| MINTEL coordinated a public-private effort to create a new technological: the Digital Platform COVID-19. - 12/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society (MINTEL) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| MINTEL coordinates public-private effort to create a new technological: the Digital Platform COVID-19. This instrument will help the capital authorities to control the quarantine so that the isolation is not broken, define epidemiological fences, carry out massive tests of COVID-19 registered in 171 and Salud Ec, monitor agglomerations, fumigations in contagion zones and apply sanctions to those w (...) |
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| Complementary measures related to Urgent Decree N° 035-2020 that allow service features reduction and other rulings - 11/04/2020 |
| OSIPTEL |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Peru |
| Issue measures to precise the application of service features reduction ordered by the central government by Urgent Decree N° 035-2020 when lack of payment, and thus assure service access and continuity for vulnerable groups during the state of emergency, in particular, tele-education in the context of the beginning of the new academic year. |
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| BT Group response to COVID-19 - 11/04/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Europe | United Kingdom |
| The BT group said it will prioritize emergency calls and systems supporting emergency services, critical national infrastructure and vulnerable customers, should the network come under pressure; remove all caps on home broadband plans so every customer has unlimited data to use; work with business customers to provide short-term upgrades for network capacity, increased virtual private network (VPN (...) |
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| Three UK’s “Let’s Stay Connected” measures - 11/04/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Europe | United Kingdom |
| Three has reduced its prices for international calls and is offering live stream services to connect customers to in-store assistants. In addition, the company announced partnerships to keep charities connected and suspended the end of service for customers unable to pay their bills. |
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| Apple and Google partner on contact tracing tech for COVID-19 - 10/04/2020 |
| Apple and Google |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | International |
| Apple and Google announced its partnership to develop a contact tracing technology to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The two companies will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing. Given the urgent need, the plan is to implement this solution in two steps while maintain (...) |
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| Tigo implements substitute measures for COVID-19 to Mobile Postpaid users - 10/04/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | The Americas | Guatemala |
| Tigo Guatemala in coordination with the government presents the measures applied to customers during the COVID-19 outbreak, including the suspension of service cuts due to non-payment and providing free call, text and data. |
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