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• Altice agrees sale of Cabovisao, Oni to Apax

  15-09-2015 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Altice announced an agreement to sell Portuguese operators Cabovisao and Oni to private equity group Apax France for an undisclosed sum. Altice agreed earlier this year to sell the companies in order to to secure regulatory approval for its acquisition of PT Portugal. In addition to private equity funds, Vodafone Portugal was also reported to be interested in cable operator Cabovisao and business services provider Oni, in order to expand its growing fixed business in Portugal. The
  
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• TEOCO supports new 5G Innovation Center at the University of Surrey

  15-09-2015 12:34
  
  University of Surrey program of next-generation wireless technologyFAIRFAX, VA., USA – 15 SEPTEMBER 2015 – TEOCO, the leading provider of assurance, analytics and optimization solutions to communications service providers (CSPs), is part of the group of mobile telecom companies lending its support to the 5G Innovation Center (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, which officially opens today.TEOCO is a Gold Founder member of the 5GIC project, which brings together over 170 researchers t
  
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• Inoapps Opens New City Of London HQ

  15-09-2015 12:32
  
  Award winning Oracle Platinum Partner Inoapps (www.inoapps.com) has continued its expansion with the opening of a new Group Headquarters in the City of London. With its rapid global expansion across EMEA the Far East and the Americas the company, which was founded in Aberdeen, believes that the new office at the heart of London’s international financial district is a natural development. The City Point location is also close to Oracle’s London offices in EC2.Inoapps’ commitment
  
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• MYCOM OSI monitors performance of UK’s new 5G testbed facility

  15-09-2015 11:10
  
  MYCOM OSI network performance dashboards showcase the 5G experience as part of the University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre official openingLondon, UK – 15th September 2015 – MYCOM OSI, the leading independent provider of next generation service assurance, automation/orchestration, and analytics solutions to the world’s largest communications service providers (CSPs), today announced its participation in the official opening of the University of Surrey’s state-of
  
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• 3 launches UK's first VoLTE service

  15-09-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Mobile operator 3 UK has launched the UK's first VoLTE service and is calling it '4G Super Voice'. The VoLTE service is carried over 800 MHz spectrum, whose shorter wavelength is better at going through walls. It also carries further to reach remote rural areas. CTO Bryn Jones told the Telegraph, "Indoor coverage across the industry is always the hardest problem to solve, so all networks, whether it's 2G, 3G or 4G will always have coverage blackspots." The operator said that 4G Su
  
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• Russian Service Provider Caravan Aero Selects Flexiant to Help Customers Reduce the Cost of Business by 25%

  15-09-2015 10:00
  
  Flexiant integrates with Odin for Caravan Aero to create a Virtual Data-Center, which allows customers to deploy complex infrastructure, targeted at Russian SMBs and enterpriseMoscow, Russia and London, UK - September 15, 2015 - Caravan Aero, the subsidiary of Caravan Telecom, the longest established datacenter provider in Moscow, has selected Flexiant to provide Virtual Data-Center (VDC) capabilities on-demand. Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator delivers the flexibility to meet Caravan Aero's requirem
  
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• OneFamily appoints Olive Communications in £1.5 million deal

  15-09-2015 09:10
  
  15 September, 2015 OneFamily, the modern mutual that counts one in 12 UK families as its customers, is set to invest £1.5 million over four years in the latest state-of-the-art communications technology as part of its ongoing mission to stay at the forefront of agent support.With more than £7 billion of assets under management and one of the UK‘s largest mutual insurers, it has appointed Olive Communications, based in High Wycombe, to develop and implement...Source: RealWire
  
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• Clarin buys 49% stake in Nextel Argentina for USD 178 mln

  15-09-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Argentinian media conglomerate Clarin has reached a deal with NII Holdings to acquire a 49 percent stake in Nextel Argentina, with an option to acquire the remaining 51 percent pending regulatory approvals. Clarin said the total amount paid for the stake in Argentina's fourth largest mobile operator was USD 178 million, of which USD 159 million was paid up front, with the remaining amount due within 30 days. NII said the net proceeds received from the transaction will be used to p
  
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• Google found to abuse dominant position in Russian market

  15-09-2015 08:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Google has been found guilty of abusing its dominant position in the Russian market, a spokesperson for the country's antitrust regulator told The Wall Street Journal. In February, Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service opened an investigation into Google for alleged anti-competitive practices related to how the company bundles apps with its Android mobile operating system. This followed a complaint from Google's Russian rival in the search market Yandex. The Russian regu
  
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• Vodafone, Liberty Global still mulling co-habitation plan

  15-09-2015 02:00
  
  John Malone says companies have yet to work out a structure for any combination of assets, but deal could still happen.
  
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• UK 5G Innovation Centre marks official opening with new testbed

  15-09-2015 02:00
  
  Surrey University's new research facility shows off candidate 5G technologies developed by Huawei.
  
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• Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent finalise US approvals for merger

  15-09-2015 02:00
  
  Equipment makers reiterate aim to close takeover deal in first half of 2016.
  
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• Chunghwa Telecom to launch G.fast in Q4

  15-09-2015 02:00
  
  Taiwanese telco deploying equipment from Alcatel-Lucent to help it boost broadband speeds.
  
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• Australia calls for applications in 1800 MHz auction

  15-09-2015 02:00
  
  ACMA sets 1 October deadline for interested parties to submit applications to take part in auction, shares reserve prices.
  
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• 3UK launches free VoLTE

  15-09-2015 02:00
  
  Mobile operator rolls out LTE at 800 MHz; uses spectrum to underpin '4G Super-Voice' service.
  
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