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• Virgin Media customers to lose access to UKTV channels

  19-07-2018 21:07
  Row means customers will no longer receive Dave, Gold or other channels from Sunday
  
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• Cyber watchdog warns on Huawei security risks to critical UK networks

  19-07-2018 20:06
  More work needed to manage Chinese group’s presence, says report
  
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• Alphabet’s blue sky thinkers pen first Loon deal in Kenya

  19-07-2018 18:59
  The Loon team have signed its first commercial deal with Telkom Kenya to deploy a pilot 4G network in suburban and rural areas of the country.
  Having dropped the ‘Project’ part of the name, the Loon team now operates as an independent company within the Alphabet business, and does not look that ridiculous any more. Why didn’t anyone else figure out balloons would be an efficient means to deliver connectivity to some of the world’s more difficult not spots.
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• Cisco pledges $100 million to UK digital innovation

  19-07-2018 18:01
  Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has announced a $100 million pledge to help accelerate digital innovation, buddying the firm up to Downing Street and the governments Industrial Strategy.
  Several individual initiatives will feature as part of the pledge, with the first to be an artificial intelligence research centre in partnership with University College London, focused on addressing challenges in the development of the industry, as well as fostering the relevant skills in the UK workforce.
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• Amdocs and Openet settle baffling, endless patent dispute

  19-07-2018 15:11
  After eight years of ensuring expensive holidays for their lawyers, rival telecoms software companies Amdocs and Openet have decided to call it a draw.
  An extremely short announcement from Amdocs said “Amdocs and Openet today announced that they have settled a patent infringement dispute in the United States Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  As part of the confidential settlement, Amdocs agreed to license certain patents to Openet.”
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• Iliad signs up a million Italian customers in 50 days

  19-07-2018 13:24
  Iliad caused chaos in France with the launch of Free Mobile in 2012 and it looks set to repeat the trick in the Italian market.
  Launched on May 29, Iliad became Italy’s fourth mobile operator. Competitors have been moaning since, but you cannot argue with the success of the launch. Iliad claimed it was signing up more than 10,000 customers a day in the first month, a trend which seems to have accelerated. 50 days after launching in the ancestral home of pizza, mopeds and questionable
  
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• Sterlite Tech architects itself for sustained growth as it delivers another strong quarter

  19-07-2018 12:39
  Reports Q1 FY19 results with nearly 2x increase in Net Profits on YoY basisOrder Book continues to grow, and is now at an all-time high of €755 Million, with deep long-term engagements with global Tier-1 customersStrategic guidance of €85 Million PAT in FY20 to be expeditedGurugram, India – July 19, 2018: Sterlite Tech [BSE: 532374, NSE: STRTECH], an end-to-end global technology leader in smarter digital networks, today posted its financial results for the first quarter...Source:
  
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• Apple hands Chinese government the keys to the iEmpire

  19-07-2018 12:08
  On one side of the world US Politicians are attempting to ban Chinese vendors on the grounds of national security, while on the other Apple has potentially handed control of its users’ data to the Chinese government.
  The new agreement, which was publicised through a WeChat post (thank you Google translate), between Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD), the original Apple partner in China, and Tianyi, China Telecom’s cloud storage business unit, will see the latter store both iCloud accounts
  
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• IBM continues down the road to recovery

  19-07-2018 11:00
  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and IBM’s readiness for the connected era certainly took some time, but another solid quarter perhaps demonstrates the corner has finally been turned.
  Perhaps the watershed moment was six months ago, the company’s first quarter of revenue growth following 23 consecutive periods of decline, but the last two results have proved it wasn’t a fluke. Big Blue is back on the right path.
  The last three months appear to be solid, if not spectacular. Tot
  
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• ZTE Italia ready for business following lifting of banning order

  19-07-2018 02:00
  ZTE's Italian subsidiary, ZTE Italia, is forging ahead with a host of research and development initiatives in country, following the removal of its parent company from the US banning list…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone and CityFibre begin gigabit rollout in UK

  19-07-2018 02:00
  Vodafone has commenced the rollout of its 1Gbps full fibre broadband network in the UK, by offering 50 customers in Milton Keynes the opportunity to connect.As part of its partnership with CityFibre, Vodafone plans to bring full fibre connectivity to 1 million customers across 12 cities in the UK…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telia steps up its move into the Norwegian market with $2.6 billion TDC acquisition

  19-07-2018 02:00
  Swedish operator Telia has taken a huge step towards expanding its operations in neighbouring Norway by purchasing TDC's Norwegian operations for a reported $2.6 billion.
  In doing so, Telia will position itself as the number two operator in Norway, directly challenging state-controlled Telenor for supremacy in the Nordic state…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange ramps up its 5G preparations in Paris

  19-07-2018 02:00
  Orange has extended its 5G tests in Greater Paris, rolling out test zones in the city's Opera district, Chatillon and Linas Montlhery.
  The announcement comes after French regulator ARCEP reached an agreement on the allocation of 5G spectrum in the 3…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Copper network switch off vital for UK's digital future

  19-07-2018 02:00
  The UK must set a date to switch off its copper telecommunications network in order to encourage investment in full fibre network infrastructure, according to CityFibre CEO, Greg Mesch.Speaking in the House of Commons earlier this week, Chancellor Phillip Hammond said that the government would intervene and impose a final &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cisco invests $100m in UK's digital future

  19-07-2018 02:00
  Cisco has committed $100 million in investment to help cultivate digital innovation in the UK, according to a company report. The investment comes at an opportune moment for the UK government, as it looks to evolve the UK's digital economy post Brexit…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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