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Verizon’s cable deals make headway but regulatory doubts...
FCC ready to approve spectrum buys but Justice Department still reviewing potential transactions. The Federal Communications Commission is prepared to approve Verizon Wireless' plan to buy airwaves from cable companies including Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc....
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Reliance Communications unit aims to raise up to...
A Reliance Communications Ltd. unit which owns undersea cable assets is planning to raise $700 million to $1 billion through an initial public offering in Singapore, said a person familiar with the situation. Global Telecommunications Infrastructure Trust is...
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India 2G auction ‘not possible’ by 31 August
India's plan to re-auction 2G spectrum by the end of August is in tatters, after the Department of Telecommunications' (DoT) inter-ministerial group (IMG) on Friday concluded it would not be possible to complete the process by the 31 August...
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Kenya’s Wananchi closes $140m funding for broadband rollout
Company aims to deploy fixed-line infrastructure across most of sub-Saharan East Africa. Kenyan broadband Internet infrastructure developer Wananchi Group Holdings has closed on $140 million as part of a push from investors to bridge the digital divide in...
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Mozilla preps mobile platform with initial devices, carriers
Firefox OS to launch early 2013 in Brazil on entry-level ZTE smartphone. Mozilla has branded its smartphone operating system as Firefox OS and signed up initial manufacturers and a number of global carriers--including Sprint Nextel Corp.--to support the...
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O2, Orange UK, Bouygues latest telcos to deploy...
France, U.K. become first countries to see all mobile network operators roll out the technology. O2 and Orange UK, and France's Bouygues Telecom have become the latest operators to announce femtocell rollouts, pushing the total number of deployments...
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Google TV to launch in UK next month
Sony plans to offer connected set-top-box, remote control across Europe priced at €200. Google TV is to launch in the U.K. for the first time in July, nearly two years after it made its bumpy U.S. debut.
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