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• Week in Review, November 19

  18-11-2016 22:54
  Barcelona scores new deal, Samsung’s smart move, fake news and two UK heavyweights
  
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• Three arrested after data breach at Three network

  18-11-2016 19:55
  More than 133,000 customer accounts accessed following handset thefts
  
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• How telecoms carriers can compete against the OTT newcomers

  18-11-2016 17:54
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Frank, Senior Director of Global Carriers at PGi, looks at some potential strategies for carriers to help them take on the OTT competition.
  According to industry analysts, the telecoms industry will lose a combined $386 billion between 2012 and 2018, as many customers shift to over-the-top (OTT) voice applications, delivered by the OTT technology compa
  
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• Police make arrests after data breach at Three mobile network

  18-11-2016 14:52
  Up to 6m customer accounts potentially exposed following handset thefts
  
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• Salesforce summer spending spree succeeds

  18-11-2016 13:40
  
  Salesforce has reported its quarterly earnings bringing in $2.14 billion for Q3, up 25% year-on-year, as it beat market expectations.
  While Salesforce growth has been continuous and steady in recent quarters, there are a few industry commentators who noted increased competition could erode market dominance. Off the back of the most recent announcement, it would not appear to have stopped the CRM giant’s momentum, though the scale of acquisitions from Salesforce could indicate it is keeping
  
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• LTE isn’t good enough for critical communications… yet

  18-11-2016 13:34
  
  LTE has the potential to revolutionise emergency services communications, but it needs to be nothing less than 100% reliable, according to CEO of the TCCA, Phil Kidner in an interview with Telecoms.com at AfricaCom 2016.
  The feasibility of LTE network infrastructure in the critical communications world has long been debated. Indeed, LTE has become pretty much the perfect technology for consumers, but mission critical communications is an entirely different beast.
  There are many facets of the pro
  
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• Qualcomm moves to 10nm process for flagship Snapdragon 835 chip

  18-11-2016 12:25
  
  The semiconductor industry continues to toy with the laws of physics as Qualcomm and Samsung unveil 10 nanometer FinFET process technology for the next Snapdragon chip.
  The process technology refers to the size of each individual transistor inside a chip. The smaller the transistor the more you can fit into a given sized piece of silicon and thus the more processing power you can cram in.
  A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, or a millionth of a millimeter, or the size of a water molecule &ndas
  
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• Six million Three customers at risk following hack

  18-11-2016 12:16
  
  Three has announced a significant data breach as personal information of up to six million customers is put at risk.
  The team has admitted hackers successfully accessed customer upgrade databases using employee log in details, according to the Telegraph. Although numbers are unconfirmed it is believed two thirds of the nine million UK customers are now exposed after the incident. Exposed data includes names, phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth, but not financial information, the team cla
  
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• SpeedCast and Axxess Marine making waves

  18-11-2016 12:07
  SpeedCast and Axxess Marine offer superyacht customers revolutionary self-service portal giving them total control over their data usage Sydney, Australia, November 18, 2016 - SpeedCast International Limited (ASX: SDA), a leading global satellite communications and network service provider, and Axxess Marine, an innovative full-service global communications company, are joining forces to revolutionize the way superyacht customers manage their data usage through SpeedCast’s reliable VSAT co
  
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• Twitter accidentally promotes neo-Nazi message

  18-11-2016 11:18
  
  Twitter has apologized unreservedly for running an ad sponsored by a white supremacist group, which appeared on the platform for approximately one hour.
  What is going on in the telco and tech industry at the moment? It seems we can’t turn away from our screens without one of the technology giants making some sort of blooper. Twitter has been relatively quiet on the blunder-front but this one puts it right on top of the pile.
  CEO Jack Dorsey is in good company however. Facebook has recently
  
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• Trump-ets of the apocalypse part II: delete your account

  18-11-2016 01:00
  
  When the U.K. government passes the Snoopers' Charter a week after cosying up to Donald Trump, it might be time to log off.
  
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• Telefonica to help Nestlé talk to its coffee machines

  18-11-2016 01:00
  
  Spanish incumbent to provide IoT connectivity services covering 50 countries.
  
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• Altan wins Mexico's shared mobile network tender

  18-11-2016 01:00
  
  Sole remaining bidder backed by Morgan Stanley, World Bank, gets 20-year licence to operate nationwide wholesale network.
  
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• 3UK admits to data breach

  18-11-2016 01:00
  
  Details of 6 million customers reportedly compromised after hackers use employee login to access handset upgrade database.
  
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