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• Masayoshi Son: SoftBank’s risk-addicted billionaire

  12-12-2016 18:52
  The runners-up — from Arm Holdings to Trump, the audacious dealmaker has no plans to slow down
  
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• Fund managers cool on BT-Openreach separation

  12-12-2016 18:23
  Meeting called by Ofcom to gauge feelings of top telecoms investors
  
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• Oi open to sweeter terms for creditors in debt deal

  12-12-2016 16:12
  Telecom operator in talks over Brazil’s largest default
  
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• French telecoms battle switches to TV content

  12-12-2016 15:33
  Patrick Drahi’s Altice is taking on Vincent Bolloré’s Vivendi in fight for revenues
  
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• Deutsche Telekom and the operator TV opportunity

  12-12-2016 12:22
  
  At the recent Operations Transformation Forum held by Huawei in Wuzhen, China, we met Thomas Staneker, head of Deutsche Telekom’s TV Service centre, who was there to talk about his experience in helping transform his company into a significant TV player.
  In his keynote at the event he explained that TV and telecoms are not always an easy fit, with TV having been designed as a one-way broadcast technology and telecoms networks set up to enable direct two-way communication between individual
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: IoT Saves the Day

  12-12-2016 12:06
  
  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: iPhones are for Girls
  
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• Google self-driving team cruises solo into the sunset

  12-12-2016 11:56
  
  After a couple of quiet months, the Google self-driving car team has initiated a separation from internet giant’s experimental division X.
  Although this has been a move in the making for some time, CEO John Krafcik hinted at the separation at the Nikkei Innovation Forum in October, however the latest development is more walk than talk, or drive than verbalize. According to Recode, the team has recently begun a recruitment drive, as well as a search for a new office space. From a recruitmen
  
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• O2 Germany appoints double act for CEO and CSO roles

  12-12-2016 11:51
  
  Telefónica Germany says Markus Haas and Rachel Empey, the senior management double act, have been left in charge as CEO and Chief Financial Strategy Officer respectively.
  After existing CEO Thorsten Dirks decided he wanted out last month, the board has moved relatively swiftly – well, bureaucratically speaking – to elevate superstars Haas and Empey to the top table.
  Telefónica confirmed its Germany operations will be run by Haas. But he’s going to be forced to wor
  
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• Nokia and Vodafone take to the clouds in Italy

  12-12-2016 11:46
  
  Vodafone has been having a look at Nokia’s Cloud RAN architecture, specifically in the context of switching between 4G, 5G and IoT.
  The trails took place at Vodafone’s testing facility in Italy and examined the use of cloud-based radio access technology for macro networks. A major reason, over and above the usual efficiency/agility ones, to move RANs to the cloud is the hybrid nature of future networks, with 4G expected to coexist with both new 5G air interfaces and LPWANs for IoT.
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• Vodafone, Nokia carry out C-RAN trial

  12-12-2016 01:00
  Vodafone and Nokia on Monday announced the successful completion of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) trial.The Finnish vendor's C-RAN architecture splits baseband processing assets between real…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica Germany names insider Markus Haas as new CEO

  12-12-2016 01:00
  Telefonica Germany on Sunday named chief operating officer Markus Haas as its new CEO, who will succeed Thorsten Dirks on 1 January 2017.Haas has held various management positions at Telefonica since joining the company in 1998…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EU launches €500m broadband fund

  12-12-2016 01:00
  The European Commission and European Investment Bank (EIB) on Monday launched a broadband infrastructure fund that aims to raise €500 million for network deployments in underserved areas.Called the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund, it is one of the first initiatives under the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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