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New Gsma Study Projects Almost One Billion Mobile Subscribers In India By 2020

26 Oct 2016

26 October 2016, New Delhi: India is expected to see a significant uptake in mobile subscriptions, broadband and connectivity by 2020, marking a period of rapid development of the country’s mobile eco...

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New Gsma Study Charts Course To Reset Competition Policy For Digital Ecosystems

20 Oct 2016

Brussels, 20 October 2016: The GSMA today launched the report “Resetting Competition Policy Frameworks for the Digital Ecosystem”....

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New Gsma Report Sees Rise In Mobile Broadband And Smartphone Adoption Across Middle East And North Africa

17 Oct 2016

17 October 2016, Dubai: Mobile broadband networks will account for 61 per cent of mobile connections by 2020, up from 41 per cent today, across the diverse Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, ...

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Gsma’S First Global Mobile Trends Report Highlights Industry Shift To Asia And Rise Of The Mobile Internet

6 Oct 2016

6 October 2016, London: The GSMA today launched its inaugural ‘Global Mobile Trends’ report, offering a vast wealth of data and insight on the state of the mobile ecosystem today and mapping out its f...

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Mobile Internet Users In Latin America To Grow By 50 Per Cent By 2020

20 Sept 2016

20 September 2016, Mexico City: The number of people across Latin America using their mobile devices to access the internet is set to grow by 50 per cent by the end of the decade, according to a new G...

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Gsma Publishes Report Detailing The Mobile Industry’S Impact In Achieving The Sustainable Development Goals

19 Sept 2016

19 September 2016, New York: At today’s United Nations Private Sector Forum, the GSMA unveiled the ‘2016 Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals’, a ground-breaking study that pro...

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Two Million People Benefiting From Gsma M4D Utilities Projects

26 July 2016

26 July 2016, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: The GSMA Mobile for Development Utilities programme (M4D Utilities) released a new report outlining progress in using mobile technology to deliver energy, water ...

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Asia Pacific To Add 600 Million New Mobile Subscribers By 2020

29 June 2016

29 June 2016, Shanghai: The number of mobile subscribers in the Asia Pacific region reached 2.5 billion at the end of last year and will grow to 3.1 billion by 2020, according to a new GSMA study publ...

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New Gsma Report Predicts Chinese Iot Market Will Exceed One Billion Connections By 2020

29 June 2016

29 June 2016, Shanghai: China’s machine-to-machine (M2M) market will reach one billion connections by 2020, with the majority coming from the developing Low Power, Wide Area (LPWA) market, according t...

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New Gsma Study Describes The Changing Economics Of The Digital Ecosystem

17 May 2016

17 May 2016, Brussels: The GSMA today published a new report examining the structure, economic drivers and financial performance of the global internet economy and its respective segments. “The Intern...

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4G Connections Hit One Billion As Mobile Broadband Momentum Extends To The Developing World

22 Feb 2016

22 February 2016, Barcelona: The number of 4G mobile connections worldwide has surpassed the one billion mark and is on track to account for a third of all mobile connections by 2020, according to a n...

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New GSMA Report Highlights Benefits of Mobile Mergers

9 Dec 2014

More focus on investment incentives, less reliance on existing pricing analysis and careful consideration of remedies are essential when assessing mobile mergers, according to a new Frontier Economics...

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GSMA Publishes New Report Outlining 5G Future

9 Dec 2014

The GSMA has released a major new report at the GSMA Mobile 360-Europe event being held in Brussels today, outlining its perspectives on the development of 5G...

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New GSMA Study Sees 4G Underpinning Europe’s Mobile Recovery

9 Dec 2014

Europe’s rapid migration to 4G services and devices is helping to stimulate a recovery in the continent’s mobile industry, according to a new GSMA report published at the GSMA Mobile 360-Europe event ...

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Half of The World’s Population Connected to the Mobile Internet By 2020, According To New GSMA Figures

6 Nov 2014

Half of the world’s population will be using mobile devices to access the internet by 2020, according to new data released by GSMA Intelligence at the GSMA Mobile 360-Africa event today. It is calcula...

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Smartphones to Account for Two Thirds of World’s Mobile Market By 2020 Says New GSMA Intelligence Study

11 Sept 2014

Smartphones will account for two out of every three mobile connections globally by 2020, according to a major new report by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA. The new study, “Smartphone ...

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Consult Hyperion and the GSMA Publish Report Contrasting Hce and Sim Secure Element Approaches to NFC Payments

11 June 2014

Digital payments experts Consult Hyperion, in conjunction with the GSMA, today published a guide to help banks and mobile operators understand the Host Card Emulation (HCE) and SIM Secure Element app...

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China Leads Global Connected Living Market With Over 50 Million M2m Connections

9 June 2014

China is the global leader in the adoption of M2M technology with over 50 million connections or more than one quarter of the total M2M market in 2013, according to “How China is Set for Global M2M Le...

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Asia Pacific is Home to Half the World’s Mobile Subscribers Says New GSMA Study

9 June 2014

The GSMA today issued the latest report in its Mobile Economy series, which reveals that the Asia Pacific region now accounts for half of the world’s mobile subscribers and will remain one of the worl...

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Operators to Reduce Roaming Costs across Africa and Middle East

26 May 2014

The GSMA today announced that senior leaders from nine major mobile operator groups, accounting for over half a billion mobile connections across 48 countries in Africa and the Middle East, are indivi...

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China-Laos Railway

China-Laos Railway

Laos’ priority project

longest and fastest railway

faster freight transit

cost over half GDP

The BRI-backed China-Laos Railway Project has been designated as a priority under the terms of the nation's Eighth Five Year Plan.

Trains on the line will travel at an estimated speed of between 160-200km/h, making it Laos' longest and fastest railway.

It currently takes more than 30 days to transport goods from Thailand to the coastal provinces of China by sea. Once the China-Laos Railway is up and running, the entire process can be cut to less than 24 hours.

The cost of the railway has been estimated at in excess of $7.2 billion – more than half of Laos' annual GDP. It will primarily be met by the Export-Import Bank of China.

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