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<title>BlackBerry boosted by $257 million Canadian loan to Telefonica</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/04/257.million.line.of.credit.offered.to.eu.latin.america.carrier/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362693736_blackberryz10-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Canadian governmental agency Export Development Canada (EDC) is awarding a 200 million euro ($257 million) credit line to European telecom operator Telefonica. The grant is intended to help "facilitate BlackBerry market share growth" in the EU, according to the EDC. This is the first financing agreement Telefonica has received from the EDC specifically spelling out BlackBerry as the main beneficia...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sky acquires 500,000 broadband customers from Telefonica UK</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/01/deal.worth.307m.leaves.telefonica.to.work.on.4g.services/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362139640_skylogo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[BskyB is acquiring Telefonica UK's landline and home broadband services. The deal, claimed to be worth around £200 million ($307 million) will see Sky become the second largest Internet service provider in the country, thanks to the addition of an extra 500,000 customers from Telefonica's Internet services, O2 and BE....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ofcom completes 4G spectrum auction in the United Kingdom</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/20/total.of.4g.auction.winning.bids.lower.than.anticipated/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1109/celltower-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[UK regulator Ofcom has closed its 4G spectrum auction earlier than anticipated. Mainstream British carriers Vodafone, Telefonica, Everything Everywhere, and Three, as well as BT subsidiary Niche Spectrum Ventures, have won various sections of the 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum bands, though the money earned by the UK Treasury through the auction is far below what it expected....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mozilla reveals Firefox OS partners, first units in 2013</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/02/sprint.telefonica.zte.alcatel.on.board.for.html5.phones/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1341247546_Screenshot2012-07-02at12.34.37PM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[In a post today on The Mozilla Blog, Mozilla confirmed that next year will see the launch of a number of phones powered by its Firefox operating system. The new operating system, built on Mozilla's "Boot to Gecko project," will run HTML5 apps and is aimed at furthering the development of that standard while providing a low-cost operating system for smartphones aimed at developing markets. The b...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Vodafone, Telefonica pooling network resources in UK</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/07/combined.network.to.increase.coverage.and.smooth.4g.rollout/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1109/vodafone-non_apple-micro-sim-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Mobile carriers Vodafone UK and Telefonica UK (known as O2) are going to work together to create a shared network grid, the two companies have announced. The combined efforts of the two networks will see an increased coverage area for both companies in the short term, and a smoother national rollout of LTE services, currently aimed for the year 2015. LTE or "4G" services, currently nonexistent in ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>First Boot2Gecko phones may arrive in Brazil by end of year</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/19/launch.expected.by.late.2012.or.early.2013/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1203/mozillaboot2gecko-handson.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The first handsets to be powered by Mozilla's Boot2Gecko OS, which we tried out at Mobile World Congress, will reportedly arrive in Brazil via Telefonica as early as the end of the year. Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs made the timing announcement today in São Paulo, confirming that the platform will make it past concept development and into the retail smartphone market....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Leak: RIM ex-CEO would have let Android, iPhone use BIS</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/13/rim.would.have.used.bis.servers.for.basic.data/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/jimbalsillie-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[RIM's former co-CEO Jim Balsillie had proposed using BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) servers to provide data for non-BlackBerry hardware shortly before he resigned his position, new leaks uncovered on Friday.  The method outlined to Reuters would have let carriers offer Android and iPhone devices with cheaper data plans that limited Internet access to chat (possibly BlackBerry Messenger) and soc...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mexico's Telcel deemed dominant, faces tougher regulation</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/28/telcel.to.face.pro.competition.restrictions/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/telcel.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Mexico's Federal Competition Commission ruled late Tuesday that Telcel was a dominant company and would face extra regulation.  The unanimous vote observed by Dow Jones rejected an appeal while simultaneously flipping an earlier decision that lusacell and Telefonica's Movistar were also dominant in the country.  Their ability to negotiate deals wasn't as powerful given their smaller influences in ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EU probing phone carriers for possible collusion</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/euflag-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Possible slips may have revealed the first stages of a possible European Commission investigation into the continent's top five carriers.  The FT heard from sources that Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), France Telecom (Orange), Telecom Italia, Telefonica (O2), and Vodafone were under scrutiny for a series of "E5" meetings on the state of the industry.  Concerns existed that they had used the discussio...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hands on: Mozilla's Boot 2 Gecko OS [U]</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/27/project.finally.nearing.completion/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/gecko-sml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[(Update: Telefonica details) Mozilla is finally showing off its Boot 2 Gecko operating system that is completely based on web standards. The company brought Samsung's Galaxy S II to Mobile World Congress, however the Android OS was stripped away to allow the device to boot Gecko and run apps based on HTML5, JavaScript and CSS....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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