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  • Bruno Nabagne Kone, minister of technology, information and communication for Ivory Coast, expects the country’s fibre-optic network deployment to enable internet connectivity to up to 30% of its population in the next five years.
  • Leading telecoms groups in the UK will be required to provide greater competition and innovation in the next phase of the ruling coalition’s rural broadband project.
  • European mobile operators were dealt a blow after the European Commission announced the average cost of using data in the European Union (EU) will be more than halved from current rates.
  • Turk Telekom has offered to acquire the remaining $300 million stake in Turkish mobile operator Avea in order to gain sole control of the mobile unit.
  • Canadian operator TELUS has officially abandoned its offer to acquire Mobilicity.
  • Vivendi is pushing for France Telecom-Orange to enter the battle for its 53% stake in Maroc Telecom, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  • Nokia has agreed to acquire Alcatel-Lucent in an all-stock deal valued at €15.6 billion.
  • In February, Orange and Alcatel-Lucent laid claims to successfully completing the world’s first live trial of 400G. By May, BT and Ciena were boasting of an ‘800G super-channel’. The race to the commercial launch of the next-generation of fibre-optic super speeds is certainly gathering pace in 2013.
  • Australia’s National Broadband Network Company (NBN) has appointed Siobhan McKenna as chairman. McKenna takes over from Harrison Young who has held the position of chairman for three years.
  • One of the conversational innovations of the mobile phone era has been that now, when you answer the phone, your friend at the other end can ask: “Where are you?” In a move that will provide ever more outlandish answers to this question, Nepal’s Ncell has just built the world’s highest 3G base station in the Khumbu valley, 5,200m high in the foothills of Mount Everest.