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• Company bidding to revive Nokia mobile phone brand raises $100m

  21-05-2018 19:49 via ft.com
  Finland’s HMD valued at more than $1bn after shipping 70m handsets in first year
  
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• Qualcomm gets involved with Facebook’s Terragraph FWA project

  21-05-2018 19:20
  Facebook reckons fixed wireless over 60 GHz is the answer to a number of urban connectivity challenges and Qualcomm seems to agree.
  Terragraph is a Facebook initiative that promotes the use of 60 GHz spectrum over a multi-hop multi-point wireless distribution network, using commercial WiGig gear. Facebook has been banging on about it for a couple of years now, but maybe Qualcomm’s involvement will help it gather some momentum, so long as lobby groups don’t break the company up first.
  
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• Freedom From Facebook demands break up of social media empire

  21-05-2018 17:14
  Considering the size of the fish which are circling Facebook, you have to wonder whether a group harbouring such unrealistic demands will even register on the social media giants radar.
  Aside from various governments challenging the way in which the company collects, protects and uses personal information, Freedom From Facebook is the latest advocacy group to contest the social media giants dominant position in the world of messaging. Facebook is a political punching bag at the moment, and while
  
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• WirelessPSC Adds Innovative Super Shroud Antenna Concealment Products to its Portfolio

  21-05-2018 16:23
  San Jose, CA - May 21st, 2018 - WirelessPSC announced today its strategic partnership with Pacific Research Laboratories to market innovative Super Shroud antenna concealment solutions to the mobile network operator ecosystem. The companies are announcing their partnership at the Connect X Connectivity Expo being held this week in Charlotte, North Carolina. “We have a strong record of accomplishments in innovation, design and manufacturing in the world of material science,” explained
  
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• ECOC Exhibition will shine spotlight on future optics trends at Market Focus

  21-05-2018 16:07
  New and old will collide as event heads to Rome, with less than 10 exhibition stands remaining Rome, Italy, 21 May 2018: Remote sensing, bio-medical applications, consumer products and free space optics will be among the latest trends discussed at this year’s European Conference on Optical Communications Exhibition (ECOC), with a New Markets Track set to run for the first time as part of the event’s popular Market Focus. Taking place at the Fiera Roma,...Source: RealWire
  
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• Samsung kicks-off final meetings for 5G phase-1 standard

  21-05-2018 14:29
  The final meetings to complete the first phase of the 5G Standalone standard have been kicked-off in Samsung’s Busan office, with the paperwork set to be officially approved at the 3GPP plenary next month.
  Samsung Electronics is the official host of the meetings, which will bring together 1500 standards experts from chipset, handset and equipment vendors, as well as the MNOs, from today (May 21st) to 25th. The objective here is simple; finalize the relevant standard technologies for 5G com
  
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• GDPR: time to cross your T’s and dot your I’s

  21-05-2018 14:23
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Rob McBride, Director of Enterprise and Telco Solutions at Versa Networks offers some timely advice about what it will take to become GDPR-ready.
  The new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) rules come into effect on May 25th, 2018. With less than a month to go, most companies are now scurrying to secure the finishing touches to their GDPR plan. The failure
  
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• Philosophical transformation

  21-05-2018 14:21
  Telecoms.com and Light Reading both attended Digital Transformation World in Nice, France and it seemed to have been one trade show too many for Scott and Iain, who found themselves in the middle of an existential crisis.
   
  
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• AT&T pushes LTE-M Button

  21-05-2018 13:58
  AT&T has announced the launch of its LTE-M Button, which allows customers to place an order online in one click, making use of the telco’s mobile network, not suspect wifi connections.
  The product itself is very similar to Amazon Dash, which allows users to reorder regular products in one click, but it is more geared towards business customers. Unlike the Amazon Dash product, the LTE-M Button is reliant on AT&T’s mobile network, making it more suitable to a wider range of env
  
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• UK government wants to save us from internet horridness

  21-05-2018 13:53
  The UK government has vowed to make a bunch of new laws designed ‘to make sure that the UK is the safest place in the world to be online.’
  On the surface this is hard to argue with. Nobody is in favour of harm, right? Well, baddies are, so it’s about time us goodies got together to get them off the internet. Of course there are many genuine baddies out there: people who openly incite criminal acts like terrorism, violence, sexual crimes, etc, but presumably there are already la
  
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• Cagey statement hits pause button on US-China trade-war

  21-05-2018 13:41
  A joint-statement released by the US and Chinese government has calmed the stormy waters but vague promises, imprecise objectives and notable omissions have opened the door for criticism.
  The statement which you can see below (courtesy of The Washington Post) is what you would expect from two governments which are trying to calm tensions, but seemingly haven’t made any progress whatsoever. There is a vague commitment from the Chinese government to increase the flow of American goods and se
  
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• SatADSL and Camtel team up to connect Cameroon

  21-05-2018 12:09
  SatADSL’s VSAT solutions are set to provide ubiquitous coverage to a range of enterprises and communities across the country.Yaoundé, Cameroon, and Brussels, Belgium, May 21, 2018 – SatADSL, a provider of professional VSAT services via satellite, and Camtel – Cameroon’s national telecommunications provider – today announced a new partnership to provide satellite connectivity across Cameroon.The formal agreement follows a pilot launch of SatADSL’s range
  
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• EE elects Ericsson Expert Analytics for excellent experiences

  21-05-2018 11:58
  Ericsson has scored a significant deal win to help out UK operator EE with its customer experience management efforts.
  The real significance of this for Ericsson will be as an endorsement of its Expert Analytics as it’s not exactly synonymous CEM. And that’s not for want of trying as Ericsson has been involved in BSS/OSS for some time and has been desperate to diversify away from just flogging radios, etc, to operators. But as we see time and time again, diversification it not easy.
  
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• International telecoms consultancy Cenerva announces global training deal to tackle regulatory issues in emerging markets

  21-05-2018 11:10
  London, 21 May 2018. Cenerva Ltd, an international telecoms consultancy with clients in over 50 countries, has acquired the Interconnect Communications (ICC) Training/TRMC (Telecoms Regulatory Master Class) assets from InterConnect Communications Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Telcordia Technologies Inc.) to support it in meeting the need for world-class regulatory training for telecoms professionals in emerging markets. The deal will give Cenerva’s clients the opportunity to access cou
  
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• Microsoft continues Nadella’s quest for conversational AI

  21-05-2018 10:45
  It is a strategy which we have been hearing a lot about over the last couple of months, and the inclusion of Semantic Machines adds further ammunition to the Microsoft AI garrison.
  This acquisition is a perfect example of where CEO Satya Nadella wants to take the Microsoft business. When Nadella inherited the Microsoft throne, the business was in a trough, relying on a decaying legacy business while carelessly investing to chase segments which had already boomed. The Nadella strategy was to get
  
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• Weekend Round Up - DT issues cease and desist letter to UK firm

  21-05-2018 02:00
  Romania – Romanian ISPs are successfully providing download speeds of 100Mbps to over 65 per cent of their customers, a new study has found.
  The number of full fibre connections in Romania doubled to 1.1 million last year, as the country forges ahead with its plans to rollout gigabit capable connectivity…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Openreach invests in Scotland's digital future

  21-05-2018 02:00
  Openreach has announced a £400,000 investment in full fibre networks in Scotland, as the company looks to increase the number of digital engineers it employs.Openreach's chairman Clive Selley announced that the investment will be made to fast track a new generation of digital engineers to rollout full fibre networks across Scotland…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Facebook CEO agrees to live-stream privacy meeting with EU leaders

  21-05-2018 02:00
  CEO founder and CEO, Marrk Zuckerberg, has agreed that his forthcoming meeting with leaders from the European parliament can be live streamed.
  Zuckerberg had previously agreed to meet with EU leaders but only in a behind closed doors setting…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT launches 4G assisted broadband for SMEs

  21-05-2018 02:00
  BT has launched a business grade broadband product that switches automatically to 4G signal if and when the regular signal drops out. BT says that the service is particularly aimed at helping SMEs to stay better connected…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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