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• AT&T chief at the reins for another big deal

  24-10-2016 20:21 via ft.com
  Stephenson goes from Oklahoma to Hollywood red carpet with Time Warner deal
  
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• AT&T deal merits close look from regulators

  24-10-2016 19:40 via ft.com
  Takeovers in the telecommunications sector carry competition worries
  
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• AT&T outlines plan to take on Netflix in video

  24-10-2016 19:22 via ft.com
  Time Warner shares fall as investors weigh risks of regulators blocking $85.4bn deal
  
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• Making AT&W greater than the sum of its parts won’t be easy

  24-10-2016 18:48
  
  AT&T faces a host of political and regulatory hurdles before it can acquire Time Warner but, according to analyst firm Ovum, that will be just the start of its challenges.
  Telecoms.com spoke to Ed Barton, who heads up the TV and video practice at Ovum, to get a sense of why AT&T has decided to make such a huge bet on diversifying into the content game. Verizon has made similar moves with AOL and Yahoo, but at a tenth of the cost of this one, so AT&T’s risk is far greater.
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• Q&A: AT&T-Time Warner deal

  24-10-2016 17:33 via ft.com
  Takeover raises questions for investors, politicians, regulators and rivals
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast – The Internet is for Porn

  24-10-2016 16:54
  
  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: Noting a Meltdown
  
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• Ex-BT chief accuses rivals of hypocrisy

  24-10-2016 16:40 via ft.com
  Lord Livingston attacks TalkTalk and Sky over their calls for break-up
  
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• Genband tempts IBM with Kandy cloud

  24-10-2016 14:00
  
  Real-time communications company Genband has got involved with IBM to deliver a bunch of cloud-based enterprise comms goodness.
  The terms ‘unified communications’ and ‘collaboration platform’ appear with dogged regularity throughout the announcement, such that this appears very much to be a direct attach on Cisco’s enterprise comms domain. Genband is contributing its Kandy Business Solutions which IBM is chipping in with its Connections Cloud.
  “The beauty of t
  
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• University of Surrey abuzz with talk of Flat Distributed Cloud

  24-10-2016 13:21
  
  They know how to party over at the University of Surrey and NFV-based Flat Distributed Cloud (FDC) is what all the cool kids are talking about these days.
  The 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) opened at the University of Surrey a year ago, with everyone who’s anyone involved. When not sleeping all day or going on demos the 5GIC has been busy looking at clever implementations of NFV for the 5G era.
  FDC is a big deal, apparently, because is significantly reduces deployment, optimisation and upgrad
  
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• InterDigital hails ground-breaking 5G study

  24-10-2016 12:54
  
  Clever mobile technology company InterDigital has applauded the findings of a major new 5G survey that reveals 5G is expected to arrive well before 2020.
  Industry consensus for years has been that 2020 is the big year for 5G but this seems to be as much from a desire to allow clever headlines like ‘2020 Vision’ as anything else. As we are reminded of on a daily basis 5G will be comprised of an infinitesimal number of incremental steps, rather than one big launch day, but industry con
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER to display wide range of innovative technology at Electronica 2016

  24-10-2016 10:00
  
  New RF connector system for small cell applications to make its debut alongside recently launched cable assembly systemHUBER+SUHNER will display a wide variety of radio frequency (RF), fibre optic, high voltage, and power and data transmission solutions at Electronica 2016.Among these products will be innovations such as the SUCOFLEX 526V – which is the first product from the SUCOFLEX 500V assembly family to be shown to the public – and the Quick-Fit Plus. The NEX10,...Source: RealWi
  
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• VR is great, but let’s be honest about its limitations

  24-10-2016 09:46
  
  Last week’s VR & AR World conference opened a few eyes to the potential of the technology but things need to be put in perspective; it’s miles away from normality.
  Being completely honest, your correspondent was one of the sceptics, not in the sense virtual or augmented reality would not have an impact on the real-world, but more the sense it would be immensely limited. The hardware is too expensive, too impractical, appeal too niche and technology too far behind. But last week d
  
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• Gavin Patterson of BT battles regulator and rivals

  24-10-2016 06:00 via ft.com
  Relaxed demeanour of telecoms chief belies appetite for confrontation
  
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• T-Mobile US nears 70m customers after strong Q3

  24-10-2016 02:00
  
  Operator adds 851,000 branded postpaid phone subscribers; profit jumps on spectrum gains.
  
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• MTN confirms CEO start date

  24-10-2016 02:00
  
  Rob Shuter to take the helm on 13 March as fresh trouble brews in Nigeria.
  
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• AT&T to test regulators' resolve with $85.4bn Time Warner acquisition

  24-10-2016 02:00
  
  U.S. telco will have a hard time proving to the FCC and the Justice Department that the deal will truly benefit consumers.
  
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• AT&T still hasn't stopped losing video customers

  24-10-2016 02:00
  
  DirecTV additions unable to offset Uverse outflow during third quarter.
  
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