Armenian national PTO ArmenTel is to relinquish its official monopoly on the provision of IP telephony by the end of the year, in the face of an inexorable rise of ‘illegal’ operators offering VoIP in the country. According to the Arka news agency, ArmenTel Director General Oleg Bliznyuk told reporters yesterday that the telco is […]
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Filipino incumbent Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) has teamed up with other regional providers in a USD500 million high-bandwidth fibre-optic submarine cable system project linking Southeast Asia with the US. The Asia America Gateway (AAG) Cable System is a cable project backed by 17 telcos including AT&T, Bharti, BT Global Network Services, CAT Telecom, ETPI,
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A group of seven Indonesian telecoms operators plan to build a USD1.5 billion national fibre-optic network to alleviate the country’s overloaded telecoms infrastructure and improve access in remote regions, writes the Financial Times. The paper says the companies will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the Palapa Ring project today, which will see the
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