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• New Nokia smartphone coincides poignantly with iPhone 10th birthday

  09-01-2017 20:17
  
  HMD launched the Nokia 6 in China while Apple exhibited its customary modest understatement on junior’s big day.
  Having tested the water a few weeks ago with a couple of burner phones HMD has finally taken the plunge into full-blown smartphones with the Nokia 6 (1-5 having presumably self-destructed or something). For some reason HMD has chosen the violently competitive Chinese market for this launch, despite Nokia smartphones having flopped there as soon as the iPhone caught on.
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• Uber Movement smart city data service exploits regulatory flaws

  09-01-2017 19:30
  
  Uber has launched a new business unit – Movement – to offer its data to local authorities to assist city planning, though questions around data monetization and user consent could be raised.
  While Uber has been celebrated by the general consumer, the company has found a fair few critics as well. From taxi drivers, to government tax men and privacy advocates, the internet brand has its fair share of tricky moments, and plenty of need to gain favour from local authorities. The latest m
  
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• New Canadian technology set to deliver faster Internet to underserviced areas

  09-01-2017 18:00
  
  Genesis Technical Systems technology can help achieve new CRTC bandwidth targetsCalgary, Canada and Coventry, UK – 9 January 2017 – Genesis Technical Systems applauds the decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for all Canadians to have access to broadband speeds of 50 Mb/s download and 10 Mb/s upload within 10 to 15 years as a “basic right.” Speaking on the announcement Genesis CEO Peter Khoury stated: “Canada and the CRTC
  
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• ZTE: ring off

  09-01-2017 16:27
  Phones will not drive Chinese group’s growth and it should adjust focus accordingly
  
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• Virgin Media signs new mobile deal with BT

  09-01-2017 15:05
  Virtual operator extends network agreement as mobile competition intensifies in UK
  
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• AT&T tells FCC: ‘if you won’t play nice, you’re not invited’

  09-01-2017 13:56
  
  AT&T and Time Warner have filed a new document with the Securities and Exchange Commission which may allow the pair to navigate the merger around the potentially problematic FCC.
  Since the announcement of the $85 billion merger, there have been a number of vocal opponents to the deal, including President-elect Donald Trump. Disapproval from the country’s new President could be disastrous, especially considering the hard Trump-line Commissioners in the FCC are likely to take in the comi
  
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• As its phones falter LG defrosts the IoT fridge

  09-01-2017 13:54
  
  Having been distracted by the mobile phone market for the past 16 years LG seems to have decided the smart fridge isn’t such a silly idea after all.
  LG pioneered the category that has come to exemplify the speculative futility of the consumer IoT market way back in 2000, timed perfectly to coincide with the moment the world realised that everything connected is not necessarily gold. That pioneering device was called the Internet Digital DIOS and featured a TFT LCD screen and a LAN port.
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• BT and Virgin Media defy odds to continue MVNO bromance

  09-01-2017 12:56
  
  BT and Virgin Media will continue their bromance with a five-year extension of the MVNO agreement between the two.
  While BT has been taking considerable flak from the industry over the last year or so, Virgin Media has resisted the temptation to join in the school-yard taunting. The bitchy ‘Fix Britain’s Internet’ campaign has given a new channel for the likes of stale Sky, vexatious Vodafone and tenacious Three to criticize BT’s broadband investment strategies, and in No
  
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• ZTE starts the year with talk of redundancies

  09-01-2017 12:14
  
  While the success of Chinese businesses has challenged the status quo in certain segments, ZTE’s latest development shows dominance from the East is far from a given.
  According to Reuters, ZTE will shed around 3,000 positions over the course of Q1, roughly 5% of the global workforce, including 20% of those in its domestic handset business where is has been losing market share. While the declining smartphone business may grab headlines, perhaps a more significant impact is the uncertainty o
  
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• Mobile Data Firm Announces $1.2m App Developer Recruitment Drive

  09-01-2017 10:30
  
  App companies set to receive seven-figure sums through revenue share programmeLondon, England. 9 January, 2017: Tutela, the mobile data firm, has launched a $1.2m recruitment drive to sign-up new mobile app developer into its partner programme. With a specific focus on the UK and Western Europe, Tutela is actively signing agreements with mobile app publishers with 1m+ daily active users (DAUs). Tutela currently works with over 100 app developers with over 1bn combined users and...Source: RealWir
  
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• ZTE to cut 3,000 jobs

  09-01-2017 01:00
  ZTE plans to cut 3,000 jobs during the first quarter, it emerged late last week.Sources at the Chinese kit maker said in a Reuters report on Friday that 600 redundancies will be made at its handset division…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone India seeks merger to escape price war

  09-01-2017 01:00
  Vodafone is considering whether to merge its Indian unit with one of its local rivals in order to ease the pressure wrought by the market's ongoing price war, it emerged over the weekend…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Virgin Media strikes full MVNO deal with BT

  09-01-2017 01:00
  Virgin Media on Monday announced it has signed a full MVNO deal with BT, parent of its current host network EE.Peter Kelly, managing director of Virgin Media's Virgin Mobile arm, said in a statement that the new agreement gives it &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New year, new telecoms round-up

  09-01-2017 01:00
  As Total Telecom returns from its winter break, we thought it appropriate to test the theory that it is never too early in the year to have a news round-up. With that in mind, there follows below a brief look at some of the big stories that broke during the festive period.3 Italia/Wind JV launches combined operationsWind Tre, the joint venture between 3 Italia and VimpelCom's Wind unit, announced in early January that it has been operating as a combined entity since 31 December.The 50…re
  
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