Podcast - 17th July 2013
There's big news from big names this week as Nokia announces a new smartphone, Microsoft announces a new structure and Research In Motion announces a new name.
We also talk about O2 UK's backhaul deal, Apple's eBook court case, a complaint about advertising and plenty more as well.
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US-based telecoms giant AT&T has agreed to provide ‘pay as you go’ mobile phone operator Leap Wireless International.
It’s paying $15 per share, valuing the deal at around $1.2 billion £793 million).
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Telefonica UK has signed a 10-year deal that’ll see Virgin Media Business providing connectivity from O2 base stations.
The connections will use Virgin’s fibre network, providing O2 with extra capacity to deliver 4G mobile data from this summer.
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ABI Research is forecasting growth this year for Indoor Small Cells, which are better known as femtocells.
It says unit volumes are expected to increase in 2013 and 2014 with year-on-year growth higher than previous forecasts.
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Research In Motion is no more
BlackBerry’s AGM on 9th July saw the company changing its name formally from Research In Motion to BlackBerry.
The planned name change was first announced in January this year.
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