| How is the telecom industry coping with COVID-19? - 23/04/2020 |
| ITU |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| The current COVID-19 pandemic is testing the telecom/ICT industry in many ways, some of which are only just becoming apparent. |
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| Vodacom supports DRC with e-learning, SMS Covid-19 updates, free data, and more - 23/04/2020 |
| Vodacom DRC |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Africa | Dem. Rep. of the Congo |
| Both Vodacom Tanzania and the DRC are prioritising network optimisation for areas that need improvement as well as network resilience. Vodacom DRC offers VodaEduc, a zero-rated learning platform. In the DRC, Vodacom is providing an SMS broadcast to its entire customer base with information and updates from Government around the pandemic. Vodacom DRC is also building a zero-rated ConnectU platform (...) |
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| CTU releases monthly monitoring report - 23/04/2020 |
| Czech Telecommunication Office |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Europe | Czech Rep. |
| The monthly monitoring report, published today, informs about CTU’s operation during the state of emergency, the remission options in case of administration delay during the crisis, the state of networks, telecommunications and universal postal service, the suspended transition to DVB-T2 standard, and the extended deadline of 5G auction. |
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| Inmarsat and TSF support COVID-19 response in Mozambique - 22/04/2020 |
| Inmarsat |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | International |
| Inmarsat Isatphone2 satellite phones have been deployed by Emergency Telecommunications Agency, Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) to the National Institute for Disaster Management in Mozambique, to support the coordination of the country’s response to COVID-19. |
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| GOGP+; The Medicine Smart Phone Application Linking Doctors to Patients - 22/04/2020 |
| GOGP+ Seven Doctors Mobile APP |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Africa | Uganda |
| In light of the presidential directive grounding public transport and regulating private vehicles to stem the spread of COVID-19, GOGP+, a telemedicine app has been designed to do away with physically visiting a hospital. Telemedicine involves the use of electronic communications and software to provide clinical services to patients remotely without making a physical visit to the hospital, and GOG (...) |
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| NICTA response - 22/04/2020 |
| National Information and Communications Technology Authority (NICTA) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Asia & Pacific | Papua New Guinea |
| As the National ICT Regulator, the National Information and Communications Technology Authority (NICTA) is obligated to provide accurate information relating to ICT matters to the general public and wishes to make the following statement: -There are no current or planned deployments of 5G technology in Papua New Guinea and NICTA has not issued a license to any operator to provide 5G services. -T (...) |
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