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• BT attracts investor interest in Openreach

  25-05-2018 19:06
  Unsolicited moves reflect growing appetite for telecoms assets
  
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• Verizon using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality apps to train employees

  25-05-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  NEW YORK, NY - Ever been down a New York City manhole? Or in a bucket truck to the top of a city pole? Or, for that matter, climbed ladders or into bucket trucks to install the unseen fiber we depend on for our Internet? These are the scenarios that thousands of Verizon technicians face every day in New York City. Beginning this month, the Verizon team will launch new and engaging AR and VR applications to deliver more effective new hire training and to enhance employee education, communications
  
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• Telefónica lures Netflix into its content aggregator platform

  25-05-2018 16:54
  Telefónica and Netflix have jointly announced a global partnership which allow the telco’s customers to watch the popular streaming service through its content platform.
  As part of the deal, integrate Netflix’s service into Telefónica’s TV and video platforms across Europe and Latin America, while also allowing customers to pay for the service as part of their monthly Telefónica bill. The first launches will be in LATAM over the next couple of week, while t
  
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• Facebook and Google accused of GDPR ‘forced consent’

  25-05-2018 13:13
  It turns out that imposing extra layers of bureaucracy on companies can bring about unintended consequences, who knew?
  Among the inevitable deluge of emails sent by companies desperate to be seen to be doing the bare minimum in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that came into effect in Europe today, have been those requesting blanket opt-ins. They usually feature handy one-click buttons that most people presumably use just to be able to put this trying week behind the
  
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• Profits down but prospects up at TalkTalk

  25-05-2018 13:10
  TalkTalk has unveiled its full year results and while profits are down, restructuring costs have hit the spreadsheets and the dividend has been cut, so prospects aren’t looking too bad for the group.
  The telco has seemingly found itself an inglorious niche. Competitors might be chasing the big bucks and the convergence dream with shiny content offerings and cringe-worthy adverts with irrelevant celebrities, but TalkTalk is offering something a bit more basic; internet for £18.95 a mo
  
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• Endless design patent case orders Samsung to pay Apple $539 million

  25-05-2018 12:22
  Apple accused Samsung of coping some design elements from the iPhone back in 2011 and the lawyers have been making hay ever since.
  First Samsung was found guilty of at least some of the claims in 2012 and ordered to hand over $1 billion for Apple’s troubles. Samsung appealed the amount and that’s what has, for some reason, taken six years to thrash out. Samsung paid up $399 million for design patent infringements following one wave of appeals but apparently want some of that back. In
  
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• Alexa privacy brought into question as Echo suffers meltdown

  25-05-2018 12:19
  Amazon has continually denied its Echo devices are constantly listening and recording conversations in the home, but after one family had an entire conversation sent as an audio file to a friend, questions are being asked.
  According to Kiro7 News, the unnamed family were discussing hardwood floors while the device was recording the entire conversation. Fortunately for the family the conversation was not of a sensitive native and it was also sent to a colleague of the husband, not a complete stra
  
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• Nordic nations unite to fast track 5G

  25-05-2018 02:00
  The prime ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have signed a letter of cooperation calling on the Nordic nations to lead the world in the rollout of fifth generation (5G) mobile services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Could the UK ever be a European full fibre champion?

  25-05-2018 02:00
  This week, the UK's finance minister Philip Hammond said that the UK would need 15 million fibre to the home (FTTH) connections by 2025, in order to enable the profitable evolution of the country's digital economy. As you might expect, the announcement was met with a clamour of enthusiastic agreement by the UK's alt-nets and fibre network builders. The enthusiasm is tempered, however, with a healthy dose of reality, as the industry lined up to remind Mr Hammond that if he is serious about
  
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• Charles Bligh to head up TalkTalk-Infracapital full fibre JV

  25-05-2018 02:00
  TalkTalk's chief operating officer, Charles Bligh, will head up the newly formed full fibre joint venture with Infracapital, according to a report in the Financial Times…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT CEO to get £1.3 million bonus, weeks after announcing 13,000 redundancies

  25-05-2018 02:00
  BT has approved a 2.5 per cent pay rise for its CEO Gavin Patterson, just two weeks after the company announced that it was making 13,000 staff redundant…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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