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• Wind Tre hit hard by Iliad’s arrival in Italy

  27-11-2018 17:57
  Mobile phone price war triggered by French group sees third-quarter revenue fall 15%
  
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• Googlers start hitting back at censored search engine

  27-11-2018 17:23
  Google employees around the world are starting to remember what the ‘Don’t be Evil’ motto actually means, and the controversial Project Dragonfly is next on the radar.
  During the summer, leaked plans suggested Google was developing a news-aggregation app for use in China which will comply to the governments strict censorship rules. The leak turned out to be true and Google became the latest internet giant to sacrifice principles in pursuit of the bonanza of cash hidden behind t
  
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• Uber feels sharp(ish) end of Dutch and British stick

  27-11-2018 16:30
  Following a data breach which exposed personal information of roughly three million European customers, Uber has been fined over £900,000 by Dutch and British authorities.
  £900,000 does sound like a lot of cash, but let’s just put it into perspective for the moment. In the Netherlands, details of 174,000 customers and drivers were hacked, resulting in a €600,000 (roughly £532,000) fine, while the punishment for leaking details of 2.7 million customers and drivers in
  
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• Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey 2018

  27-11-2018 13:55
  Welcome to the 2018 edition of the Telecoms.com Intelligence Annual Industry Survey report. The findings from our signature survey continue to provide insights and foresight into the dynamic telecoms industry.
  Once again well over 1,000 industry professionals from a broad array of backgrounds responded to the survey with their first-hand experience as well as their perspective views on the current status and future trends of the industry. As our customary practice, the report started with an ove
  
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• Ericsson predicts 1.5 billion 5G connections by 2024

  27-11-2018 13:54
  In its latest Mobility Report, Ericsson predicted that by 2024, 8.4 billion out of 8.9 billion mobile subscriptions will be on mobile broadband, including 1.5 billion on 5G.
  With this year’s edition, Ericsson extended its predictions about the mobile industry to 2024. While the total number of mobile subscriptions (SIM cards) is forecast to reach nearly 9 billion, there will be 6.2 billion people, or “unique subscribers”, using mobile communications by that time. Ericsson also
  
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• UK Gov reserves £6.8bn to realise 5G dream by 2027

  27-11-2018 13:44
  The UK Government has released a report which outlines £600 billion investments in national infrastructure, including £6.8 billion to make 5G a reality by 2027 and nationwide full fibre coverage by 2033.
  The National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline 2018 is much more than digital infrastructure, though it is nice to see a hefty chunk of change being directed towards tomorrow’s connectivity challenges. Over the next three years, the plan is to fund 11 digital infrastruct
  
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• Disease X – the next London pandemic?

  27-11-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  At some point in the future, London will be struck by a dread disease that will lay waste to swathes of society.
  It’s happened before, and will happen again, the only question is when, and how deadly will the modern plague be?
  The Museum of London has put on a display looking at London’s past pandemics, and how both the medical profession dealt with the medical impacts, and how society responded to the social impact of so many deaths.
  We know of the big ones, the Black Death that kil
  
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• Google faces GDPR complaints over user location tracking

  27-11-2018 12:29
  Seven privacy advocacy groups will be reporting Google to their relevant data protection authority, claiming the firm is violating GDPR through location tracking of users.
  Forbrukerrådet (Norway), Consumentenbond (The Netherlands), Ekpizo (Greece), dTest (Czech Republic), Zveza Potrošnikov Slovenije (Slovenia), Federacja Konsumentów (Poland) and Sveriges Konsumenter (Sweden) will all file complaints, while vzbv in Germany is considering action for an injunction and the  
  
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• Apple finds the water is warming up in App Store legal battle

  27-11-2018 11:46
  Apple has found itself in court once again, but Qualcomm is no-where to be seen. Instead, a few of its loyal iLifers are challenging the firm over whether the App Store is an illegal monopoly.
  The case itself dates back to 2012 and will aim to understand whether Apple is operating an unjustified monopoly through the App Store. Right now the case is in front of the Supreme Court, where the nine judges will decide whether or not to allow the antitrust case to be heard by a District Court. The perm
  
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• French SME Initiative Results In World Leading Full 4G Tactical End-To-End Infrastructure Solution

  27-11-2018 09:00
  Cologne, Germany, 27 November 2018 – ETELM, a leading manufacturer of advanced mission critical communications radio infrastructure, has announced a recent strategic partnership with HALYS and ENENSYS to provide a full end-to-end infrastructure solution which will fill the operational requirements of tactical LTE deployments. The partnership’s solution addresses the challenges that PMR users are facing when requiring autonomous private LTE deployments, as well as providing an advance
  
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• London Underground’s Northern line extension – construction update

  27-11-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An occasional look at the works on the Northern line extension building the new London Underground line to Battersea Station.
  Battersea Power Station station
  Platform and track installation at the NLE Battersea site.
  Over the past few months, a structure has been emerging within the station box towards the west of site and has been built to house two ventilation units for the Northern Line Extension tunnels, emergency access stairs, mechanical and electrical equipment plus it forms part of the f
  
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• Manx Telecom appoints new CCO

  27-11-2018 01:00
  Manx Telecom has appointed Ed Jennings to the position of chief commercial officer. Jennings will  be responsible for overseeing the evolution of the company's commercial strategy gooing forward, bringing over 20 years of telecoms experience to the role. &nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• GSMA warns Germany to heed concerns over 5G spectrum auction

  27-11-2018 01:00
  The GSMA has warned German regulators to listen to industry concerns over the country's proposed spectrum auctioning process, or risk jeopardising its 5G future. “The mobile industry is essential to delivering on Germany’s vision for 5G leadership. We are alarmed that – despite real and substantial concerns raised by the mobile industry on the original proposals &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• European Commission set to approve Deutsche Telekom's bid for Tele2

  27-11-2018 01:00
  The European Commission could be set to approve Deutsche Telekom's bid to purchase Tele2's Dutch business, according to the Reuters news agency.
  Sources close to the matter told Reuters that the European Commission was ready to approve the deal…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson forecasts 1.5bn 5G connections by 2024

  27-11-2018 01:00
  Ericsson is predicting that 5G will be available to 40 per cent of the world's population by the end of 2024, forecasting 1.5 billion 5G subscriptions.  In the latest edition of its annual Mobility Report…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT promises an end to WIFI blackspots with launch of new home broadband package

  27-11-2018 01:00
  BT has launched a new home broadband service that it says will bring an end to domestic WIFI blackspots. BT will guarantee its customers a strong, reliable WIFI signal in every room of their house, using WIFI discs to power its Complete WIFI service.“Strong, reliable WIFI has never been so important in the home…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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