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• Apple launches new iPad with lower price

  21-03-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Apple has updated its iPad and lowered the price in an effort to expand its lead on the tablet market. The new 9.7-inch iPad comes with an enhanced retina display and will sell for USD 329, the cheapest price yet for the tablet.
  
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• Polar Power Enters African Telecom Market With Energy Efficient Solar Hybrid Power Systems - Yahoo Finance

  21-03-2017 13:31 via finance.yahoo.com
  Polar Power Enters African Telecom Market With Energy Efficient Solar Hybrid Power Systems
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  GARDENA, CA--(Marketwired - March 21, 2017) - Polar Power, Inc. (POLA), a global provider of prime and backup DC power solutions, has entered the African prime power system market and established a regional presence in Cape Town, South Africa with ...and more »
  
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• Inoapps First To Receive New Oracle MSP Status

  21-03-2017 13:29
  
  Oracle Platinum Partner Inoapps (www.inoapps.com) has been accepted and accredited by Oracle as the first UK partner with IaaS specialisation to join its new Global Managed Service Provider (MSP) programme. As a fully accredited MSP, the company will provide Professional and Managed Services to Oracle IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) customers; spanning readiness assessments, migration and full implementation and managed services. This scheme will only be avail
  
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• Comcast names Watson as CEO of its cable division

  21-03-2017 13:00
  COO Dave Watson will replace current CEO Neil Smit, who will become vice chairman of Comcast Corp
  
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• China Telecom profit grows nearly 12% in 2016

  21-03-2017 12:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) China Telecom reported operating revenues of CNY 352.3 billion in 2016, which represents an increase of 6.4 percent from 2015. Service revenues amounted to CNY 309.6 billion, up 5.6 percent year-on-year. EBITDA amounted to CNY 95.1 billion while EBITDA margin stood at 30.7 percent in 216. Net profit reached CNY 18 billion, up 11.7 percent from 2015, excluding the one-off gain from the disposal of tower assets. Basic earnings per share were CNY 0.22. Capital expenditure grew 11.3 p
  
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• FirstNet to go to AT&T after court ruling

  21-03-2017 12:15
  A US court has rejected Rivada Mercury's appeal on its bid for the US emergency services contract, leaving AT&T ready to start work with FirstNet
  
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• Italtel focuses on digital transformation at CeBIT 2017

  21-03-2017 10:30
  
  Advanced telemedicine platform, SDN and NFV solutions and quality of experience monitoring tools will be showcasedHannover, Germany, March 21, 2017 – Italtel, a leading telecommunications company in IT system integration, managed services, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and all-IP solutions, is showcasing its latest digital transformation solutions at CeBIT 2017. With expertise in the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, Software Defined Networking (SDN), NFV, cyber security
  
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• Free Mobile offers unlimited LTE data for Freebox customers

  21-03-2017 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Free Mobile has increased the LTE data allowance available with its top-tier mobile tariff for customers subscribing to a fixed broadband Freebox package and it is now advertising the plan with "unlimited 4G". For all other customers, the monthly LTE data allowance has increased to 100 GB. The monthly subscription has remained unchanged at EUR 15.99 for Freebox customers and EUR 19.99 for other customers.
  
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• Google offers new safeguards for advertisers

  21-03-2017 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Google has apologised to advertisers at its platforms after a number of major UK companies pulled their business due to ads appearing alongside extremist political views. The company said it will be taking a more active approach to removing hateful, offensive and derogatory content and introduced new tools for customers to help ensure their ads appear alongside content in line with their values.
  
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• Scarlet Chooses Cerillion for Quad-play Billing Transformation

  21-03-2017 10:08
  
  London, 21st March 2017 – Cerillion plc (AIM: CER), a leading provider of billing, charging and customer management systems, today announced it has been selected by Scarlet to deliver a complete business support system (BSS) to empower its quad-play service offering in Belgium. Cerillion is implementing the Convergent Charging System (CCS), CRM Plus, Revenue Manager, Service Manager and Self Service modules from its pre-integrated suite and will support Scarlet with the migration from its
  
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• Altice buys online video ad exchange Teads

  21-03-2017 09:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Altice is expanding in the advertising market with the takeover of Teads, a provider of an online video advertising marketplace, for EUR 285 million. Teads is especially strong in Altice's two largest markets, the US and France, where it has innovation centres. Altice expects the takeover will help it develop better advertising to deliver to its fixed and mobile customers.
  
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• Qualcomm launches 4G-capable platform for feature phones

  21-03-2017 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Qualcomm has announced the launch of the 205 Mobile Platform, an updated offering designed to bring 4G LTE connectivity and 4G services to entry-level feature phones for sale in emerging markets such as India, Latin America and Southeast Asia. The Qualcomm 205 platform comes with the 205 SoC, capable of up to 150 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload speeds on 4G, 3G, and 2G networks, plus a dual-core 1.1 GHz CPU, dual-SIM support and "multiple days" of battery life. It also supports 3
  
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• Samsung unveils Bixby AI-based user interface

  21-03-2017 08:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Samsung has launched its 'Bixby' user interface for smartphones. Bixby uses artificial intelligence, reinforcing deep learning concepts to the core of Samsung's user interface designs, Samsung says. Bixby will be a new intelligent interface on Samsung devices. Samsung says Bixby offers a deeper experience due to proficiency in three properties, including completeness, context awareness, and cognitive tolerance.
  
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• Dutch Telecom Altice Has Reportedly Bought Formidable Ad-Tech Player Teads for $322 Million - Adweek

  21-03-2017 04:29 via adweek.com
  
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  Dutch Telecom Altice Has Reportedly Bought Formidable Ad-Tech Player Teads for $322 Million
  Adweek
  The latest of such acquisitions is Teads, a video advertising provider that has sold to Dutch telecom Altice for $322 million, according to a Business Insider on Monday night. It's the kind of data-based, mobile-minded marriage that's become a trend in ...
  Dutch Telecom Firm Altice To Acquire Teads For $307 MillionMediaPost Communications
  Telecom Giant Altice Acquires Teads for $308 million
  
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• India's competition watchdog OKs RCom-Aircel merger

  21-03-2017 01:00
  Reliance Communications and Aircel cleared another important hurdle to their mobile merger this week, after the Competition Commission of India gave them the green light.The approval comes less than a week after the deal was cleared by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei founder details New Zealand investment plan

  21-03-2017 01:00
  Huawei founder and permanent CEO Ren Zhengfei on Tuesday unveiled plans to open a data centre and research labs in New Zealand.Ren visited the country and met with prime minister Bill English to discuss working with local partners to build a New Zealand Cloud Data Centre…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti offloads 21.6% of Infratel

  21-03-2017 01:00
  Bharti Airtel on Tuesday sold a 21.63% stake in its towers business to its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nettle Infrastructure Investments.Bharti Infratel disclosed in a stock exchange filing that Nettle has acquired 400 million shares…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T launches IBM-powered IoT analytics

  21-03-2017 01:00
  AT&T on Tuesday took the wraps off a new IoT analytics solution that uses IBM's Watson machine learning technology to give enterprises actionable insights into the performance of their connected machines.The pilot collaboration analyses and presents data harvested from AT&amp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Altice snaps up online video ad firm Teads

  21-03-2017 01:00
  Altice on Tuesday struck a €285 million deal to acquire Teads, the company that invented those annoying video ads that appear in the middle of an article you're trying to read.Teads claims an audience of 1.2 billion unique visitors, including 720 million via mobile…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Wireless Telecom -5.1% as it swings to Q4 loss - Seeking Alpha

  21-03-2017 00:45 via seekingalpha.com
  Wireless Telecom -5.1% as it swings to Q4 loss
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  Wireless Telecom Group (WTT -8.1%) is off 5.1% after hours following Q4 earnings that wrapped a "challenging" year with a swing to a loss. Revenues rose 14% and the company posted a net loss of $1.16M, vs. year-ago net income of $24,000. Adjusted ...
  Wireless Telecom Group Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2016 Financial ResultsBusiness Wire (press release)
  Wireless Telecom Group, Inc. (NYSEMKT:WTT) Files An 8-K Results of Op
  
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• Vodafone, Idea in $23 bln deal to create new Indian telecom leader - CNBC

  21-03-2017 00:38 via cnbc.com
  
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  Vodafone, Idea in $23 bln deal to create new Indian telecom leader
  CNBC
  Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao (R) shakes hand with chairman of India's Aditya Birla Group Kumar Mangalam Birla during a news conference in Mumbai on March 20, 2017. Britain's Vodafone Group and Idea Cellular agreed on Monday to merge their ...
  Vodafone-Idea: Will India's Biggest Telecom Disrupt the Disrupter?Wall Street Journal (subscription)
  'Merger of equals' builds telecom giantCalcutta Telegraph
  Vodafone,
  
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