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• Charter’s US push earns Trump seal of approval

  24-03-2017 23:13
  Jobs creation pledge originally announced before president took office
  
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• BT’s Global Services faces Asian bid rigging probe

  24-03-2017 19:02
  Hong Kong’s Competition Commission allegations follow accounting scandal in Italy
  
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• Debunked: the 5 biggest data myths in telecoms

  24-03-2017 16:35
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Mark Samson, principal systems engineer at Hadoop specialist Cloudera, addresses five of the biggest concerns he thinks telcos have around big data.
  Telecommunications is an industry that touches all of us, whether through our broadband networks, our mobile devices, or access to TV and entertainment. Telco companies allow us to speak to each other, to share
  
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• US Senate votes to overturn FCC broadband privacy rules

  24-03-2017 16:19
  
  A ruling by the US Federal Communications Commission that prevented ISPs selling on user data without their consent is set to be overturned following a Senate vote.
  The broadband privacy rules were one of a raft of measures pushed through by the FCC late last year in anticipation of a changing of the guard following the US Presidential election. The stated aim of the rules was to protect user data regarding their internet behavior and give them greater control over what ISPs could sell on.
  But a
  
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• ANAM - A2P Messaging Provider - Announce New Asia CEO Appointment

  24-03-2017 15:47
  
  ‘Industry figures on the global A2P SMS market indicate Asia will see its most lucrative growth between 2017-2021’ – Conor Devine, Anam Asia, CEOAnam Technologies, the fastest growing independent Application 2 Person (A2P) SMS Monetisation service provider in the world, filtering billions of messages for Mobile Operators in over 60 countries, has announced the appointment of Conor Devine, CEO for Anam Asia Sdn Bhd, as the company targets further Global growth opportunities.Devi
  
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• Bharti Airtel drops $240m on Tikona to get pan-India 4G footprint

  24-03-2017 14:10
  
  The Indian telecoms arms race continues with current number one MNO Bharti Airtel set to acquire Tikona Digital Networks and with it a bunch of 2,300 MHz spectrum.
  The purchase price is in the region of 1,600 crore (16 billion) rupees, which translates to around $240 million. For that Bharti gets 20 MHz of spectrum in the 2,300 MHz band in the Gujarat, UP East, UP West, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh circles. This in turn, says Bharti, will give it a pan-India mobile broadband footprint, with 30
  
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• Ofcom proposes small automatic fines for rubbish landline service

  24-03-2017 12:36
  
  UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has proposed a system of small fines to be automatically paid by landline providers when they drop the ball on service.
  As the table below shows, each individual fine would be quite small – certainly not sufficient to adequately compensate users for the inconvenience and distress resulting from customer service failures and the resulting loss of connectivity. But if the provider is a serial offender on a wide scale those fines could start to add up, with Ofcom s
  
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• HAUD gives more value through its Traffic Audit Service

  24-03-2017 11:34
  
  Singapore, 24th March 2017 - HAUD has now established itself as a market leading SMS firewall provider, and through experience it has acknowledged that the power of knowledge through data is very important for operators to be able to take educated decisions on their current situation. Without such knowledge, the MNO cannot take a clear decision on what solution would be required or what action would be more suitable for its needs. Without analysis and...Source: RealWire
  
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• YouTube's ad problem spells trouble for Facebook – consultant

  24-03-2017 01:00
  It is now time for YouTube's "Extremist Hate-Speech Hour", occasionally brought to you in association with, until recently, some of the biggest brands in the world, including none other than AT&T and Verizon, among others.Not any more of course, because the two telcos are among a growing number of prominent companies that pulled their ad spend from YouTube and Google this week, after their adverts appeared alongside extremist material.The wave of withdrawals started to gather pace last week
  
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• YouTube's ad problem spells trouble for Facebook – analyst

  24-03-2017 01:00
  It is now time for YouTube's "Extremist Hate-Speech Hour", occasionally brought to you in association with, until recently, some of the biggest brands in the world, including none other than AT&T and Verizon, among others.Not any more of course, because the two telcos are among a growing number of prominent companies that pulled their ad spend from YouTube and Google this week, after their adverts appeared alongside extremist material.The wave of withdrawals started to gather pace last week
  
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• Telecom Italia seeks broadband partner

  24-03-2017 01:00
  Telecom Italia this week unveiled plans to accelerate the rollout of ultrafast broadband and revealed that it is seeking a partner to help it cover uneconomic areas.The Italian incumbent, known as TIM…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Softbank in 28-GHz 5G trials

  24-03-2017 01:00
  Japan-based Softbank this week announced it has commenced indoor and outdoor millimetre-wave (mmWave) 5G trials, having recently secured an experimental licence for a 732 MHz chunk of 28-GHz spectrum.The trials…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom proposes automatic compensation for fixed-line customers

  24-03-2017 01:00
  Ofcom on Friday proposed that fixed-line customers should automatically receive compensation if they suffer from poor service.Incidents that would entitle users to compensation – either in the form of cash or a credit on their bill – include when an engineer misses an appointment, when a voice or broadband service is not up and running on the day promised by the telco…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti Airtel bolsters 4G footprint with INR16bn Tikona buy

  24-03-2017 01:00
  Bharti Airtel this week bolstered its spectrum holdings by agreeing to acquire Tikona Digital Networks' 4G business for 16 billion rupees (€226.47 million).Tikona holds 20 MHz of 2.3-GHz Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum in five telecom circles…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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