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• Europe reveals its big plan for 5G

  07-07-2016 17:02
  
  Europe’s leading telecoms companies have all endorsed a ‘5G Manifesto’, which is positioned as a roadmap for the development and deployment of 5G across the continent.
  The Manifesto seems to have been developed in response to prompting from the European Commission, which called for a 5G action plan at this year’s MWC. European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society Gunther Oettinger, who is having a busy day, was pleased with their work.
  “I very much welco
  
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• tyntec Is Rated As One Of The Top Three A2P SMS Providers In ROCCO’s Annual A2P SMS Messaging Vendor Performance Report

  07-07-2016 17:00
  
  Garnering the highest scores for reliability, technical expertise, transparency, and understanding of interconnect, tyntec was selected as a tier one provider by mobile operators MUNICH, SAN FRANCISCO – July 7, 2016 – tyntec, a telecom-web convergence company, today announced it was selected as one of the top three A2P SMS messaging vendors by 260 mobile network operators (MNOs) in an independent study conducted by The Roaming Consulting Company (ROCCO). The survey, published in &ldq
  
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• Fuze continues global expansion with appointment of Vice President for Southern Europe and Emerging Markets

  07-07-2016 16:59
  
  Florian Zenner to lead regional operations from new Zurich office to accelerate disruption in unified communications market7 July 2016 – Fuze, a leader in voice, video, and collaboration, today announces the appointment of Florian Zenner as Area Vice President of Southern Europe and Emerging Markets. He will lead Fuze operations from a new Zurich office, with a focus on building sales and market share in Switzerland, Italy, Iberia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North...Source: RealWi
  
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• AWS eyes IoT for the second $10 billion

  07-07-2016 16:17
  
  At the AWS Summit in London today the public cloud giant indicated a strategic move towards IoT may be necessary to maintain its impressive growth.
  It’s amazing to think in 2005 AWS didn’t exist as an organization, though the company is now one of the most influential and recognizable names in the technology industry, but will the acceptance of cloud be its reality check?
  As AWS has grown as an organization, the normalization of cloud has grown with it. Whilst this would almost
  
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• Avast makes IoT security play with $1.3 billion AVG purchase

  07-07-2016 13:07
  
  Avast Software has reached an agreement to acquire internet security firm AVG for $1.3 billion in a bid to focus on future security threats, including IoT.
  The transaction will see two of the security industry’s biggest antivirus vendors merge, with the combined entity serving more than 400 million customers worldwide. Recent emphasis on growing mobile security threats has been significant, and 160 million of the combined entity’s customers are on mobile.
  According to Avast, the purc
  
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• Connected car sector boosted by initiatives from VW, LG, Alibaba and Europe

  07-07-2016 12:55
  
  The connected car industry has entered a phase of accelerated activity following announcements from VW and LG, Alibaba and a consortium of European trade associations.
  In classic European style it has been decided that the best way to promote connected cars in the continent is for a bunch of organisations to get together and form an even bigger one. ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association), CLEPA (European Association of Automotive Suppliers), ETNO (European Telecommunications
  
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• Huawei Steps Up Patent Dispute with Samsung

  07-07-2016 12:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Huawei has filed another patent lawsuit against Samsung Electronics in China, although details of the case are currently limited. Click here for more.
  
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• Your smartwatch is giving away your ATM PIN

  07-07-2016 11:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wearable devices can give away your passwords, according to new research.Click here for more.
  
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• Western European Orgs Accelerating Their Investment in IoT

  07-07-2016 11:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Organizations across Western Europe will invest more than $145 billion in Internet of Things (IoT) hardware, software, services, and connectivity this year.Click here for more.
  
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• Makedonski Telekom signs managed services agreement with Ericsson

  07-07-2016 11:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ericsson has been selected as a Managed Services partner by Makedonski Telekom in Macedonia, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. Click here for more.
  
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• BT grows market reach with Daisy partnership

  07-07-2016 10:47
  
  BT has announced a £70 million partnership with Daisy Group which will offer customers of the latter to BT’s Wholesale Hosted Centrex (WHC) platform.
  Daisy’s customers will be integrated to the platform over the next 18 months, which provides customers with cloud-based unified communications services including cloud call recording, HD voice services, call analytics and web collaboration.
  “Many businesses are now hosting their communication services using cloud technology
  
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• BT grows cloud communications reach with Daisy partnership

  07-07-2016 10:47
  
  BT has announced a £70 million partnership with business communications specialist Daisy Group which will offer customers of the latter to BT’s Wholesale Hosted Centrex (WHC) platform.
  Daisy’s customers will be integrated to the platform over the next 18 months, which provides customers with cloud-based unified communications services including cloud call recording, HD voice services, call analytics and web collaboration.
  “Many businesses are now hosting their communicati
  
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• Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) Market is Expected to Garner $34.8 Billion by 2022

  07-07-2016 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Asia-Pacific is expected to be the largest VoLTE market during the forecast period on account of the early roll out of VoLTE and VoLTE enabled devices by the operators in the developed countries in the region Click here for more.
  
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• Google adds image recognition startup Moodstocks to ranks

  07-07-2016 10:11
  Google has continued its charge on the artificial intelligence market through purchasing French image recognition startup Moodstocks.
  Moodstocks, founded in 2008, develops machine-learning based image recognition technology for smartphones, which has been described by developers as the ‘Shazam for images’. Financials of the agreement have not been confirmed to date.
  “Ever since we started Moodstocks, our dream has been to give eyes to machines by turning cameras into smart sens
  
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• Google adds image recognition startup Moodstocks to Android ranks

  07-07-2016 10:11
  
  Google has continued its charge on the artificial intelligence market through purchasing French image recognition startup Moodstocks.
  Moodstocks, founded in 2008, develops machine-learning based image recognition technology for smartphones, which has been described by developers as the ‘Shazam for images’. Financials of the agreement have not been confirmed to date.
  “Ever since we started Moodstocks, our dream has been to give eyes to machines by turning cameras into smart sens
  
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• LTE Driving PA, Switch and Filter Modules to New Heights

  07-07-2016 05:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The transition to LTE has led to increasing sales of RF front-end modules containing power amplifiers, duplexers, LNAs, switches, and antenna tuners,Click here for more.
  
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• iPad Pro Reinforces Apple's Lead in Nordic Smart Connected Devices Market

  07-07-2016 05:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The region remained affected by unfavorable macroeconomic conditions, such as exchange rate volatility and oil price fluctuations, all of which impacted investments, particularly in Norway and Sweden.Click here for more.
  
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• Ericsson 5G Prototypes Connect Moving Vehicle at Multi-Gbps Speeds

  07-07-2016 05:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ericsson 5G Radio Prototypes demonstrate vehicular connectivity required to address smart vehicles and intelligent transport applications Click here for more.
  
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• Chinese consumers are top globally for wanting to be "reachable" at all times

  07-07-2016 05:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  By contrast, less than a-fifth (18 percent) of Japanese connected consumers exhibit a strong "always reachable" mindset-the lowest in APAC and second lowest of all countries surveyed. Click here for more.
  
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• Sky NZ shareholders approve Vodafone deal

  07-07-2016 02:00
  
  Pay TV provider's shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favour of NZ$3.44 billion deal at Auckland meeting.
  
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• SaskTel names date for CDMA shutdown

  07-07-2016 02:00
  
  Canadian operator to close down CDMA infrastructure next year, encourages customers to move to LTE.
  
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• Huawei files patent suit vs T-Mobile US

  07-07-2016 02:00
  
  Chinese vendor claims operator has refused to license its intellectual property.
  
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• Fastweb calls for consultation into Iliad Italy plan

  07-07-2016 02:00
  
  Italian broadband operator shares its own plan for becoming country's fourth mobile network operator using 3 Italia/Wind assets.
  
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• EU telcos offer to ramp up 5G effort in return for watered-down net neutrality rules

  07-07-2016 02:00
  
  Who will blink first in the latest round of operators versus regulators? Probably the operators.
  
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• CityFibre insists Ofcom is reinforcing BT's dark fibre monopoly

  07-07-2016 02:00
  
  U.K. altnet accuses regulator of backtracking on promises to improve duct and pole access.
  
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• Altice may sell Belgian unit to channel focus elsewhere

  07-07-2016 02:00
  
  Cable group could raise €500 million from sale of SFR Belgium, sources say.
  
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