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• Vivendi media mission continues rolling through Europe

  28-05-2019 17:55
  Vivendi-subsidiary Canal Plus has announced the €1 billion acquisition of pay-TV operator M7, expanding the business into seven new European markets.
  The deal, which is still subject to approval from the European Commission, will take Vivendi across the borders of the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. M7’s subscriptions currently total more than three million across its European footprint and revenues of just over €400 million.
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• Airtel Africa: well connected

  28-05-2019 17:33 via ft.com
  A grounded valuation will help temper exaggerated expectations
  
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• Huawei holds onto number two smartphone spot… for the moment

  28-05-2019 17:14
  Huawei has held onto the number two spot for smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2019, but storm clouds are gathering on the horizon.
  According to estimates from Gartner, Samsung is leading the smartphone manufacturers owning 19.2% of market share over the first three months, though Huawei is closing the gap with 15.7%. All three Chinese brands in the top five grew market share over the period, with Apple also declining to 11.9%, shrinking in the Huawei shadow.Brand
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• Exhibition looks at the internationalisation of Charles Dickens

  28-05-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Charles Dickens Museum has put on one of its occasional exhibitions, this time looking at the man’s international fame and impact.
  As with their previous exhibitions, it’s mainly a collection of objects scattered around the building, which was one of the many homes that Mr D occupied in his lifetime.Charles Dickens is the quintessentially British writer, the creator of our modern ideals of what Victorian London should look like, but as the man, he was one of the earliest internat
  
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• Licensing renewal – improving regulation

  28-05-2019 14:28
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this article Engineer Gerado Mantilla and Lawyer Patricia Falconí Castillo offer a deep dive into the topic of licensing renewal.
  We live in a time where the rapid and growing technological changes are transforming societies, economies and public-private relations; which, in addition, not only generate an important impact in any company and more than anything on telecommun
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: 5G UK, Huawei and TMUS/Sprint

  28-05-2019 14:27
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• Japan joins the anti-globalisation movement

  28-05-2019 14:12
  It might not be as aggressive a position as the White House has entrenched itself in but limiting foreign ownership of strategic segments is a similar objection to globalisation.
  According to The Telegraph, the Japanese government has identified 15 new sectors which would be restricted from foreign ownership, while restrictions on a further five would be increased. Any foreign investor wanting to take more than a 10% share of a companies listed in these segments would have to report to the Japan
  
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• Irish data watchdog defends its GDPR actions

  28-05-2019 13:26
  The Irish data protection regulator has unveiled a progress report on GDPR on the first anniversary of the rules, perhaps defending itself from a perception of inaction.
  As Europe’s lead regulator for GDPR, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) is in an incredibly important position. It is supposed to lead the bloc into an era of increased privacy and data protection, though considering its economy is largely dependent on the very firms GDPR has been designed to punish, it is a tricky posit
  
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• Huawei media war switches to the US

  28-05-2019 13:23
  In recent days the propaganda war surrounding Huawei has moved to the two biggest US business publications.
  The Wall Street Journal published a lengthy, in depth investigation into the alleged theft of intellectual property and assorted other dubious ethics that contributed to its meteoric rise in the networking gear and smartphone markets. The accounts are largely anecdotal, and fall short of the ‘smoking gun’ evidence many have been calling for, but the piece is undoubtedly helpful
  
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• Hot air balloons to fly over central London on Sunday

  28-05-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Lord Mayor’s personal hot air balloon, accompanied by up to 50 others are set to stage an early morning flight over central London this coming Sunday.
  Balloon lift-off in 2015
  Due to the lift-off being subject to weather conditions, they reserve the Sunday mornings in June: 2nd, 9th, 16th or 30th. Lift off is usually at first light – so around 5am to 6am. Lift off will be either from Battersea Park or Burgess Park, depending on the wind direction on the day.
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• German regulator promises light-touch on fibre

  28-05-2019 12:09
  In an effort to force German telcos onto a fibre diet, regulator Bundesnetzagentur has promised a light-touch regulatory environment for the last-mile.
  In the draft regulations, the German regulator is suggesting it would play a relative hands-off role when it comes to driving fibre deployment in the last mile, assuming market leader Deutsche Telekom plays nice with alternative connectivity providers, providing non-discriminatory access to wholesale services.
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• Realisation of 5G networks requires more fibre to maximise full potential, highlights Emtelle

  28-05-2019 11:44
  Hawick, Scotland, 28 May 2019 – For operators to maximise the full potential of 5G and capitalise on their network infrastructure, fibre should be at the heart of every Fibre-To-The-x (FTTx) and mobile network, Emtelle’s Market Specialist, 5G, IoT and Smart City said today.Speaking ahead of ANGA COM 2019, which will take place in Cologne, Germany next week, Paul McCue explained that given the expected small cells, network densification and 5G requirements, it is essential...Source: R
  
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• STL unveils Intellza – an AI-powered Business Intelligence Solution

  28-05-2019 11:21
  The solution enables AI-based predictive modelling and deep personalisation; gets positive feedback from leading telcos at TM Forum Digital Transformation World eventPune, India – May 28, 2019: Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (STL) [BSE: 532374, NSE: STRTECH], a global leader in end-to-end data network solutions, unveiled Intellza – its next-generation business intelligence solution – at the recently concluded TM Forum Digital Transformation World 2019 in Nice, France. The solution
  
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• Airtel Africa weighs London listing to pay down debt

  28-05-2019 10:51 via ft.com
  Move would see continent’s second-biggest mobile operator freely float at least a quarter of shares
  
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• SENKO Advanced Components increases mass fiber inspection efficiency with new device at ANGACOM 2019

  28-05-2019 10:07
  GERMANY, 28 May 2019 – SENKO Advanced Components, a leader in innovative fiber optic connectivity solutions, is set to launch its latest fiber optic inspection device at ANGACOM 2019, Cologne, 4 – 6 June 2019. Providing speedy and efficient analysis of fiber during endface inspection, the new Smart Probe 2 allows data centers and telecoms providers to save maintenance time and help prevent network failures. The majority of network failures are caused by connectivity issues...Source:
  
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• Openet Is Selected by Telkomsel to Provide Digital Business Platform (DBP)

  28-05-2019 10:00
  Dublin, May 28th, 2019 – Openet, a leader in Digital BSS, today announced that it has been selected by leading Indonesian operator Telkomsel to provide its Digital Business Platform (DBP). Telkomsel will use DBP to power a range of exciting new services offerings in the Indonesian market.Openet DBP is a Digital BSS stack that comprises solutions from Openet and their partners. It is built using digital APIs, is real-time and automated and designed to enable...Source: RealWire
  
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• Connected Britain the biggest ever as UK fibre race gathers pace in preparation for 5G future

  28-05-2019 10:00
  London, UK, 28 May 2019 – Connected Britain – now well established as the UK’s flagship conference and exhibition – is set to break all records when it opens its doors on June 18 at the Business Design Centre in London. The event – taking place at London’s Business Design Centre from June 18-19 – has doubled in size in each of the five years it has been established and 2019 will feature 200 top...Source: RealWire
  
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• Future tube posters go on display

  28-05-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One hundred posters has gone on display at the Transport Museum, and one of them could go on to become an official tube poster.Artists were invited to visually capture a familiar or lesser-known narrative in a single image – current or historical, real or fictional which feature London. Stories could be those seen in a film or play, heard in poetry or music, or read in literature. They may be family anecdotes, or an impression of the artists’ daily observations, or of London’s
  
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• South Korea to hit 1m 5G subscribers by the end of June

  28-05-2019 02:00
  South Korea has racked up close to 600,000 5G subscriptions in the first 50 days since the country's 3 mobile network operators launched next generation mobile network services across the country on 5th April…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange to showcase 8KTV and 5G at Roland Garros

  28-05-2019 02:00
  The French Open will be broadcast in 8K ultra-high definition (UHD), thanks to Orange's 5G network within the stadium complex.
  Matches from the Philippe-Chatrier court will be broadcast in stunning UHD clarity, as the French Open continues to promote itself as the most technologically ambitious of tennis' Grand Slams…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Openet wins key BSS contract in Indonesia

  28-05-2019 02:00
  Business support systems specialist, Openet, has won a key contract in Indonesia, to transform the networks of Indonesian telco Telkomsel. The deal will see Openet provide a Digital Business Platform to Telkomsel…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei to launch its own OS in June, as it hits back against US ban

  28-05-2019 02:00
  Huawei is set to launch its own mobile operating system next month, as the Chinese tech giant looks to side steps its US ban.
  Last month, President Trump imposed a ban on Chinese companies being involved in the US' telecoms sector…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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