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• China’s tech darlings have a fundamental value problem

  20-02-2018 22:00 via ft.com
  Shifting industrial dynamics make it difficult to decide what some high-flyers are actually worth
  
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• The Qualcomm M&A plot thickens with increased NXP bid

  20-02-2018 19:11
  Chip giant Qualcomm has upped its bid for NXP in a bid to placate some investors and maybe complicate Broadcom’s attempted hostile takeover.
  Qualcomm’s bid for NXP back in October 2016 was accepted by the NXP board, so you’d think that would be that. But there were some grumbles from institutional investors at the time and the NXP share price has improved a further 20% or so since the bid was announced, so Qualcomm decided to up the bid from $110 to $127.50, which equates to ar
  
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• Orange CEO gets thumbs up despite fraud trial

  20-02-2018 17:54
  The Orange Board of Directors has approved the renewal of Stéphane Richard’s mandate for an additional four years, despite the fact he is being tried alongside five other suspects for complicity in fraud and embezzlement charges.
  Richard denies the charges which date back to his days in the French Ministry and it would appear the other board members believe him. This announcement is a confirmation Ricard will serve on the board for an additional four years, the next stage of the pro
  
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• Orange gives Stéphane Richard another 4 years as chief executive

  20-02-2018 16:49 via ft.com
  French telecoms group appointment comes despite pressure from long-running fraud scandal
  
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• Vodafone looks to make the skies safer from drones

  20-02-2018 14:19
  Vodafone is conducting a series of trials for air traffic control drone tracking, using 4G Internet of Things (IoT) technology to protect aircraft from catastrophic accidents or nefarious characters from flying waywardly.
  The opportunity for drones is massive, but so are the challenges. Analysis from the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) project estimates that by 2050 drones could log more than 250 million flying hours per year over densely populated areas of the Europe
  
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• Nokia goes all-in on digital cities

  20-02-2018 13:21
  Nokia has announced a series of initiatives designed to position itself strongly as a supplier of digital city products and solutions.
  Assuming this is a strategic bit of positioning in advance of MWC next week, Nokia’s digital cities push comes intriguingly soon after it threw in the towel on digital health buy announcing a strategic review of its efforts in that area. The contrast seems to be that cities are a macro, large scale problem while health is ultimately a micro, individual-leve
  
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• EE the best, O2 the worst – RootMetrics

  20-02-2018 13:17
  RootMetrics has released its bi-annual report detailing the performance of the UK’s MNO’s, with EE hitting top-spot across the board, and O2 wallowing at the bottom of the rankings once again.
  EE collected the top award for each category measured by RootMetrics, with Three taking joint-first for the ‘Call Performance’ metric. While the margins of victory were certainly not a landslide, the fact that O2 sat at the bottom of the pile nationally, as well as pretty much every
  
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• MYCOM OSI launches Cloud Native Platform for Telco Cloud Assurance

  20-02-2018 12:18
  Unlocks simplification, agility, automation and new subscription-based business models London, UK – 20th February 2018 – MYCOM OSI, the leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced a next generation, cloud native platform as part of its enhanced Experience Assurance and Analytics™ (EAA) suite of applications to achieve agile, simplified and automated network op
  
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• DT stretches the ‘world first’ claim pretty thin

  20-02-2018 11:43
  Deutsche Telekom has claimed it has achieved a heavily qualified world first alongside partners Intel and Huawei, demonstrating interoperability in an operator lab.
  With the jostling and chest pumping only getting louder and stronger ahead of next weeks’ MWC bonanza, it can only be expected operators and vendors will be looking for every column inch available. Interoperability is not necessarily a world first, but add on the ‘operator lab’ qualifier and all of a sudden DT are p
  
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• Small Cell Forum: APAC and North America lead network densification to 2021

  20-02-2018 10:50
  Market Status Report forecasts greater densification, growth in urban and enterprise sectors, and accelerating 5G small cell rolloutLondon, UK – 20th February 2018 - Small Cell Forum, the telecoms organization driving network densification worldwide, has released its latest Market Status Report.For the first time, SCF forecasts have been extended to 2025 to include the early phases of 5G deployment – and they confirm a major role for small cells in the rollout of 5G.The report,...Sou
  
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• TEOCO launches SmartCM 2.0 for more efficient radio network auditing and configuration

  20-02-2018 10:25
  Additional capabilities ensure efficient roll out and the integrity of the Radio Access Network (RAN)FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 20 February 2018 – TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to over 300 communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, has today announced the launch of SmartCM 2.0, the latest version of its next generation Radio Access Network (RAN) configuration management solution. The solution’s new planned network capabi
  
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• TEOCO launches ASSET Indoor for efficient in-building planning - reducing time to plan by up to 50%

  20-02-2018 10:15
  FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 20 February 2018: TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and engineering solutions to over 300 communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, today announced the launch of a new indoor wireless planning tool, ASSET Indoor. The product of a partnership with UK based Ranplan Wireless, ASSET Indoor is an all-in-one solution for coordinated HetNet planning, optimization and simulation which allows CSPs to design better mobile connectivity in and aro
  
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• TEOCO expands network analytics capabilities with Mentor 10.0 announcement

  20-02-2018 10:02
  Hadoop support and analytics enhancements help operators drive network experience and operational efficiency FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 20 February 2018 - TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to over 300 communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, has upgraded the analytics capabilities of Mentor, its network optimization and analytics solution and has added support for Big Data infrastructure. As CSPs strive to understand subscriber behavi
  
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• TEOCO launches SmartHub to drive intelligent network investment

  20-02-2018 10:00
  New platform provides improved actionable insights and business process automation for Chief Experience OfficersFAIRFAX, VA., USA – 20 February 2018 – TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to over 300 communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, has today announced the launch of its new platform, SmartHub. By correlating data from multiple sources and generating predictive network analytics and insights, SmartHub enables Chief Ex
  
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• Daisy prepares for £1bn sale this spring

  20-02-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  UK telecoms group focused on SMEs sees opportunity to ramp up in push to take on BT
  
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• Daisy prepares for £1bn sale as early as March

  20-02-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  UK telecoms group focused on SMEs sees opportunity to ramp up in push to take on BT
  
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• Tata chairman pledges to slim down sprawling conglomerate

  20-02-2018 02:16 via ft.com
  Steel-to-salt group to sell underperforming units outside core IT business
  
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• UK economy derives $64 billion of revenue from its subsea cables

  20-02-2018 01:00
  Subsea telecommunications cables facilitate $64 billion of trade for the UK economy, each year, according to a new report.Speaking at the Submarine Networks Europe event in London…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Subsea sector needs new business model

  20-02-2018 01:00
  The global subsea sector needs to radically redefine its working business model, if it is to remain profitable in increasingly challenging market conditions. "It is clear that the 'build it and they will come' model is no longer viable…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom, Huawei and Intel hail significant step towards 2019 5G rollout

  20-02-2018 01:00
  Deutsche Telekom has joined forces with Intel and Huawei to undertake ground breaking 5G testing.The group set out to showcase the world's first 5G interoperability and development testing (IODT) based on the 3GPP R15 Standard with a commercial base station in an operator lab environment…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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