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• Risks growing to telecom operators' defensive models, Citi says - Reuters

  04-10-2016 23:02
  
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  Risks growing to telecom operators' defensive models, Citi says
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  A man works on a tower with various types of directional antennas in Sao Paulo August 5, 2015. REUTERS/Nacho Doce. FRANKFURT Caught between regulators and competitive threats by Internet players, telecom operators globally face harsh choices that ...and more »
  
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• Hong Kong tycoon Woo's Wharf agrees to sell telecom unit to TPG, MBK for $... - Reuters

  04-10-2016 22:54
  
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  Hong Kong tycoon Woo's Wharf agrees to sell telecom unit to TPG, MBK for $...
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  Banners advertising Wharf Holdings' internet business are displayed on a street in Hong Kong June 10, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo. By Denny Thomas | HONG KONG. HONG KONG Hong Kong tycoon Peter Woo's Wharf Holdings Ltd (0004.
  Private-Equity Firms to Take Over Wharf Group's Telecom UnitWall Street Journal
  Private Equity Firms May Be Taking Over This Tycoon's Telecom BusinessFortune
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• Hong Kong tycoon Woo's Wharf agrees to sell telecom unit to TPG, MBK for $1.2 billion - Yahoo Finance

  04-10-2016 22:54
  Hong Kong tycoon Woo's Wharf agrees to sell telecom unit to TPG, MBK for $1.2 billion
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  Banners advertising Wharf Holdings' internet business are displayed on a street in Hong Kong June 10, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo. More. By Denny Thomas. HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong tycoon Peter Woo's Wharf Holdings Ltd <0004.
  
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• Telecom companies vie for 2300 MHz band - Economic Times

  04-10-2016 21:21
  
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  Telecom companies vie for 2300 MHz band
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  MUMBAI: The 2300 MHz (4G) band — which was once seen as less usable and a bad investment — has turned out to be one of the biggest draws at the ongoing spectrum auctions. In the bids so far, the high frequency band is one of two most contested as it ...
  Telecom spectrum auction: No action yet in 700/900MHz bands on day 2Firstpost
  Telecom spectrum auction proceeds clock Rs 60969 crore by third dayZee News
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• Google targets the home with suite of own-brand hardware

  04-10-2016 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Google announced the launch of a range of wireless devices for use in the home and bearing the company's own brand. A voice-controlled content hub called Google Home will ship from 4 November priced at USD 129 and is designed to interact with new WiFi-boosting devices and an updated Chromecast audiovisual content streamer.
  
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• Kumar Mangalam Birla plans to reorganise his telecom infrastructure and towers business - Economic Times

  04-10-2016 20:38
  
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  Kumar Mangalam Birla plans to reorganise his telecom infrastructure and towers business
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  MUMBAI: After Grasim and Aditya Birla Nuvo, Kumar Mangalam Birla is planning to reorganise his telecom infrastructure and towers business with an aim to simplify the holding structure by consolidating its scattered tower holdings into a single entity ...
  Birlas may sell stake in telecom towers, exit fertiliser, insulator businessesBusiness Standardall 6 news articles »
  
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• Kumar Mangalam Birla plans to reorganise his telecom ... - Economic Times

  04-10-2016 20:38
  
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  Kumar Mangalam Birla plans to reorganise his telecom ...
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  MUMBAI: After Grasim and Aditya Birla Nuvo, Kumar Mangalam Birla is planning to reorganise his telecom infrastructure and towers business with an aim to ...
  Birlas may sell stake in telecom towers, exit fertiliser, insulator ...Business Standardall 6 news articles »
  
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• Google unveils Daydream View virtual-reality headset

  04-10-2016 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Google announced the launch ofits new Daydream View virtual-reality (VR) headset, due for release in November for USD 79. The device allows immersive viewing of compatible content via a wireless connection to smartphones which are auto-aligned when dropped into the headset.
  
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• Google launches 2 smartphones under new Pixel brand

  04-10-2016 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Google announced the launch of two new smartphones under its own Pixel brand. The phones are available immediately for preorder online at the Google stores in the US, Australia, Canada, Germany and the UK, starting at USD 649, the same price as the base model iPhone 7.
  
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• BTRIB adopts new brand Baktelecom

  04-10-2016 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Azerbaijan state-owned fixed operator BTRIB has started working under a new brand name...
  
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• Vectra runs All Max promotion

  04-10-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Polish cable operator Vectra runs the promotion All Max, offering its full portfolio of services with the maximum options for more than two months free...
  
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• Telus tests 5G, rolls out LTE-Advanced Pro in Vancouver

  04-10-2016 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Canadian operator Telus announced that it achieved speeds of 29.3 Gbps in tests of pre-5G equipment with Huawei. The speed tests took place at Telus and Huawei's 5G Living Lab in Vancouver, where the companies have been trialling next-generation technologies since late last year in a live, real-world setting. In addition to the field trial of 5G, one LTE wireless site in Vancouver has been upgraded with the latest advancement in LTE-Advanced Pro technologies, capable of speeds of
  
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• Private-Equity Firms to Take Over Wharf Group's Telecom Unit - Wall Street Journal

  04-10-2016 16:31
  
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  Private-Equity Firms to Take Over Wharf Group's Telecom Unit
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  A pair of private-equity firms has won the bid for Hong Kong conglomerate Wharf Group's telecommunications unit, in a deal that values the firm at 9.5 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$1.2 billion). MBK Partners LP and TPG said Tuesday that they have ...
  Private Equity Firms May Be Taking Over This Tycoon's Telecom BusinessFortune
  Hong Kong tycoon Woo's Wharf agrees to sell telecom unit to TPG, MBK
  
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• Ukrainian regulator issues new licences

  04-10-2016 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Ukrainian national telecommunications regulator NKRZI has issued or extended licences for activities in the telecommunications field...
  
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• Redknee implements Omantel multi-play monetization

  04-10-2016 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Redknee Solutions has announced the successful implementation of Redknee Unified, a converged multi-play billing, charging and customer care platform...
  
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• ETSI OSM's Release One now available

  04-10-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) ETSI's Open Source MANO (OSM) group announced the availability of its OSM Release One, an open source Management and Orchestration (MANO) software...
  
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• Samsung, HPE partner on NFV integration

  04-10-2016 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Samsung Electronics and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a partnership that will provide carriers with integrated network functions...
  
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• Qualcomm-SK Telecom to Test eLAA Over-the-Air Technology - Yahoo Finance

  04-10-2016 15:35
  
  Qualcomm-SK Telecom to Test eLAA Over-the-Air Technology
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  Leading wireless chipset manufacturer Qualcomm Inc.'s QCOM subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has teamed up with South Korean wireless communication service provider SK Telecom Co. Ltd. to evaluate the over-the-air technology of eLAA ...
  
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• China creates virtual reality industry alliance

  04-10-2016 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) China has set up an industry alliance for virtual reality (VR). The alliance seeks to accelerate the application of VR in entertainment, education and manufacturing...
  
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• UK Ministry of Defence to use LS telcom’s spectrum management system SPECTRA through contract with CGI

  04-10-2016 14:47
  
  London, United Kingdom – LS telcom, the leading worldwide provider of spectrum management systems, today announces that the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) will be using its SPECTRA spectrum management system as part of the MOD’s contract with CGI. The commercial off the shelf SPECTRA system will build upon the Ministry’s existing Spectrum Portal to extend and improve the MOD’s spectrum planning, engineering and enforcement capabilities.The extended, entirely integrated, and
  
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• FIH Mobile warns for over 50% drop in FY profit

  04-10-2016 14:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) FIH Mobile has warned that its annual net profit this year will be over 50 percent lower than in 2015, due to "customer transitions". The company expects a profit of less than USD 110 million in 2016, meaning a drop of at least 52 percent from last year's USD 228.7 million. Revenue is expected to be less than USD 5.7 billion compared to USD 7.5 billion in 2015. FIH said it has seen some improvement in results in the second half of the year, and H2 profit should be higher than the
  
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• Tele2 to raise SEK 3 bln in rights issue for TDC Sweden buy

  04-10-2016 14:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Tele2 said its board of directors has decided on a rights issue of approximately SEK 3 billion rights issue in connection with its acquisition of TDC Sweden...
  
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• Claro to invest USD 200 million a year in Dominican Republic

  04-10-2016 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Claro (America Movil) is committed to investing a total of USD 600 million in the Dominican Republic over the next three years, reports local daily...
  
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• Safaricom, SOMA Connect partner for online business

  04-10-2016 14:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Kenyan operator Safaricom has inked a one year partnership with SOMA Connect to help boost the online presence of businesses and organisations...
  
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• Dutch court grants Oi unit PTIF suspension of payments

  04-10-2016 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Brazilian operator Oi has announced that the District Court of Amsterdam has granted the request of Portugal Telecom International Finance (PTIF),...
  
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• Big data and business analytics to hit USD 203 bln by 2020

  04-10-2016 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Global revenues for big data and business analytics (BDA) will grow from USD 130.1 billion in 2016 to more than USD 203 billion in 2020, according to a report from IDC...
  
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• AIS appoints Cheong as president

  04-10-2016 13:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Thai mobile operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) has appointed Hui Weng Cheong as its president, effective immediately. Cheong will also continue to serve as chief operating officer...
  
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• TRA registers 12 mln interactions on its Twitter account

  04-10-2016 13:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) said it been consistently monitoring customer suggestions and opinions through the TRA's various...
  
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• Beltelecom merges with DVB-T operator

  04-10-2016 12:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The Belarusian government took the decision to merge two state-owned operators: the national telecom operator Beltelecom and the DVB-T re-transmission operator BRTPC...
  
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• Vodafone Ghana takes health fest to Tumu

  04-10-2016 12:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The Vodafone Ghana Foundation has taken its free quality healthcare outreach programme, Healthfest, to thousands of Ghanaians in Tumu and Chiana in the Upper West and East regions of Ghana...
  
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• GE starts digital innovation challenge in Egypt

  04-10-2016 12:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) GE has announced the launch of the GE Egypt Digital Innovation Challenge, in partnership with Egypt's Ministry of Communications and IT (MCIT).
  
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• Wharf sells telecom unit to TPG, MBK for HKD 10 bln - report

  04-10-2016 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Wharf Holdings has agreed to sell its telecom business to a consortium comprising TPG Capital Management and MBK Partners for HKD 9.5 billion...
  
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• WatchGuard Releases Industry’s Fastest Full UTM Tabletop Appliance

  04-10-2016 12:00
  
  New WatchGuard T70 Network Security Appliance Delivers Over 1 Gbps UTM Throughput4 October 2016 – WatchGuard® Technologies, has announced its new Firebox T70 hardware appliance, which sets a new standard for tabletop UTM performance. According to Miercom, an independent testing lab, the T70 delivers the fastest throughput available in the industry today, with speeds over 1 Gbps when operating in full Unified Threat Management (UTM) mode. This means that customers don’t have to co
  
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• Lenovo to start laptop production in India

  04-10-2016 11:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) China's Lenovo sees India as a potential centre for manufacturing laptops, ET reports, citing Dinesh Nair, director of consumer business at Lenovo India...
  
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• BT prepares to launch new logo – report

  04-10-2016 11:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) BT is preparing to drop its existing "connected world" emblem and replace it with a new logo, reports the FT...
  
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• Portuguese telecom regulator receives less complaints in H1

  04-10-2016 11:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Portugal's National Communications Authority (Anacom) received 31,800 complaints in the first half of 2016, down 0.7 percent on the same period in 2015, representing the lowest number since 2013...
  
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• SBA starts steps to convert to REIT

  04-10-2016 11:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Towers operator SBA's board of directors has given its authorisation for the company to take the necessary steps to become a real estate investment trust (REIT) for tax purposes...
  
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• Swisscom Directories changes name to localsearch

  04-10-2016 11:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Swisscom Directories is using localsearch to create a new company brand with its own logo...
  
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• Mobily, STC, Atheeb react positively to licence extensions

  04-10-2016 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Saudi telecommunications operators have responded positively to a decision by the kingdom's government to provide them with unified licences, Reuters reported...
  
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• BT rivals demand cap on UK spectrum ownership

  04-10-2016 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) A group of telecoms companies have written to Ofcom to demand the introduction of a cap on the amount of spectrum that a single mobile operator can own, reports the FT. The chief executives of TalkTalk, CityFibre, PCCW-owned Relish and the Federation of Commununications Services have signed a letter asking for a 30 percent cap, a limit already exceeded by BT with its ownership of the EE network. The news follows a similar move from 3 UK CEO Dave Dyson, who in September had renewed
  
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• Italtel To Showcase Enhanced SDN And NFV Products At SDN & OpenFlow World Congress

  04-10-2016 10:28
  
  The Hague, The Netherlands, October 4, 2016 – Italtel – a leading telecommunications company in all-IP communication, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) – today announced it will demo both its SDN application Netwrapper and the enhanced version of its Session Border Controller NetMatch-S Cloud Inside with Virtual Network Function (VNF) Manager at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. Netwrapper - part of Italtel’s Dynamic Admission C
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER launch new high flex battery cables

  04-10-2016 10:00
  
  New cables are highly flexible as well as robustHUBER+SUHNER, leading international manufacturer of components and systems for optical and electrical connectivity, is expanding its product range for battery cables in road vehicles by introducing new highly flexible, robust cables.These new cables meet ISO 6722-1 and LV112-1 standards as well as the new IVECO specification (No. 11-847).“Flexibility can have its disadvantages, including compromising durability and sturdiness,” said Mar
  
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• Charterhouse acquires rest of Sagemcom

  04-10-2016 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) French communications equipment provider Sagemcom has been sold by Carlyle Group to private equity firm Charterhouse Capital Partners, reports Les Echos...
  
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• Pepephone plans to branch into insurance, banking - report

  04-10-2016 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Spanish MVNO Pepephone, recently acquired by MasMovil, is looking to branch into new sectors of business such as banking and insurance, reports...
  
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• Ipko opens new sales point in Vushtrrise

  04-10-2016 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Kosovo operator Ipko has opened a new sales point in downtown Vushtrrise, offering customers numerous services (mobile telephony, digital TV, internet) and products...
  
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• CenturyLink to offer USD 1.4 mln in school grants

  04-10-2016 07:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) CenturyLink opened the application process for The CenturyLink Clarke M. Williams Foundation Teachers and Technology grant programme...
  
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• Bell Let's Talk supports 9 mental health care NGOs

  04-10-2016 07:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The Bell Let's Talk Community Fund announced grants totalling CAD 152,000 for 9 mental health organisations in Montreal and Longueuil to help expand...
  
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• Tangoe revamps executive team

  04-10-2016 04:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Tangoe, a provider of IT and Telecom Expense Management (TEM) software and related services, has appointed Mike Sheridan as its chief revenue officer...
  
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• Axiata Group board member resigns

  04-10-2016 04:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Axiata Group has announced that Dato Abdul Rahman Bin Ahmad has resigned from his position of independent and non-executive member of its board of directors...
  
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• Smart launches peace hackathon in Philippines

  04-10-2016 03:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Philippines mobile operator Smart Communications (Smart), through its developer network, Smart DevNet, has partnered with International Alert Philippines (IAP) to organize a peace hackathon...
  
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