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• US Supreme Court says police need warrant to track phone data

  22-06-2018 18:38
  Privacy advocates welcome ruling against warrantless seizure of location information
  
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• Will you grow an extra ear from too much Snapchatting?

  22-06-2018 15:52
  This week Telecoms.com has 16 year-old Shannon O’Connor joining the team for work experience, and today she looks at the potential for damage of radio frequency radiation on society. Here are her thoughts.
  Telecommunications has been evolving significantly in recent years. With an increased pressure for increased connectivity in major cities, many people in the suburbs and poverty stricken areas are at risk of being left behind. However, it can said that the major issue surroundi
  
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• Satellite groups no longer UK’s sleeping giants

  22-06-2018 15:20
  UK-EU dispute over Galileo and approach for Inmarsat sharpen focus on sector
  
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• T-Systems joins the job-slashing brigade with 10k cuts

  22-06-2018 13:41
  Deutsche Telekom is the next telco to axe employees, with its T-Systems division set to reduce its headcount by as much as 10,000, almost a quarter of employees.
  According to Bloomberg, 10,000 jobs will be cut over the next three years, 6,000 of which will be in Germany, as the struggling unit redirects focus onto more lucrative segments such as cloud, cyber security and IoT. The headcount reduction is aimed at saving the telco roughly €600 million by 2021.
  While job losses are never a plea
  
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• Supreme Court ruling threatens tax raid on eCommerce

  22-06-2018 13:40
  A ruling in the US Supreme Court may force internet based businesses to collect sales tax in States where the company does not have a physical presence, killing off any advantage which may exist over brick-and-mortar businesses.
  The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to overturn a law dating back to 1992, potentially offering states the opportunity to collect billions in sales tax from eCommerce. The ruling in question, Quill v. North Dakota, focused specifically on mail-order and catalogue purchases stati
  
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• YouTube strikes back in increasingly important mobile video battle

  22-06-2018 13:36
  No sooner does Instagram make its mobile video move than YouTube and Snapchat counter-attack in an area of growing commercial significance to telcos too.
  Facebook subsidiary Instagram launched IGTV yesterday in a bid to wrest back some of the initiative in a mobile video space largely dominated by YouTube. In hindsight the announcement may have been timed to steal some of YouTube’s thunder, because just a few hours later the Google-owned giant announced a bunch of initiatives designed to k
  
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• Finance man takes the helm at Intel after Krzanich ‘resignation’

  22-06-2018 11:47
  After Brian Krzanich handed in his notice of resignation, Intel has announced Bob Swan will step out of the accountants office and will lead the company as Interim CEO.
  An ongoing investigation by internal and external counsel has confirmed a violation of Intel’s non-fraternization policy, after it emerged Krzanich had a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee, though details on the saga are relatively thin for the moment. The search for the next CEO is underway, though with th
  
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• Telstra wields the redundancy axe as it streamlines its operations down under

  22-06-2018 02:00
  Telstra has announced that it will make 8,000 of its staff redundant in a bid to boost efficiency in its operations in Australia and New Zealand.Telstra's CEO, Andrew Penn, said that the company had reached &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica enables digital transformation of the world's second oldest airline

  22-06-2018 02:00
  Telefonica has won a contract with Colombian Airline, Avianca, to provide a range of digital services across the 27 countries in which the Colombian flag carrier currently operates.
  “This agreement makes it possible for us to move forward with our digital transformation goal…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MLL Telecom wins major WAN contract

  22-06-2018 02:00
  MLL Telecom has won a major contract to provide Cambridgeshire County Council with a new Wide Area Network solution, as well as a range of centralised services. As part of the EastNet contract award…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bridging Britain's digital divide

  22-06-2018 02:00
  As the dust settled on Connected Britain 2018 this week, few who attended the event in London could be left in any doubt that the UK is sharpening its resolve to become a more inclusive and comprehensive digital society. While huge efforts are being made to speed up the rollout of full fibre fixed line networks and to prepare the ground for an ahead-of-schedule 5G launch next year, there is still much to do if the UK is to make up ground on its neighbours in mainland Europe. In her ke
  
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