SPHERE
#41
2016
04
NEWS
3 IRELAND IS RÍ-ALLY THE KING
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Ireland carries more data on its network
than all the competition combined ––
over 1,747 terabytes a week! That’s a 77 per
cent increase from 2015 and equivalent
to four million songs streamed every
hour. That means
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Ireland can handle
the huge demand arising from their new
partnership with Deezer, which gives
customers access to the world’s leading
on-demand music streaming service
and its over 40 million songs.
Telecoms
3 INDONESIA EMPOWERS
YOUNGTREPRENEURS
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Indonesia’s Festival #Ambisiku (Ambition
Festival) has been blazing a path across
Indonesia, igniting entrepreneurship in
young Indonesians. Some projects present
thework of young online entrepreneurs
throughworkshops and talk shows while
others allowaspiring young business people
to present their creative ideas to be realised
in partnershipwith
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Indonesia. Rise up,
young entrepreneurs!
PIZZA FOR THE PEOPLE!
Vietnamobile launched a unique telecoms
package with offers on voice, SMS, data,
OTT and other services through a Pizza
SIM. Just like a DIY pizza, you can pick
your telecoms toppings, giving young
Vietnamese consumers the choice they
crave!
REALLY REALITY ROAMING
Reality TV star Joey Essex launched
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UK’s expansion of their free roaming
services to an astonishing 42 countries
where
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UK customers can use their
homeland telecoms allotment under the
Feel at Home
programme.
An Italian giant is born
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Italia and WIND have merged their operations into a telecoms powerhouse
in Italy serving over 31 million mobile customers and 2.7 million fixed line
customers. Canning Fok, CK Hutchison Group Co-Managing Director, hailed
the merger as a “major milestone in the development of Italy’s digital economy”
that would bring “benefits to businesses and consumers across Italy
––
through
greater reliability, coverage and speed”.
Jean-Yves Charlier, Chief Executive Officer of VimpelCom, emphasised the
merged entities’ potential “to build a world-class 4G/LTE network in Italy”
to deliver benefits including improved “call quality and strengthened data
services as soon as 2017”. From a business perspective, Mr Charlier says,
“The new company looks forward to delivering on the EUR700 million run-rate
of annualised Opex and Capex synergies that the transaction will bring.”
