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• Microsoft partners Luna Mobile to salvage mobile investment

  28-06-2016 18:35
  
  Microsoft has announced a new patent partnership with Luna Mobile which will extent to smartphones and other telecommunications services.
  While details of the agreement have not been released to date, the announcement did state Microsoft would receive royalties, suggesting this could be a ploy for the tech giant to recoup some of its investment during its varied venture into the world of mobile devices.
  Microsoft’s previous undertaking in the mobile devices market segment was largely deeme
  
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• 3GPP maps out 5G specifications timeline

  28-06-2016 18:09
  
  Telecoms standardization body 3GPP has mapped out the roadmap to release 15, which will contain the first set of 5G specifications.
  A recent plenary meeting of the 3GPP Technical Specifications Groups concluded with a series of milestones over the next couple of years culminating in the freezing of key technologies in June 2018.
  The timeline below illustrates some of the checkpoints, including a major checkpoint in March 2017. Most of the announcement is written in similarly opaque language, wit
  
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• Citrix extends ‘Security Everywhere’ strategy with $293m CloudLock acquisition

  28-06-2016 17:29
  
  Citrix has announced its intent to acquire cloud security company CloudLock in a $293 million deal which is expected to close in Q1 2017.
  CloudLock specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology which provides insight and analytics focused on user behaviour and sensitive data in the cloud. The move builds on Citrix’s ‘Security Everywhere’ strategy, its initiative designed to provide protection from the cloud to the network to the endpoint.
  “As companies are
  
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• Cisco extends ‘Security Everywhere’ strategy with $293m CloudLock acquisition

  28-06-2016 17:29
  
  Cisco has announced its intent to acquire cloud security company CloudLock in a $293 million deal which is expected to close in Q1 2017.
  CloudLock specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology which provides insight and analytics focused on user behaviour and sensitive data in the cloud. The move builds on Cisco’s ‘Security Everywhere’ strategy, its initiative designed to provide protection from the cloud to the network to the endpoint.
  “As companies are m
  
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• Skyworth Digital selected as main supplier for world’s largest analog switch off (ASO) project worldwide

  28-06-2016 17:02
  
  14 million Brazil Ginga-C set-top boxes (STBs) plus 15 million ISDB-T-compliant Zappers expected to be deployed in Brazilian marketShenzhen, China, 28 June 2016 – Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology Co. LTD. (000810.SZ), a leading STB and smart home solutions provider, today announced it has been selected as a supplier for Brazil’s Analog Switch Off (ASO) – the world’s biggest digital switch over so far – and as the main provider for the largest cities in the...Sou
  
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• Liquid Telecom acquires South African operator Neotel for $430 million

  28-06-2016 17:00
  
  Liquid Telecom has confirmed the acquisition of South Africa’s second largest fixed line operator, Neotel, for roughly $430 million.
  The deal will see Liquid, which is owned by African telecoms group Econet Wireless Global, acquire a majority stake in Neotel of 70% with investment group Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH) acquiring the remaining 30%.
  Liquid already runs extensive operations across Africa in fixed broadband and B2B telecoms, so the acquisition of Neotel adds to its already-deploy
  
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• HGI makes all its Home Gateway specifications public prior to planned closure at end of June 2016

  28-06-2016 15:45
  
  28 June 2016. The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI), which has been the world’s leading organisation setting requirements for the broadband-connected Home Gateway since 2005, today confirmed it will cease operations as planned on Thursday, June 30, but will make its work available on a new archive website. HGI members have worked tirelessly to complete the planned work on schedule, with ten documents published since mid-2015. These include the completely updated “Residential Profile&rdqu
  
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• Content is still King but data rules the cloud – Oracle

  28-06-2016 14:07
  
  Back in 1996 Bill Gates coined the phrase ‘Content is King’ as a means to monetize the internet, a phrase which has been echoed by various marketers and SEO experts ever since. This remains true today, and has inspired some of the world’s most recognizable brands.
  But why stop at content? Content may be the means to monetize the internet, but unless there is relevant information behind to provide context, success will be limited according to Oracle’s Neil Sholay.
  “C
  
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• Tata enables MNOs to offer OTT services to travelling customers

  28-06-2016 13:54
  
  Tata Communications has launched Wi-Fi+, a new wifi cloud communication solution which allows MNO customers OTT services through 21 million wifi hotspots globally.
  The new offering leans on the increasingly popular use of internet calling and texting services, most notable amongst the younger generations, as well as tendencies for customers to minimize the use of their devices abroad in fear of a larger bill. The Tata team claims MNOs are now missing out on potential revenues as 53% of customers
  
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• Ericsson to demonstrate remote surgery at 5G World event

  28-06-2016 13:13
  
  Swedish networks giant Ericsson will partner with King’s College London to demonstrate 5G tactile robotic surgery at the 5G World 2016 event opening tomorrow.
  Ericsson and King’s announced their 5G collaboration just after this year’s Mobile World Congress. It’s designed to bring industry and academia together to explore clever ways of using all the new wireless capabilities 5G is expected to provide.
  Among the anticipated 5G improvements is latency – i.e. the delay
  
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• Nokia claims world’s first 5G-ready network

  28-06-2016 12:43
  
  Nokia has laid claim to having the world’s first 5G-ready network, which it plans on demonstrating later this week in London.
  While 5G claims are not new, Nokia says this time it is different. This project, which will be showcased at the 5G World show in London this week, involves three principal layers of technology. Leaning heavily on its AirScale suite, the 5G network stack will involve radio access technology linking up with a cloud-based packet core, which itself runs on top of the Ai
  
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• The BCK Group completes global cloud communications project in just 60 hours with Solgari

  28-06-2016 12:12
  
  28 June 2016 – Solgari, the leading business cloud communications provider, has today announced its successful deployment at BCK and its sister company BCK Wealth Management Ltd (BCK). Solgari has replaced BCK’s entire traditional landline infrastructure with a cloud-based telephony solution that offers low cost, instant voice communications for all users across all internet connected endpoints. Supporting BCK during a period of rapid growth and relocation, the service is ideally sui
  
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• Oracle partners BT in UK cloud push

  28-06-2016 11:54
  
  Oracle has announced a new partnership with BT as the company continues its efforts to redefine its offering and penetrate the cloud computing market segment.
  Through the new partnership customers will be able to use several features of BT Cloud Connect environment to gain direct connectivity to the Oracle Cloud. The offering will provide options for connectivity from hybrid enterprise data centres to the Oracle Cloud, of which there are currently 19 spread around the world.
  “Direct and re
  
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• Prysmian Grows In Russia And Kazakhstan

  28-06-2016 10:12
  
  New Orders Received For High-Voltage Cables Produced In RybinskStrategic Agreement With Russian Grids (Rosseti) In Power Transmission Cables And SystemsSt. Petersburg, 28 June 2016 – Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, confirms the constant growth of Prysmian Russia, which recently reached many important milestones in the high-voltage electrical power transmission grid sector in Russia and Kazakhstan.In detail, the Group has been awarded the
  
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• Tele2 hires new international chief

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Guillaume van Gaver to oversee operator's businesses in Austria, Croatia, Germany, the Baltics, Kazakhstan.
  
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• Tata may sell spectrum to pay DoCoMo bill

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Indian operator could reopen spectrum-trading talks with rivals, according to press report.
  
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• Sistema buys back Russian govt stake in Indian unit

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Government acquired 17.14% of Sistema Shyam Teleservices in 2011 for $600 million.
  
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• Qualcomm shows off 5G prototype

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Base station, end user equipment to serve as testbed for verifying new sub-6-GHz technologies.
  
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• MTN Nigeria names new finance chief

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Adekunle Awobodu takes on role left vacant when Ferdi Moolman stepped up to top job at Nigerian mobile operator.
  
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• Liquid Telecom to buy Neotel for €390m

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  India's Tata brokers new deal to exit its South African operation.
  
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• Global 5G subscriptions to reach 24m in 2021

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Ovum predicts networks will be up and running in 20 markets in five years.
  
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• DNA makes €120m cash offer for Anvia ahead of shareholder meeting

  28-06-2016 02:00
  
  Finnish mobile operator calls for board to postpone decision on Elisa takeover to enable shareholders to consider their options.
  
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