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• Intel looks to maps to fuel autonomous vehicles race

  10-01-2018 20:28
  Whoever wins the autonomous car race will make a fortune, so Intel is doubling down efforts. Millions are being directed towards R&D, and building its own mapping database is another good move.
  Speaking at CES in Las Vegas, Mobileye (an Intel business) CEO Amnon Shashua said two million cars from BMW, Nissan and Volkswagen will all be fitted with a front-facing camera, which will aggregate location and environment data in the cloud, building high-definition maps with Mobileye’s Road Ex
  
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• Exclusive: new Synchronoss CMO explains her move

  10-01-2018 19:18
  Embattled cloud services vendor Synchronoss has managed to land respected telecoms exec Mary Clark to head up its marketing. We found out how.
  Clark is very familiar to Telecoms.com, having been a regular guest on our podcasts. Synchronoss, too, is a company we came to learn a fair bit about late last year when writing our investigation into its remarkable recent history entitled What the hell is going on at Synchronoss? So imagine our surprise when we found out that Clark was leaving her cosy g
  
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• Altice shares tumble as analysts digest revenue warning

  10-01-2018 19:13
  Lowered guidance for French business overshadows restructuring efforts
  
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• Tele2/Com Hem: Swedish match

  10-01-2018 18:06
  The tie-up should lead to better profitability and reduced customer churn
  
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• Carphone Warehouse fined £400,000 by watchdog over data breach

  10-01-2018 17:29
  Hackers in 2015 accessed customers’ names, addresses and, in some cases, card details
  
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• Digital Minister visits Tate Modern instead of figuring out what job actually is

  10-01-2018 17:03
  Two days after reshuffling the UK cabinet, key roles are yet to be handed out, but DCMS Minister Michael Ellis still found some time to visit the Tate Modern for Modigliani exhibition.
  Previous Minister for Digital Matt Hancock received a promotion, now being the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, essentially in charge of the entire department, though he has a few new names to keep in line. Ellis and Margot James are two new Ministerial entries to the department, thou
  
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• Multiplay time in Sweden as Tele2 buys Com Hem for $3.3 billion

  10-01-2018 14:14
  The global trend towards consolation across telecoms, and content has reached Sweden with the acquisition of cable player Com Hem by operator group Tele2 for $3.3 billion.
  The general theory behind multiplay is for a company to try to become a one-stop-shop for all a customer’s communications needs, which includes the internet and content streamed from it. Despite the fact that many big bets on content from the likes of BT have yet to deliver much return, operators don’t seem to have
  
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• Ofcom’s Annual Plan – light on details but broadly positive

  10-01-2018 14:06
  To be fair to the UK watchdog, the full plan won’t be released for a couple of weeks, but this morning’s ‘meeting to plan a meeting’ at least showed some positive steps forward.
  And it certainly promises to be a busy one for Ofcom. “This will be the first full year, where we are equally weighted media and economic regulator,” said CEO Sharon White at an event at Ofcom Towers in London.
  This is perhaps one of the explanations for the blue-sky thinking with a la
  
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• T-Mobile US claims first nationwide NB-IoT plan

  10-01-2018 13:14
  Disruptive US operator T-Mobile US reckons it’s turning the domestic IoT market on its head by significantly undercutting its competitors.
  This is, of course, what TMUS does – undercut the competition then shove some kind of populist, Robin Hood narrative down everyone’s throat. In this case the company has gone all in on NB-IoT technology and has used it to launch an IoT plan that costs $6 per year, which it says is a tenth of the price of Verizon’s Cat-M-based plans.
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• Connected Britain Awards to recognise connectivity leaders

  10-01-2018 12:30
  London, UK, 10 January 2018 – Total Telecom has announced the launch of the first Connected Britain Awards to be presented during this year’s Connected Britain event, which is taking place 19-20 June at the Business Design Centre in London. Ten categories will be awarded, with entries open to all parts of the ecosystem, from operators and alt-nets to government departments, local authorities and superfast bodies, with the winners determined through the deliberation of an...Source: Re
  
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• Sweden’s Tele2 swoops for Com Hem in $3.3bn deal

  10-01-2018 09:52
  Proposed acquisition follows years of planning by biggest shareholder in both groups Kinnevik
  
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• Big bet by telecoms companies on exclusive content comes at a cost

  10-01-2018 06:00
  BT, Altice and others spent billions on sporting rights and have seen shares fall
  
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• Tele2 Group and Com Hem merge to form Sweden's second largest telco

  10-01-2018 01:00
  Swedish telco Tele2 Group is to merge with Com Hem, creating the second largest telecommunications company in Sweden, according to a company announcement.The merger will combine Sweden's fastest national fixed network with a comprehensive mobile network, creating a single unified operator…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New UK Digital Minister as May shuffles the pack

  10-01-2018 01:00
  Margot James MP has been promoted to Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the government's latest cabinet reshuffle.Former Minister…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT launches Cloud Connect Direct service

  10-01-2018 01:00
  BT has launched its Cloud Connect Direct service, which offers global businesses direct access to the IBM Cloud through BT's networks.  Cloud Connect Direct will leverage BT's global network spanning 198 countries worldwide…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• "Broadband First" as Trump plans to boost coverage in rural America

  10-01-2018 01:00
  President Trump says he intends to "level the playing field" for US farmers as he unveils plans to boost broadband coverage across rural America. Speaking at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 99th Annual Conference, Trump said that improving broadband coverage was essential to help US farmers compete with international players…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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