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• Activist investor Cevian Capital amasses $1bn stake in Ericsson

  30-05-2017 22:59
  Hedge fund is now second-biggest shareholder by capital and third biggest by votes
  
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• London Underground on track to offer mobile reception

  30-05-2017 22:33
  Transport for London will invite bids for work after general election
  
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• Reliance Communications’ debt downgraded amid default fears

  30-05-2017 21:34
  Care and Moody’s cut ratings on concerns over Indian telco’s loans
  
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• RComm debt downgraded amid default fears

  30-05-2017 21:34
  Care and Moody’s cut ratings on concerns over Indian telco’s loans
  
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• Europe says Vivendi can help itself to Telecom Italia if it wants

  30-05-2017 18:55
  
  The European Commission has said it’s got no problem with Vivendi acquiring ‘de facto control’ over Telecom Italia so long as the latter flogs its stake in a services group.
  Vivendi has been stalking Telecom Italia for ages, recently using its 24% stake in the company to appoint the majority if the board thus, essentially, giving it control of the whole company without having to fork out any more cash. It has also been amassing a significant minority stake in Italian broadcaste
  
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• Android creator launches his own phone

  30-05-2017 18:01
  
  Andy Rubin, the man behind ubiquitous mobile OS Android, has unveiled his first take on the smartphone since leaving Google.
  Among other projects Rubin created a gadget startup called Essential, which has also launched a home assistant device called Home that seems designed to take on similar offerings from Amazon and Google. In keeping with that no-nonsense naming policy the phone is called Phone.
  The Essential Phone is positioned to attack the premium Android (unsurprisingly) market that is cu
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER to showcase "one-stop-shop" portfolio of reliable, high performance solutions at IMS 2017

  30-05-2017 16:00
  
  Global connectivity leader and innovator HUBER+SUHNER will be showcasing its “one-stop-shop” portfolio of reliable, high performance solutions specifically designed for ease-of-use and system integration at this year’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS), taking place June 4-9 in Honolulu, Hawaii. On display will be the company’s new line of high-end test assemblies: SUCOFLEX 500. When it comes to Test and Measurement, the SUCOFLEX 500V series guarantee the highest le
  
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• GPS over Fibre system to be showcased at IMS 2017 by ETL Systems

  30-05-2017 15:00
  
  ETL’s RF Components were recently utilized by service provider Timeline Television and system integrator ND SatComMadley, UK. 30 May 2017. ETL Systems, a global designer and manufacturer of RF signal distribution equipment for satellite communications, will be exhibiting its wide range of RF Components at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) – the premier annual international meeting for technologists involved in all aspects of microwave theory and practice – in Hawaii,
  
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• Qualcomm launches domestic IoT chip platform

  30-05-2017 14:16
  
  At the Computex tech show mobile chip giant Qualcomm launched its Mesh Networking Platform designed to improve domestic routers with IoT in mind.
  Qualcomm specialises in grouping a bunch of its chips together into a ‘platform’, often also making a ‘reference design circuit board to give equipment manufacturers a head start when using its products.
  Both techniques are in play with this Mesh Networking launch. While wifi routers would appear to be the main target product category
  
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• Ericsson taps into AI in a bid to boost services offering

  30-05-2017 13:18
  
  Networking vendor Ericsson is banking on an injection of artificial intelligence special sauce to augment its support services portfolio.
  Essentially this is all about using things like predictive analytics and machine learning to automate the network management process and speed up things like fault isolation and recovery. Ericsson is positioning this as a pillar in the move to virtualization, 5G, IoT and all manner of other telecoms goodness.
  “As operators face increasing network complex
  
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• Apple protests too much about Android in switch campaign

  30-05-2017 11:59
  
  Gadget giant Apple is no stranger to adversarial marketing and has recently trained its sights on Android in a series of petulant video ads.
  Apart from being a not very subtle attempt at consumer brainwashing, the purpose of this campaign is to drive people to a new part of the Apple site designed to encourage and facilitate switching to Apple from other mobile platforms. Since the mobile market is now essentially an OS duopoly, that means Android.
  The first lot of videos were released on YouTub
  
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• Europe finally approves wifi on a shoestring initiative

  30-05-2017 10:55
  
  The European Commission (hereafter known as the Gaggle of Red-tapers) has announced an agreement with other regulatory bores to fund the WiFi4EU initiative.
  The project itself will see the Gaggle combine forces with the European Parliament and the Council to drive free public wifi hotspots throughout all of its member states. Forming part of Digital Single Market strategy, the play for public wifi will see €120 million made available for up to 8000 municipalities throughout the European Uni
  
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• Prysmian Group and Nanocomp Technologies sign technology cooperation agreement

  30-05-2017 10:39
  
  Aim is to fit nanotechnologies to cable systems for power grids, telecom networks and industrial applicationsMilan, 30 May 2017 - Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, and Nanocomp Technologies Inc., a world-leading U.S. company specialised in the production of carbon nanotube-based products and materials, have signed a technology cooperation agreement aimed at testing and improving the use of these technologies in power transmission, power distribution,
  
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• NewVoiceMedia's ContactWorld named best contact centre solution in Top 10 Technology Awards

  30-05-2017 10:19
  
  LONDON, 30 May 2017 – NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of cloud contact centre and inside sales technology that enables businesses to have more successful conversations, has won the 2017 Call Centre Helper Top 10 Contact Centre Technology Awards for its ContactWorld solution. The awards were founded to recognise the best products on the market and help contact centre managers make informed decisions about the technologies they invest in. NewVoiceMedia’s ContactWorld solution
  
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• Iskratel tackles substandard in-home Wi-Fi in new white paper

  30-05-2017 09:00
  
  Cologne, Germany, and Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 30, 2017 – The “bitter truth” about 802.11ac Wi-Fi – and what service providers can do to improve performance and coverage indoors – has been revealed by Iskratel in a white paper published today. Titled “Maximizing In-house Wi-Fi Coverage and Performance,” the white paper evaluates the advanced technology of 802.11ac, recognizing its benefits but also highlighting several limitations which mean it cannot al
  
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• BT set to bring EE within consumer group

  30-05-2017 06:03
  Mobile phone company kept at arm’s length since £12.5bn acquisition
  
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• RCom sounds alarm after posting first ever full year loss

  30-05-2017 02:00
  Reliance Communications this week called for government intervention to reverse the ailing fortunes of India's mobile market, after the operator reported its first ever full year net loss.During an investor call on Monday, RCom's co-CEO Gurdeep Singh called for interconnection charges to be scrapped in order to reflect the industry's shift away from per…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson names insider as new CTO

  30-05-2017 02:00
  Ericsson on Tuesday named insider Erik Ekudden as its new group CTO.Ekudden has worked for the Swedish kit maker for the past 24 years, and has spent the last seven of those as head of Ericsson's activities in Silicon Valley…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EC gives Vivendi conditional approval to take control of Telecom Italia

  30-05-2017 02:00
  ivendi on Tuesday won the European Commission's conditional approval to assume de facto control of Telecom Italia.In return for the green light, the French media conglomerate has agreed to sell Telecom Italia's broadcasting services arm, Persidera, easing concerns about Vivendi's ability and incentive to raise prices charged to TV channels for access to digital TV broadcast networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Carlos Slim mulling Telesites stake sale

  30-05-2017 02:00
  America Movil owner Carlos Slim plans to offload a stake in the Mexico-based telco group's struggling towers arm Telesites.Sources cited by Reuters on Friday said the billionaire has contacted private equity firms…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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