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• Samsung profits set to jump 50% despite mobile mess

  07-04-2017 13:12
  
  The Samsung money-making machine is showing remarkable resilience in the face of mobile missteps and a Korean corruption probe.
  Announcing its earnings guidance for Q1 2017 the company said it expects to bring in around 50 trillion Korean Won (~$44 billion) of which it expects around a fifth to be operating profit. This time last year it brought in a similar amount of revenue but the operating profit margin was just 13%, so the company has massively increased profitability in that time – i
  
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• Operators beware, live video is only going to make your lives more stressful

  07-04-2017 13:03
  
  After a bit of frantic catch-up, it would appear Facebook is heading in the right direction in the live video arena.
  Over the last twelve months, the number of live video broadcasts have increased more than four times, with the team now claiming the format accounts for 20% of total video over the same period. Facebook was late to the live video game, seemingly unsure about live user generated content, however Snapchat took the risk and claimed the reward with its Stories feature. Since then we&r
  
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• Prysmian to develop IFA2, the new France-UK electricity interconnector

  07-04-2017 10:29
  
  The project worth around €350M has been awarded to Prysmian by a joint venture between French RTE and UK National Grid IFA2 Ltd240 km of HVDC 320 kV submarine cable system will allow up to 1000 MW to be transmitted between the countriesMilan, 7 April 2017 - Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has secured a contract worth around €350 million with IFA2 SAS, a joint venture between National...Source: RealWire
  
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• Telenor puts $259m worth of Veon shares on the block

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Telenor on Friday announced that it aims to raise $259 million (€244.03 million) from the sale of 70 million shares in Veon, the telco formerly known as Vimpelcom…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EU Parliament approves wholesale roaming caps

  07-04-2017 02:00
  The European Parliament this week voted in favour of new caps on wholesale roaming fees, clearing the final hurdle on the way to finally scrapping retail roaming rates in the EU from 15 June…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Comcast turns to flexible mobile tariffs to defend against AT&T, Verizon content push

  07-04-2017 02:00
  After what feels like decades of build-up, Comcast late on Thursday finally detailed plans to address the mobile market in a bid to fend off growing competition from the likes of AT&T and Verizon.Called Xfinity Mobile, the service runs on Verizon's 4G network, but aims to make extensive use of WiFi, with devices automatically connecting and authenticating on one of Comcast's 16 million public hotspots whenever the customer is range.Comcast was also one of the participants in the recently-co
  
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