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• Oracle cloud strategy pays off, driving strong revenue, profit in Q1

  15-09-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Oracle reported solid revenue and profit growth for its fiscal first quarter on the back of its shift to the cloud: total cloud revenues, including...
  
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• Veon lowers FY profit forecast on strong devaluation of Uzbek currency

  15-09-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Veon expects annualised decreases in revenues of USD 300-350 million and in underlying EBITDA of USD 175-225 million...
  
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• Moldova's telecom sales down 2.5% y-on-y in Q2 to MDL 1.65 bln

  15-09-2017 14:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Moldova's volume of sales of services in the electronic communications sector grew 5.2 percent sequentially in Q2 to MDL 1.65 billion due to the...
  
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• NCC sets up inter-agency committee on R&D to boost telecoms sector

  15-09-2017 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has started an eighteen-member inter-agency committee to apply Research and Development to the telecommunications sector, reports the Guardian...
  
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• Veon names new group CFO

  15-09-2017 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Veon, with headquarters in Amsterdam, has named Trond Westlie its new group CFO. Westlie will succeed Andrew Davies, who will remain an active member...
  
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• Germany starts cybersecurity research centre in Darmstadt

  15-09-2017 12:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) The Darmstadt Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP) is becoming a permanent National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity, its...
  
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• Brightcove appoints new head of media for EMEA

  15-09-2017 11:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Brightcove, aprovider of cloud services for video, has appointed Allen Dickson its new VP for media, at EMEA...
  
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• Optus raises AUD 270,000 for Townsville medical ship

  15-09-2017 10:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Australian operator Optus has announced that its Charity Mobile Plan customers have raised over AUD 270,000 for Townsville's Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Medical Ship in the past three years...
  
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• CICRA survey shows high telco satisfaction levels on Channel Islands

  15-09-2017 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) The latest customer satisfaction survey from the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities (CICRA) shows that overall satisfaction...
  
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• Fines for Peruvian operators total PEN 72 mln since 2014

  15-09-2017 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Peru's Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (Osiptel) revealed that it issued fines totalling PEN 72.5 million (around USD...
  
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• Consumers union finds privacy violations on health websites

  15-09-2017 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) The consumers union has warned against health websites placing unauthorised cookies to collect data on users. Three such sites were put on a black...
  
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• Russia, Kazakhstan to develop digital services together

  15-09-2017 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Nikolay Nikiforov, the Russian minister of communications and mass media, has proposed to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakhstan president, a...
  
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• Meo has best triple-play, Nowo best quad-play offer

  15-09-2017 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Portuguese price comparison site Compara Ja has published a study of the best telecommunications operators, based on 12,500 simulations...
  
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• Rovio sets IPO price range, plans market cap of almost EUR 900 million

  15-09-2017 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Rovio, the Finnish maker of the 'Angry Birds' game, has set the price range for its initial public offering of shares at EUR 10.25-11.50 per share. If confirmed, this would give the company a market capitalisation of almost EUR 900 million. 
  
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• Sudatel H1 revenue grows 8% to USD 252 mln

  15-09-2017 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) The Sudatel Telecom Group reported an 8 percent increase in revenues to USD 252 million in the first six months of 2017...
  
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• Women sue Google in potential class action suit

  15-09-2017 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Google is being sued for underpaying women and denying them promotion opportunities, the Verge reported...
  
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• Orange Spain to invest EUR 42 mln by 2020 in store revamp

  15-09-2017 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) Orange Spain has inaugurated its revamped flagship store in Madrid's emblematic Puerto del Sol square and announced plans to invest EUR 42 million by...
  
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• O2 to offer Amazon pick-up in German shops

  15-09-2017 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Telecompaper) O2 Germany announced that it will start offering Amazon pick-up lockers in its shops so customers can pick up their purchases from the online portal...
  
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• Verizon content deal imminent

  15-09-2017 02:00
  Verizon is preparing a number of content deals that will work across its online, mobile and fibre businesses and is likely to announce one of them this month…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Veon names new CFO, warns of earnings hit in Uzbekistan

  15-09-2017 02:00
  Veon on Friday revealed that it will welcome a new CFO later this year in Trond Westlie, a former Telenor finance chief, and warned that Uzbekistan's recent decision to devalue its currency will have a negative impact on its revenues and earnings in the country to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TI Sparkle sale, spin-off on the cards

  15-09-2017 02:00
  The future of Telecom Italia Sparkle is highly uncertain following Italy's ruling that Vivendi exercises de facto control over its parent company TIM, it emerged this week…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SDMA is the key for 5G

  15-09-2017 02:00
  Spectrum resources are the most precious resources in wireless communication. Due to stratospheric traffic increases, spectrum utilization encounters technical bottlenecks with current wireless technologies. Improving spectrum efficiency has become a problem to be settled urgently.
  Upgrading communication technology is like upgrading the highway (communication pipeline), in both cases you seek traffic improvement, that is more vehicles (data) within the unit time. To achieve this, the following
  
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• Cyta kicks off sale of Greek business

  15-09-2017 02:00
  Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) this week began the process of offloading its operations in Greece, giving would-be buyers two weeks to register their interest in the sale…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CenturyLink to miss Level 3 closing date

  15-09-2017 02:00
  CenturyLink this week announced a slight delay in the closure of its planned acquisition of rival Level 3 Communications, but said the companies are ready to begin integrating their businesses as soon as the deal is completed…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Build or buy: moving on from M&A

  15-09-2017 02:00
  Telecoms operators the world over are examining the economics of expansion through acquisition, but this week's news shows a leaning towards build, rather than buy.Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam made it clear that his company is no longer looking at cable mega-deals – it reportedly made a failed US$100 million-plus bid for Charter earlier this year – and will instead build out the infrastructure it needs to provide customers with the bandwidth they need.."We've moved on," McAdam said in
  
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