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• Emtelle Announces Appointment of Sales Director for the UK & Ireland

  06-01-2022 17:56
  
  Hawick, Scotland, 6 January 2022 – Emtelle, the leading global manufacturer of blown fibre cable and ducted network solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Van De Velde as sales director to serve the UK & Ireland. In his role, he will be responsible for developing sales strategies, creating new business opportunities, and providing greater support for the existing Emtelle team and clients in the UK and Ireland. Speaking of the appointment David...Source: RealWire
  
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• Vodafone and EE drag their feet over the reintroduction of roaming charges

  06-01-2022 15:14
  
  Having announced they will start charging their customers for roaming in the EU, Vodafone and EE seem to be hesitating now that the time has come.
  There’s very little official communication from the two UK MNOs and the beeb seems to have been first to report the development. It leads with the Vodafone news, with the operator apparently needing more time for testing. You have to wonder what kind of BSS Vodafone is using if billing someone a quid every day they use data in Europe is such a c
  
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• CES 2022: Behold the parade of weird tech

  06-01-2022 15:10
  
  From finger nibbling robots to health monitoring light bulbs, CES 2022 has delivered its usual line up of innovative if eyebrow raising products. Here’s our list of the most peculiar.
  Amagami Ham Ham
  The Amagami Ham Ham from Yukai Engineering is, and we don’t really know how to put this any other way, a fluffy toy that chews your finger for you.
  Why would you want that? Apparently it’s stress relieving.
  “Play-biting is a method to convey various emotions without words. In
  
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• Bharti consolidates fibre assets as it walks away from planned re-org

  06-01-2022 13:45
  
  Bharti Airtel has abandoned plans to reorganise its business, buoyed by the Indian telecoms reform package, but is still shuffling certain assets, including bringing a fibre business in house.
  That last point is noteworthy, given that it comes at a time at which many international telecoms operators are spinning off fibre assets into new entities, often looking to capitalise on investor appetites for infrastructure businesses. In a similar vein, Bharti transferred its own fibre assets to Teleson
  
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• Antin set to cash in on Spain’s fibre success

  06-01-2022 13:33
  
  Spanish fibre operator Lyntia is reportedly up for sale at a value estimated to be in the region of €4 billion.
  Expansión reported earlier this week that Lyntia’s owner Antin Infrastructure Partners has brought in a whole host of advisers – including Banco Santander, Deutsche Bank and UBS – with a view to kicking off the sale process as soon as next week.
  Lyntia has two main lines of business: a nationwide wholesale fibre backbone operation, and local fibre access n
  
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• Reliance raises $4bn in India’s biggest overseas bond sale

  06-01-2022 11:34 via ft.com
  Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate takes advantage of low interest rates to push into new sectors
  
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• Will Ethiopia find a third telecoms operator in 2022?

  06-01-2022 01:00
  Motivated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, in 2020 Ethiopia’s telecoms regulator, the Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA), announced that it would introduce two new players to the Ethiopian telecoms market, breaking up one of the last telecoms monopolies in the world.  With a large, young population with rapidly increasingly digitalisation, Ethiopia was viewed as a goldmine for telecoms operators…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Truespeed secures further £100 million in second round of funding

  06-01-2022 01:00
  Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva PLC. The £100 million investment will help Truespeed accelerate the roll-out of its ultrafast, gigabit-capable full fibre network to more homes and businesses across urban, semi-rural and ultra-rural areas of South West England. It follows an initial £75 million investment made by Aviva Investors in 2017…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Truespeed secures £175 million in second round of funding

  06-01-2022 01:00
  Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva PLC. The £100 million investment will help Truespeed accelerate the roll-out of its ultrafast, gigabit-capable full fibre network to more homes and businesses across urban, semi-rural and ultra-rural areas of South West England. It follows an initial £75 million investment made by Aviva Investors in 2017…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Truespeed secures £175 million in second round fo funding

  06-01-2022 01:00
  Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva PLC. The £100 million investment will help Truespeed accelerate the roll-out of its ultrafast, gigabit-capable full fibre network to more homes and businesses across urban, semi-rural and ultra-rural areas of South West England. It follows an initial £75 million investment made by Aviva Investors in 2017…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Truespeed increases its investment from Aviva Investors to £175 million to accelerate delivery of full fibre broadband

  06-01-2022 01:00
  Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva PLC. The £100 million investment will help Truespeed accelerate the roll-out of its ultrafast, gigabit-capable full fibre network to more homes and businesses across urban, semi-rural and ultra-rural areas of South West England. It follows an initial £75 million investment made by Aviva Investors in 2017…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telkom seeks further delay for South African spectrum auction

  06-01-2022 01:00
  Spectrum allocation is a slow process in South Africa and has been for many years now. Indeed, it has in fact been almost 17 years since fresh spectrum was released by the regulator, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), and five previous attempts to auction spectrum have failed.While, naturally, this slow licencing process was lamented by the operators, the urgency of making further spectrum available was ultimately driven by the onset of the coronavirus in early 2020,
  
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• Rakuten spins off Symphony unit to better promote Open RAN globally

  06-01-2022 01:00
  To further this goal, the company launched the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) in October 2020, allowing both greenfield and brownfield operators access to Rakuten Mobile’s Open RAN network design, including tech that encompasses virtualisation, automation, containerisation, and microservices.Following initial successes of its RCP model, Rakuten took the decision in August last year to create Symphony…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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