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• Altice USA: doing the continental

  22-06-2017 19:23
  Can the best of America and Europe be combined?
  
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• Altice USA CEO says cable sector is ripe for more deals

  22-06-2017 18:59
  Goei says IPO is about ‘being ready’ to seize consolidation opportunities
  
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• Virgin Mobile USA has a go at bedlam with $1 unlimited data offer

  22-06-2017 18:29
  
  Richard Branson has decided he wants to emulate T-Mobile US CEO John Legere in creating chaos in the US telco space with the launch of a new offer.
  If Legere has shown the world anything it’s that you have to do something drastically different in a stagnant and established market to be successful. T-Mobile’s Uncarrier strategy has gained traction, as has Jio’s seemingly continuous freebie offer in India. Now Virgin Mobile USA has had a go.
  For those customers who sign-up to the
  
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• Snapchat might be a real business after all

  22-06-2017 17:24
  
  Just as we were thinking Snapchat was a one trick pony, it has started releasing features which hint at a viable business model. The latest update, a location feature, could threaten Google’s mapping dominance.
  The team made a cheeky little acquisition last month, if you can call $250-350 million cheeky, in the form of social mapping start-up Zenly, according to TechCrunch. The Zenly app allows users to see where their friends are located using constant GPS running in the background.
  
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• UK MPs alarmed at change to emergency communications system

  22-06-2017 16:25
  Switch to untested network with limited range raises concern at time of terror alerts
  
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• ZTE ZENIC SDON wins Best Overall Multi-layer SDN Controller Implementation award at NGON & Optical DCI forum

  22-06-2017 15:17
  
  22 June 2017, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced it has won the “Best Overall Multi-layer SDN Controller Implementation” award for its innovative ZENIC SDON solution at the annual Next Generation Optical Networking and Optical Data Centre Interconnect (NGON & Optical DCI) event in Nice, France. By using Software De
  
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• Altice USA IPO goes quite well – pockets a cool $1.9 billion

  22-06-2017 13:16
  
  The results are in from the Altice IPO which has caused a stir recently, and they are some good ones; the team has raised roughly $1.9 billion through the sale of around 6.5% of shares.
  This is in fact the second-largest IPO of the year, behind Snap’s $3.9 billion deal, and only the second IPO of a cable company in the last five years, alongside WideOpenWest which last month raised about $310 million. Although this might seem like a good chunk of change, Altice will pocket roughly $330 mil
  
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• The smartphone confessions of a 13-year-old boy

  22-06-2017 13:11
  
  This guest article is written by 13-year-old Jack Bicheno, who is spending a work placement day at Telecoms.com and was tasked with writing a story.
  A subject people don’t really tend to talk about is what teenagers mainly use their phones for. Reasons for this may be that they can’t give their own insight into the matter since they don’t make it their business to look at teenagers phones to see what they’ve been doing (apart from my dad). As a 13-year-old myself I can de
  
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• AudioCodes signs EMEA distribution agreement with Nuvias

  22-06-2017 13:00
  
  New relationship will focus on Skype for Business and BroadSoft UC markets Nuvias further extends its EMEA Unified Communications’ business London, England: 22/6/17 - AudioCodes, the Voice and Unified Communications Networking Solutions vendor, has signed a pan-EMEA distribution agreement with fast-growing, high-value distribution business Nuvias, following the recent launch of Nuvias’ Unified Communications (UC) Practice across EMEA. Nuvias is now able to offer complete end-to-end s
  
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• Fibre claims called into question – is there such thing as an honest broadband advert?

  22-06-2017 12:20
  
  If the ‘up to’ metric wasn’t enough to frustrate broadband customers in the UK, new research has uncovered that fibre advertisements are just as much of an irritation.
  Research conducted by Opinion Leader (but commissioned by CityFibre, Gigaclear and Hyperoptic), which has been submitted to the Advertising Standards Agency has poked holes in current advertising themes, claiming them to be misleading. The issue here is whether broadband providers can actually claim to deliver a
  
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• Imagination Technologies throws in the towel following Apple low blow

  22-06-2017 12:07
  
  UK low-power chip designer Imagination Technologies has announced the whole company is now up for sale, following the impending loss of its biggest customer – Apple.
  Back in April Apple announced it was going to terminate its longstanding business relationship with Imagination at the end of the current deal. Imagination’s core business area is the design of low-power graphics chips, which Apple has been using in its SoC family from the start. The business model is similar to ARM&rsqu
  
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• IoT, 5G and Big Data on the agenda as Communic Indonesia returns for 2017

  22-06-2017 10:00
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia: The explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), the role of satellite connectivity and the evolution of 4G, 5G and LTE technologies will be some of the key talking points discussed by leading industry names at this year’s Communic Indonesia.In 2016, the number of internet users in Indonesia hit 100 million, with 93% accessing the web via their mobile phones. As the Government aims to have broadband reach 71% of the total...Source: RealWire
  
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• Altice USA: The continental

  22-06-2017 05:04
  Can the best of America and Europe be combined?
  
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• India govt pledges 'corrective steps' to ease pressure on telcos

  22-06-2017 02:00
  India's government on Thursday pledged to reform its telco policies in a bid to ease the pressure on a sector ravaged by a brutal price war.Minister of Communications Manoj Sinha held face-to-face talks with representatives from the industry, during which he said corrective steps will be taken to ensure a return to orderly growth…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Imagination puts itself on the block

  22-06-2017 02:00
  U.K. chip designer Imagination Technologies on Thursday put itself up for sale, and revealed it is in talks with potential suitors.The company already put two of its divisions &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Altice USA prices IPO at high end of range

  22-06-2017 02:00
  Altice this week priced the initial public offering of its U.S. arm at $30 (€26.87) per share, the high end of its range.In total, 63.94 million Altice USA shares will float on the New York Stock Exchange later today &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Altice USA raises $1.9bn in second-biggest US IPO this year

  22-06-2017 01:09
  Patrick Drahi’s cable group prices offering at $30 per share for $22bn valuation
  
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