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Rami Aslan, CEO at Türk Telekom Group“This project will provide significant short and longerterm strategic advantages for Turkey, making Turkey akey global communication and data hub. SEA-ME-WE-5 will be a state-of-the-art submarine cable system for connecting West European, African, the Middle Eastern, Asian and South East Asian markets. We are glad to join the consortium which will further strengthen our capacity in the regions we operate”.

W. Schmidt, CEO at Carrier Community:“We are committed to serving the carrier industry with the best possible event experience so that they can focus on networking and doing business together. We are doing everything possible to facilitate new business opportunities for delegates and this is why we have developed our online presence, magazine and app,” says Wida CEO at Carrier Community.“

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Contents

Press Release - Carrier Community ..........3

Press Release - Cyber CSF .............................5

Press Release - Türk Telecom ......................7

Press Release - SwitchRay ............................9

Industry Article - Syniverse ...................... 11

Industry Article - RTX ................................14

Industry News .................................................15

Company Profiles ........................................38

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Global Carrier Community Launches GCCM and Magazine App at Dubai 2015 GCCMThe launch of the ‘Inside GCCM’ and ‘GCCM Magazine’ App coincides with the roll out of the new SMS service for event delegates.

Sarnen, Switzerland – May 15, 2015 – Carrier Community, an exclusive global industry-networking platform for telecom carriers and service providers, launched its ‘Inside GCCM’ and GCCM Magazine App powered by Voxvalley Technologies at its 2nd Annual Dubai 2015 Global Carrier Community Meeting. The GCCM and GCCM Magazine App give Carrier Community members access

to news and views from across the carrier industry as well as updates on events and meeting schedules. Both are available for download on Android and iPhone.

At the Dubai 2015 GCCMs, Carrier Community provided new SMS messaging brought to the member guests by RTX in partnership with Carrier Community. RTX SMS Sender Lite enables Carrier Community to send SMS broadcast notifications to GCCM delegates real-time utilising the RTX technology. This SMS feature would complement tannoy broadcasts or notices which delegates might miss keeping attendees informed with the information in hand, in good time. Carrier Community has also enhanced its online meeting planner with new features enabling GCCM delegates to initiate contacts and arrange meetings online prior to the event with greater efficiency. The meeting planner will also be available to delegates up to one week after the event. Carrier Community is further committed to improve this key meeting tool and launch a new meeting planner in 2016 with advanced and more u ser friendly features.

“We are committed to serving the carrier industry with the best possible event experience so that they can focus on networking and doing business together. We are doing everything possible to facilitate new business opportunities for delegates and this is why we have developed our online presence, magazine and app,” says Wida CEO of Carrier Community.“

The magazine and app were launched at 2nd Annual Dubai 2015 GCCM on 9th & 10th March 2015 at The Raffles Hotel. At the 2015 Dubai GCCM event 330 club’s members representing decision-makers from Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 from 180 operators in 46 countries have attended. The Carrier Members meet together from Voice, Data, SMS, Mobile, VAS, Cable, Satellite, Data Centers and other related segments. To become a member of Carrier Community, please visit www.carriercommunity.com

About Carrier Community Carrier Community is an exclusive global industry-networking platform for wholesale carrier service providers. It was founded as a central and transparent platform to enhance business opportunities across the telecom industry’s various sectors such as voice, data, SMS, Mobile, VAS, MVNO, ISP, Cable, Telehouse and other related sectors. Community founders believe that the voluntary free exchange of contacts and information via a central portal as well as organised annual networking events are core to the creation of new business opportunities in order to help the world become more connected. Carrier Community offers the industry a meeting place where members can share ideas, contacts and business information for the mutual benefit of all members. It hosts annual networking events throughout the year such as Global Carrier Community Meetings (GCCM) in London,Singapore, Dubai and Berlin in 2014. New regio nal GCCM will be launchec in Africa and LATAM regions in years to come. Carrier Community is organising also since 2011 the Annual European Network Planning Meeting (ENPM) forum.

The Carrier Community has qualified more than 3,000 members since its inception representing 1,300+ Operators from more than 120+ countries. Our members occupy C-Level, VP, Director and Manager Positions at incumbent, mobile and alternative and small operators.

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Bridging Continents

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KEY GATEWAY between EAST and WEST

Cyber CSF is a purpose-built Uptime Certified Tier-3 Data Center facility

8 Storey purpose-built Data Center

IntroductionCyber CSF is a purpose-built Uptime Certified Tier-3 Data Center facility and managed operations outsourcing services with ISO 27001:2005 and PCI-DSS certifications, to name a few. Our vision is data center is our business, allowing customers to leave their computing and networking equipment with our world class data center and focus on their core businesses, and even share their risks with us.Obsession to customer excellence is our mission where high cut quality of service is our drive.Our unique value-add service models perfectly suited for production and business continuity management are designed specifically to meet business needs of industries including Financial Service, banks and non-banks such as insurance etc. and other industries requiring high quality of service and compliance, and international best practices and standards.In fact, we are currently the only Data Centre Service provider with such credentials located the central business district in Jakarta.

Customers entrusting either their Production or Business Continuity Management with us from top 10 businesses around the world and in the country. Wide-ranging

industries requiring world class data center rom industries such as international and local Banks and financial services non-banks, and Services Providers i.e. Internet Banking, Securities (members of Bursa Effect Indonesia), distribution companies, high-end e-commerce, and Media Corporations etc, to name a few.With a gross built up exceeding 30,000 m2, the Cyber CSF presently the largest Data Center facility in Indonesia. Our high quality and most advanced processes, technology, and resources are designed not only to meet the Tier III standard certification, but more importantly ability to sustain nature and the surrounding man-made disruptions to businesses.

Our FocusData Center as a Service is our standard service offering. Our facility is designed to endure the toughest Natural Disaster or Man Made disruptions. A six-storey power plant building adjacent to the data center houses 12 high end continuous rating generator sets totaling 24 MVA, allowing the facility to withstand any power outages without refueling for minimum of 72 hours. Other unique technology feature allows our data center temperature and humidity to remain constant at any time.

Another safety provisioning and means to deter Man Made disruptions, the physical positioning of the Facility has taken the consideration of terrorist attack, either by foot or using vehicular attack.Managed Operations, or commonly called Managed Services is also our service offerings. This service scopes covers what commonly known as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).Our process governance are centered on ITIL standard framework for key performance, and ISO:27001-2005 (certified, and is in transition to ISO:27001-2013 by end of 2015). Our skilled engineers and expert resources in operations, technical support, capacity, and quality management ensure that each agreed service level of each customer is monitored and achieved.

Relevance to CarriersWe are well aware that all these capabilities to withstand Natural Disaster and Man Made disruption will be a wasteful investment if data connectivity to our facility and servers inside is inaccessible. Our Carrier Neutral facility ensures that our customers enjoy over 30, and still growing, carrier providers in our facility directly with them. Cyber CSF prided ourselves for being a Carrier Neutral Facility. Our customers enjoy direct relationship with our over 30 carrier providers, and still growing. Most of these network operators owned their own infrastructure across major cities in Indonesia and Regionally through International POI.

Our target is to have 50 carriers by 2017. Apart from practicing Carrier Neutral Facility, the Facility boasted on the elaborated design of two Network Tunnels located at the exact opposite of the building, which functions as redundant and backed up for each other. With the Network Tunnels, the Carriers could offer a dual access to its backbone in order to provide highly redundant connectivity and increase their SLA to their respected clienteles.

Redundant Fiber TunnelsOne other important value add is Cyber CSF facility is located just next to the country main Internet Exchange, local and international. This is a particularly huge advantage for our international clients, as they find their preferred international carrier just in the next building.There is a network tunnel between Cyber CSF and the Internet Exchange building.At Cyber CSF, Data Center as a Service is our business, and obsession to customer excellence is our drive.

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Terms and Conditions applyCopyright © 2015 Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (CRN: 199201624D). All rights reserved.

Reliable & Seamless Connectivity That Bridges You To Your Customers

As your carrier wholesale partner in Asia, we provide worldwide telecommunications and connectivity services, bridging carriers like yourself to your customers.

Our global presence and extensive connectivity coverage allows us to offer a comprehensive range of wholesale voice and data solutions that provide reliable and seamless connectivity.

We are constantly strengthening our core infrastructure and increasing network reliability with diverse cable networks, such as SJC, APCN 2, Unity, SMW 3, SMW 4 and the upcoming FASTER and SMW 5 cable network for reduced latency and greater resilience in connectivity.

With the latest Carrier Ethernet and optical technologies as the backbone of our global data infrastructure, our state-of-art ASON (automatically switched optical network) provides <50 milliseconds failover and 1+n restoration features. Another Carrier Ethernet enhancement offers the flexibility of granular increments of 1Gbps, up to 10 Gbps for cost-effective connections on our Internet Private Leased Circuit (IPLC) and Ethernet Line (E-Line) services.

Furthermore, as Asia Pacific’s tier 1 provider of Internet transit service, Singtel Internet Exchange (STiX) connects you directly to more than 24 countries in Asia, US and Europe via high-bandwidth, low latency connections.

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T ürk Telekom International, the subsidiary within Türk Telekom Group which is responsible for the sales and marketing of international wholesale

voice and data infrastructure services, becomes a full member of the SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable consortium.The unique submarine cable system designed to provide the latest and upgradable technologies is set to start operating at the end of 2016. The system with 24 Tbps design capacity will connect 18 countries from Southeast Asia to Western Europe with an approximate length of 20,000 km.Türk Telekom International will bring Marmaris, a town in Muğla, as a new landing station to SEA-ME- WE 5 submarine cable system that will provide an alternative route via Turkey to neighboring countries as well as Western Europe and Africa.

Rami Aslan, CEO of Türk Telekom Group, stated the importance of submarine backbones providing the most effective intercontinental transfer of

exponentially increasing voice and data traffic, and added “This project will provide significant short and longer term strategic advantages for Turkey, making Turkey a key global communication and data hub. SEA-ME-WE-5 will be a state-of-the-art submarine cable system for connecting West European, African, the Middle Eastern, Asian and South East Asian markets. We are glad to join the consortium which will further strengthen our capacity in the regions we operate”.

Türk Telekom joined SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable system that connects 18 countries in 3 continents

Cengiz Öztelcan, CEO of Türk Telekom International stated that joining the SEA-ME-WE 5 consortium is an important part of Türk Telekom International’s strategy to strengthen Turkey’s role as a bridge from Western Europe all the way to South Eastern Asia. He added that “with the SEA-ME-WE 5 cable system, we will strengthen our unique terrestrial network that ties 3 continents together through submarine capacities, and continue to provide our innovative, reliable and extensive services to our customers in an ever faster and stronger infrastructure.”The name of the consortium, SEA-ME-WE 5, stands for the first letters of South-East Asia, Middle-East and Western-Europe.

About Türk Telekom GroupTürk Telekom Group, the leading communication and convergence technology group in Turkey, provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN and GSM to broadband internet. As of December 31, 2014; Türk Telekom Group companies have 13.2 mn Fixed Access Lines, 7.6 mn Broadband Connections and 16.3 mn Mobile Subscribers. Group companies have a modern network infrastructure covering the whole country and offer a wide variety of services to residential and commercial customers all over Turkey. Apart from 90 % shares in Avea, one of the three GSM operators in Turkey, Türk Telekom owns 100% of broadband provider TTNET, convergence technologies company Argela, IT solutions provider Innova, online education company Sebit, call center company AssisTT and wholesale data and capacity service provider company Türk Telekom International AT AG and its subsidiaries. Türk Telekom also has an indirect minority share in Albtelecom, the Albanian incumbent telecom operator. Türk Telekom shares are listed in Borsa Istanbul since May 2008.

DISCLAIMERThis release includes forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release, including, without limitation, certain statements regarding our operations, financial position and business strategy may constitute forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, among others, “may”, “will”, “expect”, “intend”, “plan”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “believe” or “continue”.Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable at this time, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.

Türk Telekom International has signed the C&MA (Construction and Maintenance Agreement) and becomes a full member of the SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable consortium. SEA-ME-WE 5 system which is set to start operating at the end of 2016 will connect 18 countries from Southeast Asia to Western Europe with an approximate length of 20,000 km.

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For more information, please visit : www.bics.com

connecting the worldenabling value

BICS delivers best-in-class international wholesale solutions to any communication service provider worldwide. Through its Mosaic portfolio, a comprehensive, flexible and innovative suite of solutions designed to be used individually, or collectively, BICS meets the existing and future requirements of the global telecoms industry.

BICS’ headquarter is located in Brussels with regional offices in Bern, Madrid, Dubai, New York and Singapore. We also have a satellite office in Beijing and local representation in Accra, Cape Town, Miami, Montevideo, Nairobi and Toronto. Our team continuously strives to provide our customers with the highest levels of quality, reliability and interoperability enabling them to maximise their end-user value.

With our successful consolidation strategy, and a continuing focus on technological advancement and innovation, we have achieved a world-leading position in the international Voice and Mobile Data markets.

SwitchRay Launches PBX Fraud Protection Solution Upgrade for Service Providers

SR-P7000 Version 1.1 Features Advanced Analytics, Traffic Monitoring Tools and Real-time Alerts for Minimizing Carrier Revenue Loss.

Carrier revenue loss continues to be a major industry problem, regardless of the various fraud methods. In 2013, total global revenue loss was a $46.3B (USD), a 15 percent increase compared to 2011. Subscription fraud accounted for $5.22B in lost revenue, followed by PBX hacking ($4.42B), identity theft and VoIP hacking (both $3.62B), and dealer fraud at $3.35B (survey: Communications Fraud Control Association: http://www.cfca.org/fraudlosssurvey/).

Global telecom solutions provider, SwitchRay released this month its SR-P7000 v1.1 PBX fraud protection software solution. Unlike other solutions, the SR-P7000 v1.1 is independent and seamlessly compatible with any softswitch to better protect carriers from revenue loss caused by a wide variety of fraud, hacking and informational security breaches.

The SR-P7000 v1.1 provides real-time sniffing capabilities and alerts that empower operators to respond immediately to client IP-PBX hacking. Using dual sniffing points, operators can define suspicious instances as either a hacked third-party IP-PBX, or VPBX on their own softswitch. The SR-P7000 v1.1 also analyzes traffic flow patterns through an operator’s network to further detect and prevent fraudulent activity.

The SR-P7000 v1.1 features several new improvements, including:

Easier Setup and Better System Configuration An improved Web interface now makes it easier for administrators to set up and adjust system management settings, including various interfaces to monitor traffic, the configuration of fraud alerts, and the number of simultaneous connections to the database. New customer profiles can also now be automatically created using A-numbers and/or IP client addresses.

Improved Analytics ToolsNew statistical tools provide quick access to a more detailed history of fraud incidents. The tools also provide the ability to export and analyze large amounts of fraudulent call activity by day, week, or month and to identify sources that are most susceptible to hacking.

New Global Statistics Dashboard Elegant visual graphs allow softswitch administrators to more easily monitor suspicious call activity in real-time and by hour, day, month, long distance, premium numbers, and/or auto-dial. (Previously, administrators viewed a list of data). Administrators can also monitor the status of open network interfaces and the number of licenses deployed.

New Real-time Alerts In addition to email, the SR-P7000 now includes two more ways for fraud alerts to be sent via: 1) SNMP trap to any EMS system, and 2) SMS message to the administrator’s mobile phone. This improves the ability of the operator to respond immediately to a client IP-PBX hacking.

The SR-P7000 v1.1 also protects the newest SR-S5000 Class 5 Softswitch v1.9, which itself also has improved fraud monitoring. The SR-S5000 v1.9 allows finer-grained levels of admin role management so that departmental and user administration can be assigned to local power users instead of the system admin. This improves fraud, hacking and informational security breach monitoring without sacrificing security.

“The fact that we already have six customers piloting SR-P7000 v1.1 demonstrates a clear need for its new features,” remarked Steve Petilli, president & CEO of SwitchRay, Inc. “We have one of the most robust PBX protection solutions on the market to help significantly reduce carrier revenue losses.”

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About SwitchRay SwitchRay Inc. delivers state-of-the-art communication service platforms to telecom carriers worldwide. The company’s mission is to provide highly reliable, scalable products that are rich in functionality, allowing its customers to build successful businesses by increasing their profits and lowering their total cost of operations. With its keen attention to detail and unwavering commitment to exceptional customer service, SwitchRay optimizes communication and builds a brighter future for the world to connect. Headquartered in Mission Viejo, CA, SwitchRay was founded in 2012. For more information on SwitchRay’s communications service platforms, please visit www.switchray.com and/or email [email protected].

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VoLTE Now a Critical Needfor LTE Rollout By MK Chang

It seems the rate of LTE implementation gets faster by the week, and this rapid growth is now highlighting an important new need for operators.

According to the GSMA, 264 LTE networks were launched between December 2009 and January 2014, and almost as many will be launched from 2015 to 2020. This will lead to, by 2020, 2.5 billion LTE connections, representing 28 percent of mobile users and 64 percent of the world’s total population.

As these numbers tell, LTE rollout is entering an important growth phase, and with this growth one of the next frontiers of LTE is emerging – VoLTE. This technology promises new standards in e�ciency and several potential innovations, but its implementation involves numerous challenges. A critical component is enabling VoLTE roaming, which requires testing, resolving and ensuring the quality of scores of new processes among di�erent carrier networks in di�erent geographic regions.

At Syniverse, we’ve been right in the thick of helping operators address these challenges. In our recent work, we’ve made three accomplishments that we think particularly shed light on some important aspects of VoLTE implementation. As VoLTE gains momentum, we think the insights below that we gained from this work will o�er a valuable guide to VoLTE implementation.

1. Preparing for seamless hando among three roaming markets - Among the challenges in implementing VoLTE, one of the most critical involves a roaming marketplace fragmented into three types: markets with no LTE service, markets with both LTE and legacy 3G and 2G service, and markets with only LTE service. In our work, we’ve found that operators must have a separate, dedicated strategy in place for a number of roaming situations and fallback scenarios to minimize disruptions among these three types of markets. Above all, operators must ensure that VoLTE calls will seamlessly hand o� to older technologies when users travel through areas that lack LTE service, and that users with VoLTE service enjoy seamless connections to available LTE service.

2. Ensuring voice service quality stays flawless - A critical aspect of VoLTE is that users may not experience much di�erence in how voice calls sound after operators make the transition, although enhanced services are possible. As a result, we’ve discovered that it’s critical for operators conduct trials and have a bulletproof plan for guaranteeing no dropped calls, no declines in voice quality or no other service interruptions during the transition. Users will base their LTE expectations on their 3G experience, expect their voice service to work as usual, and have little patience for implementation di�culties.

3. Enabling the first transoceanic VoLTE roaming call - The mobile industry recently reached a new VoLTE milestone, and Syniverse was fortunate to have a part that allowed us to gain a firsthand view of the key processes involved with a critical VoLTE. process. Working with an American operator and Japanese operator, we recently collaborated to enable the world’s first transoceanic VoLTE roaming call. Our test labs used Syniverse’s IPX network to work with the operators in a six-week series of trials that used S8HR architecture to route multiple calls across the Pacific Ocean and back. The trials also included a successful test of Video over LTE (ViLTE). The project was an intensive but rewarding experience to be a part of, and we look forward to using our firsthand immersion in the technical complexities of VoLTE roaming to help the mobile industry build on this milestone.

As LTE moves closer toward becoming the new standard, mobile users will increasingly expect access to the same high-speed experiences anytime, anywhere. As operators are pressured to deploy LTE networks faster and faster to meet these expectations, placing special focus on the factors above will help enable further milestones like the first transoceanic VoLTE roaming, and go a long way toward helping ensure a seamless rollout.

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Syniverse invites you to you to visit our blog, Synergy, to get more expert opinions on news and trends happening across the mobile ecosystem. Synergy is a forum where we share our points of view on how we can continue to advance mobile to transform the way people communicate, the way companies conduct business, and the way technology connects the world. Find out more at synergy.syniverse.com, and join our conversation by sharing your comments.

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Mobile operators partner with Nexmo to open new revenue streams with enterprise and app customers who rely on enterprise-grade SMS, voice, verification and cloud communication solutions.

More companies are relying on Nexmo's cloud API solutions for business critical SMS, voice and cloud communication solutions. Mobile operators who partner with Nexmo see immediate new revenue streams from these growing companies.

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The opportunity for carriers to drive revenue from buying and selling capacity for voice, SMS and data, has never been greater. Carriers can now access a global network of suppliers to meet capacity demand, guarantee quality assurance and generate new revenues, through the RTX Exchange.

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Building BridgesRTX Fast Pay Expedites Settlements across its Carrier Exchange

In April this year, RTX announced the introduction of RTX Fast Pay, a service feature that bridges the cash flow gap between carriers buying and selling voice, SMS and data services. With this

new facility, RTX is able to provide suppliers with faster access to funds thereby improving their cash flow and competitiveness in the marketplace.

With the introduction of Fast Pay, RTX becomes the first carrier exchange to offer expedited payment terms across its existing range of services, removing the traditional barriers faced by suppliers dealing with large carriers who pay on extended terms. RTX’s quality assured and fully credit insured model enables quick and guaranteed payments, which allows suppliers to generate immediate revenue, manage cash flow and plan further destinations.

RTX Fast Pay is a usage based service so suppliers maximise their return in the wholesale cycle of fluctuating capacity and demand. The service sits across the RTX exchange, providing carriers with a robust and financially secure environment to conduct transactions and enter into mutually beneficial agreements.

Andrew Jacobs, Sales Director at RTX, explained: “Our exchange allows operators to identify profitable routes and destinations for network traffic. RTX Fast Pay provides suppliers with much faster payments allowing them to better manage their cash flow and increase supply based on capacity requirements.”

Albert Mackey, CEO at RTX, added: “RTX Fast Pay enables greater competition in the wholesale market as it increases the volume of competitive supply. Through RTX both sets of carriers enter into fully secured agreements with improved control of their cash flow and growth opportunity.”

As you can see, RTX continually strives to enhance the customer experience and ensure it delivers the most definitive and secure global exchange platform in the industry.

RTX Fast Pay provides suppliers with much faster payments allowing them to better manage their cash flow and increase supply based on capacity requirements... Albert Mackey, RTX CEO

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Chunghwa, Nokia Networks ink deal for 4G equipment

Taiwanese multi-service operator Chunghwa Telecom has confirmed that its board has approved the acquisition of new equipment valued at TWD1.86

billion (USD59.5 billion) from Finnish vendor Nokia Networks. According to the Taipei Times, the hardware in question will reportedly be used to expand the telco’s 4G infrastructure.

Meanwhile, the local news source also noted that the hardware purchase comes in the wake of Chunghwa’s recently launched aggressive promotional campaign, which brought a new round of price competition in the 4G sector. Such moves have reportedly been made as the telco has set its sights on boosting the number of 4G subscribers on its books to 3.2 million by the end of 2015.

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Millicom Tanzania (Tigo) has launched 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, claiming users will be able to access data speeds five times

faster than those available over existing 3G networks, in a move which Tigo notes will create ‘the biggest and fastest internet network in the country.’ At launch, the new network covers the suburb of Masaki and the Mlimani City shopping mall, both within Dar es Salaam, while the operator plans full 4G coverage of the city by the end of July 2015 before extending the high speed service to the Moshi municipality, the capital Dodoma and the cities of Arusha, Morogoro, Mwanza and Tanga by end-August.

The rollout comes in the wake of Tigo’s recent announcement to invest USD120 million in expanding network coverage and improving service quality during 2015. As previously reported by TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate, earlier this month the cellco confirmed its intention to deploy 787 new base transceiver stations ( BTS) across the country. TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database records that Tigo Tanzania launched HSPA+ 3.5G services in May 2013, with a dual-carrier HSPA+ (DC-HSPA+) upgrade following in selected cities later that year, and the cellco advertises peak download ‘4G capable’ speeds of 42Mbps over the DC-HSPA+ network.

Tigo launches LTE: plans to deploy Tanzania’s largest 4G network

MyRepublic to offer 1,000 free SIMs in three-month trial launching August

As part of a charm offensive designed to help it secure the fourth mobile licence in Singapore, broadband provider MyRepublic intends to distribute 1,000 free SIM cards to end users as part of a three-month trial of 4G data services beginning in August. The Straits Times reports MyRepublic managing director Yap Yong Teck as saying that users will be given unlimited 4G data access and the ability to make phone calls via apps such as WhatsApp or Viber, noting that the drive: ‘is to simulate the flat fee, unlimited data plan we want to roll out if we get the fourth telco licence’.Whilst the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has yet to award the fourth telco licence, MyRepublic has been granted a temporary permit to take part in the city-state’s trial of its heterogeneous network plan, or HetNet, which is expected to kick off in the third quarter of this year at Jurong Lake District. As previously reported by CommsUpdate, Singapore’s three principal incumbent telecoms service providers – Singtel, StarHub and M1 – along with MyRepublic, will work together on HetNet, which is aimed at allowing commuters to access the internet at ultra-high speed with no fear of service disruption, with each operator rolling out new equipment in common areas at Jurong Lake District, such as bus stations, pedestrian walkways and the Jurong East MRT (metro rail) station. HetNet will allow users to switch between 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi networks during disruptions or service slowdowns, irrespective of which company operates them. By the end of this year the government hopes to be in a position to evaluate the multi-operator trial, with a view to ensuring that in the long term it is able to optimise the use of Singapore’s precious radio spectrum resources.

Slovakia’s mobile market leader Orange Slovensko is looking to up its investments in Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. A report from Telecompaper suggests

that the firm has plans to spend around EUR85 million (USD92.4 million) on a network expansion programme, with the bulk going on 4G deployments, while work will also be carried out to strengthen its 3G infrastructure. Orange currently reaches around one-third of the population with its LTE networks and is reported to be in the final stages of negotiations over network sharing with rival firm O2 Slovakia.

Orange Slovensko earmarks EUR85 million for network expansion

Sources:www.telecompaper.comwww.telegeography.comwww.developingtelecoms.com

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Charter plots renewed bid for TWC in wake of Comcast kibosh

Charter Communications is laying the groundwork for a potential bid for New York-based Time Warner Cable (TWC), people familiar with the matter

informed the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), after Comcast’s USD45.2 billion deal to buy the company unravelled last week. On Friday Comcast and TWC formally announced they had dropped plans for a ‘mega-merger’ that would have united the nation’s two largest cable companies, after running into regulatory red-tape. A brief statement from Comcast chairman and CEO Brian L Roberts noted: ‘Today, we move on. Of course, we would have liked to bring our great products to new cities, but we structured this deal so that if the government didn’t agree, we could walk away.’

As previously reported by TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate, TWC rejected a ‘grossly inadequate’ USD37.3 billion bid from Charter before accepting Comcast’s superior offer in February last year. According to the WSJ’s sources, many of the cableco’s concerns about a potential combination remain in place, with TWC particularly worried about the level of debt the combined company would have, since Charter would likely raise a large amount to finance a deal. Further, TWC believes Charter’s shares are overvalued, and will be hesitant to accept a large amount of stock in any transaction. A Charter offer with a high proportion of cash in the mix would be better received by TWC, the sources suggested.

Meanwhile, the ripple effect caused by the failure of the Comcast-TWC deal may yet impact on the future of Bright House Networks, with Charter’s USD10.4 billion takeover of the regional cableco contingent on the completion of the larger merger. No official word has emerged regarding the Bright House deal, but a number of US press reports have suggested that TWC could now make a play for Bright House. The expiration of TWC’s right of first offer for Bright House was included among a number of conditions.

Maltese telco GO has revealed that it plans to invest more than EUR50 million (USD54 million) over the next five years to deploy fibre-to-the-

home (FTTH) technology nationwide. Commercial services are due to be launched in the next few weeks, the Malta Independent writes, with 17,000 homes already covered by GO’s new infrastructure in Sliema and areas of St Julian’s and Lija. The telco has been conducting limited trials of FTTH since late 2012.

GO’s CEO Yiannos Michaelides is quoted as saying: ‘As part of our strategy to upgrade our entire network range to Next Generation Networks, the rollout of FTTH represents a very significant investment by GO which will future-proof Malta’s internet infrastructure for the benefit of the whole country and ensure that Malta keeps pace with the rest of Europe.’ GO’s main competitor in Malta’s fixed line sector, Melita, operates nationwide cable TV and broadband networks which allow download speeds of up to 100Mbps.

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M2 Group makes AUD1.6bn all-share offer for iiNet

Australia’s M2 Group, the owner of alterative broadband providers Dodo and iPrimus, has reportedly lodged a counterbid to acquire Perth-

based iiNet in an all-share offer worth over AUD1.6 billion (USD1.23 billion), according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

With this offer topping a previous bid made for iiNet by TPG Telecom, which in March 2015 announced plans to purchase iiNet in a deal which valued the latter at AUD1.4 billion, sources were cited as saying that iiNet’s board and advisers were considering M2’s bid at the weekend.

As per M2’s proposal, iiNet shareholders would receive 0.803 of an M2 share per iiNet share, as well as AUD0.75 per share by way of a special dividend. Should the deal be seen through, iiNet shareholders would subsequently own approximately 42% of the enlarged M2 group. Meanwhile, in a statement to the Australian stock exchange confirming the offer, M2 Group claimed its proposed acquisition could offer a number of benefits to iiNet shareholders, including the possibility of deferring capital gains tax.

In a statement confirming the new offer, iiNet confirmed it was in the process of completing due diligences on M2, noting: ‘If the iiNet board determines that any counterproposal from TPG would be more favourable, or at least no less favourable to iiNet and its shareholders than the competing proposal from M2, then the iiNet board will recommend the revised TPG counterproposal, subject to no superior proposal emerging … Otherwise iiNet would expect to recommend the M2 proposal, subject to the independent expert finding the offer to be in the best interests of iiNet shareholders and subject to no superior offer emerging.’

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Verdo leaves Waoo! following Stofa’s acquisition of shares

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Chief General Managers, noted that: ‘BSNL is, on one hand, taking loans for undertaking capital works and is paying interest on such loan amounts and on the other hand there is no reimbursement for the works executed on behalf of the DoT. This situation leads to the double financial burden on BSNL.’ As reported by CommsUpdate, BSNL’s unions held a two-day strike last week over the government’s failure to act to revive the loss-making operator.In a related development, senior BSNL officials are set to meet with members of parliament and representatives of various communities from across the country to discuss the provider’s performance, the Economic Times reports. A statement issued by the DoT noted that the: ‘Telecom Ministry will hold such meetings of all the interested parties to expedite the process of improving the quality and reach of telecom signal from BSNL.’ The meeting is somewhat at cross purposes, however. Whilst BSNL officials have been keen to discuss the operator’s financial troubles with MPs for some time, the politicians and members of the public are approaching the meeting with a view to resolving various quality of service (QoS) issues and shortcomings in coverage, all of which would require further spending from the struggling telco to fix.

Danish utility company Verdo has left domestic consortium Waoo!, following Stofa’s acquisition of 25% of its share capital. The deal will see Stofa take

control of the operation of Verdo Tele’s fibre-optic network in Rangers and Hobro from mid-2015. Stofa will also replace Waoo! as the main content provider for Verdo’s 11,000 subscribers from the beginning of 2016.

For its part, Waoo! announced that Verdo CEO Kim Frimer is stepping down as chairman of the board of Waoo!’s directors. Further, the company revealed that it was in discussions with several potential partners for a strategic alliance, but ‘Verdo did not have the necessary patience to wait for the conclusion of the process.’

According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, Waoo! was effectively formed through the merger of Smile Content, Profiber and Dansk Bredband in September 2010. The company was established in its current form later that year in order to manage the fibre access networks of 15 of Denmark’s largest energy companies under a single brand identity. The number of the participating utility companies subsequently dropped to eleven – NEF, Energi Fyn, Sydfyns Elforsyning, Bredband Nord, FIBIA Vest, AURA Fiber, EnergiMidt, TREFOR, FIBIA Ost, and TDC Fibernet; combined, their networks passed more than a third of Danish households, which equated to around one million at mid-2014.

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Telenor confirms successful launch of THOR 7 satellite

State-owned provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has escalated its conflict with the government following a two-day strike last week with an order to

the heads of each circle instructing them: ‘Not to carry out any work on behalf of the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) without receipt of written sanctions from the DoT and without advance payment for carrying out such work.’ The Business Standard writes that the ailing telco has drawn a line in the sand, claiming that unpaid bills from the government amount to more than INR3 billion (USD46.99 million). An internal memo sent to the operator’s

Norwegian telecoms group Telenor has announced the successful launch of its ‘THOR 7’ satellite from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. THOR

7, which was manufactured by Space Systems Loral (SSL), is Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s first growth satellite and also features its first high-throughput satellite (HTS) Ka-band payload, which is said to have been specifically designed for the mobility VSAT market to provide high-powered coverage over the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the Red Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the Mediterranean. Following the launch, THOR 7 will now reportedly undergo extensive in-orbit testing, with Telenor having said it expects the satellite to be ready to deliver DTH services in six weeks. Additional testing meanwhile will take place on the HTS Ka-band services with a view to a full commercial service launch in the last quarter of 2015.

Commenting on the development, Morten Tengs, chief executive at Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, was cited as saying: ‘I am delighted to see that THOR 7 has safely reached geostationary transfer orbit and thank both Arianespace and our manufacturing partner SSL for this successful launch … the THOR 7 satellite will provide growth capacity for DTH services across Central and Eastern Europe and deliver optimal satellite coverage across Europe’s business shipping lanes for the provision of maritime VSAT services.’


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DTAC’s mobile data revenue up 13% as it nears 1m 4G users

Thailand’s second-largest cellco by subscribers DTAC, part of the Telenor Group, has reported its results for Q1 2015, displaying pre- and post-paid net

user additions of 263,000 and 155,000 respectively in the three-month period, and claiming a total of 28.4 million subscribers at end-March, an increase of 0.7% year-on-year and 1.5% quarter-on-quarter. It also increased the volume of subscribers on its 2100MHz 3G/4G network to 23.5 million, representing 83% of the total base, compared to 72% in Q414, whilst customers classed as data/internet subscribers reached 14.8 million, equivalent to 52% of the total. Also at the end of 1Q15, DTAC reported ‘close to one million 4G users’ as well as a 4G LTE device penetration of 7.5%, and the company expects to reach 2.5 million LTE subscribers by the year-end, when it predicts that 60% of its customers will be mobile internet users.

In the first quarter of 2015 DTAC’s total revenue reached THB22.884 billion (USD699 million), an increase of 1.9% year-on-year, driven by strong handset sales and mobile data revenue growth, offset by voice revenue decline. However, q-o-q revenue decreased 9.5%, mainly because of strong iPhone 6 sales in 4Q14. Service revenue excluding interconnection decreased 3.6% y-o-y and 0.7% q-o-q to THB16.768 billion because data revenue growth could not offset the declining voice turnover (down 18% y-o-y and 5.6% q-o-q to THB7.754 billion). Handset and starter kit sales increased 35% y-o-y due to iPhone 6 sales, bundled smartphone offerings and provincial subsidy campaigns, but also fell q-o-q. Data revenue was THB7.456 billion in 1Q15, up by 13% y-o-y and 1.8% q-o-q, while DTAC noted that despite strong growth of data usage, monetisation is still impacted by unlimited data packages to attract consumers using smartphones and mobile internet, in particular in the pre-paid segment; the operator adds that it launched an initiative to improve data monetisation by launching limited data price plans and stopping selling unlimited packages in the post-paid segment. EBITDA rose 4.8% q-o-q, although decreased 11% y-o-y to THB7.358 billion mainly because of negative handset margin and lower service revenues.

DTAC also highlighted its region-based operating model, implemented in 4Q14. There were several specific regional campaigns launched in Q1 2015, such as ‘Happy Kwangsong SIM’ for pre-paid customers in Chiang Rai province and ‘Jai-Dee-Hi-Own-Pai-Myanmar from Happy’, a service via which DTAC’s Happy (pre-paid) customers in Thailand can top up a Telenor Myanmar SIM.

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Metroweb’s state shareholder rejects Telecom Italia offer

Italy’s state-backed lender Cassa Depositi e Presititi (CDP) has reportedly rejected an offer from Telecom Italia (TI) to take a stake in the fibre network operator

Metroweb. An email to TI’s CEO Marco Patuano from the head of CDP’s investment arm Fondo Strategico Italiano (FSI), which has been leaked to the Italian press, states: ‘CDP and FSI are not in the condition to go ahead… at terms outlined in the MOU (memorandum of understanding) draft sent by Telecom Italia.’ Reuters suggests that CDP favours an offer from rival telco Vodafone Italy.

Milan-based Metroweb is co-owned by Metroweb Holding (87.7%) and Italian internet service provider ( ISP) FastWeb (10.6%). Meanwhile, Metroweb Holding is owned by investment fund F2i (53.8%) and FSI (46.2%). The firm currently operates fibre networks in a number of Italian cities and is expected to form a central part of the government’s plans to expand broadband connectivity in Italy. TI is thought to have been looking to secure a majority stake in Metroweb, while Vodafone favours a joint venture between the country’s alternative operators and the government.

Vodafone Germany has switched on Category 6 (Cat 6) LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) services in the downtown areas of Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Hanover and

Munich, reports teltarif.de. The technology enables 4G data tariff customers to access the internet at maximum download speeds of 225Mbps by combining the 800MHz and 2600MHz frequency ranges. The company plans to expand the high speed service to more cities, including Cologne, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Leipzig and Stuttgart, in the coming months. TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database notes that Vodafone carried out tests of LTE-A technology with China’s Huawei in Dresden in November 2013, while on 17 November 2014 rival Telekom Deutschland began offering Cat 6 LTE-A data rates of up to 300Mbps (marketed as ‘4G Max’) in selected areas, including: Berlin, Bonn, Chemnitz, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Potsdam, Rostock and Stuttgart.

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Turkcell chooses TSIC for 4G roaming in 29 countries

Comcast extends 2Gbps connectivity to Florida

Tele2 Russia expands 3G to Kaliningrad exclave

Turkcell, the leading mobile operator in Turkey in terms of subscribers, has chosen TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC) to enable 4G roaming

with 31 operators across 29 countries. TSIC’s IPX-based diameter signalling service allows Turkcell’s more than 34.5 million users to access 4G services when roaming in selected countries, while TSIC subscribers can connect to 4G in Turkey via in-bound roaming. Matthew Jones, head of mobile solutions at TSIC, commented: ‘[I’m] impressed with how our teams worked together to enable a 4G roaming service for a non-4G network operator … It’s a first for TSIC and Turkcell.’

As previously reported by TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate, a multi-band spectrum auction is expected to be held in Turkey on 26 May 2015, paving the way for the introduction of commercial 4G LTE technology in the country by year-end.

Comcast has announced that it will offer residential multi-Gigabit broadband connectivity in Florida to its more than 1.3 million customers in the Miami,

Fort Lauderdale, West Palm and Jacksonville areas. ‘Gigabit Pro’ is a symmetrical, 2Gbps service that will be delivered via a fibre-to-the-home ( FTTH) solution. It will be offered broadly across Comcast’s Florida service area beginning next month and represents the fastest residential broadband speed currently available in the US.

Florida becomes one of the first markets in the country to offer Gigabit Pro, following launches in Atlanta and California earlier this month. In addition, Comcast plans to offer a multi-Gigabit fibre service through its ‘XFINITY Communities’ programme that serves residents of multi-dwelling units (MDUs) such as apartment complexes.

Mobile operator Tele2 Russia, owned by VTB Group and Rostelecom, has announced on its website the latest expansion of its 3G network to the

Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, switching on commercial W-CDMA/HSPA+ network services in Kaliningrad city and the surrounding Kaliningrad Region on 22 April. Kaliningrad is the seventh region where Tele2 Russia subscribers are offered high speed mobile internet/data services; Tele2 launched 3G in November 2014 in St. Petersburg, before expanding the network to Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Tambov and Nizhniy Novgorod, whilst in December 2014 the cellco launched its first 4G LTE network section in Tula. Tele2 Russia also offers 2G services in 60 Russian regions.Roman Volodin, COO at Tele2 Russia, explained the current strategy: ‘The Tele2 policy is to provide services that are really in high demand. According to the forecasts, the 3G standard will remain the most massive technology of high speed wireless internet. The number of devices supporting 3G on the Tele2 network accounts for 33% of the overall number of devices. At the same time, around 40% of Tele2 subscribers constantly use mobile internet.’

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Tusmobil doubled net profit in 2014 to EUR4.4m

Slovenian cellular operator Tusmobil has reported revenues of EUR79.6 million (USD86.5 million) for full-year 2014, up 2% year-over-year. Net profit more than doubled to EUR4.4 million. Tusmobil says it ended 2014 with 294,602 subscribers, which was an increase of some 22,000 on the figure at the start of the year. The cellco claims almost 13% of Slovenia’s mobile sector in terms of users, according to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, sitting in third place in the market behind state-backed Telekom Slovenije and Telekom Austria subsidiary Si.mobil. Tusmobil says its 2G networks covered 98.9% of the population at end-2014, while its 3G infrastructure reached 95.4% of people. The cellco was recently acquired by Slovenian cable TV and broadband operator Telemach, which is itself owned by the US-based investment fund Kahlberg Kravis Roberts ( KKR). The buyout, which was thought to have been valued at around EUR150 million, allows Telemach to provide a bundle of fixed and mobile voice and data services plus TV services. Tusmobil is planning to launch 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) services on 1 June.


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Omantel unveils 200Mbps LTE speeds at COMEX

Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel), the Sultanate’s incumbent telecoms operator, has launched maximum download speeds of

200Mbps over its 4G LTE network, Muscat Daily reports. The announcement was made at the COMEX 2015 telecoms and IT conference, which is taking place in Muscat, where Omantel has also unveiled a range of new promotions, devices and services, including a new ‘smart home’ product enabling customers to operate home appliances remotely. ‘Omantel is always very keen on providing its customers with the best offers and products that make their experiences unique and exciting,’ Ali al Hadeed, general manager of marketing at the firm’s Consumer Business Unit, was quoted as saying.

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State-owned CAT Telecom is consolidating all its mobile network assets into a single business unit to increase efficiency and help implement the Thai government’s

infrastructure-sharing initiatives, reports the Bangkok Post. Up to now, CAT’s mobile network services have been managed by several operating units, namely the mobile business unit, asset management unit and concession contract management unit, but will be placed solely under the mobile business unit going forward. CAT projects total revenue of THB52 billion (USD1.6 billion) this year, 45% of which is projected to come from the network rental fees under the wholesale-resale partnership between CAT and True Corp that provides the 850MHz service portion of the True Move H 3G business. CAT aims for turnover from all mobile business to account for 60% of total revenue within the next three years, up from 40% currently, helped by the business streamlining efforts. The firm forecasts net profit of THB1.5 billion this year.

French companies to develop LTE multicast solution

A consortium of French companies – including Orange Group’s subsidiary Viaccess-Orca, Expway, Sequans, Telecom ParisTech, Sagemcom and Archos

– are designing a next generation Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS) terminal solution. According to a press release, the USD5 million Multimedia for 4G Evolution (MM4G Evo) project is expected to widen the capabilities of eMBMS technology, with Expway’s CEO Claude Seyrat cited as saying: ‘The objective of this project is to go way beyond what is already deployed in the marketplace today. All the players are already leaders in the first wave of LTE Multicast deployment and have been participating to major trials worldwide … Major innovations in LTE Multicast are already in the pipeline. They include new applications for digital radio, efficient magazine delivery, CDN [content delivery network] technology, public safety and In-Venue targeted services.’

Ukraine’s largest mobile operator by users Kyivstar has signed the contract for converting 2100MHz frequencies from military to commercial 3G mobile

usage, representing the final step in the UMTS licensing process, with the other two recent 3G licence winners MTS Ukraine and Astelit (life:)) expected to have signed similar contracts as per the stipulations of their 15-year concession awards in February. Ukrainian online journal ITExpert reports that the contract signing was carried out with the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Service for Special Communications, while noting that the military reduced the initial ‘release period’ under the contract to four years from a previously stated five. Furthermore, the cost of radio frequency conversion to be paid by Kyivstar under the contract has increased from the original projections due to inflation/devaluation, and is currently set at around UAH715 million (USD31 million), payable in three instalments and subject to further currency effects; this takes the estimated cost of conversion for all three new 3G licences to above UAH2.1 billion, up from initial estimates of UAH1.6 billion.

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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has underlined its strategic interest in the Indian market by announcing Ratan Tata, former Chairman of Indian

giant conglomerate Tata Sons, has made an investment in Xiaomi.

State-owned CAT Telecom is consolidating all its mobile network assets into a single business unit to increase efficiency and help implement the Thai government’s infrastructure-sharing initiatives, reports the Bangkok Post. Up to now, CAT’s mobile network services have been managed by several operating units, namely the mobile business unit, asset management unit and concession contract management unit, but will be placed solely under the mobile business unit going forward.

CAT projects total revenue of THB52 billion (USD1.6 billion) this year, 45% of which is projected to come from the network rental fees under the wholesale-resale partnership between CAT and True Corp that provides the 850MHz service portion of the True Move H 3G business. CAT aims for turnover from all mobile business to account for 60% of total revenue within the next three years, up from 40% currently, helped by the business streamlining efforts. The firm forecasts net profit of THB1.5 billion this year.

TalkTalk joins BT in MVNO race to the bottom

UK telco TalkTalk has jumped on the low-cost SIM bandwagon in the wake of BT’s move into the mobile market, offering aggressively low-priced mobile services to go along with its domestic broadband package.

It claims to have launched the country’s lowest priced unlimited SIM-only plan, with unlimited data, calls and minutes being included for existing broadband

customers. Priced at £12 per month, the move appears to be a direct riposte to BT’s MVNO announcement of 20GB of 4G data for £20 per month.

“We’re revolutionising mobile with our new unlimited SIM,” said Tristia Harrison, TalkTalk’s consumer MD. “We’ve successfully driven down the average cost of broadband and TV packages in Britain, giving millions of families more for their money. Now we’re doing the same for mobile. Savvy shoppers are realising that a separate mobile package costs significantly more than taking it together with their broadband and TV. And our great value All-in mobile SIM isn’t just for people streaming and downloading day in day out. For those simply after the best price, this is an unbeatable deal.”

Ernest Doku from comparison website uSwitch.com reckons TalkTalk’s announcement has the potential to further enhance competition in the converged telecoms marketplace.

“On the heels of major launches in the SIM-only space from both BT and Carphone Warehouse, TalkTalk’s deal seems set to make this corner of the market – acutely driven by value for money – even more combative,” he said. “Combining the freedom of a 30-day rolling contract with an unlimited data allowance at the all-important sub-£15 price point makes TalkTalk’s new offer hugely compelling, and is likely to cause real disruption to the bigger players.”

Digging a little bit deeper, however, reveals several stipulations in the offer which suggests this may be a defensive, “me too” strategic move from TalkTalk.

Firstly, the deal is available for the next two months, with purchase of the all-in SIM at £12 valid until the 30th June.

Additionally, if a broadband customer were to cancel, the terms of the SIM package alter radically.

“If a customer cancels their TalkTalk broadband account, the cost of the All-in SIM will rise to £24 a month and the package will change to 2000 minutes, unlimited texts and 2GB of data a month,” said a TalkTalk statement.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, TalkTalk only offers 3G, so it remains to be seen how much “streaming and downloading day in day out” customers will be able to do.

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AIS launches fibre broadband and IPTV services

Thailand’s largest cellco by users Advanced Info Service (AIS) has commercially launched its residential fibre broadband service, ‘AIS Fibre’, offering connection speeds of up to 1Gbps via fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), with VDSL connections also available in selected areas, alongside its ‘Playbox’ IPTV set-top box service. The operator’s website says that users must sign up to a twelve-month contract for its new home packages which range from 15Mbps/5Mbps (down/upload) costing THB590 (USD18) per month, to 1Gbps/200Mbps priced at THB27,990. Under an initial promotion the set-top box and IPTV setup fees are waived, while Playbox IPTV content packages offer more than 100 TV channels plus on-demand content. Additionally, Playbox owners get a free limited trial subscription to new Asia-based movie/TV streaming service HooQ for at least the first month, with a six-month free period available on internet packages of 30Mbps (download) and above.AIS fixed broadband network coverage is initially present in selected parts of seven provinces – Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA), Chiang Mai, Nakhon Ratchasima, Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, Phuket and Songkhla (Hat Yai) – passing 130,000 homes, 500 districts/villages and 700 multi-occupancy buildings at launch, according to the company. AIS plans to spend at least THB4 billion to continue the rollout over the next three years, and expects its fibre broadband network to cover more than ten million households by 2020, with its head of fixed broadband, Saran Phaloprakarn, saying that it expects 100,000 subscribers this year and a million users within three years.

Djibouti Telecom upgrades fixed broadband services with Alepo

Alepo, a provider of IT and network infrastructure software solutions for communications service providers, has secured a deal with Djibouti Telecom to upgrade the telco’s fixed broadband infrastructure to the latest version of the vendor’s Service Enabler (SE), which it describes as a complete carrier-grade BSS/OSS (business support systems/operation support system) framework. In a press release, Alepo said that the upgrade will help Djibouti Telecom to deliver more advanced and flexible data offers to its growing subscriber base, while achieving a significant reduction in OPEX. The company went on to say that with Alepo SE, Djibouti Telecom will be able to benefit from real-time capabilities, such as the ability to enforce bandwidth policies and to offer features like ‘bandwidth on demand’, while also allowing it to offer promotions, discounts and communications seamlessly via SMS and email, enhancing the telco’s capability to gain and retain subscribers.

Apple books record USD13.6bn net profit in Q2, fuelled by strong smartphone sales in China

Apple Inc has announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 second quarter ended 28 March 2015, reporting quarterly revenue of USD58 billion and quarterly net profit of USD13.6 billion, or USD2.33 per diluted share, up from sales of USD45.6 billion and net income of USD10.2 billion in the year-ago period, marking new record highs for the company.

Apple attributed the strong performance to record second quarter sales of iPhone and Mac devices, along with the ‘all-time record performance’ of the App Store. The California-based company said that iPhone unit sales jumped 40% to a total of 61.2 million, noting that sales of the device in China surpassed those in the US for the first time – aided by Chinese New Year celebrations. Further, total revenue from greater China surged 71% year-on-year to USD16.8 billion, prompting Apple CFO Luca Maestri to comment: ‘The progress we’ve made in China has been remarkable and we continue to make incredible investments in China … The growth rate in China is significantly higher than most parts of the world.’ Apple has provided guidance for its fiscal 2015 third quarter, including revenue of between USD46 billion and USD48 billion (compared to USD37.4 billion a year ago), gross margin between 38.5% and 39.5% (39.4% previously), operating expenses of between USD5.65 billion and USD5.75 billion, and other income/(expenses) of USD350 million.

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ANACOM launches 3.4GHz-3.8GHz consultation

Portuguese telecoms regulator ANACOM issued a decision on 23 April 2015 to launch a public consultation on the availability of spectrum in the 3.4GHz-3.8GHz wireless broadband frequency range. According to the watchdog’s announcement on its website, the consultation is based on the principle of effective and efficient assignment and usage of the frequencies in question. ANACOM intends to gather the opinion of many market participants (manufacturers, operators, private and public authorities, users and others) on the use of spectrum available in the 3.4GHz-3.8GHz band. Interested parties must submit comments by 25 May 2015.

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UK-based MVNO giant Lycamobile Group has soft-launched in Hong Kong, CEO Chris Tooley informed the audience at last week’s MVNOs

World Congress , which took place in Nice, France. Admitting that ‘Lycamobile can be a mystery’, Tooley explained the company’s overarching strategy and dropped hints regarding future plans. Reflecting on the unique challenges of the MVNO market, he noted that virtual operators should be prepared for ‘ten no’s before you get a yes’, but claimed the group has ‘discovered a seam of gold and we are mining it’. Going forward, Tooley says Lycamobile is in a position to launch in Tunisia before year-end, following the confirmation by Habib Ben Lallahom – executive director of wholesale MVNO business at Tunisie Telecom – that the venture is officially open for business. Elsewhere, in Latin America, Lycamobile is currently in negotiations in three separate countries, including Brazil. With regards to the Hong Kong launch, TeleGeography notes that, according to new website www.lycamobile.hk calls to China are priced at just HKD0.09 (USD0.01) per minute.

Closer to home, Geoff Smyth, Head of Telecommunications for The Post Office UK, has confirmed that the postal service’s long-awaited MVNO unit is currently undergoing a ‘friendly user trial’ by 3,000 of the company’s employees, and is likely to launch on a commercial basis in late-May/early-June this year. The 4G MVNO, which will piggyback on EE’s network and uses Transatel as a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE), intends to leverage the Post Office’s 11,780 branches for distribution purposes. The new MVNO’s tag-line will be ‘Pay Less as You Go’, and it will be targeted at the lower socioeconomic strata. Smyth says that the venture’s success will rely on its ability to ‘trade in a nimble fashion’ and called his ‘absolutely engaged sales force’ the company’s ‘secret sauce’.

Meanwhile, Carphone Warehouse Ireland is poised to switch on its capacity-based MVNO in July this year. Managing director Peter Scott told the conference delegates that his company’s long-awaited virtual operation – conceived in the wake of Hutchison Whampoa’s takeover of O2 Ireland – is expected to launch in around 100 days’ time. With 120 retail stores in Ireland and twelve planned standalone MVNO stores (situated inside the branches of another retailer), Scott noted that the new player’s chief strength is its ‘ready-made bricks-and-mortar assets’, which allow it to ‘ably distribute MVNOs without adding significant cost’. Pitching the virtual operator as a ‘capacity-based MVNO not a wholesale MVNO’, Scott declared that paying a fixed price from day one – for 15% of Hutch’s capacity –, forces the company to ramp up its user base straight away, and allows

it to potentially offer promotions such as ‘happy hours’ and ‘free days’.

Defense Mobile, a new US MVNO aimed at the 1.4 million Americans on active military duty and their immediate families plus veterans, has confirmed that it is now operational, piggybacking on the networks of AT&T Mobility, Sprint Corp and Verizon Wireless. Speaking to TeleGeography at the conference, Head of Operations Stan Simpliciano revealed that the new virtual operator expects to conclude a fourth wholesale deal with T-Mobile US before year-end, meaning it has partnered with all four ‘Tier 1’ mobile network operators. The Stamford, Connecticut-based start-up intends to offer no-contract 4G service rates that are around 30% to 40% less than they would pay elsewhere. TeleGeography notes that Defense Mobile’s board of Directors and Advisors includes a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two of the longest serving Navy SEALS, five FLAG Officers, a former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, a White House Fellow, the co-founder of Virgin Mobile USA (Peter Lurie) and the co-founder of Simple Mobile (Phil Prouty).

Elsewhere, Enrique Lopez-Negrete, CEO of Mexico City-based MVH Telecom, has named July this year as the month in which its partner, retail group Chedraui, expects to launch its long-awaited MVNO on a full commercial basis. The latter is one of Mexico’s largest retailers, with 217 stores nationwide as of 1 March 2015, and the company hopes to succeed in a market where so many other companies have struggled to make an impact. The virtual network was soft-launched in November 2014 and currently boasts 30,000 users, of whom 25,000 are company employees. Lopez-Negrete noted that Chedraui will likely face stiff competition in the form of fellow retail giant Walmart Mexico (WalMex), which expects to unveil its own service within the next twelve months. Interestingly, the executive suggested that recently launched Mexican MVNOs Virgin Mobile Mexico and Mas Tiempo have both struggled to date, with fewer than 10,000 users apiece.

In other MVNO news, as had been widely predicted Google Inc launched its new MVNO service – ‘Project Fi’ – on Wednesday 22 April, basing the operation on a model that charges users only for the data they actually use each month. Running on the networks of Sprint Corp and T-Mobile US, the search engine-turned telco is offering its MVNO customers the option to share data plans, plus other features including: flat rate over-usage fees on a per GB basis; ‘free’ voice calls and SMS in the US; and low-rate international calls, akin to the Google Voice service. Looking

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to disrupt the US cellular market, already locked in a fierce price war, Google unveiled its long-awaited phone service putting it directly in competition with Verizon, AT&T and other wireless service providers. Detractors have suggested that for now though, Project Fi could be considered an ‘experiment’. It will be available only to people using Google’s Nexus 6 phone, limiting its reach. Google’s new MVNO offer is a hybrid service; it will use Wi-Fi networks to route phone calls and data, which could further reduce subscribers’ bills, it says. Whilst some rivals charge upwards of USD100 per month for their services (including voice calls and mobile data), Google is offering its plan at USD20 per month for basic voice calls/ SMS, plus a flat USD10 per GB of data.

South Africa looks set to get a new MVNO from 1 May 2015, with the newcomer in question me&you mobile, promising to ‘turn the traditional mobile market model on its head’. Headed up by CEO Brett Howell, me&you mobile is backed by Durban-based Ignition Group and is looking to offer end-users more flexibility and control, by not locking them into a 24-month contract. Announcing the start-up’s ‘BeUnordinary’ campaign via its Twitter account, the reseller is looking to take on the established heavyweights in the local market with its low-cost, SIM-only offerings starting from just ZAR0.39 (USD0.032) per minute, piggybacking on Cell C’s infrastructure. Data rates are also slated to be ‘competitively priced’, it says, noting that the MVNO’s platform is being provided by another Ignition Group subsidiary, MVN-X, led by former Virgin Mobile South Africa CEO Steve Bailey. me&you mobile is looking to target customers in the higher-income demographic who do not want to be committed to a long-term contract, and it hopes to sign up between 15,000 and 20,000 users in its first year.Megacable of Mexico has announced its intentions to launch as an MVNO by the end of this year, or in early 2016, according to general director Enrique Yamuni. The cableco is reportedly keen to expand its reach in the country by way of a quadruple-play offering, with Mr Yamuni confirming that talks are underway with mobile network operators (MNOs) Movistar or Telcel over the possibility of leasing network capacity from them. In February this year, MVNO Monday reported that Megacable had entered into dialogue with AM-backed Telcel regarding wholesale MVNO terms, as it plots a return to the MVNO sector. The Guadalajara-based firm became one of Mexico’s first virtual operators back in October 2011, when it launched over Movistar’s network, but struggled to gain traction in the market.

UK insurance firm Personal Group has acquired Daventry-based MVNO Shebang Technologies for GBP1.3 million (USD1.9 million), which it will now integrate into its newly created mobile arm, Personal Group Mobile Limited (PGM). Shebang, which had offered services hosted by MNO Hutchison 3G UK (Three), had been in administration since 2012 and successfully fought off a winding-up order in February 2013. The deal gives PGM access to some 10,000

Shebang customers who will now be offered devices and airtime using Shebang’s MVNO through its ‘salary sacrifice scheme’, where members of staff give up part of their salary in order to receive tax or National Insurance (NI) savings. The insurance group claims it will be able to give customers a 32%-47% reduction on ‘standard’ retail prices which will include 24-month contracts and smart devices from the likes of Apple and Samsung.

Chilean MVNO Virgin Mobile Chile is keen to start offering post-paid service plans, CEO Juan Antonio Etcheverry is quoted as saying, although he stresses that the firm aims to do this without the need for customers to be tied to contracts. Etcheverry told STNews that the strategy for what he terms ‘antiplans’ surfaced last year in the wake of a decision by the Department of Telecommunications (Subtel) to cut access charges, at a time when Virgin Mobile was ‘surfacing’ from an operational point of view. The MVNO has amassed a total of 310,000 users to date, with Etcheverry noting that the company wants to boost this to 400,000 by the year-end, of which 50% will be post-paid. A separate unconfirmed report suggests that the MVNO is also looking to offer LTE in the near future. Czech MVNO SAZKAmobil, which offers wireless services over the network of Vodafone CR , plans to launch its first post-paid tariff, starting 4 May, offering 1,000 minutes of voice calls to any network for CZK377 (USD14.8) a month. TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database notes that betting firm Sazka is one of the more recent groups to have entered the mobile reseller market, launching SAZKAmobil in February 2014 via its tie-up with Vodafone. The start-up hit the ground running, amassing 70,000 customers within the first few months of operation and breaking the 100,000 subscriber barrier in November 2014, just nine months after its launch.

Kenyan MVNO Equitel says it has signed up more than 600,000 subscribers in its first six months of operations. Airtel-backed Equitel launched in September 2014 via a partnership deal with Nairobi-based Equity Bank and passed the 400,000 subscriber mark in March. Apparently more than 70% of people using the MVNO’s new service take both mobile and financial services, it said.Finally, UK-based retailer Dixons Carphone Group is the latest firm looking to offer MVNO services in the country, using Hutchison 3G UK (Three) as its host network operator and branded iD. The new iD service is expected to be launched next month with Dixon Carphone promising to offer users the ‘cheapest’ 4G network in the UK, with increased contract flexibility compared to rivals, and free roaming in 22 countries. The news follows the February announcement that Dixons Carphone Group had inked an MVNO partnership deal with Three.


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Mañana Mañana Innovations & Consultancy Services Limited is registered in HK. Mañana is primarily into offering Technology Solutions, Innovative Products and Telecom Services. Mañana has started the Wholesale Voice Services using the Latest VoIP technology in early 2014, has it’s Physical Switch & Infrastructure located in Berlin, Germany & it’s L3 support in Greece. Mañana has established its techno commercial operation center including its L1&L2 support in Gurgaon, the Millennium City of India. Mañana is currently developing and establishing the Global Wholesale Bulk SMS Business, this should launch in the near future. Mañana’s range of retail products include the Mañana TravelSIMa product that is targeted to business and leisure interna-tional travelers, this would result in a minimum of 80% cost saving of a Global Roaming Charges when trave-ling globally, outside your home country. Mañana is also launching country specific Travel Cards for USA / UK / HK / Singapore / Australia & Thailand. Mañana’s other Enterprise Level Products & Services include the Vanilla DIDServices or the Integrated DID with IPPBX(a hosted solution), we are also launching the retailCal-ling CardIP dialer apps, that would help customers and consumers save money on international call charges wherever they can get a 2G or 3G data service or even from Wi-Fi. There are several innovative products, services & Applications in the pipeline that would help clients and users save a lot of money and grow our organic voice traffic. At Mañana we are also working on projects in a few countries to obtain license to operate international gateways.

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Carrier CallCarrier Call builds solutions to solve the complex problems of the international telecommunications market. The Swiss software and services company works with its own development team in-house. Carrier Call uses its long-term industry specific knowledge as well as feedback from customers to constantly refine and en-hance its products. In close cooperation with market experts Carrier Call added a fraud module XFraud to its range of solutions. Fraud detection is a challenge, which needs a flexible system to detect unusual patterns of behavior. Automated traffic monitoring has also positive impact on your revenue assurance. In combina-tion with other XCarrier modules, e.g. XProvisioning you will have an all-inclusive fraud solution. We are also proud to announce major enhancements in our rating engine XRate, a new generation rating engine which provides you with rated real time data. It rates all your CDR’s rapidly and offers a common view over your processed call records. XRate is able to rate forward or reverse, based on A/B-number-types or dependent on the point of interconnect. It bills in the context operator; virtual operators or other call scenarios are possible. It is ready for the new step rating which means different steps in parallel with increased and/or decreased charges within a call or certain duration.

VoxmageVoxmage deliver flexible, reliable and cost effective terminations to all over the fixed and mobile operators around the world. Multiple global interconnections and a robust TDM and IP network makes Voxmage the ideal choice for international carriers and retail service providers. Utilising the best voice infrastructure and a superb back office team Voxmage is able to deliver the best voice services with competitive pricing and qual-ity which makes us your perfect partner. Kindly go through our website www.voxmage.com for more details.

Fizan TelecomIs one of the best VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Service Provider focusing in Internet Telephony Solu-tions for businesses, VoIP reseller programs and VoIP carrier services across varied areas of expertise. We are dedicated to delivering Customer Management and Billing Solutions for entrepreneurs, carriers, VoIP Calling Card Operators and Corporate companies based on VoIP. Fizantel provides a bunch of best profitable VoIP solutions, which include world class quality VoIP Call Termination at cost-effective rates. It provides services like VoIP Termination, Wholesale Termination, VoIp Reseller, Callshop Reseller and A-Z Termination, All kind of VoIP Solution. Our vision is to emerge as a major VoIP Service Provider by integrating telephony system with the contemporary online world.

ConnectoConnecto operates a Voice over IP that delivers high-quality and cost effective services to our customers and suppliers around the globe. We leverage our network and extensive experience in the telecommunications industry to deliver a service to our customers that is second to none. From the delivery and management of your service to the automated billing and LCR services we provide, you will find us dedicated to understand-ing and meeting your telecommunication needs. Our operations and customer support staff ensure that your service is efficiently monitored and maintained. At Connecto, we believe in transparency. We pride ourselves on being accountable to our customers and upholding the highest standard of service to achieve wholesale and retail customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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VR TelecomPerceived price leadership has always been at the core of VR Telecom’s strategy. We shall be the clear leader in attracting and serving price-conscious consumers. But quality is equally important in offering the Best Deal. In order to attract ever more demanding con-sumers, VR Telecom’s quality of service needs to be within striking distance of our tier 1 competitors. VR Telecom competes in an exceptionally fast-moving marketplace, where customer expectations are con-tinually shifting. In other words, the definition of “Best Deal” can be elusive. Our sustained success is therefore dependent on maintaining an agile organi-sation, capable of spotting and taking advantage of both revenue-enhancing and cost-cutting opportu-nities quickly and effectively. This is why we are pas-sionate about the VR Telecom Way, which embodies our corporate values: Flexibility, Cost Consciousness, Quality, Frank, Challenger and Action. These princi-ples underpin VR Telecom’s corporate DNA and, tak-en together, they uphold our key operational capabil-ity of offering the Best Deal through sustained price and quality leadership. From value-based offerings to premium services to value-added mobile services, VR Telecom offers a comprehensive portfolio of products to meet your needs for fixed and mobile voice termi-nation on a global scale.

IlexIlex Content Strategies is an integrated marketing and communications agency dedicated to serving technology, telecoms and IT companies globally. It has specific expertise in delivering content market-ing, public relations and social media support for car-rier businesses, from Tier 1 global operators through to regional and local service providers. Co-founded by Lucia Barbato, an awarding-winning digital con-tent and PR specialist, and Matthew Whalley, former editor of Capacity magazine, Ilex helps organisations to define and deliver their story to customers and prospects, and in turn sell more. It produces market-ing and sales materials like brochures, magazines, newsletters and blogs as well as full-scale integrated marketing campaigns that bring together online and offline content, public relations, video and social me-dia. It is dedicated to delivering strategic content that helps its customers to reach their business objectives and provides the marketing services and support they need. Ilex is based in London, UK with clients in Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa. Ilex was founded to deliver exceptional content that drives budget ef-ficiency and offers organisations the multiple touch points they need to effectively communicate and in-fluence their target audiences.

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Ashan TelecomAshan Telecom Ltd. Was found on 4th March 2009 in Hong Kong. Hong Kong OFCA Office of the Com-munications Authority) issue SBO license (No. 1480) to Ashan on June 2009. Ashan Telecom Focus in VOIP wholesale service which means it is connected and exchange voice traffic with international telecom carriers through internet. Ashan setup Canada branch office in 2011 for support North US customer and have IDC in USA, Hong Kong, Singapore and Guangzhou. Ashan Telecom is a professional wholesale Car-rier that connects over 200 Tier 1 and Tier2 Carriers all over the world which include Telecom Malaysia, CTM, HGC, New World Telecom, WT&T, Bics, Korea Telecom, CHT&Tata Telecom.

Multinet Multinet Pakistan, a leader in domestic and international data & voice services provides reliable con-nectivity solutions on its highly scalable, multi-layered and self-healing optical fiber network in over 110 cities of Pakistan. Multinet holds the competitive edge to cater to the unique connectivity requirements of its patrons and partners alike through its expanded footprint of international PoPs and terrestrial network extensions into neighboring countries. Multinet’s comprehensive solutions portfolio, incredible enterprise market share, a team of highly skilled telecom professionals and exemplary support services make it the “Trusted Infostructure Partner in the Region”.

3G3G Telekom’s philosophy is based on quality. We understand that our clients (carriers, call shops, resellers and white label users) make more money if the end users talk longer which is why our systems monitor every single destination against latency, asr, aloc, etc. so there is never a drop in quality. 3G Telekom is dedicated to make each customer as successful as it can be. Our voice and data services offer unparalleled reliability, security, and value and our outstanding customer service will leave you wondering why you ever trusted your business to anyone else. We welcome you to explore a business relationship between 3G Telekom and your company regarding Voice Traffic Termination and other Carrier Services, Enterprise Solutions, Prepaid Solutions, Consumer Services, and more. Our Wholesale Voice product is aimed at pro-viders whose wholesale and retail customers require stable QoS with aggressive market-based pricing. Coupled with our dynamic real-time routing capabilities and strong buying power 3G Telecom are well positioned to offer a voice product which not only meet pricing requirements but ensures a stable, high quality voice proposition.

Kryptos GlobalKryptos Global is an emerging telecom player offering cutting-edge turnkey voice solutions for the tel-ecom industry and is a part of Multi-million Dollar Kryptos Group. Kryptos Global offers competitive and flexible Global Voice termination options by leveraging its multi-million dollar network and connecting businesses securely. Our telecom services encompassing wholesale as well as retail voice are both afford-able and enjoyable.

TelstraTelstra is a leading Australia-based tier one telecommunications and information services company of-fering a full range of communications solutions. Our international operations are headquartered in Hong Kong where we provide wholesale and enterprise customers with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions across data, voice, satellite and managed network services. We understand our customers want technology and content solutions that are simple and easy to use – that’s why we’ve built Australia’s largest fully integrated IP network and the nation’s largest and most reliable mobile network. Through our strategic investments over the years and the recent acquisition of Pacnet in Asia, we now have the largest privately owned subsea cable network in Asia Pacific, have licences throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas and we facilitate access to more than 2,000 Points of Presence (PoPs) in 230 countries and territories.

NexgeNexge provides diverse range of NGN, VoIP, SMS & VAS Telecom Solutions to Service Providers. Nexge has an installation base of its solutions with more than 200 Service Providers globally. Service Providers uti-lize the Carrier Grade and secure Nexge Platforms for releasing Wholesale VoIP, Wholesale SMS Hubbing, Calling Card, Callback, Class 5 Voice over Broadband, Hosted PBX / IP Centrex, MVNO, Audio Conferencing and High Density Call Logging Solutions to their Residential and Business subscribers.

SynectivUnderpinning our network design expertise is a carrier grade next generation network, operating both in the IP and TDM space. This enables Synectiv to bring innovative world class services into reality with the shortest lead times.The Synectiv network is connected across the globe. With a large presence both in London and also sig-nificant out-of-london points of presence, Synectiv is interconnected with all major telecom providers and has good resilience across the globe.

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