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• Vodafone: endowering towers

  26-07-2019 18:49
  In low-yield developed economies, hefty cash flows make phone masts sexy investments
  
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• T-Mobile and Sprint clinch US approval for merger

  26-07-2019 18:49
  Trump administration signs off on $59bn deal to create one of the largest US mobile providers
  
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• William Morris and the Bauhaus are coming to London

  26-07-2019 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The William Morris Gallery is aiming to put on the first ever exhibition to explore Victorian William Morris and the modernist Bauhaus movement.
  Although working half a century before the Bauhaus opened its doors in 1919, Morris’s ideas about art, craft and community had a profound influence on the seminal German design school. Walter Gropius, its founder, personally acknowledged the debt he owed to “Ruskin and Morris of England”.
  But there has never been an exhibition explorin
  
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• Sky becomes first top-tier MVNO to join the UK 5G race

  26-07-2019 16:00
  Sky has become the first top-tier MVNO in the UK to join the 5G race, making use of the O2 network.
  While Sky Mobile is little more than an ‘also-ran’ at the moment there could be some potential for the brand to cause headaches for the established players, both MNOs and MVNOs. As the leader in the UK premium content market and a healthy broadband business, there certainly are some gains to be made in terms of convergence.
  “We will be the only mobile operator to be able to combi
  
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• Sky becomes first MVNO to join the UK 5G race

  26-07-2019 16:00
  Sky has become the first MVNO in the UK to join the 5G race, making use of the O2 network.
  While Sky Mobile is little more than an ‘also-ran’ at the moment there could be some potential for the brand to cause headaches for the established players, both MNOs and MVNOs. As the leader in the UK premium content market and a healthy broadband business, there certainly are some gains to be made in terms of convergence.
  “We will be the only mobile operator to be able to combine the la
  
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• French parliament passes “Huawei Law” to govern 5G security

  26-07-2019 13:13
  Both houses of the French parliament have voted in favour of the new law, dubbed the “Huawei Law”, to give the government the power to security vet 5G rollouts in the country.
  The legislation process started when France, being pressured by the US to exclude Huawei from the country’s 5G networks, decided to keep the decision-making power in its own hands, hence the nickname. An earlier draft of the legislation was met with protests from the parliament as being too “open-en
  
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• Vodafone ponders spin off of European tower business

  26-07-2019 11:22
  After reporting declines in group revenues, Vodafone needed to bring some good news to the earnings call, and it seems the creation of a standalone tower business has done the job.
  CEO Nick Read announced during the Q3 earnings call work had begun to legally separate the European tower infrastructure business, with plans to have the new organization up-and-running by May 2020. The team intends to monetize the tower business through an IPO or disposal of a minority stake in the next 18 months, de
  
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• Three set to cause more disruption with 5G pricing plans

  26-07-2019 10:46
  EE is finding out first is not always best as Three is set to join Vodafone is offering more attractive 5G data tariffs.
  When EE first launched its 5G tariffs earlier this year, it was as everyone would have expected; the MNO charged a premium, and a lofty one at that, the 5G connectivity. Vodafone undermined this position with an innovative approach, tiering on speeds not data allocations, and now Three will go one step further offering access to 5G connectivity at no extra cost to a customer&r
  
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• Vodafone lays ground for towers business IPO

  26-07-2019 08:40
  Telecoms group moves to split masts into independent company
  
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• Vodafone lays ground for European towers business IPO

  26-07-2019 08:40
  UK telecoms group plans move to split masts into independent company
  
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• Vodafone could list towers business within 18 months

  26-07-2019 08:40
  Telecoms group has separated the masts into an independent company ahead of possible sale
  
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• What does Vodafone's Liberty Global acquisition mean for Europe's telecoms market?

  26-07-2019 02:00
  Last week the European Commission finally gave the go ahead for Vodafone's €18.4bn acquisition of a string of Liberty Global's telecoms assets in Eastern Europe.
  Vodafone will acquire assets in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and Romania as it expands its European empire. In doing so, it will become the single biggest provider of converged telecommunications services on the continent, stealing the crown of Europe's current champion of converged services, Deutsche Telekom in the proces
  
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• Vodafone to create Europe's largest Towers company

  26-07-2019 02:00
  Vodafone is to create a new company to manage its portfolio of 61,700 telecoms towers, which will be operational by May 2020, according to a company statement.
  TowerCo, as the new company will be known, will take over the management of Europe's largest telecoms tower portfolio of 61…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile and Sprint merger gets the go-ahead from the Department of Justice

  26-07-2019 02:00
  The US' Department of Justice, has given its approval for the long awaited merger between T-Mobile and Sprint to proceed.
  The $26.5 billion merger, which will create America's third biggest telco, was given the go-ahead following the partners agreement to divest their pay…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sky has UK MNOs in its sights with 5G launch in November

  26-07-2019 02:00
  UK mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), Sky, is set to launch 5G services in November this year, as it looks to lure subscribers away from the country's big four mobile network operators (MNOs).Sky will launch 5G services over O2's network infrastructure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange sees strong growth in MENA, as Group revenues nudge up in Q2

  26-07-2019 02:00
  Orange Group has seen its revenues for the second quarter of 2019 grow by 0.5 per cent, which was driven by a strong performance in the Middle East and Africa business unit.
  Group revenues stood at €10.338 billion, with revenues in the Middle East and Asia unit increasing by 5.8 per cent, while growth in Europe remained more modest. Revenues in Orange's home market of France grew by 0…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airtel touches 100m subscribers in Africa following strong growth in 2019

  26-07-2019 02:00
  Airtel Africa has revealed that it now has 99.7 million mobile and fixed line customers across the continent of Africa.
  Revenues grew by 10.2 per cent in the first quarter of the 2019/2020 financial year, to stand at $795.9 million. Airtel Africa said that the growth was fuelled by extremely strong performance in its core markets of Nigeria and East Africa…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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