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• French police detain billionaire Vincent Bolloré in Africa bribery probe

  24-04-2018 19:03
  Industrialist’s holding company denies any irregularities in Guinea and Togo
  
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• Europe ponders whether Apple Shazam buy is too much like iSpy

  24-04-2018 19:03
  The European Commission has launched an investigation into Apple’s acquisition of Shazam over fears the iLeader might be able to spy on competitors.
  As the second largest music streaming service in Europe, the European Commission fears acquiring the popular music recognition app Shazam would offer Apple the opportunity to obtain commercially sensitive data about customers of its competitors. By accessing this information, the iChief might be able to directly target its competitors’ c
  
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• Which reckons Vodafone sucks, Tutela doesn’t

  24-04-2018 18:58
  Consumer advice firm Which has published the results of its UK MNO customer satisfaction survey, which ranks Vodafone last for the second year running.
  Which comes up with a customer score that is a combination of stated satisfaction and their likelihood to recommend their operator to a mate. Vodafone got the lowest overall score, followed by EE. O2 and Three did a bit better but among the operators represented by over 100 respondents Giffgaff was the clear winner.Vodafone sucked even more when
  
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• Facebook and YouTube reveal their offensiveness offensive and intolerance of intolerance

  24-04-2018 17:55
  Facebook and Google-owned YouTube have both attempted to offer some transparency when it comes to one of today’s haziest trends: abusive, offensive or ‘inappropriate’ online content.
  While these are firms which have hardly helped themselves over the last couple of years considering the almost allergic reactions to transparency, you do have to have a bit of sympathy; being a mediator of appropriate content is a tight-rope walk. If you come down too tough it would be seen as bein
  
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• New DNS Encryption Tools Accelerate Privacy Online

  24-04-2018 17:14
  Brand new Domain Naming Service (DNS) Cloudflare is gaining firm ground among internet users. Unlike many other DNS providers, Cloudflare positions itself as strictly privacy-oriented service.
  According to CUJO AI data, it has acquired nearly 4% of the total DNS market since its launch on April 1st and now stands as the fifth most popular DNS provider. Moreover, Google and Apple announced that they will start encrypting DNS traffic. What does that mean for the internet privacy?DNS (Domain Naming
  
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• Airtel earnings plunge amid India’s mobile price war

  24-04-2018 16:48
  Quarterly pre-tax profit drops 82% as dispute rages with upstart Jio
  
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• Vipnet selects Bulb Technologies to deliver a personalised and enhanced customer service

  24-04-2018 16:36
  Vipnet automates its customer care and network troubleshooting service through a single platform to perform network diagnostics and troubleshooting across multiple domains and service typesLondon, UK – April, 24th 2018 – Bulb Technologies, a leader in service management and customer experience solutions, today announced that Vipnet, a leading operator in Croatia and part of the A1 Telekom Austria Group, has selected CEMPRESSO Customer Care, a platform for customer support process aut
  
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• Ericsson develops a cunning plan for generating IoT revenue

  24-04-2018 13:31
  Networking vendor Ericsson has been having a think about how service providers can make a few quid out of IoT.
  That thinking has been distilled into a report entitled Exploring IoT strategies – Insights on IoT value chain positioning from leading telecom service providers. Ericsson spoke to a 20 service providers and found that 70% of them don’t have a well-defined IoT strategy and that 80% of them “aim to create value beyond connectivity either by providing differentiating ser
  
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• CityFibre catches the attention of Wall Street with £537 million takeover

  24-04-2018 13:29
  CityFibre has agreed to an £537 million all-cash takeover offer from a US infrastructure investment consortium, backed by some of Wall Street’s heaviest hitters. It turns out loud, attention-seeking behaviour sometimes works.
  The investment consortium, Bidco, backed by the likes of Rothschild and Goldman Sachs, has pitched the offer as a 93% premium on the closing share price on April 23, another example of the growing popularity of ‘altnets’ in the UK who are enhancing c
  
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• Trump tax breaks start paying off for Google

  24-04-2018 12:10
  Google has unveiled the numbers for the first quarter of 2018, which also happens to be the first period of 11% corporation tax, with the search giant pocketing profits of $9.4 billion, up from $5.4 billion in 2017.
  Revenues in the advertising continue to surge, with this quarter growing 26% year-on-year, though Google is showing it isn’t simply a one trick pony. Looking at the ‘Other Revenues’ segment, which includes cloud, Play and hardware, revenues were up 36% to $4.354 bil
  
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• GDPR Compliance Rules Require Over 2 Million Fleet Drivers To Revalidate Driving Licence Data Consent

  24-04-2018 12:05
  GDPR based changes announced by the DVLA, this month, mean that over 2 million drivers will be required to grant new driving licence data permission to their fleet operator. Only by complying with the new rules, which come into effect 25th August 2018, will fleet drivers be properly checked.The new GDPR regulation will apply to all private and public sector organisations processing Personal Data and receiving driver information from the DVLA. Employers and fleet managers,...Source: RealWire
  
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• Keep Your Kids Safe Online with Advanced Parental Controls

  24-04-2018 11:56
  The online safety of children is a growing concern for parents. They have given rise to many software solutions parents can install on their children’s devices. While these tools provide content filtering, a savvy teen can easily bypass the system with the use of proxy sites. Most parental controls solutions offer protection only at home, leaving mobile devices unprotected when out of the home. Router-based parental control solutions fall short when kids turn off WiFi. Furthermore, none of
  
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• Goldman-backed consortium to buy CityFibre for £538m

  24-04-2018 09:15
  Infrastructure funds offer 93% premium for UK telecoms group
  
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• Bharti Airtel: third eye blind

  24-04-2018 02:18
  Believers of this long-term story will find better entry levels in the future
  
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• Wireless and fibre can work together for 100% connectivity

  24-04-2018 02:00
  It was Henry Ford, that maestro of cars, who said “if everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself”. If this mentality could be applied to the ongoing effort to provide internet connection to all households in the UK, could we finally achieve 100% coverage at an affordable, realistic price?Internet arrived in dial-up form in the UK in 1992. This was followed by broadband, which was reaching over half of British homes by 2007. Fast-forward 11 years and we ar
  
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• Telco alliance voices "deep concern" over current investment levels in Europe

  24-04-2018 02:00
   The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) has expressed its "deep concern" over the current state of Europe's telecoms laws and the finalisation of the Electronic Communications Code (ECC)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New survey names Vodafone as UK's worst network operator

  24-04-2018 02:00
  Vodafone has been named as the UK's worst mobile network operator for the seventh consecutive year, by a new consumer survey published by Which?.
  Vodafone scored the lowest of the UK's network operators for customer satisfaction with a score of just 49 per cent…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CityFibre receives £538 million takeover bid

  24-04-2018 02:00
   UK full fibre broadband specialists CityFibre has been the subject of a £538 million acquisition bid from an international consortium…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 75 per cent of network operators expect near full automation within 5 years

  24-04-2018 02:00
  A new research report shows that 75 per cent of international network providers expect to see significant or full network automation within 5 years.
  “We all realise that network automation is happening…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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