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Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTCL) and British telecoms giant Vodafone have announced a partner market agreement in Botswana.

This joint tyntec/GigaOM whitepaper outlines how the global mobile messaging value chain is being disrupted by the rapid growth of OTT services, and the impact this is having on a highly profitable revenue stream for operators. The research uses forecasts for the next five years to highlight how the market for both SMS and OTT messaging will change globally and by region. Using a succinct analytical approach, the paper also demonstrates how this trend is causing a growing fragmentation of the market which can only be addressed by using virtual phone numbers to bring about the convergence of IP-messaging and SMS. This will provide interoperability, reliability and global scale for operators and internet companies alike. By Peter Crocker, GigaOM.

Level 3 Communications has today revealed the launch of a PoP at LDeX Group’s newest data centre in UK city, Manchester; LDeX2.

According to industry reports, Google, the world’s largest internet company, has said it is considering building a fibre network in a European country.

France Telecom is in talks to buy a minority stake in Iraq’s third largest operator Korek Telecom as part of its strategy to expand operations in the Middle East’s less penetrated markets.

What is going on at Cable&Wireless Worldwide? The company has been subject to widespread media attention over the past week, and the release of the company’s annual report on Tuesday has now added significant investor unrest to a long list of uncertainties facing the telco.

Telstra International has launched its Global Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection service to secure multinational enterprise and network operator customers from a range of infrastructure threats.

Telefonica and Spanish low-cost airline Vueling have unveiled high-speed Wifi connectivity for Vueling aircraft passengers, using satellite broadband technology.

Capacity Middle East Day 1 - Ivo Ivanov, executive board member at DE-CIX International, talks about developing Dubai as a digital hub in the Middle East.

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