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• Uncle Sam investigates Huawei for possible naughty deals – report

  27-04-2017 18:58
  
  Huawei could find itself in more trouble in the US as Uncle Sam has reportedly launched an investigation trade controls on Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria.
  The more Huawei seems to dominate the telecommunications world, the more the US government seems to mistrust it. The company is already banned from bidding for US government contracts, any further suspected naughty behaviour from the Chinese giant could see additional embargos placed on the business. Considering Huawei’s smartphone ambition
  
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• IDC has an early guess at the Q1 2017 smartphone market

  27-04-2017 18:44
  
  Analyst firm IDC has published ‘preliminary’ smartphone shipment numbers several days before Apple announces its own, which anticipate further growth.
  Apple always announces its device shipments numbers during its quarterly earnings announcement, which is due to take place late on 2 May. Samsung doesn’t publish its numbers but tends not to even offer guidance to analysts until Apple has shown its hand, which makes it likely IDC has taken a bit of a punt on those too.
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• ZTE gives MEC some TLC

  27-04-2017 18:18
  
  ZTE has announced it will be implementing mobile edge computing (MEC) pilots technical verification with China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom.
  At a time where each of the vendors are betting on what will be the next big thing to rock the telco and tech world, ZTE has landed a very useful contract with some of the most complex networks in the world. With Nokia backing software, Huawei on the cloud and Ericsson on IoT, ZTE is seemingly looking to carve its own USP with the perfection of ME
  
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• Nokia slows decline in networks business

  27-04-2017 17:52
  Shares touch a high for the year amid signs of turnround in telecoms equipment unit
  
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• The business success of a Spanish MVNO-Simyo Wins ‘Most Innovative MVNO’ award at MVNO World Congress 2017

  27-04-2017 14:19
  
  The business success of a Spanish MVNO – Simyo Wins ‘Most Innovative MVNO’ award at MVNO World Congress 2017
  [Nice, France, 26th April, 2017] Simyo, Spain’s’ major MVNO, won ‘Most Innovative MVNO award’ at MVNO World Congress 2017.
  The ‘Most Innovative MVNO award’ is granted to these virtual operators that they have genuinely introduced innovation in the MVNO market.Jesus Noguera, CEO of Simyo, Accepted the Award
  In a highly competitive
  
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• And so it begins: Pai sets net neutrality annihilation into motion

  27-04-2017 14:06
  
  The gory details of the destruction of net neutrality in the states have not been fully revealed yet, but Pai has fired the starting pistol.
  Net neutrality rules created by the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order would appear to be living on borrowed time, as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai delivered a speech full of political rhetoric, slight exaggerations and emotive language to signal the beginning of the end.
  “Earlier today, I shared with my fellow Commissioners a proposal to reverse the mistak
  
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• Nokia celebrates slowing decline

  27-04-2017 13:25
  
  Q1 2017 was all about steadying the ship for Nokia and it speaks volumes about its competitive environment that a slower decline in revenues is viewed as a win.
  Nokia’s non-IFRS (excluding items related to the Alcatel-Lucent acquisition) net sales for the quarter were €5.4 billion, which represented a 4% decline on the same quarter a year ago. In the previous quarter, however, sales declined annually by 13% so at this rate Nokia might just start growing again before long.The vast majo
  
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• Samsung profits up 48% thanks to conscientious components

  27-04-2017 13:21
  
  They called it a couple of weeks ago, and they delivered. Those cunning dudes over at Samsung reported 48% year-on-year growth in operating profit, despite a poor performance from the mobile team.
  Group revenues for the singed Koreans was up to KRW 50.55 trillion for the quarter with profits standing at KRW 9.9 trillion, though troubles in the mobile business don’t seem to be completely in the past as revenues fell 15% year-on-year. The team do appear optimistic however, as it ha
  
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• Orange quarterlies shows convergence can actually deliver

  27-04-2017 12:03
  
  Orange has kicked off 2017 with a solid (albeit not mind blowing) first quarter, reporting 0.6% year-on-year growth, but is starting to show some real momentum in the convergence arena.
  The convergence strategy would appear to be bearing fruit with 259,000 net sales across the period representing a 11.2% year-on-year boost and taking the total number of customers up to 9.5 million. The team has not had it all their own way however, as revenues in its French domestic market declined by 0.1%, whil
  
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• Huawei focuses on the cloud at MVNOs World Congress 2017

  27-04-2017 11:47
  
  This article was sponsored by Huawei
  At MVNOs World Congress 2017 in Nice, France, Huawei was keen to focus on its BES (business enabling system) Cloud, which is designed to help innovative operators.
  MVNOs don’t always get the attention they deserve but in many markets they account for a significant proportion of the total mobile network operator market. The MVNOs World Congress event is designed to address that and focus on some of the unique needs of such businesses.
  Huawei has had a si
  
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• Paysafe enhances productivity and customer experience with NewVoiceMedia

  27-04-2017 10:53
  
  LONDON, 27 April, 2017 – NewVoiceMedia, a leading provider of cloud contact centre and inside sales technology that enables businesses to have more successful conversations, today announced that the global payments company Paysafe increased its customer support centre productivity by 20 percent over the last year using NewVoiceMedia’s ContactWorld for Service platform. The technology has delivered dramatic improvements to both customer and agent satisfaction. Focused on connecting bu
  
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• Telia manages to sell Tcell, reports Q1 numbers

  27-04-2017 02:00
  Telia has managed to push through the sale of Tcell, its Tajikistan unit, albeit for a lower price.The Sweden-based telco also said it expects to pay less to settle an investigation into its Uzbekistan operation.Telia agreed back in September to sell its 60% stake in Tcell to the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NBN fixed wireless trial tops 1 Gbps

  27-04-2017 02:00
  Australia's NBN this week achieved gigabit downlink speeds in a fixed wireless trial.The state-run broadband wholesaler used carrier aggregation technology to combine seven carriers in the 3…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T in nonsense '5G' launch

  27-04-2017 02:00
  As if losing hundreds of thousands of postpaid phone customers in the first quarter wasn't bad enough, AT&T this week also launched what it calls a '5G Evolution' service.What the rest of the industry refers to as 4.5G, or LTE-Advanced Pro, is clearly not highfalutin enough for the U.S. telco; only the best 'G' will do for Randall Stephenson and Co., and in this case, that 'G' is 5G.To ensure maximum confusion and to dodge any awkward questions to which the obvious answer is…read mor
  
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