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• Kenya market leader Safaricom seeks new chief

  29-04-2019 21:04
  Bob Collymore poised to step down from telecoms group after spell of robust growth
  
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• Smithfield meat market to move out of Central London

  29-04-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The City of London has confirmed what was pretty much already known, that Smithfield Meat Market is to leave its historic central London home.The Court of Common Council, the City of London’s main decision-making body, has decided to consolidate and relocate three historic wholesale food markets, Smithfield Market, Billingsgate Market and New Spitalfields Market.
  New Spitalfields moved to Leyton in 1991, while Billingsgate moved to the Canary Wharf area in 1982 — only Smithfield rema
  
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• Iliad chairman fined €600,000 for insider dealing

  29-04-2019 15:15
  Maxime Lombardini punished for share sale before failed 2014 move for T-Mobile USA
  
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• HYLA Mobile: Trade-in programs return over $500 million to US consumers in Q1 2019

  29-04-2019 15:00
  HYLA reveals the average age of iPhones at trade-in has broken the three-year threshold29 April 2019 – New data from HYLA Mobile, the world’s leading provider of software technology and services for mobile device trade-in and reuse solutions, reveals the continued growth of trade-in programs in the US. Findings from its latest quarterly trade-in trends report show that in the first quarter of this year, $527 million was returned to US consumers via trade-in programs...Source: RealWir
  
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• China Telecom gets a piece of the Philippines’ new third telco

  29-04-2019 14:14
  Chinese operator China Telecom has signed a $5.4 billion deal to get involved in Mislatel, the Philippines third CSP.
  The other stakeholders are Udenna Corporation and Chelsea Logistics Holdings Corporation but it’s not clear how much cash each is contributing to the enterprise. The full name of the new operator is Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company but presumably it will be available to the entire population of the Philippines.
  “This is a historic occasion,” said Udenna Chairm
  
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• KPN and iland partner to deliver disaster recovery solutions to Dutch market

  29-04-2019 14:00
  iland DRaaS solutions are available for KPN customersLondon – 29th April 2019 – KPN, a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company and iland, an award-winning global cloud service provider of secure and compliant Infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS) and Backup-as-a-service (BaaS) today announced a partnership that will see iland's DRaaS solutions made available to new and existing KPN business customers. KPN stated that the partnership was motivated by the securi
  
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• Apple is facing complaints from developers for removing competing apps

  29-04-2019 13:55
  Apps that help users control screen time have been removed or been demanded to curtail their features after Apple rolled out similar features.
  Many app makers have claimed that their parental control and screen time alert apps have either been removed by Apple or have been asked to change the features, shortly after Apple rolled out similar features on iOS, reported The New York Times. 11 out of the 17 most downloaded apps of this category have been taken down, according to the research by the a
  
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• Virgin Media shows off its new bundle of joy

  29-04-2019 13:05
  UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has attempted to raise the stakes in the consumer and SME markets with some new products.
  The consumer initiative involves bundling together everything Virgin Media offers and charging one price for it all. Not especially innovative in itself, but it seems to be the size of the bundle that Virgin thinks will be a differentiator. The ultimate manifestation of this latest effort is the VVIP bundle, that offers the fastest broadband Virgin does as well as an unlim
  
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• Free entry to the Postal Museum during May

  29-04-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Postal Museum is marking the bicentenary of the birth of Queen Victoria by offering free entry to the museum — if your name is Victoria.
  If your name isn’t Victoria, then the first 200 people through the door on the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria, Friday 24th May, get in for the price of a Penny Black stamp — 1p.
  Entry to the museum also includes a ride on the Mail Rail as part of the ticket.The first 200 visitors to The Postal Museum’s on-site café on the sa
  
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• Telenor makes some IoT predictions

  29-04-2019 11:50
  The IoT bit of Norwegian operator group Telenor has had a go at predicting the IoT market, with a bit of help from its friends.
  Telenor Connexion partnered with telecoms consultant Northstream (which is quite fond of predictions) to come up with five predictions, which probably means it got Northstream to do 99% of the work and then stuck its name at the end of it. For some reason they decided to conflate IoT with digital transformation – perhaps they could only think of three or four IoT
  
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• Digital Colony's UK Digital Infrastructure Platform Acquires iWireless Solutions

  29-04-2019 10:00
  iWireless Solutions Joins Growing Digital Infrastructure Platform, Adding Outdoor Small Cell CapabilitiesLondon, UK – 29th April 2019 Digital Colony, a global investment firm dedicated to strategic opportunities in digital infrastructure, today announced further growth of its UK platform through the acquisition of iWireless Solutions, a leading small cell service provider that delivers wireless connectivity solutions to some of the largest and highest profile venues in the UK. Financial te
  
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• New sponsors for TfL’s “Baby on Board” badges

  29-04-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Transport for London has signed a new 3-year sponsorship deal for it’s Baby on Board badges with Mothercare and BABYZEN.
  Although the badge has been sponsored since 2015, brand logos don’t appear on the badge itself, so mums don’t end up as a walking advertising hording. What the sponsor gets though is a route to the mum to be, and a chance to add their promotional material to the pack sent out in the post when a badge is requested.The Baby on Board badges have been offer for f
  
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• Virgin Media launches 500Mbps ultrafast broadband for UK SMEs

  29-04-2019 02:00
  Virgin Media Business has launched the UK's fastest, widely available business broadband, offering ultrafast services to SMEs across the country.
  The Voom 500 service will provide download speeds of 500Mbps and upload speeds of 35Mbps…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SK Telecom and T-Broad merge to create fixed line mega player in Korea

  29-04-2019 02:00
  South Korean Telco, SK Telecom, has announced that it will merge its fixed line broadband subsidiary, SK Broadband, with its competitor, T-Broad. T-Broad is the second largest provider of Cable TV services in South Korea…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Lord Sugar calls BS on America's 5G Huawei witch-hunt

  29-04-2019 02:00
  The UK's former business Tsar, Alan Sugar, has backed Chinese technology giant Huawei to be involved in the UK's 5G mobile network rollout. Sugar took to Twitter on Monday to voice his support for the world's biggest mobile network equipment provider…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google's Curie cable lands in Chile

  29-04-2019 02:00
  Google's Curie subsea cable system has landed in Valparaiso, connecting Chile with California, according to reports in the press.
  The Curie cable was announced a little over a year ago, as part of Google's plans to build a netter performing public cloud…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Telecom signs $5.4bn agreement to launch the Philippines' third telco

  29-04-2019 02:00
  China Telecom has signed a $5.4 billion agreement with the Udenna Corporation to launch Mislatel – the Philippines' long awaited third telco.
  Mislatel was unveiled at the country's new telecoms player in November 2018 but progress towards an actual launch of services has slowed in recent months…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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