There’s a notable deal underway in the Indian mobile market: Bharti Airtel is picking up Tata’s Teleservices operations, boosting Bharti Airtel’s position in a market where competition has been ratcheted up by Reliance Jio. For some perspective on the deal, the overall market and the competitive position of those players:
India's wireless shakeout is spreading with the Bharti-Tata merger https://t.co/4FlQd0wFE4 pic.twitter.com/GyReE9fld5
— Bloomberg (@business) October 13, 2017
#HTtech | @1987Kulbhushan tells us who the ultimate winner is https://t.co/ZkGCoTDshm
— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) October 13, 2017
Elsewhere in the Twitterverse, Federal Communications Commission Jessica Rosenworcel joins the chorus of voices admonishing President Donald Trump for tweeting that the free press shouldn’t be so free and that NBC’s broadcast licenses ought to be “challenged”.
Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of our democracy. Hope my @FCC colleagues can all be on the same page with respect to 1st Amendment. https://t.co/1aNpYsk7BG
— Jessica Rosenworcel (@JRosenworcel) October 11, 2017
Not how it works.
See here: https://t.co/1JgiJyk5wK https://t.co/1aNpYsk7BG
— Jessica Rosenworcel (@JRosenworcel) October 11, 2017
Some interesting perspective from telecom consultant Andy Seybold on the First Responders Network Authority building its public safety LTE network from the ground-up versus the strategy that it ended up taking, where AT&T will build out more of its own capacity while it adds FirstNet Band 14 support. FirstNet, Seybold says, gets the advantage of more immediate network access as well as priority and preemption:
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Only Better! – https://t.co/Xrc509r53I
— Mike Newburn (@newburnm) October 13, 2017
Speaking of LTE, here’s a map that reverses the usual way of looking at coverage and gives a different take on the scope of LTE networks around the world. Instead of mapping where LTE is, it shows you where it isn’t.
The world now almost completely #LTE. Latest definitive status report shows "notspots" https://t.co/ekkidRYnfj (reg required) @gsacom pic.twitter.com/OjhKcerczF
— Danny Dicks (@Danny_Dicks) October 13, 2017
Want to develop new app features to stay ahead of the competition but don’t get leaked? Snapchat is stepping outside Silicon Valley with a new R&D facility in Utah.
Snapchat is building a secluded R&D lab in Lehi, Utah https://t.co/dwQExuLZ6t by @joshconstine
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 10, 2017
Mobile payments may not be the norm here in the U.S., but in China they have caught on in a big way.
Cash is already pretty much dead in China as the country lives the future of mobile pay right now https://t.co/aTnD5KWsj0
— CNBC (@CNBC) October 9, 2017
Did we see this in the new trailer for The Last Jedi that came out this week?
Russia's 'Star Wars' combat suit is reportedly getting a nuclear-resistant watch https://t.co/bATJtVZcgg pic.twitter.com/9qN6jbHSqy
— Business Insider Tech (@BITech) October 10, 2017
In case you missed it, here’s that trailer:
Watch the new trailer for Star Wars: #TheLastJedi and see it in theaters December 15. Get your tickets now: https://t.co/6vE5KUSv1f pic.twitter.com/wcKvn0jjPO
— Star Wars (@starwars) October 10, 2017
And for one more Friday time-waster, this is one of the more mesmerizing applications of fancy printing technology that I’ve seen.
A waterfall printer. Gotta hand it to the Japanese! #japan #design #art pic.twitter.com/diOHIDt2S4
— Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer (@EvanKirstel) October 9, 2017
