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• 10 per cent basic customs duty only on imported base stations - Economic Times

  03-07-2017 20:57 via economictimes.indiatimes.com
  
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  10 per cent basic customs duty only on imported base stations
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  NEW DELHI: The government has imposed a 10 per cent basic customs duty (BCD) on imported fully built base stations but has kept parts used for making them outside the duty ambit, all aimed at giving a leg up to local manufacturing and the larger ...
  
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• Disruptive pricing to continue for a year in India's telecom market: GSMA's Mats Granryd - ETTelecom.com

  03-07-2017 18:35 via telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com
  
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  Disruptive pricing to continue for a year in India's telecom market: GSMA's Mats Granryd
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  Disruptive pricing to continue for a year in India's telecom market: GSMA's Mats Granryd NEW DELHI: Telecom group GSMA has said that the disruptive pricing due to heightened competition in the Indian telecom space would continue for at least another ...
  
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• Is Telecom Argentina the Best Bet on Argentina's Stock Market? 1 Analyst Thinks So - Motley Fool

  03-07-2017 18:09 via fool.com
  
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  Is Telecom Argentina the Best Bet on Argentina's Stock Market? 1 Analyst Thinks So
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  Every day, Wall Street analysts upgrade some stocks, downgrade others, and "initiate coverage" on a few more. But do these analysts even know what they're talking about? Today, we're taking one high-profile Wall Street pick and putting it under the ...
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• Polish operator Play to raise up to PLN 5.3 bln in IPO

  03-07-2017 14:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Polish mobile operator P4, which operates under the brand Play, will raise up to PLN 5.3 billion (EUR 1.25 billion) in its initial public offering of shares. According to the published prospectus, the owners plan to sell 38-48 percent of the shares in the Luxembourg-based company Play Communications, to which the mobile operator belongs. The maximum share issue price has been set at PLN 44, and if confirmed, this would value the company at PLN 11.04 billion (excluding debt).
  
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• Poland's Play could raise €1.3bn in major European telecom IPO - Financial Times

  03-07-2017 13:22 via ft.com
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  Poland's Play could raise €1.3bn in major European telecom IPO
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  Play Communications said on Monday that its listing could bring in as much as €1.3bn, as it published its prospectus ahead of what is set to be Europe's largest telecoms initial public offering for five years. Poland's second-largest mobile company ...and more »
  
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• UK launches GBP 400 mln fibre investment fund

  03-07-2017 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) The UK government has officially launched the GBP 400 million Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund (DIIF), aimed at stimulating investment in full-fibre networks. First announced last November, the fund is expected to help the UK catch up in fast broadband, as most investment to date has gone to upgrades of the copper or cable networks, rather than rolling out FTTP services. The GBP 400 million will be available over four years, and private operators and financial investors are
  
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• Small Cell Forum and ITRI take leap forward in private networks

  03-07-2017 10:23
  
  SCF’s fifth LTE Plugfest event focused on private evolved packet cores – a key enabling technology for enterprise small cell use cases London, 3rd July 2017 Small Cell Forum (SCF) has successfully completed its fifth LTE Plugfest, hosted by ITRI, Taiwan’s world-leading technology institute. The Plugfest was one of the first events in the world to test interoperability for private evolved packet cores (EPCs). These are key enablers for enterprise private networks, which are a...
  
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• Microsoft to unveil global layoff plan next week - report

  03-07-2017 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Microsoft will be announcing a major reorganisation of the company on 5 July, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported, adding that while the number of layoffs is unclear, they will hit staff in offices around the world.. The company will reorganize its global sales group and lay off workers in order to streamline and sharpen its focus on selling cloud-computing services, the Wall Street Journal said, citing sources familiar with the plans. Microsoft more than 121,000 employees a
  
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• Telecom Argentina, Cablevision agree to merge operations

  03-07-2017 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Telecom Argentina and cable TV provider Cablevision have announced a deal to merge their operations with a view to moving into the quad-play market ahead of a forthcoming regulatory shake-up. In a joint statement the companies said the respective boards have agreed that Telecom Argentina will issue 1.184 billion shares as part of the deal, leaving Cablevision shareholders with 55 percent of the combined entity. If approved by regulators and shareholders, the deal would allow the t
  
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• China to be world's largest 5G market by 2025

  03-07-2017 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Telecompaper) Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish China as the world's largest 5G market by 2025, according to a report from GSMA Intelligence and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). Mobile operators in China plan to run a phased testing period for 5G networks from 2017 to 2019 before launching commercially in 2020. Following commercial deployment, 5G connections in China are expected to reach
  
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• UK govt formally launches £400m fibre fund

  03-07-2017 02:00
  The U.K. government on Monday formally launched a £400 million fund to stimulate spending on full fibre networks.Called the Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund (DIIF) it was announced in November 2016 as part of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond's Autumn Statement…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Spark details IoT network rollout

  03-07-2017 02:00
  Spark New Zealand announced on Monday that it plans to deploy a nationwide IoT network, parts of which will become operational by June 2018."The network we are rolling out is being developed by Kordia…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Microsoft to cut jobs in sales reorg

  03-07-2017 02:00
  Microsoft plans to cut jobs as part of a sweeping reorganisation of its global sales force.Sources cited by Bloomberg on Saturday said the move could be announced this week…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cablevision ramps up quad-play effort with Telecom Argentina merger

  03-07-2017 02:00
  Telecom Argentina and Grupo Clarin's Cablevision unit on Monday announced an all-stock merger in a bid to create a major quad-play provider."The companies have considered that their respective operational and technical structures are highly complementary and could be enhanced through structural integration…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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