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• Smaller UK telecoms prepare for big changes at top

  23-03-2018 19:43
  Long-serving heads of KCom and Gamma are both moving on
  
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• Samsung refreshes board with scandal-free members

  23-03-2018 18:00
  It has been just over a year since former boss Lee Jae-yong was arrested and charged for his alleged role in a political and corporate scandal, and now Samsung has a refreshed board and new structure.
  Samsung Electronics has held its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in which new members have been elected to the Board of Directors. A few fresh faces will provide a suitable amount of new opinion as the business continues to repair a tarnished reputation. We can only imagine that at the end o
  
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• Which grasses up UK ISPs to Ofcom

  23-03-2018 17:34
  Consumer information company Which did some mystery calling to see if UK ISPs say the right stuff when flogging broadband. They didn’t.
  It did 12 mystery shopper calls to 11 ISPs to see if the sales patter conformed to either current Ofcom guidelines or a new lot set to be brought in next year. “Under the code, providers should give customers estimated home speeds ‘as early as practicable’ within the sales process – such as when you give your address,” advised
  
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• Regions need to address Brain Drain for UK to thrive

  23-03-2018 15:27
  Since the decline of primary and secondary industries in the UK, London has been the driving force of the economy, but this has to change if Britain is to be successful in the digital economy.
  This is not a new argument as regional politicians and business leaders have long bemoaned the influence and privileges the Capital has over the rest of the country, but the digital divide risks isolating communities further. This was the general view at a panel discussion earlier this week looking at how
  
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• Trump finishes posturing and squares up to China

  23-03-2018 15:26
  President Donald Trump has often proved consistent with campaign promises, and kicking off a trade-war with China is just another example of his reliability.
  The Mexican wall is still in the works, a bill to ease gun-carrying rights in schools passed House in December and federal regulations are disappearing faster than a toupee in a hurricane. Protecting the US people from the evil foreigners and their dastardly business ambitions was another which is now moving from dream to reality. Steel and
  
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• Google wants your smart speaker to pay your bills as well

  23-03-2018 15:24
  Google has announced it will launch additional features for its smart speaker software soon, including the ability to pay back friends just by using your voice.
  A few years back at a conference, one speaker commented that the banks shouldn’t be looking across the high street for competition, they should be looking at companies like Google and Amazon. With this latest update to the Google Assistant, it does appear this premonition is starting to come true.
  In a couple of months’ time,
  
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• The Middle East gears up for 5G

  23-03-2018 13:35
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Zane Small of Telecom Review summarises where we are now on the road to 5G and focuses specifically on how things are going in the Middle East and Africa.
  Fifth-generation (5G) networks will soon be a reality in the Middle East following the successful completion of the first implementable Release 15 5G New Radio (NR) specifications published in December 2017 at the 3G
  
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• Vivendi and Elliott have a domestic over the custody of TIM

  23-03-2018 13:07
  French conglomerate Vivendi has pulled its three proxies on the board of Italian operator group TIM, claiming Elliott Management is trying to dismantle it.
  By amazing coincidence five other TIM board members have also resigned, which apparently means every board position needs to be reallocated at the next shareholder’s meeting, which has been called for 24 April, although Vivendi seems to think it’s in May. All very confusing, but then this kind of corporate dicking about usually is
  
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• Vodafone, CityFibre name next UK FTTP city

  23-03-2018 01:00
  Vodafone and CityFibre will roll out a full fibre broadband service in the U.K. city of Peterborough, they announced this week.The pair have selected Peterborough as the third location to be covered by their fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) partnership announced late last year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• US telco-media mega-merger: it snow joke

  23-03-2018 01:00
  Bad weather on the eastern seaboard delayed the start of the antitrust trial over the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger, but as opening arguments eventually got underway this week one thing became immediately clear: to those involved and their major rivals, this is an incredibly serious business.The past 17 months since AT&T announced it had agreed to pay $85.4 billion for content giant Time Warner have seen the U.S. divide into two camps. On one side there are those that insist the merg
  
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• TIM board members in mass exodus

  23-03-2018 01:00
  No fewer than eight members of TIM's board of directors resigned this week as a direct result of the pressure exerted on the Italian telco by activist investor Paul Singer.Following a board meeting on Thursday, TIM announced the departure of deputy chairman Giuseppe Recchi…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Reliance Jio leaves rivals in dust with 8.3m new subs in Jan

  23-03-2018 01:00
  Reliance Jio Infocomm added 8.3 million new mobile customers in January, far outstripping the growth rates recorded by its larger rivals, according to new statistics from the Indian telecoms regulator.The telco, which turned the Indian mobile space on its head when it launched services in 2016…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ex-Sprint exec to run Charter's mobile ops

  23-03-2018 01:00
  Charter Communications on Friday tasked Danny Bowman with launching and running the mobile business it plans to bring to market later this year.The U.S. cable operator conferred the newly-created role of chief mobile officer (CMO) on Bowman…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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