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• Vodafone shares disconnect from €1bn earnings boost

  12-11-2019 19:14 via ft.com
  Outlook brighter for group’s overall business despite $4bn hit at Indian joint venture
  
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• Iliad/telecoms: match me if you can

  12-11-2019 18:02 via ft.com
  Entrepreneur Xavier Niel’s bet is a shrewd one 
  
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• Xavier Niel tightens grip on Iliad with €1.4bn buyback

  12-11-2019 16:10 via ft.com
  French billionaire offers big premium for a fifth of his telecoms group’s share capital
  
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• Holy Trinity Church Sloane Street

  12-11-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just off Sloane Square is a church that amongst many notable things, also also famously wider that St Paul’s Cathedral. It’s name is also as long as it’s wide, being The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity with Saint Jude, Upper Chelsea — although fortunately often shortened to Holy Trinity Sloane Street.Built in 1888-90, it replaced a gothic revival church that was itself a mere 60 years old, but the population was growing, and so they needed a bigger church to cope
  
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• Connected Germany launches to accelerate Germany's connectivity landscape

  12-11-2019 16:00
  
  Frankfurt, Germany, 12 November 2019 - Connected Germany will launch this month, bringing together the key stakeholders and decision makers from across the full breadth of Germany’s connectivity landscape. With over 350 participants and more than 75 speakers confirmed, including key representatives from Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Glasfaser, Connected Germany will bring leading operators and network equipment providers together to collaborate and explore new opportunities. Held
  
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• Gavin Patterson takes on new TMT role at Solon Management Consulting

  12-11-2019 14:22
  
  Former BT CEO joins strategic consulting firm as Senior AdvisorLondon/Munich, 12th November 2019: Solon Management Consulting has expanded its expertise in the TMT industry with the recent appointment of Gavin Patterson to its senior advisor network. The former CEO of BT and Chairman at Salesforce Europe will be providing insights and advice to Solon clients and teams.“I am delighted to work with Solon and provide my expertise in the telecom and media sectors,” said Gavin...Source: R
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Ropers Gardens, SW3

  12-11-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This sunken 1960s style garden exists thanks in part to the diligence of German bombers, but also a Tudor wedding.The area was once fields and a few large mansion houses next to the river for easy travel to Westminster, and one such occupant was Sir Thomas More, who later lost his head in a dispute with Henry VIII. Before that though, he gave the land around here to his daughter Margaret and William Roper as a marriage gift in 1521.
  Hence, Ropers Gardens
  It seems to have remained relatively unto
  
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• ZTE, China Telecom and China Unicom take the lead in completing 5G co-build co-share verification

  12-11-2019 10:10
  
  12 November 2019, Shenzhen, China - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom, has today completed the network verification based on the co-build co-share mode in the commercial 5G environment, launching the world's first NSA co-build co-share sites of 1.8 G/2.1 G/3.5 G in Hangzhou, China. That fully verifies the large-scale c
  
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• Vodafone upgrades profit guidance despite India woes

  12-11-2019 08:39 via ft.com
  Disposals and German acquisition help offset ‘critical’ situation in joint venture in Asian nation
  
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• Vodafone upgrades profit guidance by up to €1bn

  12-11-2019 08:39 via ft.com
  Disposals and German acquisition help offset telecom group’s problems in India
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the hidden parts of Moorgate tube station

  12-11-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More tours of hidden parts of the London Underground have been announced for next year, and they’re adding Moorgate to the list of venues.
  Moorgate is one of those stations that has changed so many times over its lifetime that there’s a lot of unseen tunnels to explore. Opening in 1865 as a sub-surface station for the Metropolitan line, in 1900 it was joined by the Northern line, and then in 1904 the Northern City line was opened as a mainline service.Over the past 150 years, re-desi
  
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• Vodafone CEO: India must deliver significant relief package or risk losing Vodafone Idea

  12-11-2019 01:00
  Vodafone Group's CEO, Nick Read, has said that the Indian government must come up with a significant relief package to assist the troubled Vodafone Idea joint venture, or risk the telco going out of business altogether.
  Speaking at the company's six monthly results briefing in London on Tuesday, Read said that the Indian government now realised the scale of the problem facing telcos in the country. Despite having access to a market of over 1 billion subscribers, Indian telcos are being forced t
  
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• Synchronoss teams up with the US' big four telcos to streamline next generation messaging services

  12-11-2019 01:00
  Cloud, messaging and IoT specialist Synchronoss has teamed up with AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint in the US to accelerate the delivery of RCS-based messaging across operators through a single integrated application…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Speed tiering is the key to monetizing 5G, says Vodafone

  12-11-2019 01:00
  Operators should offer their customers a tiered 5G offering, allowing them to pick and pay for the speeds that suit them, in order to quickly monetize their 5G networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• European Commission approves Telia's acquisition of Swedish broadcast giant

  12-11-2019 01:00
  The European Commission has approved Telia Group's acquisition of Swedish broadcasting firm, Bonnier Broadcasting, in a deal worth a reported $950 million (SEK 9.2 billion).
  As part of the deal…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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