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• Verizon revenues top estimates, profit boosted by tax bill

  23-01-2018 19:23
  Tax overhaul expected to help boost cash flow in 2018
  
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• Verizon is the market leader, and that doesn’t look like changing soon

  23-01-2018 18:20
  T-Mobile US might do a lot of shouting about all the great things its doing, but Verizon hummed through the New Year in pretty good shape as 5G starts to emerge on the horizon.
  In releasing its financial results, the three months to the end of December 2017, the lumbering giant of US telecoms revealed it is still hording a ridiculous subscription base, irrelevant to the whacky noises coming from elsewhere. Verizon finished the year with roughly 110 million postpaid subscriptions, a 2% climb from
  
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• Qualcomm set to be sanctioned by European antitrust watchdog

  23-01-2018 18:14
  Finding that company abused dominance could boost Apple’s cases against chipmaker
  
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• Qualcomm set to be censured by European antitrust watchdog

  23-01-2018 18:14
  Finding that company abused dominance could boost Apple’s cases against chipmaker
  
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• Apple set to finally enter the smart speaker market but does anyone care?

  23-01-2018 17:41
  The world’s dominant gadget company will start selling the HomePod in a few weeks but it’s very late to the game.
  The HomePod is Apple’s take on the smart connected speaker market that has been the domain of Amazon and Google for some time. Apple aims to be best rather than first so the late arrival is no great surprise but, unlike the iPhone, it’s not clear what Apple special sauce can be applied to the HomePod to differentiate it from the incumbents.
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• Need for transparency is the ultimate sign of lost trust

  23-01-2018 16:50
  Davos has kicked off this week in Switzerland and with come a lot of blue-sky thinking ideas, but one hit home for us; transparency is a terrible sign for the industry.
  The comment came from Alphabet’s CEO Ruth Porter. “You’ve given up on trust if you need transparency,” and it is a very fair point which should be taken seriously. If you have trust, you don’t ask the wizard if you can peek behind the curtain. As soon as you do, you don’t trust the machine and
  
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• Next generation video conferencing provides Taylor Vinters quality seamless communications to meet rising expectations for collaboration

  23-01-2018 15:43
  Today’s technology, business, and investment sectors increasingly require improved communication and collaboration. Taylor Vinters uses StarLeaf video conferencing to help meet these challenges. Taylor Vinters clearly understands that today’s lawyer-client relationships run deeper than ever before. Businesses and high net-worth individuals expect more than just legal advice; instead they demand experience and knowledge that skillfully navigates across multiple sectors and industries.
  
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• Rupert Murdoch says social media should pay for the news it republishes

  23-01-2018 15:22
  The Chairman of News Corp – Rupert Murdoch – has issued a public statement calling for publishers to be paid along similar lines to the carriage free one used by cablecos.
  The statement seems to have been prompted by the tweaks Facebook has been making to its ‘news feed’ especially its recent move to grade how trustworthy a given news source is. Perhaps panicked by the implications for his polarising Fox News network, Murdoch expressed reservations about the plan, while s
  
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• Telefonica to bring 5G to Segovia and Talavera de la Reina

  23-01-2018 13:31
  In partnership with bickering Nordics, Ericsson and Nokia, Telefonica has launched the 5G Technological Cities project, converting two cities into 5G living labs.
  Segovia and Talavera de la Reina are the lucky two to be selected as part of the initiative which will carve the roadmap for 5G deployment across Spain. The project will take place over the next three years, including the initial 5G capacity, the deployment of a new 5G network and the development of various use cases.
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• CMA blocks Murdoch’s Sky high ambitions

  23-01-2018 13:28
  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Rubert Murdoch’s and Fox’s $11.6 billion attempt to full control of Sky on the grounds of media plurality.
  In short, the CMA doesn’t want any one individual or organization controlling too many press outlets in the UK. It would not be in the public interest, according to the watchdog, due to the importance of diversity of publicly consumed information to the democratic process. Murdoch’s assets are already read, hear
  
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• All systems Go for Amazon bricks-and-mortar consumer IoT move

  23-01-2018 13:27
  The opening of an Amazon physical retail store is cruel irony for its competitors and an inflection point for consumer IoT.
  As if it’s not enough that Amazon has taken massive chunks of business from pretty much every retailer in countries where it operates, the etail giant now fancies a go at the one area it doesn’t currently dominate: bricks-and-mortar shops. It’s called Amazon Go and the first one has just opened its door in Seattle.
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• Opensignal numbers call into question the future of Sprint

  23-01-2018 12:31
  A new report into the performance of the major carriers into the performance of US carriers has given T-Mobile US more fuel to continue squawking, and another reason for Sprint to reach for the aspirin.
  Opensignal’s ‘State of Mobile Networks: USA’ has been released for January, and just as the rise of T-Mobile US is becoming more predictable, the decline of Sprint to non-relevance is becoming more worrying. Such statistics will be worrying for the Sprint management team, but th
  
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• Off Grid Energy to launch new Hybrid Power Unit at 2018 Executive Hire Show

  23-01-2018 10:00
  The Ingenium series represents a step change in the capabilities, capacity and ease of integration for hybrid power systems without impact on costRugby, UK. 23 January 2018: Off Grid Energy, leading manufacturer of power solutions for the construction, marine and automotive industries, is set to launch its new Universal Hybrid Power Unit at this year’s Executive Hire Show (EHS), taking place February 7-8 in Coventry. The gridtogo™ Ingenium Series reduces generator running hours and a
  
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• UK altnet ITS appoints new CEO

  23-01-2018 01:00
  UK altnet provider ITS has revealed that former BT Openreach MD, Daren Baythorpe, will pick up the reins as the company's new chief executive officer.
  Baythorpe originally joined ITS as an advisor to the board in 2016…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica launches 5G pilot in 2 Spanish cities

  23-01-2018 01:00
  Telefonica is to launch a 5G pilot project in 2 cities in Spain, essentially transforming them into living 5G laboratories. Telefonica will deploy the scheme in the cities of Segovia and Talavera de la Reina…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Subsea operators must specialise in order to prosper

  23-01-2018 01:00
  Subsea operators must narrow their business focus and specialise in a particular niche market if they are to successfully negotiate tricky market conditions. Speaking exclusively to Total Telecom in the run up to the Submarine Networks Europe event, Nigel Bayliff…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Netflix looks at new partnerships with ISPs as profits boomed in Q4 2017

  23-01-2018 01:00
  Online streaming giant NetFlix posted a very strong financial report on Monday, as the firm revealed a 32.6% year-on-year jump in revenues to $3.286 billion.   The company's shares jumped by 8% this week, after it revealed that it had added more than 8.3 million new subscribers across the globe. 6.36 million of these new subscribers were from international markets…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Netflix looks at new partnerships with ISPs as profits boom in Q4 2017

  23-01-2018 01:00
  Online streaming giant NetFlix posted a very strong financial report on Monday, as the firm revealed a 32.6% year-on-year jump in revenues to $3.286 billion in Q4 2017.   The company's shares jumped by 8% this week, after it revealed that it had added more than 8.3 million new subscribers across the globe…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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