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• BlackBerry joins UK start-up to monitor WhatsApp chat

  13-06-2017 18:41 via ft.com
  Technology allows banks to record trader messages before they are encrypted
  
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• Its official; Verizon has finally bought Yahoo for $4.5bn

  13-06-2017 18:10
  
  The Yahoo shareholders approved it, and presumably the Verizon lawyers okayed it; the US telco finally has control of the former internet giant for a discounted $4.5 billion.
  The new business unit, which will be named Oath, has a portfolio which contains the likes of HuffPost, Yahoo Sports, AOL.com, MAKERS, Tumblr, BUILD Studios, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Mail. The objective of the unit will be to ‘build brands people love’, and if anyone can think of anything more generic please do le
  
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• Capita in talks to run British Airways’ call centres in UK

  13-06-2017 16:49 via ft.com
  Discussions take place as IT meltdown at airline left 75,000 passengers stranded
  
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• Prysmian invests €250m in its worldwide optical fibre and cable facilities

  13-06-2017 13:14
  
  “The demand for optical fibre and cables for TLC broadband networks increases worldwide. We reply with capacity, innovation and quality,” stated SVP P. VanhilleInauguration of Europe’s largest optical cable plant in Slatina, RomaniaMilan, 13 June 2017 - Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has inaugurated today its new optical cable plant in Slatina, Romania, the largest of its kind in Europe. The new Slatina plant is part of a...Source
  
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• Global mobile network traffic grew 70% in the past year – Ericsson

  13-06-2017 13:12
  
  The latest Ericsson Mobility Report has registered growth in total mobile network traffic across the globe of 70% between the end of Q1 2016 and the end of Q1 2017.
  Unsurprisingly this traffic growth is mainly driven by video streaming. Video accounted for around half of the 8.8 ExaBytes of mobile data traffic used last year but by 2022 that propotion will have increased to three quarters as total traffic will reach 71 ExaBytes. In clear second place among mobile data application categories is s
  
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• Do we have a capacity obsession?

  13-06-2017 13:08
  
  The requirements for 5G, or maybe perhaps the desire, have been growing substantially in recent months, but should we asking whether we are capacity obsessed?
  At Huawei’s European Innovation Day, an interesting thought was raised. By concentrating on delivering better services and content or meeting the demands of increasingly densely population urban environments, the 5G argument has been largely focused around capacity in recent months. But what about coverage?
  “It’s not alwa
  
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• Europe missing €155 billion to meet connectivity aims – Huawei CEO

  13-06-2017 11:42
  
  Huawei has once again set out its stall in the digital transformation camp, however it shown its pessimistic side with a couple of warnings to Europe.
  Speaking at Huawei’s European Innovation day, Rotating CEO Ken Hu gave us a few clues as to the giant’s bets for the future. As you would expect, digital transformation and artificial intelligence were pinned as the drivers for the digital economy, but perhaps there was a warning; don’t get ahead of yourselves or be cheap.
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• Altice tries to raise some cash with US IPO

  13-06-2017 11:40
  
  The US arm of French telecoms conglomerate Altice is heavily in debt following a spate of acquisitions, so it’s having a whip-round in the public markets.
  Altice USA is offering 46,551,725 shares of its Class A common stock (non-voting), which it hopes will be bought for between $27 and $31, potentially raising around $1.5 billion. However following the acquisitions of Cablevision and Suddenlink for a total in excess of $26 billion that might still be a drop in the ocean.
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• Xtreme Lashes by Jo Mousselli® sets sights on NewVoiceMedia to enhance service and operations

  13-06-2017 09:00
  
  LONDON, June 13, 2017 – NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of cloud contact centre and inside sales technology that enables businesses to have more successful conversations, today announced that Xtreme Lashes by Jo Mousselli®, the global leader in eyelash extensions, is using ContactWorld to enhance its contact centre operations and customer experience. Xtreme Lashes signed a three-year agreement for NewVoiceMedia’s ContactWorld solution to replace its phone system, which l
  
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• Basefarm acquires The unbelievable Machine Company, the leading Big Data and Cloud Services Provider in Germany

  13-06-2017 09:00
  
  LONDON – 13 June, 2017 - Basefarm today announced their acquisition of the Berlin-based The unbelievable Machine Company (*um), the leading service provider for Big Data, cloud and managed cloud services in Germany and Austria. With the acquisition, Basefarm extends their target market from the Nordics and the Netherlands to include Germany and Austria, thus becoming a leading European player. The combined business will have ~100m€ in revenues this year in addition to a wider...Source
  
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• Verizon finally completes Yahoo acquisition

  13-06-2017 02:00
  Verizon finally completed the acquisition of Yahoo's core Web assets on Tuesday, heralding the departure of the latter's CEO, Marissa Mayer, and ending a long-running saga during which the deal nearly fell apart altogether.As previously disclosed, Yahoo will be combined with AOL – which Verizon acquired in 2015 for $4.4 billion &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sprint 'does a Jio', offers free unlimited service for a year

  13-06-2017 02:00
  Sprint this week took a leaf out of Reliance Jio Infocomm's playbook, by offering new customers 12 months of free unlimited voice, messaging and data services.According to Sprint, a customer who subscribes to a single line will save $900 compared to someone who signs up to Verizon's unlimited tariff…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Jio effect drives global mobile data traffic

  13-06-2017 02:00
  Having shaken up India's mobile market, Reliance Jio Infocomm on Tuesday made its presence felt on the world's stage, driving growth in worldwide data use during the first quarter.According to Ericsson's latest Mobility Report, global mobile data traffic grew 70% year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Chinese telcos to plough $180bn into 5G

  13-06-2017 02:00
  China's three mobile network operators will spend a combined $180 billion on 5G infrastructure over the coming seven years.This is according to a South China Morning Post report on Monday citing Jefferies equity analyst Edison Lee…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Altice USA launches $1.4bn IPO

  13-06-2017 02:00
  Altice USA this week launched a long-awaited initial public offering that could raise up to $1.44 billion.The Netherlands-based cable group plans to list 46.55 million shares of its U.S. business on the New York Stock Exchange…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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