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Deutsche Telekom acquires GTS for $729 million to strengthen enterprise focus

Deutsche Telekom to hold 12% in BT after selling EE for $19.6 bn

Deutsche Telekom is set to be in driver’s seat in the UK telecom market after selling EE, its 50:50 joint venture with Orange, to...
India telecom tower

Managed services: How telecoms reduce costs and complexity

Telecom operators are finalizing managed service providers that are able to reduce complexity and operational costs in both IT and mobile network environments. ABI Research...
Telecom towers

Less telecom towers, low spectrum causes for call drops

Call drops are a recurring problem for phone users and even Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, addressing a telecom conference in Kochi, Kerala Sunday...

Tata Teleservices CIO Ashish Pachory on big data

Tata Teleservices Chief Information Officer Ashish Pachory, talking about big data, said CIOs must recognize the importance of managing customer expectations at each stage...
COAI director general Rajan Mathews on spectrum

COAI wants CDMA spectrum 800 MHz for GSM services

Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) has asked the Department of Telecom (DoT) secretary Rakesh Garg to allocate CDMA spectrum 800 MHz as E-GSM (extended...

Airtel to boost mobile Internet biz with Each One Teach One day

Indian telecom service provider Bharti Airtel today organized Each One Teach One day – an initiative aimed at driving internet literacy in India. Airtel’s network...
Vodafone Egypt

Vodafone in small cell deal with outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux

Telecom service provider Vodafone announced its deal with outdoor advertising company JCDecaux to deploy small cells on street furniture and billboards to enhance network...
Ericsson 2014 Networked Society City Index

Ericsson shares top 10 trends for telecom CTOs to plan

Telecom network vendor Ericsson today announced top trends to watch for the mobile industry that will drive CTOs to plan their business better. # Media...
mobile-user telenor

Spectrum auction: Telecom Commission approves higher base price

Indian telecom service providers – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, etc. are gearing up to pay huge money during the next round of spectrum...
Hilde Tonne of Telenor

Huawei inks 2G, 3G and 4G networks deal with Telenor for five years

Telecom network vendor Huawei today announced 2G and 3G networks modernization deal with Telenor in Asia and Europe. The main focus will be sprucing up...

Mobile backhaul: What’s pushing telecoms?

Significant growth in mobility, server virtualization and cloud computing applications are creating fresh demands on the mobile network, causing more investment in networking architectures...
India telecom tower

China Tower plans 1 million telecom towers

China Tower – following the footsteps of Indus Towers in India, is planning to build 1 million telecom towers over the next two years. Chinese...

How Indian telecom industry wants to speed up data revolution

Indian telecom service providers need more spectrum and incentives to accelerate the speed of data revolution. At the Broadband Tech India 2014 event in Delhi,...
GSMA senior director Hermen Schepers and senior spectrum advisor Veena Rawat

GSMA urges India support at WRC-15 for new 4 spectrum frequency ranges

Telecom industry body GSMA today urged India to allocate four spectrum frequency ranges -- Sub-700MHz UHF (470–694/8MHz), L-Band (1300–1518MHz), 2.7–2.9GHz and C-Band (3.4–4.2GHz) for...

BT in driver’s seat as Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica to exit

UK telecom market will see fresh round of consolidation soon if BT Group’s preliminary talks to buy EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange or...
WeChat in China

WeChat free internet calling app to threat telecoms

Messaging app WeChat is threatening the revenue streams of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom with the latest internet calling app for iOS and Android. The threat...

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