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• BT Group: party line

  15-12-2017 16:38 via ft.com
  Change a few assumptions and the telco company’s shares look too cheap
  
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• BT and Sky agree content sharing deal

  15-12-2017 15:50 via ft.com
  Customers will be able to access TV channels from just one provider
  
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• FCC votes 3-2 to reverse its previous net neutrality framework

  15-12-2017 15:48
  As expected the US Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to push through the controversial repeal of its net neutrality framework.
  The final phase was put in motion last month and there was a supposed consultation, but since there are an odd number of FCC Commissioners and the majority of them, including Chairman Pai, are republican, it was only ever going to go one way. As with so much public discourse in the US, this partisanship has spread to the rest of the country and th
  
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• BT and Sky announce they’re content with each other

  15-12-2017 14:50
  The two biggest UK premium TV players have decided to help each other out in the face of increasing competition from the likes of Netflix and Amazon.
  BT TV punters will now be able to sign up for NOW TV, which is the more ad hoc, piecemeal way of getting hold of Sky premium content, such as Sport, Movies and Sky Atlantic (essentially HBO), without having to commit to long-term contracts. Conversely Sky will now be able to resell BT Sport content to its subscribers, which includes a bunch of foot
  
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• Rare European telco consolidation as T-Mobile Netherlands moves to acquire Tele2

  15-12-2017 13:43
  T-Mobile Netherlands is bidding €190 million plus a quarter of the combined company to buy rival Tele2.
  While this is an interesting piece of potential disruption in the Dutch market, the real intrigue lies in the position this puts European competition authorities in. According to Ovum’s WCIS service KPN is the dominant Dutch operator with a 55% subscriber share. Vodafone is second with 22%, then comes T-Mobile with 17% and Tele2 with 5%.
  Combining the latter two would still only ach
  
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• Gemalto just says no to Atos

  15-12-2017 12:19
  Digital security vendor Gemalto has taken little time to reject an unsolicited takeover bid from Atos on the grounds that it’s rubbish.
  Specifically Gemalto is citing the fairly standard range of objections: bid too low, more value to shareholders from potential organic growth, etc. Despite the initial indication that this unsolicited bid was somehow ‘friendly’, it doesn’t seem to have been received as such by the Gemalto board.
  “In 11 years, we have turned Gemalto
  
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• T-Mobile to launch pay TV service

  15-12-2017 01:00
   T-Mobile US has announced plans to launch a disruptive new TV service in 2018. T-Mobile US has also an agreement to acquire TV technology firm Layer3 TV.“People love their TV, but they hate their TV providers. And worse, they have no real choice but to simply take it! That&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Should Britain be doing more to protect its subsea networks?

  15-12-2017 01:00
  The UK must do more to defend its subsea telecommunication networks from international espionage and attack, according to Britain's chief of defence. "There is a new risk to our way of life, which is the vulnerability of the subsea cables that criss-cross the sea beds," said air chief marshal Sir Stuart Perch in a speech given to the Royal United Services Institute defence think tank. Perch said that an attack on Britain's subsea networks would "immediately, and potentially catastroph
  
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• Gemalto knocks back €4.3 billion takeover bid from Atos

  15-12-2017 01:00
  Digital security firm Gemalto has rejected a €4.3 billion takeover bid from French IT vendor Atos, on the basis that it undervalues the company.Gemalto employs 15,000 people in 48 countries. Last year it recorded revenues of €3.1 billion. "Gemalto rejects unsolicited and conditional proposal by Atos…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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