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• House sales and Sky bid are links in UK’s chain pains

  29-06-2018 19:05 via ft.com
  Disney’s increased offer for Fox puts the Takeover Panel in uncomfortable territory
  
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• TalkTalk shares slide after Daisy deal collapses

  29-06-2018 18:50 via ft.com
  Daisy pulls out of deal to buy broadband provider’s direct business unit for £175m
  
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• Liberty Global recycles Lutz Schüler from Unitymedia to Virgin Media

  29-06-2018 13:33
  With Liberty Global selling a bunch of its German stuff to Vodafone it has decided to recycle an exec it would otherwise lose.
  Lutz Schüler has been CEO of German cableco (and part of the above deal) Unitymedia since 2011. He has apparently done a decent job because Liberty Global has decided to resurrect the role of COO at Virgin Media in the UK to accommodate him rather than see him fall into the clutches of Vodafone. The same sentiment doesn’t seem to apply to Winni Rapp, who will
  
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• IPO fails to Xiaomi the money

  29-06-2018 13:33
  The initial public offering of Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi seems to has raised considerably less cash than it hoped.
  Bloomberg reports that Xiaomi priced the IPO on the Hong Kong exchange at the lower end of its expected range, resulting in a mere $4.7 billion being raised and pricing the company at around $54 billion, far less than had been hoped at the start of the year.
  Bloomberg spoke to James Yan of Counterpoint Research, who offered the following analysis: “Xiaomi’s exceedingly
  
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• Is the £330 you save with a OnePlus 6 vs other Android flagships too good to be true?

  29-06-2018 11:41
  I’m thinking of getting a new smartphone so I asked for review samples of the Samsung Galaxy S9, Google Pixel 2 and OnePlus 6 to help me choose.
  My current phone is the Samsung Galaxy S7, which I bought two years ago as part of a 24-month contract. That means I’m now eligible for a ‘free’ upgrade so long as I stay on the same contract. Alternatively the S7 still works just fine so I could just downgrade to a SIM-only tariff and save myself some money for a few months.
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• MWC Shanghai: Co-creation and collaboration becoming the new buzz of 5G

  29-06-2018 06:02
  Buzzwords are nothing new to the telecoms and tech space, but 2018 is starting to see the rise of a few more; co-creation and collaboration
  In most cases, vendors and telcos use tech-orientated buzzwords to dazzle, amaze and confuse customers, but this is a new type of euphoria. Its softer, less tangible and more acute. Co-creation and collaboration are necessary aspects of developing the digital economy, but purely by the flexible nature of the concepts, the buzz-bending, hype-escalating PR &ls
  
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• Yvonne Li wins CEO of the Year at the ACAs

  29-06-2018 02:00
  FarEasTone's CEO, Yvonne Li, has been crowned CEO of the year at the Asia Communication Awards 2018.At a glittering ceremony in Singapore this week, Li told an audience of high ranking industry officials, that the telecoms sector was facing a period of "tremendous challenges and great opportunities&quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei targets 200 million smartphone shipments in 2018

  29-06-2018 02:00
  Chinese tech giant, Huawei has said that it will aim to ship 200 million smartphones in 2018, an increase of around 30 per cent.
  Speaking ahead of the Mobile World Congress Asia event in Shanghai…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 7 international telcos join RAN research group in Shanghai

  29-06-2018 02:00
  Radio Access Network research collective, The O-RAN Group, has held its first board meeting and welcomed seven new members to its fold, in the run up to Mobile World Congress in Shanghai.
  Founding members AT&amp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• '5G for the people' to boost FWA connectivity in Switzerland

  29-06-2018 02:00
  Swiss telco Sunrise has erected the country's first 5G antenna, claiming that it will deliver "5G for the people" and revolutionise connectivity in the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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