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• AT&T shares slip as revenue falls short of expectations

  24-07-2018 23:06
  Media group under pressure following $80bn Time Warner takeover
  
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• Inside Ericsson

  24-07-2018 18:29
  Ericsson invited me to hang out with them in Stockholm for a couple of days so I did and here’s what I got up to.
  Towards the end of Ericsson’s Q1 quarterly earnings call, Head of Marketing Helena Norrman and I indulged in a spot of light banter, during which she reflected on how nice Stockholm is at that time of year. I responded that I haven’t been there for ages because Ericsson doesn’t seem to do press trips anymore, at which point Norrman called my bluff and invited
  
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• Would you chop off a finger for your smartphone? 10% of millennials would

  24-07-2018 16:37
  Seeing a millennial glued to the small screen is hardly unusual, but new research from Tappable suggests some would go to some pretty extreme lengths to keep hold of the device. Would you chop off your finger for cat videos?
  The lives of younger generations are becoming increasingly defined by the small, powerful device, perhaps because the connected world is a natural part of life since they were born, or because more aspects of society are becoming digitised. Irrelevant to the reason, the outc
  
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• Verizon books $650m charge from video-streaming experiment

  24-07-2018 15:09
  Telecoms group shutters platform less than three years after launch
  
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• BT: reaching out

  24-07-2018 14:32
  Concessions by Openreach diminish the threat to fixed-line broadband from 5G mobile
  
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• Virgin Media somehow manages to make TV platform a bit worse

  24-07-2018 13:33
  The relationship between Virgin Media and UKTV came to an end this weekend, though mixed messages are flying all over the place as the PR machines crank into full flow.
  UKTV’s programming on the Virgin Media TV platform officially came to a close on Saturday night (21 July) as the pair were not able to come to a commercial agreement which satisfied both parties. Virgin Media is pointing the finger at UKTV, stating it offered a fair price, while UKTV has contradicted this point stating the
  
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• Openreach launches discount prices for superfast broadband

  24-07-2018 13:06
  Openreach as announced a number of discounts for wholesale customers, in an effort to encourage the telcos to focus more on superfast and ultrafast services.
  The offer, which covers fibre-to-the-cabinet and fibre-to-the-premise wholesale services, could be as much as 40%, and is geared towards encouraging service providers to focus on their own customers, as opposed to engaging in the cut throat battle of stealing subscribers from competitors. The hope is service providers will pay more attentio
  
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• CAPEX doubles at Google as cloud investments make a dent

  24-07-2018 12:49
  Revenues of $32.6 billion, operating income of $2.8 billion and capital expenditure of $5.4 billion; the Google quarterly results certainly tell a couple of stories.
  In terms of revenues, this is perhaps as many would have expected; Google made more money than it did last year. This should hardly be a surprise, Google is a money machine. Though the sharp decline in operating income demonstrates how damaging the Android antitrust fine was from the European Commission. The operating margin shrunk
  
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• Openreach to slash cost of superfast broadband network

  24-07-2018 08:57
  Move aims to encourage networks such as Sky, TalkTalk and BT to upgrade consumers
  
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• Verizon reveals Houston will get 5G in 2018

  24-07-2018 02:00
  Verizon has announced that it will rollout 5G in the Texan city of Houston, later this year. Houston is the third city to be named as one of Verizon's 2018 5G cities, joining Los Angeles and Sacramento…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK telecoms sector has its say on FTIR

  24-07-2018 02:00
  The government's Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR) sets out the UK's vision for a full fibre, interconnected future. The document has been warmly received by the UK's fixed line and mobile network operators, but are the government's plans workable and will the country succeed in hitting 100 per cent FTTH coverage by the year 2033? In this article, we hear from the country's key network stakeholders, to get their response to FTIR.  Openreach: As the UK's incumbent fibre
  
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• Spain's 5G auction quadruples reserve price after only 4 days of bidding

  24-07-2018 02:00
  Spain's 5G spectrum auction has raised over €400 million after four days of bidding. Spain's four mobile network operators, namely Movistar, Orange…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Idea's shares jump 18% as Vodafone merger edges closer

  24-07-2018 02:00
  Idea Cellular's share price jumped by 18 per cent this morning, upon news that the company had made payment of monies due to India's Department of Telecoms, one of the final hurdles believed to be holding up the company's planned merger with Vodafone…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Does Belgium really need a fourth mobile network operator?

  24-07-2018 02:00
  Belgium's federal government has revealed plans to open up its forthcoming 5G spectrum auction to a fourth network operator.
  With its already small population of just 11 million people already split in to two distinct markets (one Flemish speaking…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cheaper broadband looms as Openreach cuts superfast wholesale rates

  24-07-2018 02:00
  The UK's national broadband infrastructure owner, Openreach, has announced that it will cut the cost of accessing its superfast and ultrafast network to its existing wholesale customers.
  The deal means that internet service providers will be able to pass the savings onto their customers…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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