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Tim Berners-Lee: Maybe Regulation Can Fix Social Media

2018-03-13 14:17:34| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

In an open letter, the inventor of the World Wide Web raised the question over whether internet companies can effectively police themselves.

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Last week in telecoms: TIM, Cellnex and German consolidation talk push up telecoms index 3.1%

2018-03-12 07:30:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Last week saw a solid performance for the European telecoms sector. Apart from a few stocks the vast majority ended week 10 up. Double digit gains were scored by TIM (+15%) and Cellnex (+11%), the former responding positively to news of the company accepting a fixed network spin-off and the latter venturing into the Swiss IoT market. Our European Telecoms Index closed the week up 3.1 percent, just ahead of the EuroStoxx 50 Index (+2.9%).

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Activist investor Elliott increases TIM stake to counter Vivendi - report

2018-03-06 09:51:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Activist investor Elliott Management is increasing its stake in Telecom Italia (TIM) in a bid to counter how the operator's largest investor Vivendi is running the company, according to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg. Elliott is mulling the possibility of nominating directors to TIM's board and pushing for other changes at the company, said the sources, adding that the hedge fund is concerned about the operator's falling stock and business performance since Vivendi took majority control of the board.

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TIM offices raided in expanded antitrust probe into broadband rollout

2018-02-22 09:02:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Italy's antitrust and competition authority, AGCM, has announced the expansion of an investigation launched last summer into possible abuse by Telecom Italia (TIM) in the expansion of its fibre-optic broadband network to underserved and rural areas across the country. The watchdog said it's now probing whether TIM had tried to set wholesale prices for operators seeking broadband access that might obstruct competition. In a statement, the AGCM also said it's looking into possible anti-competitive behaviour by TIM on the retail broadband market via the use of privileged information it had obtained as the dominant network operator.

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