Telecom news

• BT hangs up on ‘connected world’ logo

  03-10-2016 19:00
  Simpler ‘flat’ design follows lead of Apple and other tech companies
  
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• BT’s telco rivals call for spectrum cap

  03-10-2016 18:12
  Operator already owns 42 per cent of total ahead of airwaves auction
  
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• Project Fi: Google’s Mobile Master Plan

  03-10-2016 14:18
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to discuss the biggest challenges facing the telecoms industry today. In the first of a three-part series looking at the implications of Google’s Project Fi for the mobile industry status quo Dave Fraser, CEO of Devicescape, analyses Google’s effective separation of the mobile service from the mobile network.
  Running a mobile network and serving a customer base are radically different skill sets; at times so far apart as to be al
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Warning – May Cause Offense

  03-10-2016 14:06
  
  Download now or subscribe on iTunes here for the latest podcast every week: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-week-in-wireless-podcast/id1124414975?mt=2
  And in case you missed it, here’s another chance to check out last week’s edition of AWIW: Bromancing the Broadband
  
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• TalkTalk rebrands a bit

  03-10-2016 14:00
  
  What do you do over the summer when you’re stuck in the office and everyone else is on holiday? Why, you mastermind a superficial rebrand of course.
  TalkTalk has announced it ‘has made an unambiguous return to its challenger roots’ by putting the customer at the centre of its business, in a move which has been billed as the idea of the century by people who know about that sort of thing. The organizations name or branding will not change, but the ethos of the business will
  
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• Sky telegraphs its Openreach agenda

  03-10-2016 13:27
  
  As BT’s negotiations with Ofcom falter, embittered Openreach customer Sky recruited the Telegraph newspaper for propaganda help.
  The UK newspaper has taken time away from entrapping football managers to accommodate an article entitled ‘Openreach must be separated from BT to fix Britain’s lagging internet’ that is bylined by Andrew Griffith, the COO and CFO of Sky.
  In it Griffith revisits the well-trodden path of moaning about Openreach – the wholesale division of BT
  
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• Facebook’s slimmed down Messenger shows market is beefing up

  03-10-2016 12:35
  
  Facebook is the latest player to announce product updates, as the messenger sector stakes its claim as the newest digital battleground.
  Over the course of the last few weeks, we’ve seen Google launch Allo’, Twitter become the centre of the most recent acquisition chat and German regulators attempting to stamp authority on the messaging sector. Now Facebook has weighed in with the launch of Messenger Lite highlighting how competitive the messaging market has become in what looks like
  
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• Salesforce throws hissy fit over LinkedIn acquisition

  03-10-2016 10:25
  
  Salesforce has thrown a full-on hissy fit over Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, asking the European Union regulators to investigate antitrust concerns.
  The acquisition of the social media platform has caused quite a stir in the industry, mainly because there were few who saw it coming. Salesforce was one of the companies reportedly involved in a heated bidding war which in fact added which resulted in $5 billion being added to the overall value of the organization. Salesfor
  
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• Vodafone trials LTE-V2X

  03-10-2016 02:00
  
  Operator tests connected car tech in U.K., plans trials in Germany.
  
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• RCom CEO quits

  03-10-2016 02:00
  
  Vinod Sawhny replaced by new co-CEOs Bill Barney, Gurdeep Singh with immediate effect.
  
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• O2 UK chief wants to open IPO to individual investors

  03-10-2016 02:00
  
  Recently-appointed CEO Mark Evans reportedly says move would be 'well received' by U.K. economy.
  
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• India spectrum auction may finish after a week

  03-10-2016 02:00
  
  First day of spectrum mega-sale attracts bids totalling INR535 billion.
  
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