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• The EU Proposes New Telecom Rules - Fortune

  14-09-2016 23:22
  
  Fortune
  The EU Proposes New Telecom Rules
  Fortune
  And fierce opposition is expected. The European Commission announced proposals for reforming EU telecoms and copyright rules on Wednesday, aimed at speeding up investment in fast broadband while boosting revenues for the telecoms industry and ...
  EU should focus on boosting competition in telecom sector overhaul ...EUbusiness (press release)
  EU reforms seeks to boost telecom investment | ReutersReutersall 20 news articles »
  
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• Telecom, Internet Groups Call FCC's Privacy Rules 'Unnecessary and Unjustified' - Morning Consult

  14-09-2016 22:45
  
  Telecom, Internet Groups Call FCC's Privacy Rules 'Unnecessary and Unjustified'
  Morning Consult
  A group of eight telecom and internet groups pressed leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee to look into the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to regulate the privacy practices of service providers. In a Wednesday letter to Chairman John ...and more »
  
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• Except Telenor, all telecom firms to participate in spectrum auction ... - Livemint

  14-09-2016 20:55
  
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  Except Telenor, all telecom firms to participate in spectrum auction ...
  Livemint
  Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular and Reliance Jio will participate in the auction, in which the govt is offering 2354.55 MHz of spectrum worth Rs5.63 ...and more »
  
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• Fund managers raise telecom exposure despite Jio foray - Business Standard

  14-09-2016 20:02
  
  Business Standard
  Fund managers raise telecom exposure despite Jio foray
  Business Standard
  Equity fund managers with exposure to the telecom space don't seem to be too bothered by Reliance Industries telecom foray. Most fund managers have continued to hold on their telecom investments, while some are using the recent sharp correction as ...and more »
  
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• Fund managers raise telecom exposure despite Jio foray | Business ... - Business Standard

  14-09-2016 20:02
  
  Business Standard
  Fund managers raise telecom exposure despite Jio foray | Business ...
  Business Standard
  Equity fund managers with exposure to the telecom space don't seem to be too bothered by Reliance Industries telecom foray. Most fund managers have ...and more »
  
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• RCom, Aircel reach agreement on 50-50 merger

  14-09-2016 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Indian mobile operators Reliance Communications and Aircel have reached a final agreement on merging, after first starting talks last December. The new company will strengthen RCom's position as the fourth largest operator in terms of subscribers, just behind Idea Cellular, after acquiring sixth-placed Aircel. They also claim to have the second-largest spectrum holdings on the market, with a combined total of 448 MHz. RCom said the deal will help it reduce its debt by around 40 pe
  
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• HT Mostar turns profitable

  14-09-2016 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Bosnian operator HT Eronet has managed to achieve a net profit of BAM 2 million based on the preliminary results for the first eight months of 2016,...
  
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• Reliance Communications to merge its wireless telecom business with Aircel to create India's 4th-biggest mobile ... - YourStory.com

  14-09-2016 17:30
  
  YourStory.com
  Reliance Communications to merge its wireless telecom business with Aircel to create India's 4th-biggest mobile ...
  YourStory.com
  Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications today agreed to merge its wireless telecom business with smaller rival Aircel to create the country's 4th-biggest mobile phone operator with asset base of more than Rs 65,000 crore. Anil Ambani. In the largest ...
  RCom, Aircel merge to create Rs 65000 crore telecom giantIndia Today
  RCom-Aircel Deal: 10 Facts
  
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• Serbian media, telecom regulators to cooperate more

  14-09-2016 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Serbia's Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (Rem) and Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (Ratel) have signed a protocol on cooperation...
  
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• Kosovo to be assigned 383 calling code

  14-09-2016 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Kosovo will be assigned the +383 dialing code in early October, according to Kreshnik Gashi, head of Kosovo's regulatory authority for electronic and postal communications, reported Koha...
  
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• Pharol, Societe Mondiale end dispute over Oi - report

  14-09-2016 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Pharol and Societe Mondiale have reached an agreement to terminate their disputes over the future of Brazilian operator Oi, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters...
  
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• Rostelecom inks payment deal with Russian Post

  14-09-2016 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Russian national operator Rostelecom will pay the commission fee to Russian Post for accepting payments from its own subscribers, reports Vedomosti...
  
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• Portugal's Cabovisao rebrands as Nowo

  14-09-2016 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Portuguese operator Cabovisao has relaunched as Nowo, changing both its image and business model...
  
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• Telekom Romania puts Dumitrache in charge of HR

  14-09-2016 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Telekom Romania appointed Carmen Dumitrache as chief human resources officer, effective from 15 September...
  
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• Manx Telecom reports small drop in H1 revenue

  14-09-2016 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Isle of Man-based operator Manx Telecom has reported revenue of GBP 39.2 million for the first half of 2016, compared to GBP 39.8 million a year earlier...
  
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• RCom, Aircel merge to create Rs 65000 crore telecom giant - India Today

  14-09-2016 16:07
  
  India Today
  RCom, Aircel merge to create Rs 65000 crore telecom giant
  India Today
  The merger will create India's fourth largest telecom operator by customer base and revenues while the merged entity will have the second-largest spectrum holding among all operators. IndiaToday.in | Posted by Bijaya Kumar Das. [email protected].
  Reliance Communications to merge its wireless telecom business with Aircel to create India's 4th-biggest mobile ...YourStory.com
  Telecom battles get roughDeccan Chron
  
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• BT extends support for Stand Up To Cancer

  14-09-2016 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) BT has signed up as the lead sponsor of Stand Up To Cancer, a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and broadcaster Channel 4...
  
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• Amdocs boosts digital strategy with three acquisitions

  14-09-2016 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Customer experience systems provider Amdocs has closed the acquisition of three privately owned companies – Vindicia, Brite:Bill and Pontis...
  
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• Liberty Global to offer Netflix app on cable platforms

  14-09-2016 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Cable operator Liberty Global announced an agreement to distribute Netflix across its TV platforms. The Netflix app will be added to the operator's Horizon set-top box in all the markets where Liberty Global is active, a total of more than 30 countries. The company already offers Netflix in the UK, on the Virgin Media platform. The first country with the Horizon box to receive Netflix will be the Netherlands, where Liberty Global owns the cable operator Ziggo.
  
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• Solgari partners with Lanmark to help deliver seamless cloud telephony solutions to its customers

  14-09-2016 15:18
  
  Lanmark boosts product portfolio with Solgari’s cloud-based VoIP and cloud telephony solutionsLondon – September 14, 2016 – Solgari, the global provider of the world’s first complete enterprise cloud business communications software solution, has today announced its partnership with Lanmark, an IT support and consulting specialist. This partnership will allow Lanmark to offer Solgari’s cloud-based telephony solutions to its extensive client base in Europe.Solgari pr
  
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• Sprint's Claure named CTIA chairman

  14-09-2016 15:15
  Sprint president and CEO Marcelo Claure has been named chairman of the 2017 board of directors of the Wireless Association (CTIA)
  
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• Telefonica celebrates 15 years in Mexico

  14-09-2016 14:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Telefonica celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its Movistar Mexico operation by pledging to continue investing over 13 percent of its annual revenues in the country...
  
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• Former AT&T CEO Robert Allen dies at 81

  14-09-2016 14:30
  Robert Allen, former chairman and CEO of AT&T, has died at the age of 81
  
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• Internet industry opposes extension of EU telecom rules

  14-09-2016 14:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The CCIA, a lobby group for the internet industry, has expressed disappointment with the European Commission's proposal to extend some telecom regulations to online service providers...
  
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• At A Glance The EU's New Telecom Rules - Wall Street Journal (blog)

  14-09-2016 13:57
  Wall Street Journal (blog)
  At A Glance The EU's New Telecom Rules
  Wall Street Journal (blog)
  The European Union's executive arm on Wednesday laid out a plan to revamp telecommunications regulations, which were last updated in 2009—before online and mobile messaging services like Microsoft's Skype and Facebook's WhatsApp were such a big ...and more »
  
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• ETNO, GSMA welcome EC reform proposals

  14-09-2016 13:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) ETNO, the main lobby group for telecom operators, and its counterpart in the mobile sector, the GSMA, have welcomed the European Commission's proposals for reforming telecom regulations...
  
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• EC unveils telecom reforms to boost broadband access

  14-09-2016 12:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) The European Commission has presented its proposals for reforming telecom regulation, aimed at increasing access to very high-speed broadband...
  
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• EC plans copyright reforms to support online video, press

  14-09-2016 12:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The European Commission has presented its proposal for reforming copyright rules in the EU...
  
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• Moldova consults on 112 service obligations

  14-09-2016 12:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Moldavian telecommunications authority Anrceti opened a public consultation on the regulatory impact assessment of three draft resolutions of the...
  
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• OTE receives EBRD-led EUR 389 mln syndicated facility

  14-09-2016 12:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) OTE entered into an agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to raise EUR 339 million as a syndicated facility and...
  
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• Sonera and Nokia test 5G and XG-Fast systems

  14-09-2016 12:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Nokia and Sonera, the Finnish arm of Telia Company, said they have held trials at Sonera headquarters in Helsinki of 5G mobile networking and of new...
  
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• T-Mobile Poland names new board member for business segment

  14-09-2016 11:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) From 01 October, Artur Ostrowski will replace Igor Matejov as board member responsible for the business segment of T-Mobile Poland...
  
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• Go makes changes to management team

  14-09-2016 11:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Maltese operator Go announced that a number of non-executive directors relinquished their post of directors of the company with effect from 9 September...
  
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• Telecom Italia unfazed by Iliad's Italy venture | Reuters - Reuters

  14-09-2016 11:24
  
  Reuters
  Telecom Italia unfazed by Iliad's Italy venture | Reuters
  Reuters
  Telecom Italia is not worried about French telecom group Iliad's entry into the Italian market and plans counter measures to defend its position, the head of the ...
  Eurobites: Telecom Italia Shrugs Off Gallic ThreatLight Readingall 7 news articles »
  
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• Telecom Italia unfazed by Iliad's Italy venture - Reuters

  14-09-2016 11:24
  
  Reuters
  Telecom Italia unfazed by Iliad's Italy venture
  Reuters
  A Telecom Italia tower is pictured in Rome, Italy March 22, 2016. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo. By Alberto Sisto | ROME. ROME Telecom Italia is not worried about French telecom group Iliad's entry into the Italian market and plans counter ...and more »
  
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• Today meets tomorrow as HUBER+SUHNER showcases major solutions for energy networks at WindEnergy Hamburg

  14-09-2016 10:00
  
  Leading international manufacturer of components and systems for optical and electrical connectivity, HUBER+SUHNER, is to demonstrate its solutions for intelligent energy networks at WindEnergy Hamburg, taking place September 27-30. ‘Today meets tomorrow’ for the Swiss-based company, which will be exhibiting its contemporary products and systems according to future demanding requirements of the energy industry. The showcase of HUBER+SUHNER at WindEnergy will focus especially on appli
  
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• Dutch fixed telephony revenues fall 2.5% in Q2

  14-09-2016 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) The fixed telephony market in the Netherlands continued to contract in the second quarter, with revenues falling to EUR 280 million, according to Telecompaper's latest Dutch Fixed Telephony Market report. The 2.5 percent quarterly decline was an improvement on the 4.6 percent drop during the first quarter. The drop in revenues, underway since 2013, is due to lower usage and falling prices. The number of fixed telephony connections in the Netherlands was stable at almost 6.3 millio
  
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• Telecom Italia not worried about Iliad's entry into Italy: CEO - Reuters

  14-09-2016 09:48
  
  Reuters
  Telecom Italia not worried about Iliad's entry into Italy: CEO
  Reuters
  A Telecom Italia tower is pictured in Rome, Italy March 22, 2016. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo. ROME Telecom Italia is not worried about French telecoms group Iliad's entry into the Italian market and plans counter measures to defend its ...
  Telecom Italia unfazed by Iliad's Italy ventureDaily Mailall 2 news articles »
  
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• Government Working to Address Call Drop Issue, Reassures ... - NDTV

  14-09-2016 09:41
  
  NDTV
  Government Working to Address Call Drop Issue, Reassures ...
  NDTV
  Government is working to resolve the call drop menace and there will be improvement in service quality of operators in coming days, Telecom Minister Manoj ...
  Government working to address call drop issue: Manoj Sinha | ET ...ETTelecom.comall 5 news articles »
  
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• Axiata seeks buyers for overseas units - report

  14-09-2016 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Malaysia's Axiata Group plans to reduce states in some of its overseas operations. With these planned asset sales, Axiata Group could raise up to USD 700 million, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. According to the same source, Axiata is currently seeking a buyer for its 11 percent stake in Indonesian unit XL Axiata, which has a market value of USD 2.2 billion. The Group also wants to sell a 30 percent stake in Sri Lanka unit Dialog Axiata and Cambo
  
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• Jio, Airtel leaders in telecom space: CLSA - Techradar India

  14-09-2016 07:52
  
  Techradar India
  Jio, Airtel leaders in telecom space: CLSA
  Techradar India
  Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are better placed in the telecom space than many other players given their lead in spectrum , cell sites as well as fibre on network, an analysis by brokerage firm CLSA said here on Tuesday. "We maintain that Bharti ...
  Jio effect: Vodafone plans to invest $3 billion into India operationsETTelecom.comall 49 news articles »
  
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• Telecom desperate for MD's appointment - Namibian

  14-09-2016 06:06
  
  Namibian
  Telecom desperate for MD's appointment
  Namibian
  THE Telecom Namibia board is desperately seeking audience with President Hage Geingob to resolve the appointment of a new managing director before their term ends next week Friday. The executive director in the President's private office, Etienne ...
  
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• Top broker slaps $14.50 price target on TPG Telecom Ltd shares - Motley Fool Australia

  14-09-2016 04:20
  
  Top broker slaps $14.50 price target on TPG Telecom Ltd shares
  Motley Fool Australia
  As TPG Telecom Ltd (ASX: TPM) shares close in on $12 I'm sure many investors will wonder if they have missed the boat on this one. Especially with its shares changing hands at 29x forecast full year earnings. Although this is a premium to its ...
  
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• Oi finance chief quits

  14-09-2016 02:00
  
  Flavio Nicolay Guimarães heads for the exit as Brazilian telco's bondholders draft new bankruptcy plan.
  
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• Liberty Global strikes worldwide partnership with Netflix

  14-09-2016 02:00
  
  OTT streaming app to be made available to Liberty Global customers across 30 countries.
  
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• EU overhauls telco rules in bid to stimulate Gigabit broadband rollouts

  14-09-2016 02:00
  
  Brussels targets free public WiFi, uninterrupted 5G coverage of urban areas, transport routes by 2025.
  
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• Axiata explores options amid sale rumours

  14-09-2016 02:00
  
  Malaysian operator responds to report alleging it plans to cut holdings in overseas businesses in order to raise $700 million.
  
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• Cuba's Telecom Monopoly Banning Text Messages Containing Words Like 'Democracy' - Techdirt

  14-09-2016 01:20
  
  Cuba's Telecom Monopoly Banning Text Messages Containing Words Like 'Democracy'
  Techdirt
  The door to modernizing Cuba's communications networks opened slightly wider recently after the FCC removed the country from the agency's banned nation list. That allows fixed and wireless companies alike to begin doing business in Cuba as part of an ...
  
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