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• Strone Technology Launches Permanent Fix For Mobile Roaming On Indiegogo

  28-09-2015 12:41
  
  28 September 2015 - Strone Technology today announced the launch of an Indiegogo campaign to offer pre-orders of their innovative device, the Strone Roam, which provides an easy, affordable and convenient way to avoid bill shock when travelling abroad.“Fear of exorbitant international roaming charges is a major issue for travellers and nobody has been able to provide a full solution to avoid the cost and inconvenience, no matter which carrier or which country you travel...Source: RealWire
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER Cube Optics to demonstrate 100GBase-LR4 ROSA for QSFP28 Transceivers at ECOC 2015

  28-09-2015 12:15
  
  New product sets the standard for next generation pluggable transceivers in data centers and LANsThe miniature multi-lambda 100G ROSA (receiver optical sub-assembly), designed for CFP4 or QSFP28 transceivers, will be featured by HUBER+SUHNER Cube Optics (CUBO) at the ECOC exhibition this week in Valencia, Spain.The Cube Optics miniature ROSA sets the standard for next generation pluggable transceivers and is an exciting solution for both data center and client side applications, especially where
  
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• Siminn offers 18-21% stake in IPO from 05-07 October

  28-09-2015 12:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Icelandic operator Siminn said Arion Bank will be offering an 18 to 21 percent stake in Siminn to the public from 05 to 07 October. The size of the offering will be between ISK 4.7 billion and ISK 5.5 billion with a share price of ISK 2.7 per. The shares ar expected to start trading on the Nasdaq Iceland main market on 15 October.
  
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• Vodafone wants a piece of the Dutch quad-play market

  28-09-2015 12:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Vodafone Netherlands wants to take part of the Dutch quad-play market. The operator will give extra's to mobile customers who also take fixed telephony, internet and TV packages from Vodafone. The customers will receive an additional 3 GB per month as well as a free TV theme package, of their own choosing. Vodafone said this will enable it to compete in the growing market dominated mainly by KPN and Ziggo. According to Bart Hofker, director of the consumer market at Vodafone NL, t
  
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• Kyrgyzstan auction for LTE bands is completed

  28-09-2015 11:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The Kyrgyzstan State Property Management Fund has completed an auction to allocate three 10 MHz blocks of mobile spectrum, reports Tazabek. The auction has been carried out in three lots, 806-811 MHz/847-852 MHz, 811-816 MHz/852-857 MHz and 816-821 MHz/857-862 MHz bands were offered for an initial price of KGS 238.803 million per band. Mobile operators Nur Telecom, working under the O! brand, Sky Mobile, working under the Beeline Kyrgyzstan brand, and Alfa Telecom, working under t
  
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• Purple WiFi Delivers Instant Social Media Boost to Llechwedd Slate Caverns

  28-09-2015 10:43
  
  September 28, 2015: Purple WiFi, the cloud-based Social WiFi software company, today announced details of a successful campaign launch with Llechwedd Slate Caverns.Since beginning its partnership with cloud-based social WiFi innovators, Purple WiFi, in July 2015, Snowdonia attraction Llechwedd Slate Caverns’ social media campaign has been transformed. By installing standard enterprise BT Broadband, linked to two Openmesh Access Points (in the café and Emporium), Purple WiFi has enab
  
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• Facebook announces Free Basics app, mobile website

  28-09-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Facebook has announced a new name for its Internet.org app and mobile website — Free Basics by Facebook. Facebook says the change will better distinguish the Internet.org initiative from the programs and services it is providing, including Free Basics. According to Chris Daniels, VP of Internet.org, Internet.org is the entire programme, while Free Basic services is "just a portion of Internet.org". Free Basic services is Facebook's initiative with operators, where it "offers
  
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• Google to offer customer match service for advertisers

  28-09-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Google will announce two new products at Advertising Week on 28 September, Customer Match and Universal App Campaigns. In a blog post, the company's senior vice president for advertising and commerce, Sridhar Ramaswamy, writes that the new Customer Match feature allows advertisers to address their highest-value customers on Google Search, YouTube and Gmail when it matters most. Customer Match can also be used to generate Similar Audiences to reach new customers on YouTube and Gmai
  
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• US, China to co-operate on fighting cybercrime

  28-09-2015 09:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The US and China reached an agreement to cooperate on cybercrime during a state visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping to the US. The two sides have agreed to cooperate with requests to investigate cybercrimes, collect electronic evidence and mitigate malicious cyber activity emanating from their terrories. The two governments have also agreed that neither would conduct nor knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential
  
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• Liquid Telecom plans 2016 listing on European bourse

  28-09-2015 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Econet Group founder Strive Masiyiwa says he is considering a separate listing in 2016 for subsidiary Liquid Telecom, a major operator of fibre and business satellite services in Africa. Masiyiwa, who is the Econet Group executive chairman, said the company had decided to opt to list Liquid after spurning several multi-billion dollar offers for it. He said Econet had received several unsolicited offers for Liquid, but it wants it to remain an independent access provider of interne
  
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• Italy frees up EUR 2.2 bln for broadband expansion

  28-09-2015 09:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Italy's Court of Auditors has finally freed up EUR 2.2 billion of public funds to begin work on the country's EUR 12 billion broadband expansion plan after the Council of Ministers passed the corresponding bill last month. The Court confirmed that priority would be given to southern rural zones (clusters C and D) that have been hitherto unable to attract private investment. However, only EUR 40 million of funds will be available next year, with EUR 350 million coming in 2017 and 2
  
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• Sprint will not take part in 600 MHz auction

  28-09-2015 09:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Sprint has announced that it will not take part in the 600 MHz incentive auction scheduled for March 2016. The company said its current spectrum holdings are sufficient to provide existing and future customers with great network coverage and to be able to provide consistent reliability, capacity and speed customers demand. 
  
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• European Commission, China strike 5G partnership deal

  28-09-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The European Commission and the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) have signed a partnership agreement to jointly support the development of 5G networks. The document was signed at the EU-China High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue in Beijing.
  
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• Vocus, M2 Group to merge into company worth over AUD 3 bln

  28-09-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Australian and New Zealand wholesale IP transit and voice supplier Vocus and M2 Group have signed a merger agreement that will create the fourth-largest telecoms company in Australia by market value and the third biggest in New Zealand. The new company will be worth more than AUD 3 billion and have revenues of around AUD 1.8 billion. Vocus said it has offered 1.625 of its shares for each M2 share, implying an AUD 1.93 billion value for M2. The price represents a 25 percent premium
  
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• Telecom Italia to explore sale of tower unit Inwit

  28-09-2015 08:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Telecom Italia has given its CEO a mandate to explore the sale of its mobile-phone tower unit Inwit, with Spain's Cellnex Telecom and Italian infrastructure fund F2i said to be among the interested bidders. "Telecom Italia will explore opportunities to enhance the value of the Inwit stake," said Telecom Italia in statement released after its board meeting in Rio de Janeiro. Inwit operates some 11,500 sites across Italy and the operator raised around EUR 875 million after selling a
  
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• Vodafone, Liberty end merger talks

  28-09-2015 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Vodafone Group announced that it and Liberty Global have terminated their merger discussion. The group confirmed on 5 June that it was in the early stages of discussions about an exchange or combination of assets. Liberty Global told Bloomberg earlier this month that the two were struggling to reach agreement.
  
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• Call Drop Problem Improving, Says Telecom Minister - NDTV

  28-09-2015 06:47 via
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  Call Drop Problem Improving, Says Telecom Minister
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  Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday asserted that telecom operators have been told to shape up on the issue of the growing problem of call drops and that the situation was improving. "There is a problem ...and more »
  

• Vodafone, Liberty Global end deal talks

  28-09-2015 02:00
  
  Companies reach stalemate in asset swap negotiations.
  
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• Telecom Italia explores towers sale, reaffirms LatAm strategy

  28-09-2015 02:00
  
  Italian incumbent once again insists that Brazil is a strategically important asset, remains committed to Argentina through sale process.
  
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• Sprint opts out of incentive auction

  28-09-2015 02:00
  
  U.S. operator says it has no need to acquire 600-MHz spectrum.
  
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• Qualcomm launches $150m India start-up fund

  28-09-2015 02:00
  
  Chip maker offers budding companies access to its tech expertise, partners.
  
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• EU, China strike 5G partnership

  28-09-2015 02:00
  
  Both sides to promote global standardisation effort, explore possibility of joint research projects.
  
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• Australian M&A continues with M2, Vocus tie-up

  28-09-2015 02:00
  
  Merger will create fourth largest telco in Australia and third largest in New Zealand, operators claim.
  
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