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		<title>Full disclosure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Informer spent a few days in Barcelona this week, sniffing around the LTE World Summit. The default setting in the LTE sector is positive and forward- looking but a frank, challenging opening keynote from Orange Spain CTO Eduardo Duato at the event this week spat rather effectively in that soup.]]></description>
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		<title>Does my bottom line look big in this?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world’s favourite social butterfly, Facebook, finally made its Wall Street debut Thursday as the IPO process got underway. Although it was to be expected, at $38 each, the shares still seem ridiculously overpriced. Legal advisory firm Magister Advisors explained to the Informer that Facebook needs to make ten times more revenue per year than it currently is making, and hit annual figures of between $30bn to $40bn, in order to provide value for that price. The site may be the internet’s equivalent of crack, but making this much money is still a tall order.]]></description>
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		<title>Wherever I may roam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not often in the telecoms world that operators go above and beyond the requests of the regulatory authorities. But that’s exactly what happened this week when Telefónica launched an affordable roaming plan just one day after the European Parliament voted to bring rates down within the EU.]]></description>
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		<title>Watching us, watching you, watching us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The numbers kept coming this week as more quarterly results rolled in—but the biggest number of all was the value attached to Facebook. The firm set the share price for its impending IPO at between $28 and $35, valuing it at between $85bn and $95bn.
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		<title>Parables and Parallels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With London’s 2012 Olympic Games weeks away, The Informer has been taking some time to read up on its history, and it seems that parallels can be drawn in the telecoms industry with the times that the Olympians first battled it out in Ancient Greece.]]></description>
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		<title>Up in flames</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historically, there is evidence that Norse warriors were sometimes buried or sent off in a burning ship with a number of slave girls to accompany them to Valhalla. But to be fair to the Scandinavians, human sacrifice has never really been their thing, at least not recently. Still, when you’re a public company, rather than an invading tribe, sometimes these sacrifices have to be made — to appease the Gods of the stock market.]]></description>
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		<title>Reality bites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nokia has been projecting a positive aura over the last few months, an aura which achieved its richest glow with the launch of the Lumia smartphone range towards the end of last year. Response to the new flagships was net positive and a massive brand campaign has since been hammering home the message that Nokia is back.]]></description>
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		<title>From China with Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been another week of slammed doors for Chinese vendor Huawei, with Australia the latest state to block the firm's attempts to win business because of security concerns. Huawei was told not to bother turning up to the tender process for the National Broadband Network because it had only two hopes—Bob Hope and No Hope—and Bob Hope's dead. ]]></description>
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		<title>Join the queue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Nokia marketing machine just loves its Twitter. It’s forever fishing for compliments and posting messages of consumer love for its products. Earlier this week it posted some solicitous pap about the new PureView 808 camera phone having two things in common with professional celebrity Kim Kardashian (SEO: Check!), and invited followers to guess what they might be. It seemed pretty clear to the Informer; they’re both a bit on the lumpy side, and they’re both essentially pointless.]]></description>
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		<title>Walking the line&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not often you get tabloid scandal in the mobile industry but this week’s decision by the GSMA to terminate its contract with CBOSS certainly made the grade.]]></description>
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