International cable TV and communications company Liberty Global has completed its acquisition of Virgin Media.
The deal, which was announced in February, is worth approximately $24 billion.
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Vodafone UK has announced that it's planning to spend more than £900 million on its fixed-line and mobile networks in the current financial year; the equivalent of over £2.5 million every day.
That’s a 50% increase on last year’s investment.
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The United States International Trade Commission has ruled in favour of a Samsung complaint about one of its 3G patents, banning older Apple iPhones (anything before the iPhone 4S) and older iPads (first and second-generation models) from being imported into the USA and sold there.
Newer devices aren’t affected.
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Mobile roaming, messaging and networking Syniverse is selling part of MACH to complete its takeover process.
Syniverse has been given the go-ahead to acquire its rival but the European Commission insisted that most of MACH’s data clearing and near real-time roaming data exchange business in the European Economic Area was sold to another buyer.
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The GSMA has commissioned a report into mobile health technology that shows almost £85 billion could be saved in EU healthcare costs by 2017.
However, it warns that regulatory, economic, structural and technological barriers could result in mHealth only reaching 10% of its potential.
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