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• Innovation Minister hints at telecom policy, calls for 'open and secure' Internet - Financial Post

  28-06-2016 22:50 via business.financialpost.com
  
  Financial Post
  Innovation Minister hints at telecom policy, calls for 'open and secure' Internet
  Financial Post
  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean KilpatrickNavdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, speaks to media in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill. Twitter · Google+ · LinkedIn · Email · Typo? More. Comments ...
  
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• Apple under probe in South Korea

  28-06-2016 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) South Korea's anticompetition body, the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), has launched an investigation into "some matters" related to Apple, Reuters reports, citing FTC chairman Jeong Jae-chan...
  
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• Telecom act to be amended: Tarana - The Daily Star

  28-06-2016 20:14 via thedailystar.net
  
  The Daily Star
  Telecom act to be amended: Tarana
  The Daily Star
  State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim yesterday said they will amend the existing telecom act in line with the newly approved national telecom policy, to achieve the targets fixed by the cabinet. The ministry will shortly take initiatives to amend ...
  
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• Amdocs puts itself at the heart of digital innovation beyond telecoms

  28-06-2016 18:30
  Amdocs is well placed to provide advice to companies in the throes of digital transformation. Bill Boyle talks to Christopher Williams, head of global marketing
  
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• Levira appoints Tammiste as new CEO

  28-06-2016 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The supervisory board of Levira, an Estonian provider of media, cloud, broadcast and network services, named Tiit Tammiste as CEO, effective from 1 August...
  
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• Liquid Telecom buys Neotel to lay high-speed fibre across Africa - Financial Times

  28-06-2016 17:16 via ft.com
  Financial Times
  Liquid Telecom buys Neotel to lay high-speed fibre across Africa
  Financial Times
  Liquid Telecom, the group seeking to lay high-speed internet fibre cable across Africa, bought the South African fixed-line operator Neotel in a deal that will create the continent's biggest broadband network. The R6.55bn ($430m) sale by Tata ...
  Sale of Tata-led Neotel will boost telecom across Africa: LTEconomic Times
  Royal Bafokeng and Liquid Telecom to buy stake in NeotelBDlive
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• Moldova opens consultation on public networks

  28-06-2016 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Moldova's telecommunications authority Anrceti opened a public consultation on its board's draft decision concerning the determination of the format...
  
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• Solgari installs cloud telephony platform for BCK

  28-06-2016 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Business cloud communications provider Solgari has deployed its technology at Irish audit, tax and consultancy firm BCK and sister company BCK Wealth Management...
  
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• Skyworth Digital selected as main supplier for world’s largest analog switch off (ASO) project worldwide

  28-06-2016 17:02
  
  14 million Brazil Ginga-C set-top boxes (STBs) plus 15 million ISDB-T-compliant Zappers expected to be deployed in Brazilian marketShenzhen, China, 28 June 2016 – Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology Co. LTD. (000810.SZ), a leading STB and smart home solutions provider, today announced it has been selected as a supplier for Brazil’s Analog Switch Off (ASO) – the world’s biggest digital switch over so far – and as the main provider for the largest cities in the...Sou
  
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• Coms plc changes name to Redstone Connect

  28-06-2016 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Shareholders have approved the renaming of UK-based Coms Plc to Redstone Connect to reflect the group's strategy of providing technology and services...
  
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• Rio airport upgrades to HPE data centre, Aruba products

  28-06-2016 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, announced that RioGaleao-Tom Jobim International Airport, the official airport of the 2016 Olympics,...
  
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• IBM Research scientists discover new recycling process

  28-06-2016 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) IBM Research announced that researchers from the Almaden lab in San Jose, US, discovered a new, one-step chemical process that converts...
  
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• NTT Com wins IT as a Service contract with Admin Re

  28-06-2016 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) ICT and communications services provider NTT Communications has won a new 5-year contract with life and health insurance book manager Admin Re to...
  
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• Net Neutrality Could Mean Lost Calls For Telecom ETFs - Benzinga

  28-06-2016 16:40 via benzinga.com
  
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  Net Neutrality Could Mean Lost Calls For Telecom ETFs
  Benzinga
  Thanks in large part to tumbling Treasury yields and investors' desire for lower beta sectors, telecommunications exchange-traded funds, the often overlooked options of the sector ETF universe, are soaring this year. For example, the Vanguard ...and more »
  
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• Mexican Telecom Sector Witnesses a Surge in Investments - Zacks.com

  28-06-2016 16:35 via zacks.com
  
  Mexican Telecom Sector Witnesses a Surge in Investments
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  Mexico has in recent times been witnessing massive investment in its telecom sector. The country's Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) declared that a total of more than $6.5 billion was invested over the last three years. In addition ...and more »
  
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• Silknet, Magticom get new number series

  28-06-2016 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Georgian national telecommunicatins regulator GNCC has allocated phone numbers in the town of Samtredia for the operator Silknet. The resource will be used for providing fixed telephony services...
  
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• Beeline appoints new VP for legal affairs

  28-06-2016 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Russian mobile operator Vimpelcom, working under the Beeline brand, has appointed Anton Bykov the new executive vice-president responsible for legal issues and corporate relations...
  
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• OPNFV Survey Shows Nearly All Telecom Operators on Board with NFV - Linux.com (blog)

  28-06-2016 16:17 via linux.com
  OPNFV Survey Shows Nearly All Telecom Operators on Board with NFV
  Linux.com (blog)
  A recent survey released by the Linux Foundation's Open Platform for NFV Project, found an increasingly small percentage of telecom operators have not yet planned for network functions virtualization. The survey, which was conducted for OPNFV by Heavy ...
  
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• HGI makes all its Home Gateway specifications public prior to planned closure at end of June 2016

  28-06-2016 15:45
  
  28 June 2016. The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI), which has been the world’s leading organisation setting requirements for the broadband-connected Home Gateway since 2005, today confirmed it will cease operations as planned on Thursday, June 30, but will make its work available on a new archive website. HGI members have worked tirelessly to complete the planned work on schedule, with ten documents published since mid-2015. These include the completely updated “Residential Profile&rdqu
  
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• Moldtelecom gives away 9 tablets, TV during contest

  28-06-2016 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Moldavian operator Moldtelecom launched a contest whose prize pool comprises nine Allview Viva C701 tablets and a Samsung TV...
  
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• Cisco to buy cloud security specialist CloudLock

  28-06-2016 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Cisco announced its intent to acquire CloudLock, a privately held cloud security company based in Massachusetts, for USD 293 million. CloudLock specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology that provides enterprises with visibility and analytics around user behavior and sensitive data in cloud services, including SaaS, IaaS and PaaS. The acquisition will further enhance Cisco's security portfolio and build on Cisco's Security Everywhere strategy, designed to provid
  
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• Smart, Nokia to provide technical training to colleges

  28-06-2016 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Philippines operator Smart Communications has signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) with NetworkLabs, the Philippine research and development arm of Nokia Networks...
  
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• FPT's CSO Huu Thai Hoa moves to VNPT

  28-06-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Huu Thai Hoa, chief strategy officer at Vietnamese operator FPT, will take up a position at Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT). Thai Hoa started his career at Schneider Electric group...
  
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• HP Enterprise shakes up to push innovation

  28-06-2016 14:30
  HP Enterprise is continuing its process of internal restructuring with the removal of two veteran staff and more internal re-organisation
  
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• DNA joins Anvia Telecom bidding with EUR 120 mln offer

  28-06-2016 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Finnish operator DNA said it has made a binding cash offer of EUR 120 million for Anvia Telecom and four other Anvia subsidiaries. This is above the EUR 107 million that Elisa agreed with Anvia to pay for Anvia Telecom, Anvia IT-Services, Anvia Hosting, Anvia TV and Watson Nordic.
  
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• India PC shipments drop 7.4% in Q1

  28-06-2016 13:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) PC shipments in India amounted to nearly 2 million units in the first quarter of this year, which represents a decrease of 7.4 percent compared to...
  
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• Dialog launches Clash of Clans convention in Sri Lanka

  28-06-2016 13:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Dialog Sri Lanka has launched the 'Dialog Gaming Clash-On! Sri Lanka 2016' gaming event for mobile gamers and champions of 'Clash of Clans'...
  
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• Open Compute Project names CTO

  28-06-2016 13:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Bill Carter has joined the Open Compute Project Foundation as chief technology officer. Carter has worked on the open-source project since 2012 and help set up the OCP Teclo Project...
  
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• Broadsmart selects Broadsoft's cloud contact centre offering

  28-06-2016 13:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) BroadSoft, an unified communication software as a service (UCaaS) specialist, announced that Broadsmart Global, a hosted UCaaS provider for...
  
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• TDC formally rebrands domestic retail ops as YouSee

  28-06-2016 12:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Danish operator TDC said its domestic retail operations have formally rebranded as YouSee from 27 June. To celebrate, it is giving existing mobile customers free data for the whole of July...
  
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• Italy considers WhatsApp regulation, fair payment - report

  28-06-2016 12:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Italian communications regulator Agcom could impose new regulatory obligations on "consumer communication services" such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Viber, and require them to pay operators for using their networks, reports La Repubblica. The watchdog is planning to propose an "obligation to negotiate" with telecommunications companies as well as a requirement to respect Italian privacy laws, said the report. The proposed payment to operators should be "equitable, proportionate and
  
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• The BCK Group completes global cloud communications project in just 60 hours with Solgari

  28-06-2016 12:12
  
  28 June 2016 – Solgari, the leading business cloud communications provider, has today announced its successful deployment at BCK and its sister company BCK Wealth Management Ltd (BCK). Solgari has replaced BCK’s entire traditional landline infrastructure with a cloud-based telephony solution that offers low cost, instant voice communications for all users across all internet connected endpoints. Supporting BCK during a period of rapid growth and relocation, the service is ideally sui
  
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• Up to 800 TIM workers to take early retirement this year

  28-06-2016 11:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Around 98 percent of eligible Telecom Italia (TIM) workers signed up to the company's early retirement plan in the first half of the year, according to an unnamed source cited by Reuters...
  
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• Telia renews comprehensive contract with Skane county

  28-06-2016 11:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Telia said it has renewed the contract to supply Skane county council with corporate telephony and data communications network services for three years from 01 April 2017...
  
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• Line sets IPO range at JPY 2,700-3,200 per share

  28-06-2016 11:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Japanese mobile messaging provider Japanese Line has set its price range for an initial public offering (IPO) in Tokyo and New York next month at JPY 2,700-3,200 (USD 26.50-31.50) per share, the Wall Street Journal reported. The IPO could raise up to JPY 112 billion, making it the biggest technology listing so far this year.
  
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• SK Telecom, CKG Group JV linked with fourth Senegal licence - TeleGeography

  28-06-2016 11:38 via telegeography.com
  
  SK Telecom, CKG Group JV linked with fourth Senegal licence
  TeleGeography
  A joint venture between South Korea's SK Telecom and Middle Eastern firm CKG Group has been linked with an XOF100 billion (USD171 million) bid for a fourth Senegalese mobile licence, Agence Ecofin reports. The offer has been described as ...and more »
  
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• Prysmian Grows In Russia And Kazakhstan

  28-06-2016 10:12
  
  New Orders Received For High-Voltage Cables Produced In RybinskStrategic Agreement With Russian Grids (Rosseti) In Power Transmission Cables And SystemsSt. Petersburg, 28 June 2016 – Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, confirms the constant growth of Prysmian Russia, which recently reached many important milestones in the high-voltage electrical power transmission grid sector in Russia and Kazakhstan.In detail, the Group has been awarded the
  
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• Consumers turn back to shops for smartphone purchase in Q1

  28-06-2016 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Consumers are increasingly buying their phones in physical shops, according to the Dutch Smartphone User Q1 2016 report by Telecompaper. In the first quarter of 2016, 42 percent of Dutch consumers said they bought their smartphones online, down from 47 percent a year earlier. Especially Apple and HTC smartphones are more often bought in shops (+13 and +15 percentage points in a year). The Telecompaper report 'Dutch Smartphone User Q1 2016' shows that 86 percent of Dutch consumers
  
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• BlackBerry, Emtek enter strategic alliance

  28-06-2016 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) BlackBerry entered into a strategic alliance with PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi (Emtek), a media, content and technology business in Indonesia, that will provide cross-platform BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) end-users with access to enriched content and services. This partnership accelerates BlackBerry's vision to advance BBM for the consumer market through a licensing agreement with Emtek that enables the company to develop new BBM applications and services for Android, iOS and Windows
  
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• HPE shifts organisation as it bids farewell to CTO

  28-06-2016 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced some new organisational changes as it looks towards the completion of its Enterprise Services business spin-off in March 2017.
  
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• Liquid Telecom buys Neotel for ZAR 6.55 bln

  28-06-2016 08:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Tata Communications and minority shareholders led by Nexus Connexion have agreed to sell South African operator Neotel to Liquid Telecom for ZAR 6.55 billion. Liquid Telecom is partnering with Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH), a South African empowerment investment group, which has committed to take a 30 percent equity stake in Neotel.
  
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• Tata Comm to sell Neotel to Liquid Telecom, RBH for ZAR6.55 billion - Economic Times

  28-06-2016 06:42 via economictimes.indiatimes.com
  
  Economic Times
  Tata Comm to sell Neotel to Liquid Telecom, RBH for ZAR6.55 billion
  Economic Times
  NEW DELHI: Liquid Telecom, a privately owned, pan-African telecoms group, majority owned by Econet Wireless Global on Wednesday said that it has entered into an agreement to acquire South African communications network operator Neotel--owned by ...
  
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• Tele2 hires new international chief

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Guillaume van Gaver to oversee operator's businesses in Austria, Croatia, Germany, the Baltics, Kazakhstan.
  
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• Tata may sell spectrum to pay DoCoMo bill

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Indian operator could reopen spectrum-trading talks with rivals, according to press report.
  
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• Sistema buys back Russian govt stake in Indian unit

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Government acquired 17.14% of Sistema Shyam Teleservices in 2011 for $600 million.
  
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• Qualcomm shows off 5G prototype

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Base station, end user equipment to serve as testbed for verifying new sub-6-GHz technologies.
  
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• MTN Nigeria names new finance chief

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Adekunle Awobodu takes on role left vacant when Ferdi Moolman stepped up to top job at Nigerian mobile operator.
  
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• Liquid Telecom to buy Neotel for €390m

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  India's Tata brokers new deal to exit its South African operation.
  
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• Global 5G subscriptions to reach 24m in 2021

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Ovum predicts networks will be up and running in 20 markets in five years.
  
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• DNA makes €120m cash offer for Anvia ahead of shareholder meeting

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Finnish mobile operator calls for board to postpone decision on Elisa takeover to enable shareholders to consider their options.
  
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