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• Telefónica says position stronger with dividend cut

  16-11-2016 21:41
  Finance chief says move sent message telco would not have to sell assets cheaply
  
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• Bouygues: dial up

  16-11-2016 20:12
  Bouygues Telecom looks less the poor relation in French telecoms
  
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• Vivendi chief stokes hopes of Havas merger

  16-11-2016 19:00
  French groups working more closely, chief tells TMT conference
  
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• Facebook admits to accidentally stretching the truth

  16-11-2016 18:22
  
  The Facebook team has come clean stating some of its metrics were not accurate, misreporting numbers across four products.
  At a time where CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fighting fires with regard to whether fake stories on the newsfeed influenced the recent US Presidential Election, announcing bugs in its advertising measurement tools is hardly ideal.
  Facebook recently reported revenues of $7 billion for the quarter so the news will be frowned upon by the industry, but let’s put things in perspec
  
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• How did Europe’s top 5 telcos measure up over Q3?

  16-11-2016 17:29
  
  With the quarterlies crazy season over and done with Telecoms.com had a look back over the last couple of weeks to decide who the winners and the losers were out of the European telcos.
  Although the telco industry on the whole has been having its challenges in recent years, fortunes have been mixed amongst the big boys. Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and BT make up the top five operators in Europe accounting for roughly €61 billion, but what does that mean in terms of indivi
  
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• ETL Systems launches high performance RF power amplifiers for jamming systems

  16-11-2016 15:00
  
  The product range will be showcased at the AOC Convention in Washington, DC later this monthMadley, 16 November 2016. ETL Systems, a global designer and manufacturer of leading RF distribution equipment for satellite communications, has expanded its product range with a new line of ultra-portable RF power amplifiers supported by a dedicated team of amplifier specialists. ETL’s range of RF power amplifiers offer high efficiency, broad frequency coverage and a compact form-factor in a variet
  
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• Peppermint's partnership with Zylpha eliminates repetitive manual legal processing tasks

  16-11-2016 14:13
  
  A partnership between next generation legal software provider, Peppermint Technology, and innovative legal process provider, Zylpha, is providing Peppermint clients easy access to the benefits of automated document bundling.Integrated into Peppermint's cloud legal software, Peppermint CX, Zylpha's electronic document bundling software allows law firms to assemble and deliver Court Bundles, Deal Bibles and Contracts at a fraction of the cost and effort of a manual process. The Peppermint & Zy
  
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• Intel makes $250 million bet on autonomous cars

  16-11-2016 13:56
  
  Like other tech giants from a bygone era, Intel has been on a quest to reposition itself as a champion in the digital era and it looks like the potentially lucrative market of autonomous vehicles is a favourite.
  Speaking at the LA Auto Show’s AutoMobility conference, CEO Brian Krzanich announced the company’s venture capitalist arm Intel Capital has made $250 million of new investment available for the segment over the next two years. The cash will target next-generation technologies
  
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• It’s Time to Focus on Quality in the IoT Ecosystem

  16-11-2016 13:25
  
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• Online overtakes TV as UK’s preferred platform for content

  16-11-2016 13:11
  
  Ofcom has released research which confirms what we all expected; consumer behaviour surrounding how the UK consumes media is changing, and changing fast.
  The amount of time which younger generations are spending online has exceeding that spent watching television for the first time. Children aged 5-15 are now spending roughly 15 hours a week online, up from one hour and a half from six hours 48 minutes last year, compared to 13 hours 36 minutes watching television.
  That totals more than 28 hours
  
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• Huawei claims first 4.5 GHz large scale 5G field trial

  16-11-2016 12:34
  
  Such is the appetite for 5G ‘firsts’ that each new announcement is becoming ever more nuanced.
  Huawei’s latest effort is qualified by both spectrum and scale, but does seem to have some validity in terms of raising the 5G bar, a bit.
  In Yokohama, Japan Huawei and NTT Docomo set up a ‘5G base station’ and conducted a trial using technology compliant with the current 3GPP New Radio standard agreements. It used 200 MHz of spectrum in the 455 GHz band via 64 transceiver
  
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• Google CEO launches £1 billion UK charm offensive

  16-11-2016 12:02
  
  Google chief Sundar Pichai has been popping up all over the place in London this week promoting the company’s expansion in the UK.
  Central to the visit was the announcement Google will be expanding its presence in the capital over the next couple of years, aiming to have more than 7,000 Googlers at the UK HQ in Kings Cross. Google currently employs in the region of 4,000 in London, though the office space will more than double to accommodate the new staff as the city looks to become one of
  
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• Africacom 2016 – Electricity first, then broadband

  16-11-2016 09:58
  
  Basic electricity for Africa’s 600 million disconnected citizens will always be more important than internet, according to AfricaCom 2016’s keynote speakers.
  The keynote sessions on the opening day of AfricaCom here in Cape Town delivered something of a reality check, with speakers agreeing in unison that providing basic electricity to everyone is the first and foremost.
  The theme of this year’s show is economic development and social empowerment through digital conne
  
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• PSN selects Newtec Dialog® to deliver rural broadband in Indonesia

  16-11-2016 09:00
  
  Multiservice platform selected for Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) USO projectJAKARTA, Indonesia and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 16 November 2016. Newtec – a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications – today announced its Newtec Dialog® platform has been selected by Indonesian satellite telecommunications service provider Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) to deliver broadband access to unders
  
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• Smartphone sales predicted to slide on AI advances

  16-11-2016 01:06
  CCS report also forecasts ‘smart shoes’ boom and Nokia comeback
  
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• Telefonica sells Argentine TV arm to Viacom for $345m

  16-11-2016 01:00
  
  All-cash transaction to help Spanish incumbent pay off some debt.
  
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• MyRepublic, TPG pre-qualify for Singapore's new entrant spectrum auction

  16-11-2016 01:00
  
  Third hopeful airYotta misses out on opportunity to take on Singtel, StarHub, M1.
  
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• Iliad Q3 revenue up 6.5% on strong Free Mobile performance

  16-11-2016 01:00
  
  French low-cost provider claims mobile market share of 18.3% after adding 305,000 customers.
  
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• DNA kicks off €518m IPO

  16-11-2016 01:00
  
  Finnish telco says proceeds will position company for its next development phase.
  
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• Bouygues Telecom swings to 9-month net profit

  16-11-2016 01:00
  
  French telco ends September with 6.5 million 4G users, 91,000 FTTH customers.
  
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