Facilitating the move was a re-reading of Tunisia’s primary piece of legislation for the sector, the Telecommunications Code, rather than a modification of the legislation or the allocation of a new licence. Hichem Besbes, head of the National Telecommunications Authority (Instance Nationale des Telecommunications, INT) noted: ‘According to the former interpretation of the Telecommunications Code, Tunisie […]
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“By the end of 2018, this is our objective: to have 85 percent of internet users in Lebanon enjoy … [at least] 50 Mbps,” Kreidieh told the CIO Lebanon Association’s annual conference, held at Beirut Airport. “The international benchmark is 35 Mbps.” Fifty Mbps would put Lebanon roughly on par with the U.K. and Germany, […]
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Tunisie Telecom this week confirmed the appointment of Mohamed Fadhel Kraiem as its new chairman and chief executive. Kraiem rejoins the Tunisian telco after a spell in retail; he has served as chief executive of Monoprix since February 2016. He initially joined Tunisie Telecom in mid-2010 as its deputy CEO in charge of commercial and […]
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This expansion will enable the company to make good on a $300 million contract it won from Verizon to build a new fiber network that will support a mix of wireless 5G, business and consumer services across multiple markets. Prysmian will supply nearly 11 million miles of ribbon and loose tube cables. News of this expansion should […]
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CEO Wendell Weeks told investors during the company’s third-quarter earnings call that its current growth has set it on the path to reach this multiyear sales goal for optical communications. “We are growing at twice the rate of the telecommunications industry with global leaders like Verizon turning to us in support of their vision,” Weeks said. […]
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Telecoms minister Jamal Jarrah said last month that his ministry and Ogero plan to start the fibre-optic project within a few weeks, with the aim of boosting internet access speeds to at least 50Mbps ‘across the country’. Previously, the Ministry of Telecommunications (MoT) and Ogero have said they will implement an extensive fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) network […]
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Oman News Agency cites the company’s Director General of Projects, Salim Bin Said Al Alawi as saying that OBC will cover an additional 60,000 residential and commercial units this year, adding to its existing footprint of around 150,000 in Muscat, and representing around 55% of Muscat Governorate. In the first half of the year, OBC’s wholesale fibre-to-the-home […]
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Tout faire pour éviter que le déploiement de la fibre ne se solde, une fois encore, par une énième fracture numérique. Tel est le mot d’ordre du dernier rapport de la commission des affaires économiques de l’Assemblée nationale. Dévoilé ce mercredi, ce document, qui fait le point sur la couverture numérique du territoire, souhaite que […]
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In a series of filings published by the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau, the service provider has requested to replace aging copper with FTTH infrastructure. The locations in the filings are several towns and cities in the the legacy ILEC markets of Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland and Delaware. Verizon said if these are approved […]
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