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• Millicom gets 24% stake in Helios Towers Africa

  07-10-2015 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Millicom and Helios Towers Africa (HTA) Africa's telecommunications tower company, have announced that Millicom will own 24 percent of shares in HTA on a fully diluted basis following a shareholding reorganisation. As a result of the reorganisation, Millicom will exchange shares which were previously held in HTA's tower companies in Ghana, DRC and Tanzania, into shares in HTA's parent company. This transaction will simplify the share ownership structure of HTA, align interest amon
  
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• T-Mobile NL extends into business market with KLM contract

  07-10-2015 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) T-Mobile Netherlands said it has won KLM as a customer. The deal includes not only mobile but also integration with fixed telephony...
  
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• Blue Light Solution - LTE Public Safety Networks High on the Agenda at LTE North America

  07-10-2015 16:54
  
  Dallas, USA, 7 October 2015 – With work already well under way to apply LTE to public safety and commercial critical communication scenarios, there are still many challenges and discussions to be had to ensure the rollout of reliable and resilient networks. LTE North America (17-19 November 2015) will dedicate an entire day’s programme and exhibition area to focus on LTE public safety solutions.Endorsed by the Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT), the LTE...So
  
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• Dixons, MyCom parent files for bankruptcy

  07-10-2015 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Retail chain BAS Group has filed for bankruptcy, different media sources reported. The group includes electronics chain Dixons, computer store MyCom and Apple reseller iCentre...
  
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• Telefonica launches STEM challenge for Spanish schools

  07-10-2015 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Telefonica has announced the launch of an intercollegiate competition to encourage the development of technological skills in Spanish secondary schools...
  
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• Pandora acquires Ticketfly

  07-10-2015 14:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Pandora entered into an agreement to acquire Ticketfly, a live events technology company. The move is the latest step toward achieving Pandora's mission to help artists find their audience and help listeners find the music they love. Ticketfly provides ticketing and marketing software for approximately 1,200 venues and event promoters across North America and makes it easy for fans to find and purchase tickets to events. The transaction is valued at approximately USD 450 million,
  
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• Nepal passes 28 mln voice customers milestone in June

  07-10-2015 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Nepal reached 28.10 million voice telephony subscribers at 16 June, up from 27.39 in mid-April...
  
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• Use of big data increases productivity by 5-10% - OECD

  07-10-2015 14:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Companies using data-driven innovation have increased their productivity 5-10 percent faster than non-users, according to a new OECD report. The migration of economic and social activities to the internet and the advent of the Internet of Things – along with dramatically lower costs of data collection, storage and processing and rising computing power – means data-analytics is increasingly driving innovation and is potentially an important new source of growth, said th
  
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• TE Subcom finishes Hibernia Express submarine cable system

  07-10-2015 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, completed the new Hibernia Express submarine cable system. The 4,600-kilometre cable provides the lowest-latency fibre-optic path between New York and London, connecting Halifax, Nova Scotia and Brean, UK, with terrestrial fibre to extend connectivity to the major metro areas. In order to achieve Hibernia Networks' low latency goal, the engineered route traverses seabed locations th
  
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• Maldives tops 712,000 mobile subscribers in August

  07-10-2015 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The Maldives mobile base increased to 712,568 subscribers in August, compared to 702,658 in July...
  
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• NTT Com appoints president of NTT Indonesia Nexcenter

  07-10-2015 14:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) NTT Communications (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, has appointed Akihiko Igarashi as...
  
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• Timico announces launch of new On-net service

  07-10-2015 14:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) UK business internet, hosting and communications service provider Timico has announced a new service called On-net...
  
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• Inventec targets revenues to over USD 20 bln in 2017

  07-10-2015 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Inventec expects to achieve revenues of USD 20 billion in 2017. Revenues for 2015 are expected to be flat year-on-year or slightly decline from TWD...
  
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• Romania gets 5 applications at 3.4-3.6, 3.6-3.8 GHz auction

  07-10-2015 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Romania's telecommunications authority Ancom received applications from 2K Telecom, Orange Romania, RCS&RDS, The National Radiocommunications Company and Vodafone Romania in the auction launched on 7 September with a view to awarding licences for the use of radio frequencies in the 3.4-3.6 GHz and 3.6-3.8 GHz bands. The candidates that qualified to the next stage will be announced until 12 December. The selection procedure's continuation course (whether primary rounds are
  
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• Pharol shareholders to deliberate share sale and purchase

  07-10-2015 13:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Portugal's Pharol SGPS (formerly PT SGPS) has announced a general meeting of shareholders on 04 November to decide on the acquisition and sale of its own shares...
  
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• SK, Nokia to develop mobile network for disaster response

  07-10-2015 13:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) South Korean operator SK Telecom, in partnership with Nokia, will develop a mobile network for disaster response, Nikkei reports, citing an SK statement. SK Telecom and Nokia plan to develop software for network base stations within the year. SK and Nokia plan to tweak bandwidth use to minimize the load on network infrastructure and disseminate data to many handsets. The two partners also intend to subsequently expand the technology to other markets worldwide.
  
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• Nokia execs to head merger with ALU

  07-10-2015 12:45
  Alcatel-Lucent execs dominate operational units in networks group, but Nokia keeps its own people at the top level
  
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• Starbucks appoints former Adobe CIO as its first CTO

  07-10-2015 11:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Starbucks has appointed Gerri Martin-Flickinger as CTO, reports the New York Times, citing a staff e-mail...
  
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• Capacity Europe to Host the World’s Biggest Telecoms Companies

  07-10-2015 11:41
  
  Europe’s largest carrier meeting to take place in Paris from 2nd - 4th NovemberLondon, 7th October 2015 - Eight of Forbes’ top 10 telecoms companies in the world are due to attend Capacity Europe 2015 – the largest carrier meeting in the region.AT&T Partner Solutions, China Mobile, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom ICSS, NTT Communications, Telefónica Global Solutions, Verizon Partner Solutions and Vodafone Carrier Services will be among over 1400 attendees representin
  
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• Parliament wants more time for code of conduct around debt

  07-10-2015 11:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) The Dutch Lower House of Parliament wants the telecom sector to get more time to discuss debt problems and how it plans to apply the Financial Supervision Act (Wft). The House wants parties to have until the end of the year to agree on a covenant. Parliament is responding to a motion put forth on 6 October by VVD MP Aukje de Vries. The motion asked the government to invite the sector to develop a code of conduct for the prevention and management of mobile debts. If the government
  
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• Orange backs Saudi-French Business Opportunities Forum

  07-10-2015 11:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Orange Business Services is supporting the Saudi-French Business Opportunities Forum as a Silver Sponsor, the Saudi Gazette reported. The forum takes place in Riyadh on 12 October...
  
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• Marvell unveils Marvell AP806, Armada A3700 chips

  07-10-2015 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Marvell introduced its hyper-scale Marvell AP806 and Armada A3700 chips, the company's flagship 64-bit ARM Powered products based on Marvell's...
  
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• Telefonica Chile picks FalconStor data service software

  07-10-2015 11:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Software-defined storage company FalconStor announced a contract to provide Telefonica Chile with its FreeStor data service software platform...
  
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• The Kenton Group to launch fibre-free ultrafast broadband access solution offering speeds of up to 320Mb

  07-10-2015 10:54
  
  Leading network access specialist to showcase Velocity Lite solution with partner SmartRG at Broadband World ForumLondon, 07 October 2015 – The Kenton Group, one of Europe’s fastest growing network access specialists, has today announced the launch of its new ultrafast broadband access solution offering speeds of up to 320Mb over bonded Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC).Velocity Lite – on show for the first time at Broadband World Forum in London later this month – offers...Sou
  
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• CA suspends senior staff over expenses and orders audit

  07-10-2015 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has suspended two senior executives and ordered another audit into its entire financial dealings, Business Daily reported...
  
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• Digicel abandons plans for IPO

  07-10-2015 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Digicel Group, provider of communications services in 31 markets in the Caribbean and South Pacific, has decided not to proceed with its planned IPO at this time. Despite significant support from a number of investors during the marketing period, Digicel has decided that current conditions, especially in emerging markets, make an IPO a less attractive option for the company. Chairman Denis O'Brien said that an IPO was and predicated on achieving fair value for the company. He said
  
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• Algeria has no plans to float Algerie Telecom - minister

  07-10-2015 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Algerian ICT minister Iman Houda Feraoun announced at a press event that Algerie Telecom would not be floated on the stock market because it is a strategic domain of the state, reports Ecofin...
  
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• IoT driving operator strategies for future network assurance

  07-10-2015 10:32
  
  Research reveals network assurance complexity is driving automation, but operators reluctant to fully relinquish control and are divided over NFVLondon, UK – 7th October 2015 – Research published today has revealed that the emergence of IoT and increased M2M communications is the biggest driver for mobile operators’ network assurance. Over 34 percent of respondents (MNOs and industry players) cite IoT/M2M as the main factor, with the increasing need to improve network quality a
  
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• Polkomtel makes infrastructure and management changes

  07-10-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Polkomtel, belonging to the Cyfrowy Polsat group, started the third quarter by implementing several infrastructure and management changes, reports Rpkom.pl...
  
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• Archos plans PicoWAN smartplug-based LoRa network

  07-10-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) French mobile device maker Archos has announced plans to form a new subsidiary, PicoWAN, that will launch a Low Power-Wide Area Network (LP-WAN) for the IoT in Europe in June 2016. The company has developed smart plugs, or 'picogateways' connected to the internet via Wi-Fi or Ethernet using the LoRa standard. Archos said the range of the picogateways is potentially as long as the antennas installed on PicoWAN rooftops by telecom operators. They offer the advantage of low-cost, eas
  
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• Microsoft shows off new laptop, tablet, phones, hololens

  07-10-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Microsoft has unveiled its new Surface, Lumia and Microsoft Band devices, all running the new Windows 10 with Windows Hello, Cortana, improved touch and pen experiences on Surface, and Continuum for phones, enabling the new Lumia 950 and 950 XL phones to work like PCs. Microsoft also shared new gaming experiences from Xbox and new details on Microsoft HoloLens, the first fully untethered holographic computer. The company also announced new universal apps for Windows 10, including
  
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• Samsung estimates 79.8% profit growth in Q3

  07-10-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) South Korean electronics producer Samsung expects its third quarter operating profit to grow be nearly 79.8 percent year-on-year, marking its first...
  
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• Nokia announces structure, executives after Alcatel merger

  07-10-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Nokia has announced the leadership and organisational structure it plans to implement subject to the successful closing of its public exchange offer for Alcatel-Lucent announced in April. After the closing of the acquisition, the networks business will be conducted through four business groups: mobile networks, fixed networks, applications & analytics and IP/optical networks. Alongside these, Nokia Technologies would continue to operate as a separate business group. The mobile
  
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• Vodafone Spain launches Fast Forward initiative

  07-10-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Vodafone Spain has announced the launch of Fast Forward, a roadshow made up of 30 events in 15 different Spanish cities aimed at professionals and...
  
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• No Telecom Italia-Orange merger talks underway - Patuano

  07-10-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Telecom Italia is not negotiating a possible merger with French rival Orange, according to the CEO of the Italian operator...
  
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• Nokia presents post-merger leadership team

  07-10-2015 02:00
  
  Merged entity's top management will be dominated by current Nokia executives.
  
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• Microsoft launches first laptop, unveils Windows 10 smartphones

  07-10-2015 02:00
  
  Software giant also shows off its new Surface Pro 4 in bid to keep pace with Apple, Google.
  
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• EU extends deadline on Telenet/Base investigation

  07-10-2015 02:00
  
  European Commission says it will issue a ruling on planned Belgian merger by 3 March 2016.
  
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• Digicel cans $2 billion IPO

  07-10-2015 02:00
  
  Caribbean operator pulls planned listing due to market conditions.
  
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• AT&T gets WiFi calling waiver

  07-10-2015 02:00
  
  FCC says U.S. telco's upcoming service not required to support text telephony.
  
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• Telecom Experts Plot a Path to 5G - IEEE Spectrum

  07-10-2015 00:04
  Telecom Experts Plot a Path to 5G
  IEEE Spectrum
  Even before the 4G technology your smartphone uses was rolled out in earnest, telecommunications experts were dreaming of the next generation: 5G. But what 5G will do and how it will do it have remained pretty nebulous. “5G is a plethora of ...
  

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