip Falcone to board
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Joint venture with Vodafone mainly targets Tesco retail chain’s customers in Hungary
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BT plans global IP interconnect system for wholesale customers using Genband system
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SBA to purchase tower sites and indoor and outdoor distributed antenna system assets for $1bn
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Report says Alcatel-Lucent completes laying of submarine cable from South Africa along west African coast
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Virgin Mobile to spend $300m on Latin America, with plans to launch services in Chile and Colombia in 2012
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FCC to withdraw preliminary approval granted for LightSpeed’s satellite and terrestrial LTE network
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Partnership between Sprint and France Telecom Orange will extend machine-to-machine reach to 180 countries
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BT Openreach to expand fibre-to-the-premises installation after successful trial
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As wholesale operators seek to make themselves stand out in the commoditised fibre market, Stefan Amon says quality is the selling point
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January
TOT negotiates with unnamed European operators to provide 3G MVNO deals in Thailand
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France Telecom-Orange follows SFR and Free deals with partnership with Bouygues to share fibre to the home
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Telefónica O2 signs backhaul agreement with Deutsche Telekom to connect German base stations
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Everything Everywhere to provide infrastructure for MVNO aimed at Chinese tourists and business travellers in UK
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Sprint has granted Philip Falcone owned LightSquared a 30-day extension to get FCC nod for 4G network