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• Plugging all the holes: driving growth with automated business assurance

  26-09-2018 22:27
  Netflix has become synonymous to streaming media success, having clocked 130 million paid subscriptions by the end of June 2018. However, something not under the spotlight is that, for every paid subscriber, there might be two non-paid viewers. According to a research licensed by the private financing company LendEDU in August 2018, 59% of millennials in the US watched Netflix without paying.
  That this is not a recent phenomenon is evident from the fact that as far back as April 2013, Bloomberg
  
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• What’s driving growth in the North American MVNO market?

  26-09-2018 18:15
  In the commissioned report ‘Shaping the North American MVNO Market’, the MVNOs Series team explores how the winds of change have been blowing through North America’s mobile markets over the past 12 months and the impact that is having on MVNOs.
  The North American MVNO market is one of the most mature and developed in the world. It is also one of the most diverse, complex and competitive, with three major markets in three huge countries demonstrating very different characteristi
  
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• Google attempts damage control on privacy regulations

  26-09-2018 14:34
  Google has unveiled its ideas on the regulatory framework of tomorrow in what looks like an attempt to influence legislation and restrict the long-arm of government intervention.
  On the whole, the internet players of Silicon Valley have largely been left to do what they want. This is not to say there are no regulations or consumer protections, but the breadth and depth of regulatory red-tape is no-where near the same scale as the telco industry. In airing its ideas on what the regulatory environ
  
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• US contemplates its own version of GDPR

  26-09-2018 14:10
  The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration has started a 30-day public hearing process to gather comments on its policy options towards consumer privacy protection.
  Shortly after Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in late May, “a global tidal wave of new and updated privacy regulations” have followed hot on the heels of GDPR as it was called at the recent Digital Futures conference (see the picture). Regulations and laws
  
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• UK news media want tech giants to pay them annual license fees

  26-09-2018 13:39
  A UK governmental review into threats to the press, principally from the internet, has led to calls for tech giants to pay for news content that appears on their platforms.
  The Cairncross review asked for submissions on the matter earlier this month and has so far received them from the News Media Association, press regulators IPSO and IMPRESS, and the National Union of Journalists. The NMA one is headed “NMA Calls For Licence Fee Agreement With Tech Giants”.
  “A fair and equita
  
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• Comcast’s Sky deal roils European broadband

  26-09-2018 13:11
  Victory over Disney in £37bn takeover battle raises consolidation question
  
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• AT&T launches online advertising marketplace Xandr

  26-09-2018 12:52
  Two multi-billion dollar acquisitions and a funny name later, the AT&T content business vision starts to become a bit clearer.
  AT&T has announced the launch of Xandr, its new content business unit which will combine current capabilities (e.g. AT&T AdWork and ATT.net), the Time Warner and AppNexus acquisitions, as well as distribution partnerships with Altice USA and Frontier Communications into a notable advertising entity. While the initial plan is to capture a slice of the digital
  
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• Rezatec completes follow-on investment led by Harbert European Growth Capital to underpin continued global expansion

  26-09-2018 10:03
  Harwell, Oxfordshire, 26 September 2018. World-leading geospatial data analytics company Rezatec has announced a follow-on investment to its 2018 £2m Seed Round equity financing round, with Harbert European Growth Capital now providing a substantial growth debt facility to the Company. This new facility will lend additional financial support to Rezatec as it continues its rapid rate of new customer acquisition across North America, Africa and Asia Pacific. Rezatec is seeing particularly st
  
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• Ofcom gets two new board members, including deputy chair

  26-09-2018 02:00
  Ofcom this week announced that two new members have joined its board.Maggie Carver will join the U.K. telecoms regulator as deputy chair. She began her career in investment banking and has also worked in the media…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• O2's UK spectrum spend sees data speeds soar

  26-09-2018 02:00
  The €230 million O2 spent on 2.3 GHz spectrum in the U.K. earlier this year is already paying off, according to new network performance data gathered by crowdsourced information specialist Tutela.The U.K. mobile operator has activated the spectrum on around 650 mobile sites across six cities and in those locations is generating data download speeds that are 80% faster than its average 4G download speed…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Masmovil passes 6 million mark

  26-09-2018 02:00
  Masmovil's mobile customer base now exceeds 6 million, the Spanish operator announced on Tuesday.The telco reached its latest milestone on the back of 1 million net adds in 2018 to date, it said…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• DoT to investigate possible under-reporting of revenue by Indian telcos

  26-09-2018 02:00
  India's mobile operators face having their accounts audited by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).According to an Economic Times report this week, the regulator is looking for evidence of under…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Carlsberg contracts 3 to control communications costs

  26-09-2018 02:00
  Carlsberg has contracted mobile operator 3 to help it control its cross-border communications costs.3 Denmark announced on Wednesday that it had been selected by the Danish brewery giant to support it as it goes through an extensive digital transformation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T relaunches ad and analytics division as 'Xandr'

  26-09-2018 02:00
  AT&T has folded all of its advertising operations into a new, single division, called 'Xandr'.Named after AT&T founder Alexander Graham Bell, the new unit encompasses the U.S. telco's advertising and analytics business, which includes its AdWorks advanced TV business…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 3.7 GHz bidding nears €3bn in Italy 5G contest

  26-09-2018 02:00
  Bidding continues apace in the Italian 5G spectrum auction, driven by interest in the 3.7 GHz band, which had attracted offers totalling almost €3 billion by the close of the contest's ninth day on Tuesday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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