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• Desmond’s planned lottery bid challenges Camelot’s winning streak

  13-11-2017 20:33
  A once-a-decade tendering process is far from optimal
  
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• Africa and the economics of satellites

  13-11-2017 18:46
  Last week’s AfricaCom conference had a heavy focus on satellites but how many people actually understand the economics of satellite connectivity? We didn’t, so we asked Intelsat.
  The focus on satellites at the conference is an obvious one. If comparatively miniscule countries like the UK cannot justify the expense of a fibre roll-out, how on earth is a continent like Africa going to solve the connectivity problem? The connectivity challenge is bigger in terms of mileage, and progress
  
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• Qualcomm board unsurprisingly rejects Broadcom bid – what now?

  13-11-2017 17:40
  Having mulled it over for a week the Qualcomm board has decided Broadcom’s unsolicited $130 billion bid for the company is too low.
  We anticipated this in our initial analysis of the deal, with Qualcomm’s shares having traded at the offer price as recently as the start of this year. Since then they’ve taken a bit of a kicking thanks mainly to the Apple litigation, but the Qualcomm board presumably expects that to be resolved in a satisfactory manner, which could well result in
  
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• Idea earnings show merger can’t come soon enough

  13-11-2017 17:05
  Idea Cellular has reported its latest quarterly figures and they don’t make for good reading. The Vodafone merger seemingly can’t happen quickly enough.
  Total revenues for the quarter demonstrated an 8.6% quarter-on-quarter decline, while year-on-year revenues decreased by an breath-taking 19.7%. After making a handsome profit of $660 million in the same quarter of 2016, the team swung to a loss of $180 million for the last three months. Market share has also declined from 19.4% to 1
  
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• XGS-PON interoperability advances after second Plugfest

  13-11-2017 15:00
  LAN-hosted event in Tauxigny, France, brought together 13 companiesTauxigny, France, November 13, 2017: Leading industry names from across the globe came together to accelerate the development of PON technology at the second XGS-PON Interoperability Plugfest.XGS-PON is based on the ITU-T’s latest Recommendation (ITU-T G.9807.1), providing a symmetrical 10Gbit/s capability over a fiber infrastructure that can co-exist with legacy 2.5Gbit/s G-PON. Organized by Laboratoire des Applications Nu
  
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• Connected cars: the platform of the future

  13-11-2017 14:33
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Thomas Rockmann, VP Connected Home at Deutsche Telekom looks at how operators can exploit the connected car opportunity.
  Amazingly, it has been 21 years since the first connected cars rolled off the production line (GM’s OnStar was an emergency service built into the Cadillac DeVille, Seville and Eldorado), but the promise to revitalise automotive sal
  
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• Android ransomware is biggest mobile malware threat – Nokia

  13-11-2017 14:17
  Nokia has published its latest Threat Intelligence Report, which shows that ransomware attacks went through the roof this year, largely via Android devices.
  The Nokia report looks at malware infections found in mobile and fixed networks by its NetGuard security produce, which by no coincidence whatsoever announced a major new version today. It derives data from over 100 million devices.
  The biggest security issue faced by mobile networks this year has been ransomware, as typified by WannaCry and
  
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• Deutsche Telekom reveals its own take on the smart home speaker

  13-11-2017 14:02
  Deutsche Telekom has officially entered the smart home race and put a nice little twist on the business model to monetize its greatest asset – a huge customer base.
  With the voice user interface becoming increasingly normalized, the smart home could be a very profitable area. While there isn’t much cash in asking a programme to turn on the lights, monetizing services in the same way Facebook has in social media or Google for its search engines, does promise riches.
  Soon enough you&rs
  
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• Reliance Communications shares sink on missed debt repayments

  13-11-2017 13:26
  Telecoms group run by Anil Ambani suffers heavy losses as sector price war takes toll
  
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• Telecoms versus carmakers in race to get connected

  13-11-2017 13:17
  The two industries square up in key battle over technology for autonomous vehicles
  
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• Crime moves upmarket as fraud becomes the UK’s number 1 offence

  13-11-2017 12:52
  New research from Experian claims fraud is now the UK’s most common criminal offence, much to the dismay of thugs and hoodlums everywhere.
  The company’s Annual Fraud Indicator 2017 estimates the annual cost of fraud in the UK is £190 billion, exceeding the total Gross Domestic product of 148 out of 191 countries on the planet. Splitting it down, private sector fraud costs the UK economy £140 billion over the course of 2017, while it is only £40.3 billion in the publ
  
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• Tata comes from nowhere to top Indian subscriber adds

  13-11-2017 12:23
  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released subscriber numbers for August, and somehow Tata Teleservices topped the net add list.
  It still doesn’t quite have the numbers to compete at the top of the overall rankings, but if the subscriber numbers from August are anything to go by, Airtel has bagged itself a nice acquisition. In terms of the overall performance of the notable names in the market:
  Tata Teleservices added 4.89 million subscriptions over the month
  Reliance Ji
  
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• UK getting pretty complicated for Uber but all good in Japan

  13-11-2017 11:38
  Uber is going to find itself popping in and out of the court much more than it would like before too long after ending up on the wrong side of a ruling from the Employment Appeals Tribunal.
  The ruling itself surrounds the relationship between the drivers and Uber, and has the potential to be a bit of a headache. The Employment Appeals Tribunal has ruled the company’s drivers should be considered and treated as employees of Uber, not independent contractors.
  “The reality of the situat
  
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• Prysmian at ADIPEC 2017 from 13 to 16 November in Abu Dhabi

  13-11-2017 10:33
  Cable solutions designed to meet the Oil & Gas industry toughest challengesPrysmian re-confirms its leading role in the cable industry with high-tech solutions for the Oil & Gas sectorMilan, 13th November 2017 - Visit Prysmian Group at ADIPEC 2017 at Stand 2210, Hall 2 from 13 to 16 November at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, to learn about our cable solutions for applications in subsea and on-shore Exploration & Production, Pipelines & LNG, Refineries...Source: RealWir
  
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• Cambium Networks chooses Config as key distributor

  13-11-2017 09:00
  New distribution agreement expands Cambium Networks’ reach further across Europe and AfricaParis, France, November 13, 2017 – Cambium Networks, a leading global provider of wireless broadband networking solutions, today announced it has created a distribution agreement with Config, a leading value-added distributor.Under the agreement, Config – which has developed a network made up of hundreds of trusted Value-Added Resellers – will act as a distributor for the whole of C
  
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• Vodafone, Idea sell India towers ops for €1bn

  13-11-2017 01:00
  Vodafone India and Idea Cellular on Monday announced they have inked a deal to sell their standalone towers businesses to America Tower for a combined 78.5 billion rupees (€1.03 billion), with Idea taking a slightly larger share of the proceeds should the transaction close before they complete their proposed merger…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone Cameroon closes down after licence dispute

  13-11-2017 01:00
  Vodafone Cameroon ceased operations on Friday having failed to resolve a licence dispute with regulators.In an announcement posted on its Website, the mobile operator said it was closing down with immediate effect…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Softbank prepares to plough $10bn into Uber

  13-11-2017 01:00
  A consortium led by Softbank is on the verge of investing as much as $10 billion (€8.59 billion) in Uber.According to a Reuters report on Sunday, the Japanese telco has been joined by San Francisco…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SK Telecom completes LTE Cat-M1 upgrade

  13-11-2017 01:00
  SK Telecom on Monday completed the upgrade of its LTE-M IoT network to LTE Cat-M1.The Korean operator said the 3GPP-based IoT standard, which supports a maximum 1-Mbps data rate over licensed spectrum, will complement its LoRa…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Qualcomm rejects Broadcom offer

  13-11-2017 01:00
  Qualcomm's board on Monday unanimously rejected Broadcom's unsolicited $130 billion takeover bid."Broadcom's proposal significantly undervalues Qualcomm relative to the company's leadership position in mobile technology and our future growth prospects…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Omantel closes Zain buy

  13-11-2017 01:00
  Omantel is now Zain's second-largest shareholder having completed the acquisition of an additional stake in the company.The Omani incumbent announced in late October that it would purchase a 12…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Telecom launches terrestrial 100G link between Europe, China

  13-11-2017 01:00
  China Telecom has joined forces with Russia's Trans Telecom (TTK) to launch a 100G ultra long haul (UHL) DWDM route connecting China and Europe. 
  It claims to be the longest 100G terrestrial cable currently in operation anywhere in the world…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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