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• FCC plans to ditch Obama-era net neutrality rules

  26-04-2017 22:40 via ft.com
  Ajit Pai indicates regulations to keep the internet open will be replaced
  
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• Mobile now accounts for the majority of US ad spend

  26-04-2017 18:34
  
  We’ve been waiting for this moment for a while, but it has finally arrived. Mobile advertising now accounts for more than half of the total digital advertising spend across the US in 2016.
  According to the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, mobile advertising accounted for 51% of the $72.5 billion spent by advertisers on digital formats last year. Over the course of 2016, mobile advertising saw a substantial uplift of 77%, confirming a trend which many have seen coming for a while. I
  
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• Ericsson and Qualcomm help NBN hit 1.1 Gbps over fixed wireless

  26-04-2017 18:21
  
  Australian state telecoms outfit NBN managed to hit 1.1 Gbps download speed in a fixed wireless demo conducted in partnership with Ericsson, NetComm Wireless and Qualcomm.
  The speed was achieved thanks to carrier aggregation utilizing a massive 11 carriers – seven in the 3.4 GHz band and four in the 2.3 GHz band – on TDD LTE as well as bonding together three antennae that NBN insists on calling Wireless Network Termination Devices. This seems mainly to be a publicity exercise to show
  
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• Comvergence Leverages Calix AXOS G.fast Solutions to Rapidly Bring Gigabit Speed Potential to Australia MTUs

  26-04-2017 14:26
  
  Calix Elite Partner OSA helps Comvergence become the first to deliver industry-leading G.fast technology to businesses in Sydney and Melbourne SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – April 26, 2017 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX), the world leader in Subscriber Driven Intelligent Access, announced that fast-growing Australia service provider Comvergence is successfully rolling out Calix AXOS G.fast solutions to businesses throughout Australia’s two largest cities. The first to deploy this groundbreakin
  
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• Final obstacle to ‘free’ EU roaming overcome

  26-04-2017 14:17
  
  The process of getting rid of mobile roaming surcharges across Europe for European subscribers has been given the all-clear by the European Council.
  As if a decade of bureaucratic procrastination wasn’t enough, the European Commission still had to wait a few months for the European Council to give it the nod before the abolition of roaming charges was official.
  “Today’s final vote in the Council clears the path for free roaming,” said Dr Emmanuel Mallia, the Maltese Minis
  
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• Quarterlies roundup: América Móvil, Telia, KPN and SK Telecom

  26-04-2017 13:37
  
  It’s quarterlies season once again with the results coming through thick and fast after América Móvil, Telia, KPN and SK Telecom all reported their numbers.
  Starting in Mexico, América Móvil reported healthy growth across the quarter with revenues jumping an impressive 18.5% year-on-year to roughly $14 billion, with profits up 8.3% to $1.6 billion. During the three months, the telco added a staggering 632,000 customers to its ranks.
  In its domestic market of Mex
  
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• AT&T marketing desperation wanders into realms of fantasy

  26-04-2017 12:58
  
  AT&T has been making waves in the industry after a less than enthralling quarterly earnings call and a suspect advertising campaign stretches the boundaries of truth.
  To make up for a mundane performance over the first quarter, it would appear AT&T has stooped to what some would describe as misleading information, while others would call it an outright porky pie. The latest effort to discourage the steady flow of exiting customers has been to launch its “5G Evolution” of
  
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• UK Lords set to capitulate on minimum broadband speeds

  26-04-2017 12:49
  
  In the rush to push the Digital Economy Bill through parliament the House of Lords will reportedly scrap its amendment for a minimum broadband speed of 30 Mbps.
  The Bill has been kicking around Westminster for a year, aiming to bring the UK up to date on a wide variety of matters related to the digital economy, from infrastructure, to ecommerce, to internet censorship. One of the signature pieces of legislation is a Universal Service Obligation that, among other things, sets a minimum of 10 Mbps
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER to bring comprehensive Connected Mobility solutions to Railtex 2017

  26-04-2017 10:00
  
  Global connectivity supplier HUBER+SUHNER will be exhibiting its extensive portfolio of technology and solutions for the rail industry at Railtex 2017, taking place in Birmingham, UK, 9-11 May. The HUBER+SUHNER booth will focus on its solutions for Connected Mobility – merging both communications and rail through instrumental components, thus enabling broadband network connections on the train, train-to-ground and on the trackside. As such, it will be showcasing a wide range of products al
  
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• Lords water down push for minimum broadband speed

  26-04-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Digital Economy Bill is rushed through parliament before general election
  
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• Lords water down push for minimum broadband speed

  26-04-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Digital Economy Bill is rushed through parliament before general election
  
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• Telefonica eyes possible O2 UK listing in Q4

  26-04-2017 02:00
  Telefonica has revived plans for an initial public offering of O2 UK, and could list the unit during the fourth quarter of this year.Sources cited by Bloomberg on Monday said the Spanish incumbent &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nextel Brazil names new CEO

  26-04-2017 02:00
  NII Holdings this week named Roberto Rittes as the new chief executive of its Nextel Brazil unit.Rittes joins from private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, where he served as a principal. He has also held senior roles at Brasil Telecom…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EC raids Swedish telcos in antitrust probe

  26-04-2017 02:00
  European Commission officials have raided the offices of Sweden's mobile operators, which are suspected of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.All four players – incumbent Telia, 3, Tele2, and Telenor – confirmed that the authorities had dropped in unannounced and asked questions regarding the possible abuse of their collective dominant market position…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T feels the burn in Q1 as mobile competition heats up

  26-04-2017 02:00
  AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson late on Tuesday admitted his company responded slowly to the return of unlimited plans, but insisted the telco has the requisite network capacity to cope with the expected rise in usage.AT&T lost 348,000 lucrative postpaid phone customers during the first quarter. Similarly Verizon last week revealed it lost 289,000, as the aggressive pricing strategies of T-Mobile US and Sprint took their toll.AT&T stopped offering unlimited tariffs to smartp
  
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