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Japan tops 157 mln mobile subscribers in June quarter
2016-08-03 15:43:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Japan ended June with 157.5 million mobile customers, up from 151.4 million in December 2015. Mobile operator Softbank had 39.3 million mobile subscribers in the quarter ended 30 June, down from 39.5 million in December 2015, according to a report from the Telecommunications Carrier Association (TCA).
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Virgin Mobile to become first major MVNO in Argentina
2016-08-03 10:41:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Argentina's telecomunications regulator Enacom has awarded Virgin Mobile a licence to operate as the country's first major MVNO, confirming an earlier report. Virgin has been granted permission to operate "fixed line and mobile phone services, with or without its own infrastructure," according to a decree published in the country's Official Gazette. The UK-based company has been given 180 days to submit the required documentation. The only other MNVO currently active in Argentina is "Nuestro", a small cooperative-run operator which uses the Telecom Argentina network and serves around 30,000 customers.
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Mobile broadband penetration above 90% in OECD
2016-08-03 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Japan overtakes Finland for first place in OECD's mobile broadband ranking, while Switzerland leads in fixed.
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Mobile broadband penetration hits 90% in OECD area
2016-08-02 14:00:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) There are now over nine high-speed wireless internet subscriptions for every ten inhabitants in the 35-country OECD area, with mobile broadband penetration soaring to 90.3 percent at the end of 2015, compared to 81.6 percent in December 2014. Data released by the OECD revealed the total number of subscriptions rose to 1.153 billion in a population of 1.27 billion people, some 117 million more than a year earlier. Japan has now overtaken Finland as broadband leader, with a penetration rate of 138.8 percent versus 135.4 percent in Finland and there are now nine countries Japan, Finland, Sweden, United States, Denmark, Australia, Estonia, New Zealand and Korea with penetration rates above 100 percent, compared to eight countries a year ago.
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Globe targets 95% mobile coverage by end of 2018
2016-08-01 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Filipino operator submits three-year rollout plan to telco watchdog.
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