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• China Mobile launches UK service

  13-12-2017 18:20
  Company has leased capacity from BT with eye on consumer and business market
  
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• Dixons Carphone: monthly ailments

  13-12-2017 17:49
  The retailer’s mobile phone business needs a rethink
  
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• GSMA wants the world to do more for operators

  13-12-2017 15:21
  The trade association that represents the interests of operators has issued a call for more to be done for operators.
  The catalyst for this move is the culmination of the 11th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Argentina. The GSMA wants the world to make its collective regulatory framework more benign for operators, specifically to encourage investment, etc.
  Apparently 108 of the WTO’s 164 members have made commitments to facilitate trade in telecoms services, such as
  
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• China Mobile gets into the UK MVNO business

  13-12-2017 14:34
  The world’s largest mobile operator – China Mobile – has decided it’s time to get involved in the UK market.
  Its first move, announced today, is the launch by its international arm (appropriately named China Mobile International) of an MVNO called CMLink on the EE network. This MVNO is designed specifically to ‘provide mobile voice and data services designed for Chinese immigrants, students and professionals living in and traveling to the UK.’
  “China Mob
  
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• AT&T finally does something with its Project AirGig wireline internet thing

  13-12-2017 13:57
  Project AirGig is a novel initiative from AT&T in which public power lines are used to guide millimeter wave data transmissions.
  AT&T has been banging on about this for a while and at the start of this year took the brave step of announcing ‘advanced discussions’ on the matter. In hindsight even this claim seems to have been excessive since there has been radio silence (pardon the pun) for the 11 subsequent months.
  Until now! Actually there seems to have ben one trial in that
  
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• BT starts InLinkUK roll-out, gets Santa involved

  13-12-2017 13:09
  The symbolic replacement of the Great British phone box is set to go nationwide and is also being given a festive tweak.
  InLinkUK is a public wifi hotspot terminal that also offers free domestic phone calls as well as local information. The first one appeared earlier this year in Camden, London and presumably hasn’t gone horribly wrong, because half a year later BT is daring to offer 14 of them to the lucky citizens of Leeds.
  “It is great news that Leeds is the first city outside Lon
  
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• Dixons Carphone climbs on mobile unit rejig

  13-12-2017 12:06
  Shares jump as retailer looks to cut costs and lift profits with overhaul
  
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• Prysmian to Provide a Strategic Power Grid Connection in Bahrain

  13-12-2017 11:51
  Project to develop new 400 kV cable loop circuitImportant contract confirms Group’s commitment to developing energy infrastructures in the Gulf areaMilan, 13 December 2017 - Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new contract worth in the region of €80 million by EWA (Electricity and Water Authority of the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain) to develop a new 400 kV cable loop circuit. As part...Source: RealWire
  
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• UK telecoms leaders meet to discuss strategy for fibre networks

  13-12-2017 01:00
  Senior leaders from Britain's top telecom's operators met with government officials and representatives of Ofcom this week to discuss strategies for investing in Britain's full fibre networks. The meeting was attended by senior representatives from BT's Openreach…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia signs networking deal with Credit Andorra

  13-12-2017 01:00
  Nokia has signed an agreement with Credit Andorra to supply software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology to the international financial services company.Supplied by Nokia's software defined networking venture…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EU ministers question lack of investment in UK fibre networks

  13-12-2017 01:00
  Britain's telecoms sector has been chastised by EU government ministers for failing to adequately invest in full fibre broadband networks.EU ministers summoned executives from BT's Openreach, Talk Talk, Sky, Vodafone and Virgin Media…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Mobile International partners with BT to launch CMLink in the UK

  13-12-2017 01:00
  China Mobile International has launched its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service in the UK, CMLink.CMLink will use BT's EE mobile network, which currently covers 86% of the UK. That figure is set to rise to 95% by 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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