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2 days ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

CEO school seemingly teaches the future bosses of big business to retain a few unnecessary "management layers" between the top and bottom of an organization, like easily cleared bookshelves. When business goes south, and markets expect a response, those layers can be swept away to protect margins and keep shareholders happy. "We are reducing management layers and flattening our organization," said Marie Myers, the chief financial officer of HPE, like a diligent student reading out her coursework.

4 days ago | lightreading.com | Mike Dano

'This case is about T-Mobile pirating NextWave's spectrum,' NextWave wrote to the FCC of complaints that T-Mobile is illegally interfering with its 2.5GHz wireless network in New York City.

4 days ago | lightreading.com | Robert Clark

Private capital firms are lining up to get a piece of Spark's data center business. The embattled New Zealand telco has put 50% of its data center unit on the sale block – estimated to be worth around 1.2 billion New Zealand dollars (US$719 million). Australian private equity and asset management firms Pacific Equity Partners, BGH Capital and QIC have been named as likely bidders.

4 days ago | lightreading.com | Paul Rainford

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT International is go; more actual tellys from Sky; mission-critical comms in Germany. UK altnet CityFibre has unveiled a new 5.5Gbit/s wholesale broadband product based on the XGS-PON technology that has already been rolled out across most of the company's network. CityFibre claims its new product is more than three times quicker than the fastest available service from its much larger rival, Openreach (the network access arm of BT).

4 days ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

After Vodafone and Three justified their merger plans by arguing they were too weak as separate players, the combined company will have to work fast. The last time two big UK mobile operators merged, the moniker they selected for the new company totally ignored its heritage, bearing zero trace of the old names. The choice of Everything Everywhere, the operator formed from the combo of Orange and T-Mobile, was justifiably mocked by commentators.