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• Oracle opens up Japanese cloud connection with Fujitsu

  06-07-2016 14:44
  
  Oracle and Fujitsu have announced a partnership to deliver Oracle cloud application and platform services to Japanese customers.
  As part of the agreement, Fujitsu will install will install Oracle Cloud services in its data centre’s in Japan, connect them to its Cloud Service K5 in order to deliver enterprise-grade cloud services. The first service which will be connected will be Oracle’s Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud, though it will extend further to include offerings such as
  
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• Equinix sells off 8 data centres for $874m

  06-07-2016 14:41
  
  Equinix has announced the sale of eight data centres across Europe to Digital Realty Trust for approximately $874 million.
  The deal forms part of a trade-off with competition authorities, as part of the agreement to acquire Telecity which was completed in January. For the acquisition to be accepted by the European Commission, eight data centres had to be relinquished by Equinix, which have now been confirmed as:
  Recently acquired Telecity assets:
  Bonnington House (London)
  Sovereign House (London
  
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• LS telcom supplies national sensor-based radio monitoring system for Indonesian spectrum regulator SDPPI

  06-07-2016 14:10
  
  Lichtenau/Baden, Germany – LS telcom, together with its local partner and prime contractor PT Berca Hardayaperkasa, will implement its sensor-based radio monitoring system LS OBSERVER for the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Directorate General of Resources and Equipment of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology (SDPPI), Indonesia. SDPPI will use the system for nationwide radio monitoring and automatic violation detection. The new system will enable SDPPI
  
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• End of an era as BlackBerry pulls the plug on its hard keyboard Classic

  06-07-2016 12:42
  
  Canadian mobile device company BlackBerry seems to have signalled the end of the smartphone physical keyboard by announcing it will no longer manufacture its Classic handset.
  BlackBerry launched the Classic at the end of 2014, having concluded there was sufficient nostalgia towards its historically popular Bold models to justify persisting with the fixed, hard keyboard synonymous with BlackBerry’s most successful period a decade or so ago.
  “BlackBerry Classic is the powerful communic
  
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• CityFibre appeals against Ofcom dark fibre ruling on grounds of competition

  06-07-2016 12:07
  
  CityFibre has announced it will appeal against Ofcom’s 2016 Business Connectivity Market Review on the grounds the new ‘dark fibre’ rules contradict previous efforts to encourage competition in the arena.
  Although Ofcom’s recent review has seemingly made efforts to restrict the influence BT has over Openreach, it would appear not to have gone far enough. The review found Openreach still has an incentive to give preferential treatment to BT over competitors, though it coul
  
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• Iliad set to become fourth Italian mobile operator if Wind/Three merge

  06-07-2016 11:38
  
  Iliad has signed an agreement to become Italy’s fourth mobile network operator, following successful discussions with Three Italia and Wind.
  Following reports yesterday of ongoing discussions between the three parties, the French telco conglomerate has issued a statement confirming the agreement of terms which would see Iliad enter the Italian mobile market, should the European Commission approve the Three/Wind deal. The European Commission also needs to give the green light to this agreem
  
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• New study says mobile operators must overcome risk-averse A2P messaging strategy to drive multi-billion dollar opportunity

  06-07-2016 11:00
  
  - A2P messaging ecosystem will still experience revenue leakage in excess of $82 billion between 2015-2020 -UNITED KINGDOM, 6th July 2016: Mobilesquared, a leading provider of mobile intelligence and customer insight, has today released its global A2P Databook which reveals that the A2P messaging market was worth $12.88 billion in 2015. This will rise to $58.75 billion in 2020 as mobile operators invest in next-generation SMS revenue assurance platform to unlock the gold-mine of white-route...So
  
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• Vodafone favourite to acquire Telenor India

  06-07-2016 02:00
  
  India's number two operator reportedly looking to bolster its spectrum before upcoming auction.
  
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• Sigfox extends IoT network to Mexico

  06-07-2016 02:00
  
  LPWA specialist aims to cover capital by end of 2016; eyes nationwide coverage thereafter.
  
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• India splits comms and IT ministries, names new telecoms head

  06-07-2016 02:00
  
  Manoj Sinha becomes India's new telecoms minister after Modi shuffles jobs, moving Ravi Shankar Prasad to law ministry.
  
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• Iliad agrees to acquire Italy assets

  06-07-2016 02:00
  
  French telco takes 'unique opportunity' to enter Italy as Hutchison, VimpelCom seek to win over European regulators for mobile merger.
  
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• Dutch regulator asks to review Vodafone/Ziggo deal

  06-07-2016 02:00
  
  European Commission to decide in early August whether to grant request.
  
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• CityFibre takes Ofcom to court over dark fibre rules

  06-07-2016 02:00
  
  U.K. altnet performs dramatic volte-face as prospect of competing against BT in dark fibre market hits home.
  
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