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• Europe tinkers with e-commerce and online video

  25-05-2016 18:30
  
  The European Commission has unveiled a raft of initiatives apparently designed to give it more control over online commercial activity in across the continent.
  The headline move was an update to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), a mere six years after the last one. “Nowadays viewers do not only watch video content via their TV channels but also increasingly via video-on-demand services (such as Netflix and MUBI) and video-sharing platforms (such as YouTube and Dailymotion),
  
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• Delivering the business case for Digital Transformation

  25-05-2016 16:27
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Indrajit Chaudhuri, SVP, Product Management & Technology Office at Tecnotree looks at the activities that define digital transformation and the benefits they confer to CSPs.
  With disruptive internet companies increasing their dominance in the communications space, communications service providers (CSPs) need their own digital disruption strategies and action
  
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• TIM claims Italy’s first 1 Gbps FTTH deployment

  25-05-2016 15:51
  
  TIM claims it is the first operator in Italy to achieve 1 Gbps download speeds using fibre to the home.
  The operator says it is the first in the country to launch 1,000 MB ultrabroadband using FTTH, saying more than 1,000 superfast connections will be available in Fontivegge in Perugia after 200 buildings have been successfully connected to its fibre infrastructure.
  Perugia forms just one part of TIM’s future plans for FTTH, and the telco is now planning to expand the roll out by deploying
  
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• Calix Wins Leading Lights Award for Most Innovative SDN Product Strategy

  25-05-2016 15:50
  
  AXOS platform honored by industry publication Light ReadingAUSTIN, TEXAS – May 25, 2016 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX), the world leader in enabling service providers to deliver a gigabit experience to their subscribers, today announced its Software Defined Access (SDA) framework along with the underlying software platform, AXOS, has been named “Most Innovative SDN Product Strategy (Vendor)” by Light Reading at the publication’s annual Leading Lights Awards event. In th
  
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• Zinwave to demonstrate public safety DAS at Critical Communications World

  25-05-2016 15:00
  
  System delivers public safety service plus future-proof support without hardware upgradesMay 25, 2016 – Zinwave, a global provider of wideband distributed network solutions for in-building wireless, today announced that it will showcase its UNItivity distributed wireless access solution (DAS) at the Critical Communications World show being held on May 31-June 2 in Amsterdam. In booth A24, Zinwave will demonstrate the industry’s only DAS that supports all current public safety frequen
  
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• Microsoft takes the axe to its smartphone business once more

  25-05-2016 13:34
  
  US software giant Microsoft has announced yet another round of cuts to its smartphone division, which was created from the acquisition of Nokia Devices.
  The news comes just days after it was announced that Microsoft was selling the feature phone part of the Nokia acquisition to a consortium headed up by a former Microsoft and Nokia devices exec. It also comes less than a year after Microsoft effectively wrote off the entire Nokia Devices acquisition by taking an impairment charge of $7.6 billion
  
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• Zylpha Drives Document Efficiency Gains at the Bedfordshire and Luton Coroner Service

  25-05-2016 12:47
  
  Central Bedfordshire coroner service has chosen software from Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) to automate document bundling. By using electronic bundling technology, the potential efficiency gains are significant. The 12 strong team at Central Bedfordshire provides an extremely effective service, meeting all the evidence and inquest requirements for the coronial area of Bedfordshire and Luton. Each week the team handles a number of inquests that require disclosure bundles and it’s not unusual for
  
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• Huawei sues Samsung over 11 standard essential patents – full details

  25-05-2016 12:41
  
  Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is suing similarly huge Korean tech company Samsung for allegedly infringing 11 wireless communications and software patents.
  Using the standard ‘we think people should pay for stuff they use’ patent legalese, Huawei pointed out it’s a major holder of standard essential patents relating to cellular networks and it likes nothing more than to license these out on a FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) basis. However, when other people use
  
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• Samsung and SK Telecom to launch nationwide LoRa IoT network

  25-05-2016 12:20
  
  South Korean giants Samsung and SK Telecom have announced an imminent roll out of a nationwide IoT network using the LoRa protocol.
  Using the 900 MHz frequency band, Samsung and SK will deploy the dedicated IoT network across the country mid-2016 following an initial roll out in Daegu next month, which will serve as an early test bed for determining potential service use cases. Potential deployment scenarios identified by Samsung include setting up and adopting infrastructure for renewable energ
  
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• UTEL to Showcase Innovative Technologies for Fibre and Copper Systems at CommunicAsia2016

  25-05-2016 10:47
  
  UK research and development company returns with its latest technology after last year’s successful CommunicAsia debutSuffolk, United Kingdom, 25 May 2016: UTEL, a leading independent research and development company for telecommunications systems, will be showcasing its latest technology at CommunicAsia2016. On display will be Robo-Cab – an innovative, fully managed automatic direction finder (ADF) system for the management of copper networks – and revolutionary fibre testing
  
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• Verizon CEO says strike will hit Q2 results

  25-05-2016 02:00
  
  U.S. telco reportedly falling behind with new Internet, TV installations.
  
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• Telecom Italia launches 1-Gbps broadband in Perugia

  25-05-2016 02:00
  
  Italian incumbent talks up small-scale ultrafast broadband rollout as network competition heats up.
  
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• Tele2 strikes IoT partnership with IBM

  25-05-2016 02:00
  
  Swedish telco to roll out LoRaWAN in Gothenburg, wins deal with telematics firm 1-Fleet Alliance.
  
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• Polycom considers rival takeover offer

  25-05-2016 02:00
  
  Unnamed PE firm tables bid to rival $1.96bn deal agreed with Mitel in April.
  
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• Microsoft culls what little is left of its smartphone business

  25-05-2016 02:00
  
  Another 1,350 Finnish jobs to go; $950 million impairment charge slated for fiscal fourth quarter.
  
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• Huawei sues Samsung for patent infringement

  25-05-2016 02:00
  
  South Korean device maker says accusations 'groundless', prepares countersuit.
  
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• 3UK sues EE for £167m over network-sharing dispute

  25-05-2016 02:00
  
  Operator claims it has been given access to less than half the agreed number of phone masts.
  
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