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• PlayGiga aims to bring gaming-as-a-service to the telco channel

  15-03-2018 20:30
  Operators have been obsessed with content for a while but that seldom means games. Spanish startup PlayGiga wants to change that.
  The core premise is to offer a cloud gaming platform as a white-label solution to operators, for them to re-badge and then serve up as an additional, novel, product to their subscribers. The service is intended to be consumed in a similar way to Netflix: pay a subscription fee and get limitless access to a curated catalogue of games.
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• Elliott looks to chase Vivendi out of Italy

  15-03-2018 17:52
  Vivendi’s influence over TIM despite not owning the company is remarkably strange and it seems activist hedge fund Elliott has finally had enough of it.
  According to the FT, the hedge fund is looking to shake things up at TIM by trying to run Vivendi CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine, who also acts as TIM’s Executive Chairman, as well as four other Vivendi ‘friendlies’ out of the board room. The showdown is set to take place during the annual general meeting next month, but Ellio
  
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• Smart home is on the up but still too complicated – EY

  15-03-2018 15:51
  It certainly has been a slow burner, but according to research from EY the smart home revolution is about to catch fire.
  Sci-fi films have been stacked to the ceiling with intelligent, connected devices, but in reality adoption has been pretty ordinary, some might even say woeful. We have seemingly been talking about the connected revolution for years, but it’s only been in the last couple of months, thanks to some aggressive advertising campaigns from Amazon and Google, that it has starte
  
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• Elliott seeks to oust Telecom Italia’s Vivendi-linked directors

  15-03-2018 15:47
  Activist investor unveils veteran Italian executives as preferred board members
  
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• Colt and Verizon raise the bar for inter-operator SDN

  15-03-2018 14:23
  At an event in London Colt and Verizon claimed the first two-way inter-operator SDN network orchestration demonstration.
  Both companies were able to make near-real-time bandwidth changes in each other’s production networks, we’re told, which is an important step towards enabling real-time network automation between operators. In turn this is the sort of thing that needs to be sorted out before the virtualized network utopia we have all been promised can become reality.
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• California to ban zero-rating in net neutrality mission

  15-03-2018 13:18
  In what has been described as the ‘strongest net neutrality policy proposal in the country’, Senator Scott Wiener has tightened up his proposed bill to reinstate net neutrality in California, with the updated version banning zero-rating.
  While the net neutrality debate has been quite effective at gaining the support of the general public in the US, perhaps this updated version of SB 822 will catch some by surprise. Up until now legislators and advocates have drummed up backing by foc
  
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• UK offers fibre vouchers for consumers and SMEs

  15-03-2018 13:17
  The UK government has announced yet another scheme designed to boost fibre penetration but this one might actually be useful.
  £67 million has been made available to be converted into vouchers that are designed to help with the costs of connecting to ‘full fibre’ broadband. The voucher value threshold for consumers is £500 and for SMEs it’s £3000. The official name of the initiative is the Nationwide Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS).
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• China Unicom triples profit across 2017

  15-03-2018 13:12
  China Unicom has released its financials for 2017 and it is looking like a money making machine again. Revenues were up marginally, profit tripled and free cash flow grew 1628% compared to the previous 12 months.
  Total revenues for the years stood at $43.488 billion, a marginal 0.2% increase, with mobile service revenue increasing by 7.9%. The winner for improvement here though was net profit, standing at roughly $289 million, a 192% increase from 2016. This number may well have been higher if n
  
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• Elliott looks to remove Telecom Italia’s executive chairman

  15-03-2018 12:50
  Hedge fund intends to shake up the group’s board
  
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• CCW celebrates 20 years of advancing mission critical communications

  15-03-2018 12:31
  15 March 2018 – Critical Communications World (CCW), the leading conference and exhibition dedicated to connecting critical communications professionals, is marking its 20th anniversary by delivering what promises to be the most informative event to date. To be held at the Messe Berlin ExpoCenter from 15th-17th May 2018, CCW is produced by TCCA alongside newly installed organisers, MA Exhibitions, with sponsorship from Motorola Solutions, Leonardo, Airbus and Frequentis. This year’s
  
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• Pod Solutions & Subex Partnership Providing IoT Security Solutions

  15-03-2018 12:15
   
  
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• Ofcom and the European Commission confirmed to speak at Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Global Summit 2018

  15-03-2018 11:00
  London, UK, 15 March 2018: Ofcom, the European Commission (EC), and the EC’s Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) are the latest in a host of regulators and policymakers who are set to converge in London for the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance’s Sixth Annual Global Summit (May 1-3, 2018). The announcement of UK regulator Ofcom comes shortly after the DSA’s recent submission in support of Ofcom’s Proposed Annual Plan 2018/2019, including the high-level goal to secure standards...S
  
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• Verizon and Colt demonstrate world's first two-way SDN network orchestration

  15-03-2018 01:00
  Colt and Verizon have teamed up to showcase two-way inter carrier Software Defined Network (SDN) orchestration for the first time, at an exclusive event in London. Both Colt and Verizon were able to make near…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK rolls out £67m Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme

  15-03-2018 01:00
  A nationwide Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme has been launched by the UK government to help small and medium sized businesses pay for the cost of connecting to gigabit ready, Fibre to the Home (FTTH) services. From today, small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) can claim a voucher worth up to &pound…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica to invest £5.2 billion in Brazilian fibre project

  15-03-2018 01:00
  Telefonica is set to invest £5.2 billion (24 billion reals) rolling out full fibre broadband services in Brazil, according to a Reuters report…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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