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• FA Cup – how to score when it comes to mobile coverage

  02-06-2016 18:31
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece John Spindler, VP marketing and product management at Zinwave, looks at some of the challenges operators face in providing coverage in stadiums and arenas.
  Football fans are increasingly relying on smartphone technology to fully immerse themselves in the experience. Mobile services such as 4G LTE enable football fans to simultaneously share photos and videos on
  
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• IBM and Cisco join forces over IoT analytics

  02-06-2016 16:02
  
  IBM and Cisco have extended a long-standing partnership to enable real-time IoT analytics and insight at the point of data collection, reports BCN.
  The partnership will focus on combining the cognitive computing capabilities of IBM’s Watson with Cisco’s edge analytics competencies to support data action and insight at the point of collection. The team are targeting companies who operate in remote environments or on the network edge, for example oil rigs, where time is of the essence
  
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• Europe's Leading Military Communications Event for Satellite Professionals Global MilSatCom returns to London in November 2016

  02-06-2016 15:43
  
  Registration now openSMi Reports (2016.06.02, London, UK): Over 450 Military SatCom experts from every continent, including 120 military personnel will meet in London this November at SMi Group’s 18th annual Global MilSatCom Conference and Exhibition.Europe's leading military satellite communications event, described by its audience as "the best networking event" in their calendar will bring together over 450 of the industry’s key senior military representatives alongside the world&r
  
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• IDC and Strategy Analytics cut global smartphone forecasts

  02-06-2016 13:11
  
  Smartphone market trackers IDC and Strategy Analytics have both downgraded their 2016 full-year global smartphone shipment forecasts.
  When they published their Q1 2016 numbers at the end of April IDC noted flat year-on-year global smartphone growth while SA reckoned it declined by 3%. Before those numbers came out IDC had forecast 5.7% growth for full-year 2016 and SA had estimated 7% growth. Now IDC has downgraded its forecast to 3.1% and SA is going for 4%.
  “Consumers everywhere are gett
  
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• MYCOM OSI receives third accolade in three weeks as it wins Global Telecoms Business ‘Mobile Infrastructure Innovation Award’

  02-06-2016 12:37
  
  Award won for Vodafone India ‘Building a Services-Driven Super NOC’ projectLondon, UK– 2nd June 2016 – MYCOM OSI, the leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced its latest award win: the Global Telecoms Business ‘Mobile Infrastructure Innovation Award’ for the ‘Building a Services-Driven Super NOC’ project with Vodafone India.The
  
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• First global 5G event held in China to promote standardization

  02-06-2016 12:35
  
  A consortium of 5G associations from around the world got together in Beijing, China in the first of a series of events designed to facilitate the 5G standardization process.
  China-based IMT 2020 (5G) Promotion Group, European 5G PPP, the 5GMF from Japan, the 5G Forum from Korea and 5G Americas congregated for the first time at an event that seemed designed as much to establish the precedent as actually get anything done. Getting 5G right and globally harmonizing the effort to do so is obviously
  
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• World’s leading companies shape the future of Broadband networks

  02-06-2016 12:24
  
  New perspectives at milestone broadband event trigger immediate actions to achieve industry goalsAtlanta, Ga. June 2, 2016: The Broadband Forum today announced the conclusion of a special three-day meeting held in Atlanta and subsequent agreement of the Board of Directors, with the purpose of examining common strategies for the future of broadband and IP networking. It also aimed to develop a new operational model and immediate actions that leverage new technology and development approaches to..
  
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• Telkom Indonesia says Guam deal is off

  02-06-2016 02:00
  
  Indonesian operator, Advantage Partners terminate acquisition process a year after it was announced.
  
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• SK Telecom seeks to enhance in-car navigation

  02-06-2016 02:00
  
  Operator's T map for Car combines multiple location-tracking technologies to improve accuracy.
  
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• Philippines telcos may lose new spectrum if Internet speeds do not improve

  02-06-2016 02:00
  
  Regulator will revoke permission for PLDT, Globe Telecom to take over San Miguel spectrum if they fail to improve Internet services within a year.
  
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• Jas Mobile fined for 4G licence default

  02-06-2016 02:00
  
  Report claims Thai telco watchdog will not revoke parent's operating licences.
  
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• IDC cuts 2016 smartphone outlook

  02-06-2016 02:00
  
  Research firm expects global shipment growth to slow to 3.1%.
  
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• Belgium frees up spectrum for 5G testing

  02-06-2016 02:00
  
  Government instructs regulator to make temporary licences available to researchers in 5G space.
  
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• Beeline predicts Russian mobile market slowdown

  02-06-2016 02:00
  
  Operator pessimistic about the next two years as competition heats up.
  
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