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• Past scandal likely to send Fox bid for sky to Ofcom

  03-03-2017 21:09
  Culture secretary is ‘minded’ to intervene on media plurality and standards concerns
  
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• Industry reacts to new UK digital strategy

  03-03-2017 14:38
  
  Following the release of the UK’s post-Brexit digital strategy we get the views of some industry insiders to see how the plan had been received.
  Secretary of State Karen Bradley outlined her plan to move the UK forward in a time where digital is becoming the new norm. While the UK, as well as Europe on the whole, is generally recognized as being a bit sluggish in comparison to the US or Asia, the strategy will partly be responsible for defining the UK’s position in the world rankings
  
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• Record numbers at MWC 2017 but what did they achieve?

  03-03-2017 14:34
  
  This year’s Mobile World Congress came and went bringing roughly 108,000 people to Barcelona, 7% up from 2016, but what the conference actually achieve?
  Alongside the conference, the GSMA has also released a report outlining the mobile industry’s collective vision and expectations for the 5G era. There are several very important topics discussed, but one can’t help to notice there is little mention of the business models that support the technological advancements themselves.
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• Did MWC 2017 illuminate or obfuscate the 5G vision?

  03-03-2017 14:08
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Professor William Webb, Director of Webb Search reviews the recent Mobile World Congress 2017 event and asks how much progress we have made towards the eventual 5G standard.
  MWC is the key calendar event for the mobile industry. With 5G deployment expected by some in the next 1-2 years, MWC 2017 was the moment for vendors to set out their stalls and operato
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: To 5G or not to 5G

  03-03-2017 13:57
  
   
  
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• Snap IPO crackles and pops

  03-03-2017 13:24
  
  Snap finished its first day of trading with share prices increasing 44% on the initial $17, finishing at $24 with a market capitalization roughly $33 billion.
  The IPO has been one of more anticipated in recent years, with rumours beginning late last year. Snap certainly has captured the imagination of users around the world, but the success of its first day trading certainly has surprised a few commentators. Perhaps one of the reasons is a relatively dry IPO market in the last 12-18 months, howe
  
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• Vodafone in move to recruit career-break women

  03-03-2017 07:13
  Telecoms group to hire 1,000 people worldwide in frontline and managerial roles
  
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• Tele2 replaces Netherlands CEO

  03-03-2017 01:00
  Tele2 on Friday named a new chief executive at its business in the Netherlands in the shape of Jon James, who joins the company from Swedish cableco Com Hem.James is an industry veteran with 20 years' experience under his belt…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MWC 2017: Choose your own adventure

  03-03-2017 01:00
  If telecoms starred in a Choose Your Own Adventure book, Mobile World Congress presented our protagonist with a dilemma of critical importance: artificial intelligence is coming; do you embrace it knowing that it may end civilisation? Or do you take a more cautious approach, knowing that by doing so, you may go out of business?I suspect that a clear majority of operators at the show this year would without question take that first option and worry about the civilisation part later.After all, th
  
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• Millicom, Airtel merge in Ghana to become number two player

  03-03-2017 01:00
  Ghana's third and fourth largest mobile operators on Friday announced their intention to merge to become the market's number two player.
  Millicom and Bharti Airtel will combine their Ghanaian businesses, which use the Tigo and Airtel brands respectively, to create an operator serving more than a quarter of the country's mobile subscribers…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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