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• Give the gift of membership to a London museum this Christmas

  16-11-2018 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you want to give something this Christmas that your recipient can use all year round, rather than socks and fragrances… give them the membership of a museum they love to visit.
  Most museums have some form of membership scheme and usually offer a range of goodies, such as free entry for museums that charge an entrance fee, newsletters and the bigger venues tend to have private members events in the evenings or priority booking for public exhibitions.
  As a present, it’s a very nice
  
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• The two favourites for TIM CEO job revealed – source

  16-11-2018 14:56
  A source close to Vivendi has revealed the names of the two people they think are most likely to get the TIM CEO job vacated this week by Amos Genish.
  They are Alfredo Altavilla and Luigi Gubitosi, both current TIM board members, who were proposed by activist investor group Elliott when it purged the board after winning its struggle with Vivendi in May of this year. If Altavilla got the gig he would have the added benefit of being the Chairman of the TIM Nomination and Remuneration Committee, wh
  
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• Rural connectivity still a minor concern for some people, finds uSwitch

  16-11-2018 13:17
  Price comparison service uSwitch has done a survey that found some people are deterred from moving to the country because they’re worried about connectivity.
  Yes, we know, not the most earth-shattering revelation, but it’s a Friday and some people might care. The table below shows how urban survey respondents answered when asked “Have you read or heard about any of the following issues used to describe living in the countryside?” Just over half (around 900 respondents) fl
  
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• EE and Virgin Media fined for ripping off customers when they leave early

  16-11-2018 12:20
  UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has fined EE and Virgin Media millions of pounds for excessive early-exit charges.
  Churn (loss of customers) is a constant worry for communications service providers and the best way to reduce it is to provide such a good communications service that subscribers don’t want to leave. Another way is to make it so odious and costly to leave that most people just can’t be bothered with the hassle and it seems EE and VM went a bit too far with the latter strateg
  
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• Virgin Media and EE fined for overcharging customers

  16-11-2018 08:43
  Telecoms regulator imposes penalties totalling £13.3m
  
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• Virgin and EE fined for overcharging customers

  16-11-2018 08:43
  The regulator imposed penalties totalling £13.3m
  
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• ZTE eyes European expansion

  16-11-2018 01:00
  China's smartphone and network infrastructure giant, ZTE, is eyeing expansion in Europe, as the company looks to grow its overseas operations.
  Having been brought to the very brink earlier this year by a series of US sanctions which saw the company halt production entirely…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Seacom acquires Fibreco to boost African footprint

  16-11-2018 01:00
  African telecoms and subsea connectivity provider, Seacom, has announced the strategic acquisition of FibreCo, to bolster the company's reach in Southern Africa.
  Fibreco owns and operates a nationwide dark fibre network in South Africa…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom cracks down on EE and Virgin Media for overcharging customers

  16-11-2018 01:00
  The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has fined EE and Virgin Media for unfairly penalising their customers with so called "early exit charges". EE received a fine of £6.3 million and Virgin Media £7 million for over charging customers who attempted to leave their contracted mobile and fixed line broadband plans early…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China eyes 6G rollout by 2030

  16-11-2018 01:00
  Chinese research and development teams are set to begin work on 6G mobile networks in 2020, according to analysts in China.
  The Securities Times cited Su Xin…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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