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• Church eyes Goldman to answer rural broadband prayers

  15-06-2018 20:51
  Potential tie-up with bank unit to explore deals for telecoms masts on steeples
  
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• US/China trade war back on track

  15-06-2018 18:31
  Just as President Trump is buddying up with North Korea, the US relationship with China is about to tank again. On July 6 the US will officially introduce tariffs on Chinese goods entering the country.
  The $50 billion of tariffs have been discussed in great detail over the last couple of months, the world is of course taking advantage of the always reasonable, consistently proportional and often timid US, so the news should come as little surprise. What we don’t know is how big this spat w
  
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• AT&T’s Randall Stephenson prepares to reshape US media landscape

  15-06-2018 16:59
  The risk-taking dealmaker behind telecoms group’s audacious $80bn play for Time Warner
  
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• KDDI Open Innovation Fund 3 invests in IoT device management platform provider Resin.io Limited

  15-06-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  KDDI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President: makoto takahashi) announces its investment in IoT device management platform provider Resin.io Limited ("Resin.io", Headquarters: London, England) through KDDI Open Innovation Fund 3 (KOIF3, operated by Global Brain Corp.), a fund that will invest in venture companies that hold promise for generating synergy with KDDI group companies in the coming 5G era. Click here for more.
  
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• BT gets a reminder Ofcom is still keeping a close eye on Openreach

  15-06-2018 14:17
  Ofcom has released its first progress report on the legal separation of BT and Openreach, commenting progress is being made, but there still might be too much meddling going on.
  The report, which you can see here, states there has been a satisfactory amount of work done, though there are still signs BT is fundamentally entwined in the organization. The problem here is simply down to the fact BT will not want to lose too much control. Current projects have focused on staff training and removing B
  
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• AT&T wastes no time in completing Time Warner acquisition

  15-06-2018 14:15
  A mere two days after a judge rejected the US government’s attempt to block it, AT&T has completed its $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner.
  The giant US telco is now the owner of some of the biggest properties and brands in the media world. HBO is arguably the number one producer of premium video content, responsible for Game of Thrones and Westworld as well as all-time classics The Wire and The Sopranos. Turner owns a bunch of major broadcast TV channels including CNN and Cartoon
  
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• Europe steps up focus on regulating AI

  15-06-2018 14:12
  The European Commission has launched a new group to support the implementation of the European strategy on artificial intelligence, including contributions to policy development and socio-economic challenges.
  The group, which will have 52 members from academia, civil society, as well as industry, will aim to guide the technology world towards a responsible, ethical and profitable rollout of AI, an important pillar in the European efforts to remain relevant in the digital economy of tomorrow.
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• Battered and bruised ZTE takes another 10% hit

  15-06-2018 12:48
  Shares in ZTE have continued to tumble, with another 10% being wiped off share price on Friday, while the threat of a trade war lurks in the background.
  Even meeting US demands of hiring a new board, new nominees were announced earlier in the week, and the announcement the team would be applying for a $10.7 credit line from Bank of China and China Development Bank can do little to stem the flurry of heavy-hitting punches. The share price decline is of course a significant worry, though Nomura be
  
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• GSMA advises operators to keep it simple on network slicing

  15-06-2018 11:51
  On the final day of 5G World 2018, GSMA Technical Director Michele Zarri gave operators some advice on deploying network slicing on 5G: “keep it simple”.
  Zarri advised operators to work together with their competitors to create a set of standard slices. “Only a handful of slices maybe 10 or 15 can serve the vast majority of the use cases,” he said. “You can have a safety net of 10 slices that every operator creates as this makes it easier for manufacturers. It does
  
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• Security debate looms over sale of Inmarsat

  15-06-2018 06:00
  A preliminary offer from EchoStar for the UK satellite group draws political attention
  
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• Orange: The time is now for IoT

  15-06-2018 02:00
  IoT technology has the power to fundamentally redefine the way people do business, not in the mid to long term future, but right now, according to Orange's VP for digital innovation, Patrice SlupowskiSpeaking to Total Telecom during London Tech Week, Slupowski said that it was crucially important that the industry "finds the right words to convince people that they can take advantage of IoT right now&quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom raises concerns over BT's involvement in Openreach's strategic planning

  15-06-2018 02:00
  The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has raised concerns over the degree to which BT is still able to exert influence over Openreach, despite the two companies agreeing to work towards a legal separation. On Thursday, Ofcom published its first report into the separation process of BT and Openreach. While the report found that the pace of progress was broadly satisfactory…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Life after Gavin Patterson - What's next for BT?

  15-06-2018 02:00
  It's been an eventful few months for BT. The UK's former incumbent telco has announced a host of ambitious plans aimed at realigning its public image and helping it deliver innovative and progressive products and solutions to its customers. The company has high hopes for 5G and has publicly stated that it wants to launch next generation mobile networks in the UK by 2019, significantly ahead of other European operators. BT has also announced that it plans to launch its fully converged,
  
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• AT&T completes $85bn mega deal for Time Warner

  15-06-2018 02:00
  US telecoms giant AT&T has completed the $85 billion (£63.5 billion) acquisition of Time Warner Inc, closing a deal that has been nearly two years in the making.
  The deal had been strenuously opposed by US President…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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