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• More than 13% mobile users in Spain changed operators in 2018

  24-05-2019 19:37
  According to a recent survey, over 13% of mobile users in Spain switched mobile operator in 2018, 18% more considered switching.
  The National Commission on Markets and Competition (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, “CNMC”), Spain’s market competition watchdog, recently polled 5,000 families and over 9,000 individuals to understand their loyalty towards their mobile operators. The survey found the churn rate reached 13.48% of all mobile users. In additio
  
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• Facebook buys into the cryptocurrency buzz – report

  24-05-2019 17:13
  Reports suggest Facebook is in the process of developing its own cryptocurrency, with plans to launch in as many as a dozen countries as early as Q1 2020.
  According to the BBC, not only has the product been given a name, GlobalCoin, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney. The cryptocurrency could be unveiled to the world by the end of the year, with plans to kick off operations during the first quarter of 2020.
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• AT&T starts accepting cryptocurrency to pay bills

  24-05-2019 14:25
  AT&T has announced it’s the first US operator to accept cryptocurrency from its customers to pay their bills.
  Now forward-thinking AT&T punters can use bitcoin and that sort of thing to reward AT&T for providing all that lovely connectivity if they feel like it. Specifically they can do so via the BitPay platform, which AT&T considers ‘a respected cryptocurrency payment processor’, when they pay online and through the app.
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• Amazon wants to be more in-tune with your emotions

  24-05-2019 13:24
  Amazon is reportedly working on new technology which will be able to detect users’ emotional state by analysing their vocal patterns.
  According to Bloomberg, the tech giant is working in collaboration with Lab126 to create a wearable device, which would be paired with a smartphone, to perceive emotions of the user. With eyes on 2017 patent that uses vocal pattern analysis to determine someone’s emotional state, the insight could be used through various health and wellbeing products,
  
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• Ofcom forces Openreach to open up again and reintroduces Dark Fibre

  24-05-2019 13:10
  Ofcom has proposed new rules which will force Openreach to open up more of its network to other communications service providers.
  Access to ducts and poles owned by Openreach has been a point of interest for Ofcom for some time, and now it appears the regulator is gathering momentum. As it stands, Openreach has to offer rivals access to its telegraph poles and underground ducts when providing services to consumers and SMEs, though the new rules will extend this ‘co-operation’ to ente
  
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• Musk takes first step towards SpaceX broadband vision

  24-05-2019 12:32
  SpaceX has kicked off its satellite broadband mission with the launch of 60 assets, all of which are now online.
  The Elon Musk business has a vision to create an alternative offering for the broadband industry, relying on a monstrous number of assets floating at an operational altitude of 550km above the earth. The ‘Starlink Network’ is only just beginning, with Musk suggesting it would take another six missions to begin offering sparse services, while mediocre connectivity will only
  
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• Openwave Mobility Takes Top Honors With Double Win at Virtualization Awards

  24-05-2019 10:02
  Leading Industry Analysts Recognize Openwave Mobility’s Virtualization Leadership with Two Accolades BERLIN – May 24, 2019 – Underscoring its place as the preeminent provider of solutions that enable mobile operators to manage and monetize encrypted traffic in virtualized networks, Openwave Mobility, an Enea company, won two awards at Network Virtualization & SDN Europe this week. The company’s AI-based RAN Congestion Manager won Most Innovative NFV & SDN Solution
  
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• Regulator extends Openreach infrastructure access to businesses

  24-05-2019 09:07 via ft.com
  All telecoms businesses will be able to use the telegraph poles and tunnels, Ofcom says
  
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• Trump opens door to including Huawei in China trade deal

  24-05-2019 07:15 via ft.com
  Chinese officials claim US moves against the telecom have been rooted in ‘groundless suspicion’
  
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• TPG set to appeal court's decision to block its $10bn merger with Vodafone

  24-05-2019 02:00
  Australia's TPG Telecom is to appeal against a court decision to block its proposed $10 billion merger with Vodafone.
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) blocked the proposed merger earlier this month…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TalkTalk added nearly 500,000 FTTH customers last year, fuelling a boom in revenues and EBIDTA

  24-05-2019 02:00
  TalkTalk added 490,000 fibre to the home customers during the last financial year, as the British telco looks to reset its model. Headline revenues grew by 2.2 per cent in the financial year 2018/2019…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom grants UK ISPs and MNOs unrestricted access to Openreach's ducts and poles

  24-05-2019 02:00
  The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has passed new guidelines, granting UK telcos unrestricted access to Openreach's duct and pole network infrastructure.
  The move is intended to increase competition in the UK's full fibre broadband market and reduce the cost of network build out for Openreach's competitors…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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