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• Telecom API Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and ... - PR Newswire (press release)

  10-08-2015 21:35 via prnewswire.com
  
  Telecom API Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and ...
  PR Newswire (press release)
  LONDON, Aug. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Telecom API market represents an overall Application Programming Interface (API) services provided by telecom carriers, service providers and aggregators to application developers in order to create mobile ...and more »
  
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• Spanish consumer body denounces Orange price hikes

  10-08-2015 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Spanish consumers association Facua denounced Orange's plan to raise prices for existing subscribers to its convergent offer next month and said it...
  
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• Telecom cop readies priority list - Calcutta Telegraph

  10-08-2015 21:20 via telegraphindia.com
  
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  Telecom cop readies priority list
  Calcutta Telegraph
  New Delhi, Aug. 10: The new chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), R.S. Sharma, today said he would try to quickly resolve the call-drop menace. Sharma, who was a secretary in the department of electronics and IT, said he would ...
  RS Sharma takes over as Trai ChairmanETTelecom.comall 32 news articles »
  
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• India launches mobile app to boost digital literacy in Bihar

  10-08-2015 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) India's telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has introduced a mobile application in Bihar to boost digital literacy across the state, The Economic Times reports...
  
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• Sprint Rises Most in 19 Months Amid Gains in Telecom Stocks - Bloomberg

  10-08-2015 19:35 via bloomberg.com
  Sprint Rises Most in 19 Months Amid Gains in Telecom Stocks
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  Sprint Corp. rose 14 percent, the biggest increase in 19 months, as the volatile stock rebounds from a decline in the middle of last week. Sprint jumped to $3.87, the highest intraday price since July 20, at 12:16 p.m. New York time. The company's 7 ...and more »
  
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• The Sorry State Of Egypt's Slow-Growth Telecom Sector - Worldcrunch

  10-08-2015 18:25 via worldcrunch.com
  
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  The Sorry State Of Egypt's Slow-Growth Telecom Sector
  Worldcrunch
  CAIRO — Etisalat, the smallest of Egypt's three telecom companies, has gone no-holds-barred in its latest challenge to Vodaphone, "borrowing" one of the latter's former mascots, a genie, to take several not-so-subtle jabs at the market leader's star ...
  Telecom Egypt's Q2 net profit rises to $48.3 millionReuters Africa
  UPDATE 2-Telecom Egypt's Q2 net profit rises to $48.3 millionReu
  
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• MasMovil buys Jazztel assets to become no 4 Spanish operator

  10-08-2015 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Spanish telecommunications provider MasMovil Ibercom said it will acquire certain fibre-optic network assets from Jazztel, which also agreed to allow its rival preferential access to its xDSL network for four years, renewable once. The deal aims to meet the conditions set by the EU to permit Orange's takeover of Jazztel and clears the way for MasMovil to become Spain's fourth national integrated operator.
  
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• Meo, Nos, Vodafone challenge regulatory fees

  10-08-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Portuguese operators Meo (Portugal Telecom), Nos and Vodafone Portugal have contested in court the EUR 27.9 million in regulatory fees charged by the...
  
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• Orange Poland sees Contact Center sale completed in August

  10-08-2015 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Orange Poland wants to sell its unit Contact Center by 27 August, reports Rpkom.pl...
  
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• Alibaba buys 20% stake in offline retailer Suning

  10-08-2015 13:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Alibaba Group announced the acquisition of a 20 percent stake in Suning, one of China's largest offline consumer retailers, for CNY 28.3 billion (USD 4.63 billion). After the closing the investment, Alibaba will be the second-largest shareholder in the company. As part of the deal, Suning will also buy CNY 14 billion new shares in Alibaba, giving a 1.1 percent stake in the e-commerce giant. The two companies agreed to work together to build synergies in e-commerce, logistics and i
  
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• Xiaomi starts assembling smartphones in India

  10-08-2015 12:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) China's Xiaomi has tied up with Foxconn to start assembling phones in India. The confirmation comes as Foxconn announced plans with Maharashtra state to invest USD 5 billion in expanding its manufacturing operations in India, Reuters report. The investment is part of the Indian government's 'Make in India' campaign to attract more foreign investment in the country. Xiaomi already sells its smartphones in India since last year and is hoping that manufacturing in the country will h
  
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• Thaicom celebrates a decade of IPSTAR - the world's first High Throughput Satellite

  10-08-2015 12:01
  
  Technology continues to fuel dramatic changes in the satellite marketNonthaburi, Thailand. August 10, 2015 - Thaicom, one of Asia's leading satellite operators, is today marking the tenth anniversary of IPSTAR - the world's first High Throughput Satellite (HTS) and one of the catalysts of the huge shift the satellite industry has undergone over the past decade. When it was launched in 2005, IPSTAR was the heaviest commercial GEO satellite ever orbited with a launch mass...Source: RealWire
  
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• Carphone Warehouse confirms UK security breach

  10-08-2015 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Dixons Carphoneconfirmed that the IT systems of a UK division of Carphone Warehouse have been breached by a major cyber attack. This division operates the Mobiles.co.uk, e2save.com and OneStopPhoneShop.com websites. It also provides a number of services to iD Mobile, TalkTalk Mobile, Talk Mobile and to certain customers of Carphone Warehouse. Dixons Carphone has implemented additional security measures and opened an investigation with a cyber security company to determine exactly
  
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• Opera attracts takeover interest

  10-08-2015 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Web browser developer Opera announced that the company has attracted "strategic interest from a number of parties". As a result, the software company's board started a process to evaluate and consider strategic alternatives for Opera. ABG Sundal Collier and Morgan Stanley International were hired as advisers, and Opera said it expects to complete the review in the second half of this year. Further details on the potential takeover were not disclosed. 
  
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• Macquarie Telecom bumps up earnings forecast - Computerworld Australia

  10-08-2015 06:04 via computerworld.com.au
  
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  Macquarie Telecom bumps up earnings forecast
  Computerworld Australia
  Macquarie Telecom (ASX: MAQ) revised its forecast earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) to $26 million-$26.5 million for the 2015 financial year. This is an upgrade from its previous forecast in May, where the company ...
  Macquarie Telecom lifts earnings guidanceBusiness Spectatorall 7 news articles »
  
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• Phone companies in Mass. target of lawsuit on 911 fees - Boston Globe

  10-08-2015 04:47 via bostonglobe.com
  
  Phone companies in Mass. target of lawsuit on 911 fees
  Boston Globe
  An Alabama company has sued phone companies in Massachusetts, claiming they are failing to pay the state hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to support the 911 emergency call system. Phone Recovery Systems has launched similar legal challenges in ...and more »
  
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• Sri Lanka Telecom Goes Live with NetCracker Integrated Revenue Management ... - Business Wire (press release)

  10-08-2015 03:00 via businesswire.com
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  Sri Lanka Telecom Goes Live with NetCracker Integrated Revenue Management ...
  Business Wire (press release)
  WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetCracker Technology announced today that Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the leading ICT solutions provider and the National Backbone operator in Sri Lanka, has gone live with upgraded NetCracker Revenue ...
  Sri Lanka Telecom goes live with NetCracker productsVanillaPlus (press release) (blog)
  Sri Lanka Telecom taps NetCr
  
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• Don't impose levy on spectrum trading proceeds: Telecom companies to government - Economic Times

  10-08-2015 02:23 via economictimes.indiatimes.com
  
  Don't impose levy on spectrum trading proceeds: Telecom companies to government
  Economic Times
  NEW DELHI: The telecom industry has raised its objections to a purported government proposal to levy a charge of as much as 13 per cent on the sale proceeds when a company trades its airwaves, saying it would amount to double taxation. The Cellular ...and more »
  
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• DoT summons telecom companies to review call drop situation - Economic Times

  10-08-2015 02:12 via economictimes.indiatimes.com
  
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  DoT summons telecom companies to review call drop situation
  Economic Times
  KOLKATA: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has summoned all mobile phone operators on Thursday to review the call drops situation across India and discuss the results of recent 'drive tests' conducted by the government, stepping up ...
  Telecom companies initiate steps to curb call drops; submit report to DoTDaily News & Analysis
  Telecom operators initiate steps to curb call drops; subm
  
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• Underwhelming Opera attracts suitors

  10-08-2015 02:00
  
  Mobile browser maker launches strategic review, cuts guidance, and acquires app-subscription specialist Bemobi.
  
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• TeliaSonera trials LTE-A in Denmark

  10-08-2015 02:00
  
  Operator tests carrier aggregation using 1800-MHz, 2.6-GHz spectrum in Copenhagen.
  
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• Orange offloads Armenia ops

  10-08-2015 02:00
  
  French telco announces deal to sell Armenian business to Ucom.
  
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• Italy makes first €2.2bn available for ultrafast broadband

  10-08-2015 02:00
  
  Italian PM Matteo Renzi details €12 billion broadband plan as country seeks to close digital divide.
  
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• Etisalat sells more Nigeria towers to IHS

  10-08-2015 02:00
  
  IHS takes over management of a further 555 mobile towers in Nigeria.
  
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• Details of 2.4m Carphone Warehouse customers accessed by hackers

  10-08-2015 02:00
  
  U.K. retailer contacts affected customers; takes measures to prevent future attacks.
  
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• AT&T dangles $500 in front of DirecTV customers

  10-08-2015 02:00
  
  U.S. telco hopes that newly-acquired TV business will help to boost its mobile base.
  
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