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• Resilient plc appoints Jamie Melling to the board as Sales Director to strengthen reseller programme

  31-08-2018 15:47
  London, 31 August 2018 - Resilient is pleased to announce the appointment of Jamie Melling as Sales Director. Jamie joins the business to expand the partner programme reselling Resilient’s product portfolio, including the new solution, smartnumbers fraud prevention.Jamie brings more than 20 years experience in a variety of Sales leadership roles including 3com and Cable and Wireless. During these roles, Jamie developed strong partnerships to drive business growth and worked with network op
  
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• Fitbit fights back at Apple in the smart watch market

  31-08-2018 14:37
  The latest smart watch numbers from analyst firm Counterpoint reveal Apple is still the dominant player but Fitbit is giving it a run for its money.
  Total global smart watch shipments grew 37% year-on-year but it’s rapidly turning into a two horse race. Apple hijacked the market as soon as it took the segment seriously but its initial success seemed to stall. Meanwhile Fitbit more recently made the strategic decision to diversify beyond fitness bands and that move seems to have paid divide
  
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• Huawei Site Integration Services: Facilitating Transformation in the Site Infrastructure Industry & Enabling Operators to Achieve Digitalization

  31-08-2018 14:20
  In June 2018, Huawei Rotating Chairman, Eric Xu, released a clear timetable for 5G at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2018. To help global operators roll out 5G networks, Huawei will launch E2E NSA 5G commercial systems on September 30, 2018, and E2E SA 5G commercial systems on March 30, 2019.
  Operators and site service providers must answer the following questions about the site infrastructure industry in the 5G commercial network era: How can we quickly obtain new site locations for fast site c
  
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• Google faces yet another antitrust probe, this time in the US

  31-08-2018 13:37
  US Senator Orrin Hatch has written to the FTC requesting the body investigate whether it is using it dominant position in search and digital advertising to stifle the market place.
  The Republican Senator, quite a frequent critic of the technology industry, is asking whether practises such as restricting competing advertising services to collecting data from users’ Gmail inbox are having a notable impact on the industry. The issue raised doesn’t seem to be about a single instance, but
  
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• Vodafone India and Idea Cellular officially tie the knot

  31-08-2018 13:33
  The merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular to create India’s largest MNO has finally been completed.
  The two companies first started publicly courting back at the start of 2017 but their protracted engagement took almost two years to come to fruition. The capex-intensive telecoms industry naturally tends towards M&A and the economies of scale it promises, but the brutal arrival of Reliance Jio hastened this process in the unusually fragmented Indian market.
  The Vodafone announcemen
  
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• Ciena is doing well and is only going to get better – Jefferies

  31-08-2018 12:44
  Off the back of its quarterly results, investment bank Jefferies is confident business at Ciena is only going to get better.
  With the last three months looking very positive for the business, Jefferies has warned investors not to get too jumpy and hold onto shares in the business. With the team reporting a 12% year-on-year rise in revenues to $818.8 million, share price also jumped 12%. Some might be tempted to cash in on the bonanza, but they might be missing out.
  “The July quarter result
  
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• Amazon Pay acquires app aggregator platform Tapzo

  31-08-2018 12:03
  Amazon has acquired Indian app company Tapzo in a deal to bolster its digital payments offering.
  According to the Economic Times, the deal will be valued between $40-45 million, while co-founders Ankur Singla and Vishal Pal Chaudhary will be brought onto the Amazon team to continue development of the offering. While the acquisition is yet to be confirmed by either party, sources state Amazon is after a shortcut to get in on the mobile money bonanza.
  “It would have taken Amazon Pay up to tw
  
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• Huawei appeals to FTC to talk sense into Trump administration

  31-08-2018 10:39
  Huawei has written to the FTC asking it to have a quiet word with the FCC and Congress in its bid to gain a foothold in the US telecoms industry.
  As it stands, Huawei and ZTE are effectively banned from contributing any products or services to any meaningful projects or networks in the US. When the Defense Authorization Act was signed into law, clauses came into effect which effectively prevented Huawei and ZTE from providing any components or services to processes or infrastructure which would
  
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• Vodafone India completes merger with Idea Cellular

  31-08-2018 08:39
  Deal to generate annual cost savings of about £1.7bn and create entity of 408m users
  
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• ZTE bounces back as it expects to post profit in Q3

  31-08-2018 02:00
  China's ZTE has taken a huge step on the road to recovery by announcing that it expects to post a profit in its third quarter of 2018.The announcement was made in a filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Friday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone and Idea Cellular merge to create India's biggest telco

  31-08-2018 02:00
  The long awaited merger between Vodafone India and Idea Cellular has finally been completed, following the issuance of regulatory approval from India's governing bodies.The newly formed entity will be named Vodafone Idea and will boast 408 million subscribers across the sub…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei launches its most powerful 5G ready chipset – the Kirin 980

  31-08-2018 02:00
  Huawei has launched the Kirin 980 chipset which will underpin its next generation of 5G smartphone devices. Speaking exclusively to journalists at the IFA event in Berlin today, Huawei's CEO Richard Yu said that the chipset would revolutionise connectivity for next generation devices…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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