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• Liberty Global posts $100m profit for Q2

  05-08-2016 15:42
  
  Liberty Global has reported healthy growth for its second quarter, boosting revenues by 11% to $5.07 billion, with profits lifting to $101.1 million.
  Although the numbers were seemingly lower than investors expected, the performance marks a turnaround from the same period in 2015, which saw a loss of $464 million. Western Europe continued to dominate the figures for the company, now accounting for almost 95% of total revenues, as the UK and Germany posted strong quarters. The company has been in
  
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• T-Mobile crowned fastest LTE network in USA, AT&T anonymous

  05-08-2016 11:34
  T-Mobile has supplanted Verizon to become the US’s fastest LTE network, according to the latest findings from OpenSignal.
  OpenSignal regularly conducts thorough assessments of global mobile telecoms network performance, thanks to a downloadable app which gathers information from user devices on network availability, speed and latency on LTE and 3G networks. In this specific report, it gathered more than 2.8 billion data readings from roughly 120,000 OpenSignal users across the country
  
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• Rackspace rumoured to be discussing $4bn sale to private equity

  05-08-2016 11:32
  
  Rackspace is reportedly in talks with a private equity firm with regard to a $4 billion sale, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  This is not the first time the company has been rumoured to be in such talks, though it does demonstrate Rackspace’s fall from grace. At the peak of its power, when Rackspace was one of the more notable technology companies in the world, share prices traded at roughly $80. At the time of writing, shares are listed at $31.80 on Google Finance, which includes a
  
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• Facebook tackles clickbait in News Feed – and what happened next blew my mind

  05-08-2016 11:05
  
  Facebook has revealed its latest drive to improve the user experience through an update to News Feed which detects clickbait headlines and automatically ranks them lower.
  Over the last few years, Facebook has been managing a transition from being a platform where users interact with friends and family, to a content library where users can keep up to date with news and current affairs. As with any content platform there is a risk of stories which are purposely misleading, or ‘clickbait
  
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• Setting the Standard for Global Smart City Deployments

  05-08-2016 10:57
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Michael Jeronis, VP Research & Development at InterDigital highlights some of the trailblazing smart city deployments to date and how these can be benchmarked for future trials.
  There are very few use cases for the Internet of Things (IoT) that capture the imaginations of vendors, service providers and users like smart cities. The ability to bring together m
  
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• Virgin Mobile confirms licence allocation in Argentina

  05-08-2016 02:00
  
  Telco is awarded national single licence in Argentina, but plans to launch services as an MVNO.
  
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• Spanish regulator calls on Telefonica to open fibre network

  05-08-2016 02:00
  
  CNMC proposes launch of 'NEBA local' product in areas covering 65% of Spanish population.
  
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• MTN swings to 1H loss on Nigeria fine

  05-08-2016 02:00
  
  South Africa-based telco group undertakes 'deep and fundamental' strategic review.
  
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• Montenegro auction fails to attract new player

  05-08-2016 02:00
  
  Country's existing mobile operators snap up spectrum in multiple bands, raising €50 million for state coffers.
  
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• Liberty Global Q2 revenue surges 11%

  05-08-2016 02:00
  
  Cable group's top line boosted by growth in Belgium, Germany, addition of Cable & Wireless.
  
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• A physical retox to go with your digital detox

  05-08-2016 02:00
  
  It's gin o'clock as 15 million U.K. adults regularly call time on the Internet.
  
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• 2017 to see mainstream WiGig adoption, predicts ABI Research

  05-08-2016 02:00
  
  Research firm predicts smartphone market will account for 180 million WiGig chipset shipments next year.
  
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