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• Comcast’s Verizon MVNO goes live

  17-08-2017 19:02
  US cable and content giant Comcast is having a go at mobile via a new MVNO running on the Verizon 4G network as well as a bunch of wifi hotspots.
  It’s called Xfinity Mobile, in line with its cable brand, and is available only to existing Comcast customers and it looks like it only runs on devices also purchased from Comcast. On the flip side it claims to save subscribers 30 percent compared to unspecified ‘other providers’.
  “We created a unique mobile experience that&rsqu
  
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• EE puts Alexa in its box

  17-08-2017 18:08
  UK operator EE has laid claim to being the first UK set-top box provider to support Alexa voice control.
  Shouting at the telly used to be the futile act of the frustrated viewer but that’s set to change for those who subscribe to EE TV. Now abusing politicians or encouraging athletes could take on a whole new dimension as Alexa’s artificial intelligence seeks to fulfil what were previously harmless rhetorical queries.
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• Telcel gets a slim win

  17-08-2017 14:23
  Mexico’s largest operator has prevailed in a court case that reverses a ruling made four years ago preventing it charging its rivals for termination services.
  The only problem is that the award is not retroactive, meaning those four years’ worth of fees of fees can’t be reclaimed. Furthermore those fees only apply to voice interconnections and, with the mobile world having become a lot more data focused over the time of the ban, it could be argued that this is a pretty hollow w
  
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• Ericsson insists there’s nothing new in ‘brutal’ job cuts story

  17-08-2017 13:35
  A Swedish newspaper reckons Ericsson’s latest round of cost cuts could affect 25,000 people but it’s mainly conjecture and Ericsson says the specifics are still undecided.
  Svenska Dagbladet published a story (in Swedish) that appears to characterise the likely round of job cuts resulting from Ericsson’s continued drive to achieve profitability as ‘brutal’. It then did some back-of-a-fag-packet calculations to conclude that up to 25,000 Ericsson employees are likely
  
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• HMD launches Nokia 8 flagship smartphone with ‘bothie’ camera gimmick

  17-08-2017 12:38
  HMD’s efforts to exploit lingering affection for the Nokia smartphone brand have finally resulted in a flagship device – the Nokia 8.
  In this era of identikit smartphones HMD’s first job was to make sure there were no glaring omissions in terms of spec and design. It seems to have achieved that with a Snapdragon 835, 5.3-inch QHD screen, 64 GB storage with micro SD slot and twin 13 MP Zeiss cameras. The industrial design seems fine, although there’s less of an emphasis on
  
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• Telstra’s first dividend cut for 20 years sends shares tumbling

  17-08-2017 10:06 via ft.com
  Group’s defensive move at odds with Australia’s income-focused investing culture
  
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• Verizon to fund own emergency services network

  17-08-2017 02:00
  Verizon on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to roll out an LTE-based public safety network analogous to AT&T's FirstNet project but that will not require any public funding.The U.S. telco said that the project will see it build out a private network core dedicated to public safety communications that will operate separately from its commercial network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telstra shares slide on dividend cut

  17-08-2017 02:00
  Telstra on Thursday reported a relatively unremarkable set of full-year financial results, but the market reacted badly to its new dividend policy, which will see payouts cut by around a third next year.The Australian incumbent posted revenue of A$26.01 billion (&euro…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Indonesia towers firm on the block

  17-08-2017 02:00
  Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP) is reportedly up for sale, a move that could bring consolidation to Indonesia's telecom towers market.The firm's private equity owners Carlyle and Southern Capital have appointed an adviser to help them find a buyer for their stakes in the towers company…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Court backs America Movil in asymmetric interconnect row

  17-08-2017 02:00
  America Movil on Wednesday revealed that Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled in its favour as it seeks to overturn a series of asymmetric regulations set up three years ago in a bid to curb its market dominance.Essentially, the court ruled that the law prohibiting America Movil's Telcel operating unit from charging rival players to terminate calls on its network is unconstitutional and gives telecom regulator the IFT the right to set the interconnection rates that those rivals should pay…re
  
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