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Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Vodacom, South Africa’s largest mobile service provider, to build a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) solution to expand Vodacom’s customer base enterprise and residential markets. The new converged network enables Vodacom to provide customers with ultra-broadband needed to access bandwidth-hungry services and applications such as online gaming and streaming video. According to Vodacom, it will deploy Alcatel-Lucent’s comprehensiveRead More…

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Research house IDC has revealed that GCC shipments of 4G LTE handsets have increased more than four times over the last year. Referencing its Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker report, IDC said smartphones now make up 75% of the phones shipped in the GCC, with buyers increasingly moving toward 4G handsetsRead More…