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• Labour’s broadband proposal shows the scale of its ambitions

  15-11-2019 15:01 via Telecoms
  Conservatives should worry that Corbyn is winning the argument on nationalisation
  
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• Labour’s broadband plan shows nationalisation’s appeal

  15-11-2019 15:01 via Telecoms
  Conservatives should worry that Corbyn is winning the argument
  
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• BT retains ‘must-win’ UK Champions League rights

  15-11-2019 14:22 via Telecoms
  Deal to keep screening Europe’s top club football competition vital to group’s sports channels
  
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• John Legere, ‘bad boy’ of telecoms wooed by WeWork

  15-11-2019 13:55 via Telecoms
  T-Mobile’s brash US boss has transformed both his company and his image
  
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• Show the phone some mercy and drop the messaging apps

  15-11-2019 13:46 via Telecoms
  Calls contain nuance and can spark ideas that written tools lack
  
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• Phone phobia is bad for business

  15-11-2019 13:46 via Telecoms
  The rise of messaging apps and the decline of conversation have harmed offices
  
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• Lex on BT/Labour: lamped

  15-11-2019 12:57 via Telecoms
  Nationalisation threat raises pressure over tardy rollout of full-fibre broadband
  
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• BT/Labour: lamped

  15-11-2019 12:57 via Telecoms
  Nationalisation threat raises pressure over tardy rollout of full-fibre broadband
  
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• Greenwich to get a full house of Queens

  15-11-2019 10:23 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  For the first time ever, three famous paintings of Queen Elizabeth I, the Armada Portraits, are going on display together in the same place, at Queen’s House in Greenwich.
  One of the most iconic images in British history, the Armada Portrait commemorates the most famous conflict in Elizabeth’s reign, the Spanish Armada’s failed attempt to invade England in 1588.
  The exhibition, Faces of a Queen: The Armada Portraits of Elizabeth I, is the first time the paintings have been disp
  
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• Labour vows to nationalise BT’s Openreach network

  15-11-2019 08:38 via Telecoms
  Corbyn promises free broadband for every home by 2030 in latest election pledge
  
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• Labour's plans to nationalise Openreach would be a "disaster" for UK connectivity

  15-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
   Labour's plans to nationalise Openreach and provide free broadband connectivity to every home and business in the UK would stifle innovation and place a monumental burden on the tax-payer, according to an industry trade association.
  techUK, an industry trade group that counts Openreach, BT, Vodafone UK, MLL Telecom and Pure Telecom among its 850 UK members, said that the pledge would have a catastrophic effect on the UK's digital economy…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google announces the completion of Curie Cable, connecting US and Chile

  15-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Google has announced that its trans-Continental Curie cable, which connects Chile with the US, has been successfully installed and tested…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airtel Africa invests $70m in spectrum to boost Nigerian LTE coverage

  15-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Airtel Africa has confirmed that it will invest $70 million in additional spectrum, to boost its LTE coverage in Nigeria.
  The company will purchase an additional 10MHz block of spectrum in the 900MHz band from Intercellular Nigeria…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Labour vows to give every home free broadband by 2030

  15-11-2019 00:48 via Telecoms
  BT caught off-guard after McDonnell’s assurances that it was ‘not on nationalisation’ list
  
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• Orange prepares carve-out of mobile towers

  14-11-2019 20:07 via Telecoms
  Move to capitalise on investor interest would boost French group’s valuation by up to €10bn
  
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• More trains on the London Overground from next week.

  14-11-2019 16:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  People using the London Overground line between Watford and Euston will have a more frequent service from next during off-peak hours.
  The service currently offers four trains per hour in the rush-hour periods, but this drops to around three trains per hour during the rest of the day.
  From Sunday (17th Nov), the service will be increased to four trains per hour — roughly one every 15 minutes — throughout the day. The service will tail off to few trains per hour after 11pm during the w
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER extends railway portfolio with Kathrein antennas

  14-11-2019 14:31 via Telecom- general feed from realwire
  
  Following its acquisition of the Kathrein rail antenna portfolio in May, HUBER+SUHNER has introduced an expanded connectivity offering for customers in the railway market. The complete documentation for all former Kathrein antennas is now available online, with existing customers able to access this in the same way as for HUBER+SUHNER antennas. Former Kathrein rail customers are also being on-boarded to experience the same level of service as before, including product availability and delivery t
  
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• The UK’s largest optical telescope – is in London

  14-11-2019 13:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  An observatory operated by UCL in North London has acquired a new telescope, which happens to be the largest of its kind in the UK. Based in Mill Hill, the observatory is part of the University of London, and is a teaching centre for students as well as for academic study.
  The newly installed 80cm reflector is the facility’s biggest telescope and joins a suite of five permanently mounted telescopes housed in the observatory’s domes.
  The Perren telescope was unveiled by Astronomer Roy
  
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• Elevate to be showcased at MWC Barcelona in 2020

  14-11-2019 12:31 via Telecom- general feed from realwire
  
  Strategic Imperatives, the UK's leading provider of SaaS solutions to telecoms service providers, is delighted to announce that its ground-breaking billing and service monetisation solution, Elevate, will be showcased at MWC20 as part of the UK’s Innovation Pavilion. Held in Barcelona in February, MWC is the world’s largest telecommunications and connectivity event, bringing together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology alongside today’s most influential visionari
  
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• Westminster tube station adds a splash of Africa to its roundels

  14-11-2019 08:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  Fresh from promoting a national newspaper, Westminster tube station’s roundels have been given an artist makeover — with an African theme.For the next few months, a number of roundels at the tube station will be redesigned by the British Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong, with coloured designed inspired by African themes.
  The Pan-African colours, green, black, and red represent the land, the people and the struggles the continent has endured, while gold represents a new day and prospe
  
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• Ribbon Communications swoops for ECI Telecom merger

  14-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  US based cloud provider, Ribbon Communications is set to acquire ECI Telecom Group for around $455 million.
  The deal will see Ribbon Communications purchase ECI for 32…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ribbon Communications swoops for ECI Telecom

  14-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  US based cloud provider, Ribbon Communications is set to acquire ECI Telecom Group for around $455 million.
  The deal will see Ribbon Communications purchase ECI for 32…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Liquid Telecom launches trans-continental fibre link to connect East and West Africa

  14-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Liquid Telecom has launched a state of the art, terrestrial telecoms link to connect East and West Africa, delivering the fastest route across the continent.
  The announcement comes following the completion of Liquid Telecom's new high…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• India's DoT serves telcos with a 3 month payment deadline for $13bn ARG dues

  14-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  India's Department of Telecoms has issued a notice to the country's cash strapped telcos, demanding that they make payment of $13 billion of outstanding dues within three months.
  Last month, India's Supreme Court upheld a decision that telcos must calculate their Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) on their total incomes…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson joins MTN's 5G party in South Africa, with key core and RAN deal win

  14-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Pan-African telco, MTN Group, has named Swedish tech giant, Ericsson, as its official launch partner for 5G in South Africa.Speaking at the AfricaCom conference in Cape Town this week, Giovanni Chiarelli, chief technology and information officer at MTN South Africa…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Reliance Communications bid deadline extended

  13-11-2019 20:05 via Telecoms
  Mukesh Ambani group among those preparing offer for brother Anil’s telecoms company
  
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• Fewer shops on Oxford Street in £3 billion revamp

  13-11-2019 14:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  The shopping heart of London will soon have fewer shops, after the local trade group announced plans for a large-scale revamp of the area. After Westminster Council unexpectedly pulled the plug on plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street, replacement plans have been worked on, and now the local trade group has now announced a £2.9 billion revamp of the area.
  The biggest change will be in shopping, as the area adapts to more people, but fewer shoppers – thanks to the rise of online shoppi
  
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• The St James’s Market Pavilion

  13-11-2019 13:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  On a formerly oddly empty plot of land in Haymarket is a temporary exhibition pavilion. It’s all part of a large development of the area which is a mix of Edwardian and 1960s offices and shops, and being revamped into the modern desire for cafes and so-called “destination shopping”.The Pavilion opened recently, and while it looks like a permanent development, there’s currently a planning application to demolish most of the 1960s office that it sits on the corner of and re
  
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• ZTE and China Mobile win 2019 GLOTEL Awards for He-Fetion project

  13-11-2019 10:24 via Telecom- general feed from realwire
  
  13 November 2019, Shenzhen, China: ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that ZTE has been presented with the Project Delivery Perfection award for its ground-breaking contributions to China Mobile’s He-Fetion project at the Global Telecom (GLOTEL) Awards 2019 ceremony in London. This award demonstrates ZTE's innovative capabilities and leading positi
  
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• See a Mercury mission spacecraft in the Science Museum

  13-11-2019 08:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  Sitting near the back of the Science Museum is a full-size model of a spacecraft that’s currently on a journey to Mercury. BepiColombo is a collaboration between the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and its mission is to head to Mercury to study the planet’s surface and magnetic fields to learn about what lies beneath the surface.As the actual satellite is now on its way to Mercury, and could never go on display anyway due to the need to be protected
  
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• Vodafone: Telcos need more details before they can deliver on PM's 'fibre-for-all' pledge

  13-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  The UK government needs to provide more details before telcos are able to act on its commitment to provide gigabit connectivity to every home and business in the UK, according to Vodafone.
  UK prime minister, Boris Johnson…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange announces new fibre backbone network to transform connectivity in West Africa

  13-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Orange has announced that it will launch a brand-new fibre backbone network in West Africa, comprising both terrestrial and subsea infrastructure to dramatically boost connectivity in the region.Announcing the launch at this year's AfricaCom event in Cape Town this week…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei and MTN Group take first steps towards 5G in Africa

  13-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Pan-African telco, MTN Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with international tech giant, Huawei, to explore the potential of C-Band spectrum to transform its networks in Africa…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Facebook launches Facebook Pay to streamline mobile payments

  13-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  US social media giant, Facebook, has launched its Facebook Pay system, which will allow users to make payments and transfers across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone shares disconnect from €1bn earnings boost

  12-11-2019 19:14 via Telecoms
  Outlook brighter for group’s overall business despite $4bn hit at Indian joint venture
  
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• Iliad/telecoms: match me if you can

  12-11-2019 18:02 via Telecoms
  Entrepreneur Xavier Niel’s bet is a shrewd one 
  
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• Xavier Niel tightens grip on Iliad with €1.4bn buyback

  12-11-2019 16:10 via Telecoms
  French billionaire offers big premium for a fifth of his telecoms group’s share capital
  
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• Holy Trinity Church Sloane Street

  12-11-2019 16:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  Just off Sloane Square is a church that amongst many notable things, also also famously wider that St Paul’s Cathedral. It’s name is also as long as it’s wide, being The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity with Saint Jude, Upper Chelsea — although fortunately often shortened to Holy Trinity Sloane Street.Built in 1888-90, it replaced a gothic revival church that was itself a mere 60 years old, but the population was growing, and so they needed a bigger church to cope
  
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• Connected Germany launches to accelerate Germany's connectivity landscape

  12-11-2019 16:00 via Telecom- general feed from realwire
  
  Frankfurt, Germany, 12 November 2019 - Connected Germany will launch this month, bringing together the key stakeholders and decision makers from across the full breadth of Germany’s connectivity landscape. With over 350 participants and more than 75 speakers confirmed, including key representatives from Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Glasfaser, Connected Germany will bring leading operators and network equipment providers together to collaborate and explore new opportunities. Held
  
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• Gavin Patterson takes on new TMT role at Solon Management Consulting

  12-11-2019 14:22 via Telecom- general feed from realwire
  
  Former BT CEO joins strategic consulting firm as Senior AdvisorLondon/Munich, 12th November 2019: Solon Management Consulting has expanded its expertise in the TMT industry with the recent appointment of Gavin Patterson to its senior advisor network. The former CEO of BT and Chairman at Salesforce Europe will be providing insights and advice to Solon clients and teams.“I am delighted to work with Solon and provide my expertise in the telecom and media sectors,” said Gavin...Source: R
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Ropers Gardens, SW3

  12-11-2019 13:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  This sunken 1960s style garden exists thanks in part to the diligence of German bombers, but also a Tudor wedding.The area was once fields and a few large mansion houses next to the river for easy travel to Westminster, and one such occupant was Sir Thomas More, who later lost his head in a dispute with Henry VIII. Before that though, he gave the land around here to his daughter Margaret and William Roper as a marriage gift in 1521.
  Hence, Ropers Gardens
  It seems to have remained relatively unto
  
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• ZTE, China Telecom and China Unicom take the lead in completing 5G co-build co-share verification

  12-11-2019 10:10 via Telecom- general feed from realwire
  
  12 November 2019, Shenzhen, China - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom, has today completed the network verification based on the co-build co-share mode in the commercial 5G environment, launching the world's first NSA co-build co-share sites of 1.8 G/2.1 G/3.5 G in Hangzhou, China. That fully verifies the large-scale c
  
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• Vodafone upgrades profit guidance despite India woes

  12-11-2019 08:39 via Telecoms
  Disposals and German acquisition help offset ‘critical’ situation in joint venture in Asian nation
  
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• Vodafone upgrades profit guidance by up to €1bn

  12-11-2019 08:39 via Telecoms
  Disposals and German acquisition help offset telecom group’s problems in India
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the hidden parts of Moorgate tube station

  12-11-2019 08:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  More tours of hidden parts of the London Underground have been announced for next year, and they’re adding Moorgate to the list of venues.
  Moorgate is one of those stations that has changed so many times over its lifetime that there’s a lot of unseen tunnels to explore. Opening in 1865 as a sub-surface station for the Metropolitan line, in 1900 it was joined by the Northern line, and then in 1904 the Northern City line was opened as a mainline service.Over the past 150 years, re-desi
  
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• Vodafone CEO: India must deliver significant relief package or risk losing Vodafone Idea

  12-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Vodafone Group's CEO, Nick Read, has said that the Indian government must come up with a significant relief package to assist the troubled Vodafone Idea joint venture, or risk the telco going out of business altogether.
  Speaking at the company's six monthly results briefing in London on Tuesday, Read said that the Indian government now realised the scale of the problem facing telcos in the country. Despite having access to a market of over 1 billion subscribers, Indian telcos are being forced t
  
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• Synchronoss teams up with the US' big four telcos to streamline next generation messaging services

  12-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Cloud, messaging and IoT specialist Synchronoss has teamed up with AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint in the US to accelerate the delivery of RCS-based messaging across operators through a single integrated application…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Speed tiering is the key to monetizing 5G, says Vodafone

  12-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  Operators should offer their customers a tiered 5G offering, allowing them to pick and pay for the speeds that suit them, in order to quickly monetize their 5G networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• European Commission approves Telia's acquisition of Swedish broadcast giant

  12-11-2019 01:00 via Total Telecom | news | RSS Feed
  The European Commission has approved Telia Group's acquisition of Swedish broadcasting firm, Bonnier Broadcasting, in a deal worth a reported $950 million (SEK 9.2 billion).
  As part of the deal…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• National Portrait Gallery to close for 3 years

  11-11-2019 16:00 via IanVisits – London news and events
  
  A part of a major rebuilding project, the National Portrait Gallery has announced that it will be closing for three years, from the end of June 2020.
  The rebuilding, the National Portrait Gallery’s biggest ever development since the building in St Martin’s Place opened in 1896, will see a complete refurbishment of the building, restoring historic features, creating a new visitor entrance and public forecourt on the building’s North Façade.
  That will see the fenced off pa
  
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