TELECOM NEWS

Telkom Kenya to appeal to the Supreme Court against a judgment below , which should make a payment of Sh3.2 billion euros ( 37 million dollars) for former employees . The problem stems from the different levels of redundancy pay offered to staff performing similar functions , which was justified by the company as being … Read more

Telecom New Zealand has won the bid to secure the last remaining block of 2×5 MHz lot of radio frequencies of 700 MHz , which was left unsold at auction last year. Telecom bid £ 83 million for the final lot , in addition to the total of 66 million for three lots in the … Read more

BlackBerry has announced plans to sell off most of its real estate holdings in Canada. In partnership with CBRE , BlackBerry has said it plans to ” give strategic mostly commercial real estate portfolio ” through a combination of sale – leaseback and asset sales vacancies. Properties to be offered for sale comprises over 3 … Read more

OTT messaging service, WhatsApp says now has over 430 million active users each month, which it the world’s largest mobile messaging platform dedicated to do. DLD conference in Germany, CEO WhatsApp, Jan Koum also revealed that network now processes approximately 50 billion messages per day. He said that statistics messaging is split around 36 billion … Read more

Although only 5.6% of sales of smartphones in the first quarter of 2013, Windows showed continued growth, gaining 1.9% compared to the same period last year, according to data released today by Kantar hundred Worldpanel Comtech. Almost half (49.3%) Smartphone sales, remains the best selling Android operating system, but saw only a slight increase compared … Read more

Although Fitch Ratings has not released the official rating on Apple; He said today that such a rating is likely to fall in the same category of “high” rating–and would not be good enough to reach the status of “AA”. Discussion about debt rating was prompted by comments from Apple that she may seek to … Read more

Google has reported that its first-quarter revenues jumped by nearly a third to US$14 billion, while profits rose to US$3.35 billion, compared to US$2.89 billion a year ago. Google said that its revenues from outside of the United States totaled $7.1 billion, representing 55% of total Google revenues in the first quarter of 2013, compared … Read more

The global telecommunications industry was not immune to economic forces in 2012 that slowed growth from earlier predictions, according to a new market analysis report from Insight Research. Spending for wireline services contracted in 2012, while spending on wireless services grew modestly. ­According to the new industry market study, telecommunications services revenue worldwide will grow … Read more

USA based AT&T has announced that it is paying US$1.9 billion in cash to buy blocks of radio spectrum from Verizon Wireless. AT&T has agreed to acquire spectrum in the 700 MHz B band from Verizon Wireless for $1.9 billion in cash and AWS spectrum licenses in several markets, including Phoenix, Ariz., Los Angeles and … Read more

The Vast user of apple iPhone never gone inside more than first 50 applications in the iTunes store as reported by Surikate. There are 52.2 million on an average visits to Apple Store on every week and no more searching or finding becomes more important to user and so no more important for mobile app … Read more