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Oxfam Wants Your 118 Calls |
30/11/06 |
Comms company Spiritel plc has joined forces with Oxfam to launch a new directory enquiry service, 118 918, whereby 9p from each call dialled goes to help end world pover... Read More |
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New Motoring Laws Will Drive Headset Sales Forward, Say Nimans |
30/11/06 |
| Planned changes in motoring laws offer dealers increased opportunities to drive sales of Bluetooth headsets into top gear.
That's the view of telecoms distributor Nima... Read More |
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Former Zultys No.1 Joins SpliceCom |
30/11/06 |
| Martin Bond, who until very recently headed up Zultys in EMEA, has joined Splicecom Vice President of International Sales.
Bond's primary role will be to kick-start sa... Read More |
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Envox Ships V7 |
30/11/06 |
| UK based Envox Worldwide, a provider of voice solutions, has announced the availability of Envox CT Connect 7, the latest version of the Company’s standards-based CTI sof... Read More |
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Want to Get Ahead then get a Hood |
30/11/06 |
| Storacall TeleAcoustics has added the new ‘T5000 Marine’ communications hood to their range of telephone hoods, kiosks, booths and enclosures. The unit has been robustly ... Read More |
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3Com Buys Huawei Stake in JV |
30/11/06 |
| Huawei has announced that it has accepted a bid offer from 3Com to purchase Huawei's entire stake in their joint venture Huawei-3Com ("H3C").
In accordance with H3C's ... Read More |
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Computer 2000 Announces Change at the Top |
29/11/06 |
| Computer 2000, the UK arm of Tech Data, has announced that UK Managing Director, Steve Lockie, is leaving his position to take up a new opportunity. He will be replaced b... Read More |
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Chess Make 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 |
29/11/06 |
| Network Services reseller Chess has been ranked 28th in the 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK & Ireland... Read More |
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Crane Takes a Bite out of the Big Apple |
29/11/06 |
| Distributor Crane Telecommunications recently took 20 Avaya Resellers from their latest incentive to New York for a luxury five night trip.
Staying at the 5-star Huds... Read More |
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BT to Launch IPTV on 4 December |
29/11/06 |
| Reuters has reported that BT Group Plc has said it would launch its promised broadband television service, BT Vision, on December 4.
A spokesman said there would be a ... Read More |
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Aastra Telecom Partners with BroadSoft |
29/11/06 |
| Canadian PBX company Aastra Telecom has announced that it has entered into an agreement with hosted IP Telephony platform vendor BroadSoft to provide pre-integrated acces... Read More |
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First Customers go live on BT's 21st Century Network |
29/11/06 |
| BT made communications history yesterday with the transfer of the first customer lines to its 21st Century Network (21CN), the world’s most advanced next generation netwo... Read More |
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Crane Raises the IP Bar with Mitel |
28/11/06 |
| Distributor Crane Telecommunications is making a focus of the IP capabilities of their Mitel product range through the introduction of their Crane Mitel IP Solutions Broc... Read More |
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Club & Teleware Sign Partnership Agreement |
28/11/06 |
| TeleWare has announced that Club Communications has been appointed to act as a distributor of TeleWare hosted applications through the Club Communications platform.
Cl... Read More |
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Top 50 Appearance for Azzurri |
28/11/06 |
| Azzurri Communications recognised as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK & Ireland Azzurri Communications ranked 49 in the 2006 Deloitte Technology ... Read More |
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Unicom Launches Graduate Training Scheme |
28/11/06 |
| Manchester-based Unicom has started the interview process to recruit up to eight graduate trainees to start with the company on January 3rd, 2007.
The formal part of ... Read More |
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Wolseley go for Thus |
28/11/06 |
| Thus provides managed solution to Wolseley to deliver voice connections to 1,700 sites in the UK
Wolseley UK, the largest distributors of heating, plumbing and buildin... Read More |
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Woollies go for C&W |
28/11/06 |
| Cable & Wireless has won a significant five year contract with retailer Woolworths.
Woolworths selected Cable & Wireless following a competitive review process against... Read More |
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CTI Group Shipping Free Proteus with Smartrecord |
27/11/06 |
| CTI Group CEO John Birbeck has announced a new channel initiative that will see the company provide a free copy of Proteus Enterprise Viewer with each Smartrecord call re... Read More |
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Colt Appoints New President and CEO |
27/11/06 |
| Colt Telecom has announced that Rakesh Bhasin will be appointed President and Chief Executive, succeeding Jean-Yves Charlier. The change will take effect following the ne... Read More |
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VCW Announce New Management Team |
27/11/06 |
| Distributor Voice Comms Warehouse has announced the appointments of Stuart Bullard as its Business Development Director and Toby Caton as the new Sales Director of its se... Read More |
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ARC Solutions Seeks New Cisco Resellers |
27/11/06 |
| Reading based ARC Solutions who provide PC based operator consoles and call centre applications for Cisco Unified CallManager are on the lookout for additional resellers.... Read More |
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Ofcom Looking at 21CN NGN Regulation |
27/11/06 |
| A paper published last week by UK industry regulator Ofcom indicates that the watchdog is looking at access to the next generation networks.
“Investment in next genera... Read More |
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Nortel to Cut R&D Spend |
27/11/06 |
| Nortel Networks has revealed plans to reduce spending on materials and research and development, according to a published report.
CEO Mike Zafirovsky told the Wall St... Read More |
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Freedom Targets Work Surfers |
24/11/06 |
| Reseller Freedom is to offer customers CommsOffice Professional from CommSoft, from this month. CommsOffice Pro gives companies the ability to track and control telephony... Read More |
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Zyxel Appoint Micro-P for Entire Range |
24/11/06 |
| Appointment is expected to accelerate adoption of networking security technology by SMEs across the UK
Zyxel Communications UK has appointed IT distributor Micro-Perip... Read More |
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Improcom and PTS Consulting Group Converge |
24/11/06 |
| It’s a little known fact that consultants are known to have a direct impact on the purchase of some £2.5 billion worth of communications products each year in Europe. Som... Read More |
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Adaptive Call Recorder Well received |
24/11/06 |
| New Media Software has announced the launch of their new Adaptive Call Recorder, which they say is already generating a high level of interest in the channel.
The Adap... Read More |
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Ericsson Team ‘Evolves’ at Nimans |
24/11/06 |
| Nimans has unveiled a new in-house business team to drive its Ericsson brand portfolio.
The distributor says it is primed to deliver even greater levels of customer se... Read More |
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Siemens Probe Widens |
24/11/06 |
| The missing money at Siemens just seems to keep getting bigger and bigger.
Reuters reports the Munich state prosecutor as investigating the disappearance of about 200 ... Read More |
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TeleWare Competencies Lead to Gold |
23/11/06 |
| TeleWare, the provider of intelligent communication applications for hosted and on-premise solutions for businesses and service providers, today announced that it has bee... Read More |
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Zen Launches Zen Office 8000 – 8Mb Premier Business Broadband. |
23/11/06 |
| ISP Zen Internet has launched Zen Office 8000, the latest addition to its range of Zen Office Broadband solutions.
Zen say that priced at £45.00 per month, Zen Office... Read More |
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Avanquest Launches Hosted Business Apps for SMEs |
23/11/06 |
| Avanquest’s new Office Gateway is, according to them, the perfect solution for small to medium sized companies wanting to ‘ business processes and access the power of lea... Read More |
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No Bidders left for Siemens's Telecoms Unit |
23/11/06 |
| Siemens has ended talks with the last presumptive bidder for its loss-making corporate telecoms unit, Enterprise Networks, the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) daily rep... Read More |
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2007: A Year of Network Upgrades |
23/11/06 |
| A New Year’s resolution for the majority of UK IT directors in 2007 will be to upgrade their IT networks in a bid to deliver better business results, according to a Vanso... Read More |
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Dell’Oro: Demand Rising for IP PBXs in the Third Quarter |
23/11/06 |
| Avaya and Cisco Post Record PBX Sales
A recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, an established source for market information about the networking and telecommu... Read More |
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Blue’s Call logging supports Nortel BCM-50 |
23/11/06 |
| Storacall say a version of their ‘Blues Professional’ call logging software is now available for integration with the Nortel IP-centric PBX, the BCM-50 as well as the pre... Read More |
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Griffin SAN is Childs Play |
22/11/06 |
| The Dolls House Emporium, the world’s leading supplier of doll’s houses and miniature collectibles, has chosen Griffin Internet’s Storage Area Network (SAN) for all their... Read More |
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New Claro VoIP Gateway Range for the UK Channel |
22/11/06 |
| Iridiacom, the Hertfordshire based VoIP distributor, has released a new range of VoIP gateways from IP Gear (formerly Boscom). The gateways are designed to replace the RO... Read More |
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Funkwerk Launch New APs |
22/11/06 |
| Funkwerk Enterprise Communications (FEC) has announced two new access points for professional WLANs and hot-spots. The Funkwerk W1002 with one wireless module and Funkwer... Read More |
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IBM Unveils New Call Centre Solution |
22/11/06 |
| Pegasystems, supplier of unified process and rules technology, has announced that IBM has unveiled its new banking contact centre offering, featuring their rules-based BP... Read More |
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Echo Go Platinum with Telstra |
22/11/06 |
| Echo Communications has achieved Platinum status in Telstra’s channel sales accreditation programme.
Echo became a Telstra Europe Service Provider two years ago and b... Read More |
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2e2 Formerly Joins the Cisco TelePresence Program |
22/11/06 |
| Newbury based 2e2 has achieved the Telepresence Advanced Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco. This designation recognises 2e2 for having fulfilled the training r... Read More |
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Ofcom Set to Ease BT Broadband Rules |
22/11/06 |
| The Times has reported today that rules around BT’s supply of broadband to rivals could be rolled back after a review by the regulator.
Ofcom, which ruled in 2004 that... Read More |
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Safety First say GN Netcom |
21/11/06 |
| GN Netcom will take part in the UK’s first independent telephony equipment testing programme to focus on the health and safety risks associated with exposure to noise via... Read More |
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Vodafone Moving in to Enterprise Comms with New Acquisitions |
21/11/06 |
| Vodafone has announced an exclusive partnership and the acquisition of two companies, as part of its longer-term plan to evolve from a mobile-focused company to a total c... Read More |
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Nortel Increases SMB Focus |
21/11/06 |
| Nortel is strengthening its SMB portfolio with the addition of two new data products, as well as enhancements to existing SMB solutions.
Nortel's new SMB products and ... Read More |
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Siemens Tightens Wireless Security |
21/11/06 |
| Siemens Enterprise Communications integrated its HiPath Wireless Manager with Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) platform so companies can now monitor and enforc... Read More |
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VoIP Reliability Still an Issue say IT Directors |
21/11/06 |
| Research from Compuware, the software and services company, has found that 73% of European IT executives are still worried about the quality and reliability of VoIP. With... Read More |
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Kingston Communications Tops UK Telecoms Report |
21/11/06 |
| Industry report backed by Ofcom reveals KC as the highest performing UK communications provider across business and residential services
Kingston Communications has a... Read More |
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Entanet Offers Free VoIP to Channel Partners |
21/11/06 |
| Entanet, the wholesale provider of converged business voice and data connectivity services, is giving even greater value to its channel Partners by offering them a free I... Read More |
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Long Distance Chess Charity |
21/11/06 |
| Chess showed its continued commitment to supporting charities as it packed three intrepid adventurers off to the Americas last month.
The award winning Cheshire based ... Read More |
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Splicecom GoSip |
20/11/06 |
| Last week saw UK vendor SpliceCom hold their channel 'Event' at Bosworth Hall, Warwickshire. Hosted by SpliceCom's UK Sales Manager, Graham Harris, The Event 2006 was att... Read More |
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Thus Sales up 50% at Half Way Point |
20/11/06 |
| Network operator Thus has just announced its half year figures which reveal a hike of nearly 50% in sales for the period. Though the company continues to make a small los... Read More |
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Chess Hits Sweet 16 |
20/11/06 |
| Chess, the Cheshire based telecoms company has completed its latest acquisition with the purchase of Telecom (GB) Limited t/a Nationwide Telecom. With this latest acquis... Read More |
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Employers Need Higher Level IT Skills |
20/11/06 |
| Findings released last week from the latest quarterly e-skills UK ICT Inquiry show that highly skilled IT professionals are in huge demand as technology becomes increasin... Read More |
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When in Rome… |
20/11/06 |
| Siemens Executives Held Over Bribery Allegations
As many as ten Siemens executives have been arrested in raids at Siemens offices across Germany last week. Prosecutors... Read More |
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New Wimax Portfolio from Zyxel |
20/11/06 |
| Mobile Workers To Save On Landline Costs And Benefit From High Speed Roaming
Zyxel Communications has announced that its new Wimax portfolio will be available from Ja... Read More |
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New Interquartz Door Phone |
20/11/06 |
| Interquartz, the UK manufacture of business class telephones, has launched a new range of ID200 door phones which takes advantage of telephone systems and eliminates the ... Read More |
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V Networks Million Dollar Run |
20/11/06 |
| V Networks partners partied the night away in London recently to celebrate the launch of the Million Dollar Run which will make millionaires of many of the attendees.
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Milestones and Surprises in the Q3 06 Telephony Market |
20/11/06 |
| According to a recently published report by Synergy Research Group, the worldwide Enterprise IP Telephony market reached two significant milestones in the quarter: Cisco ... Read More |
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Avaya Ease Application Integration |
20/11/06 |
| Avaya has introduced its new third-generation directory enabled management (DEM) interface, a building block that intelligently connects enterprise business applications ... Read More |
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Big Numbers at Unicom |
17/11/06 |
| Telecom service provider Unicom, which specialises in small business telephony provision, is on the verge of a double milestone.
During early November, one of Manchest... Read More |
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Free Call Recording Demonstration Software from Storacall |
17/11/06 |
| Storacall has recently launched a demonstration version of their VoiStore call recording application which is available 'free of charge' for existing and potential resell... Read More |
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SMES Must Confront IT Challenges to Compete |
17/11/06 |
| Many of the UK's small businesses are falling behind the competition as technology progresses, according to a new comprehensive report launched today and developed for BT... Read More |
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Consumer Panel spells out issues for new Ofcom Chief Executive |
17/11/06 |
| The Consumer Panel, the independent voice for the consumer interest in telecoms, has welcomed the appointment of Ed Richards as Ofcom's new Chief Executive, spelling out ... Read More |
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Sales Up at 2e2 |
17/11/06 |
| Newbury, Berkshire based reseller group 2es has just announced interim results for the six months ending 30 June showing revenues increasing to £74.3m during the period –... Read More |
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IP: Coming to Desktop near You say MZA |
17/11/06 |
| The recently released report from UK analyst MZA says that in the first half of 2006 a total of 12.8 m extension lines were shipped on PBXs/IP PBXs in Europe, reflecting ... Read More |
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Avaya Sets out its UC Agenda |
17/11/06 |
| Avaya Delivers Integrated Unified Communications and Mobility Platform, Offering More Applications from More Devices to More Locations
Avaya has announced its next maj... Read More |
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Avaya Purchases FMC Player |
17/11/06 |
| Avaya bought Traverse Networks on Thursday for an undisclosed amount. Traverse, a privately held software firm based in Fremont, California, makes software that hooks wir... Read More |
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Avaya Beefs EMEA Sales with Heavyweight Appointment |
16/11/06 |
| Avaya has confirmed the appointment of Patricia Hume as Vice President Channel Sales EMEA. Hume's appointment was effective the first of November 2006. She will be based... Read More |
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APC Celebrate the 5th year of its UPS Exchange Program |
16/11/06 |
| Five years ago, American Power Conversion (APC) launched the "Trade-UPS" Program and enabled resellers to deliver additional value to their customers by offering to trade... Read More |
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OTA Responds to Criticisms |
16/11/06 |
| Peter Black, the independent Telecommunications Adjudicator has responded to the open letter sent to him earlier this week (See this web site - Top Stories dated 14 Novem... Read More |
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Police Launch Siemens Fraud Probe |
16/11/06 |
| Police have raided offices of German engineering firm Siemens, investigating allegations of embezzlement and corruption. About 30 business premises and private homes were... Read More |
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COLT wins €60m data centre deal with Fidelity International |
16/11/06 |
| Colt has won a contract to provide Fidelity International Limited with a dedicated managed data centre facility. The contract, worth around €60m over 10 years, will invol... Read More |
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Ofcom Looking at Number Portability |
16/11/06 |
| Ofcom today announced plans to improve number portability processes which allow consumers to keep their telephone number when they switch provider. In the absence of numb... Read More |
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BT Makes Cash offer for PlusNet |
16/11/06 |
| BT today announced it has made a recommended cash offer for PlusNet, offering 210p per share, valuing the company at approximately £67m.
BT says the offer for PlusNet ... Read More |
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New Call Server from Splicecom Targets SMEs |
16/11/06 |
| Splicecom’s success with maximiser in 2006 will see the UK IP PBX manufacturer release a new Small Office Call Server in early 2007. “Over the last year we’ve seen demand... Read More |
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The Rising Cost of Free |
16/11/06 |
| A survey launched today by uSwitch, the price-comparison service, has found that 40% of UK broadband customers are not satisfied with their supplier. This is despite a 17... Read More |
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