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Globe Telecom says it is leading the way on the wireless stage as it is on course to implement 5G in the Philippines by Q2 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A subsidiary of Bulgarian natural gas company Overgas is to build a wireless network which will offer wholesale capacity to other operators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NTT and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a high-speed IC for wireless front-end that operates on a terahertz frequency band. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pan-Caribbean operator Digicel has launched its 4G LTE network on the island of Anguilla to meet the growing demands for improved wireless and broadband connectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native internet backbone and colocation provider, has announced WTG, a large telecom, internet, wireless and cloud master agents, has joined its channel partner programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T and Crown Castle have entered into a new agreement to expand their existing leasing deal for wireless network infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verizon Communications and its newly-incorporated Straight Path wireless unit have paid the largest civil penalty ever to the US Treasury to resolve a Commission investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Millicom'sTigo El Salvador has signed an agreement to sell up to 800 wireless communications towers to a subsidiary of SBA Communications Corporation (SBA) for $145 million. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BT-owned mobile operator EE is trying out a rural 4G network that will compete in speed with fibre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sprint is to reinvest its market efforts with a portfolio of solutions for the federal and public market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agility, the wholesale internet service provider, has become Avaya's first wholesale partner in Ireland adding Avaya products and services to its existing portfolio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) has elected Vassilis Seferidis, CEO of Zeetta Networks, to its Board. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T, Verizon and Tillman Infrastructure have entered into a collaborative agreement to build hundreds of cell towers, with the potential for significantly more new site locations in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Small Cell Forum (SCF) has welcomed nine new members from across the wireless and internet ecosystems and confirmed its newly elected board [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

South Africa's telecoms minister Siyabonga Cwele wants to put plans for a national fibre network strategy to the government by the end of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FGL Telecom, a Toronto-based telecommunications carrier, has announced this week that it is going to be integrating its wireless services into rural African communities that have no telecoms technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon, says that the company is not interested merging with cable operators, saying it wants to build its own infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zain Group has successfully tested 5G technology achieving maximum throughput speeds of over 70Gbps over 2GHz spectrum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T is extending its trials of 5G wireless technologies to residential customers in three more US cities by the end of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verizon has completed the first ever use of Citizens Broadband Radio Service to boost LTE capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There will be 1.4 billion 5G connections by the year 2025, increasing from just 1 million in 2019, says an analyst company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a statement to Ars Techinca and The Verge, Verizon has admitted to capping traffic to all video content, in a move the company said was to "optimise the performance of video applications on our network". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a network first, T-Mobile has unveiled the successful testing of licence-assisted access on a live commercial network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Edgar Olivera Jimenez, Undersecretary of Communications at the Secretaria De Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT), has shared the ministry's transformation vision of Mexico's telecommunication sector to an audience at Mexico Connect attended by around 300 delegates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ruckus, a part of Brocade, has announced that it now offers both wired and wireless networking for enterprise, hospitality, service provider, government and small-and-medium-sized business customers worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nokia and Spark have signed a three-year infrastructure and fixed networks investment partnership deal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cleareon has launched a new service assurance monitoring platform, offering end-to-end circuit performance monitoring to its customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NTT DoCoMo has begun testing 5G applications using Nokia AirScale base stations and Intel mobile trial platform end-user devices in the Tokyo metropolitan area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facebook has continued to break records with its millimetre-wave (MMW) technology, hitting speeds of 80Gbps in its latest round of tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australian-owned TPG Telecom has emerged as a strong fourth competitor in the Singapore wireless market, after it built up its stock of spectrum this week to a total of 70MHz, ready for a launch in 2018. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advanced network communications provider Windstream has invested in a major expansion of its advanced metro fibre network in Detroit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided to modernise its cellular licensing and power rules in the 800MHz cellular band to provide millions of wireless customers with greater access to networks at faster speeds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

British regulator Ofcom has begun preparations to release spectrum in preparation for future mobile services, including 5G. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verizon has significantly enhanced its Houston network, increasing wireless data capacity by 450%, ahead of the Super Bowl LI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ATC Europe, a joint venture between American Tower Corporation and Dutch pension fund manager PGGM, is to acquire FPS Towers, which owns and operates around 2,400 wireless tower sites across France. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

African mobile networks operator MTN is set to increase bandwidth by up to five times and reduce latency by using Huawei's IP RAN solution to fully upgrade its mobile backhaul network in Nigeria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a two-and-a-half year ongoing collaboration with Lockheed Martin, Silicon Valley-based Collinear Networks is set to commercially release global high-capacity wireless data transmission technology for network operators, carriers and enterprise users in 2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cleareon Fiber Networks has announced its points of presence (PoPs) in New York City and New Jersey are now ready to offer dark fibre and Ethernet services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United Nations is challenging national regulators and governments to support telecoms operators to help meet its goal of connecting half the world by 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AT&T has reached a $450,000 settlement with the US Federal Communications Commission over running unauthorised fixed wireless stations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

South African incumbent operator Telkom is considering suing the country's regulator, Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), which is already being sued by the communications minister. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asian internet service provider (ISP) Blue Wireless has launched wireless internet broadband service for corporate customers in Singapore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vodafone New Zealand has announced new peak speed commitments for 4G rural wireless broadband services delivered under the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sprint has named the former CEO of Vodafone Global Enterprise, Jan Geldmacher, as president of its enterprise business, effective August 22, 2016. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philippines operator Globe Telecom and the traffic authority Metropolitan Development Authority (MMDA) have signed a deal to enhance network coverage in Metro Manila. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Luminet and CCS have partnered to help mobile operators cope with London's mobile data traffic growth by announcing the roll out of a small cell backhaul and enterprise network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Speaking at the Capacity Central and Eastern Europe conference this week, Jaromir Novak, chairman of the council of the Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) said that the legacy burden of old networks was proving to be a mixed blessing and the skills shortage was worrying. However, he claimed that both were being tackled with creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wholesale operator Fusion Network has chosen Telia Carrier as its primary supplier for IP transit and connectivity services to build out its nationwide backbone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Capacity talks with Dora Mejia, VP of sales and business development at NewCom International. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Early images from the conference venue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]