(Telecompaper) South Korea’s tax agency has started an investigation into a local office of US tech giant Google, amid rumors of tax evasion by some YouTube users,… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/Iwv8hk28JHQ/south-korea-tax-agency-launches-tax-evasion-probe-on-google-report–1274573

(Telecompaper) Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has inaugurated a project called ‘Seamless broadband coverage from Hub to Jiwani: Makran Coastal Highway’… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/EgDrMMUmGRg/pakistan-launches-pkr-759-mln-broadband-project-on-makran-coastal-highway–1274572

(Telecompaper) Maldives operator Dhiraagu has rolled out its fibre and IPTV services in R. Meedhoo. Apart from R… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/fsnLS8Z5AiQ/dhiraagu-expands-fibre-internet-tv-services-to-r-meedhoo–1274559

(Telecompaper) New Zealender operator Chorus said the average New Zealand home used about 234GB of broadband data in November compared with 172GB in November 2017, showing more than a 35 percent increase… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/YcUE3bFtFkI/chorus-broadband-data-in-average-new-zealand-home-up-35-in-november–1274549

(Telecompaper) German regional telecoms operator R-Kom said it won a contract to connect 75 under-served buildings with FTTP broadband in the district of Brunn in Bavaria in 2019… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/lU_ZpM9NpUo/r-kom-wins-contract-for-fttp-network-in-brunn–1274546

(Telecompaper) Around 8.6 million people in Germany (over 10% of the population) used a smart speaker in 2018, according to the latest research of eMarketer… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/ENpTQkkI1Eg/german-smart-speaker-users-grow-to-86-million-in-2018–1274537

(Telecompaper) The Russian IoT market is expected to go up by an average 18 percent per year over the 2018-2022 five-year period, reports Cnews.ru citing a study from IDC… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/Gy22lN65_AE/russian-iot-market-to-grow-18-each-yr-until-2022–1274433

(Telecompaper) The number of Portuguese who made online purchases in 2018 increased by 12 percent to 3.9 million, according to figures published by Publico, citing a study carried out by IDC… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/bwfFdpOBG3k/nearly-4-million-portuguese-made-online-purchases-in-2018–1274508

(Telecompaper) T-Mobile Poland, as the only bidder, has won the tender put out by the Polish agency… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/7D-_9uEiZSY/t-mobile-poland-wins-contract-from-agricultural-agency–1274516

(Telecompaper) The Hungarian ICT agency Kifu announced a new service called SZIP Mobil to bring faster broadband to areas not served by the fixed network… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TelecompaperFixed/~3/70o_Mx4AH_M/hungarian-operators-start-mobile-broadband-offer-for-rural-areas–1274511