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• IoT and the changing role of service providers

  20-07-2016 18:10
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Bart Salaets, Head of Solution Architects EMEA at F5 Networks, looks at some of the opportunities and challenges presented to MNOs by the IoT revolution.
  Until now, the offerings of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have been geared towards mobile broadband and voice packages. As a result, their networks have been built to cater for personal devices such as smartp
  
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• Equinix owns up for London broadband outage

  20-07-2016 17:18
  
  BT has confirmed around 10% of its customers experienced an outage this morning, which has reportedly been linked to a power incident at the former Telecity LD8 site in London, now owned by Equinix.
  BT first acknowledged the outage this morning on Twitter, which took down broadband services for a number of customers in the London area.
  The LD8 data centre in London’s Docklands currently houses the London Internet Exchange (LINX), one of the world’s largest Internet Exchanges wit
  
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• Orange redoubles virtualization efforts with AT&T partnership

  20-07-2016 17:14
  
  Orange and AT&T have reached a collaboration agreement to cooperate on the development and standardisation of SDN and NFV technologies.
  In the last two years NFV has carved its own path from SDN, to which it appeared intrinsically linked when NFV first emerged in 2012, and IHS recently forecasted the network virtualization technology will generate $15.5 billion dollars in operator spend by 2020.
  According to Orange, the purpose of the partnership is to help simplify the deployment of virtual
  
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• Telco industry still bottom for customer service satisfaction

  20-07-2016 14:13
  
  The Institute of Customer Service has released its Customer Satisfaction Index stating the telco industry is the lowest ranked sector in the UK.
  While the industry has made improvements over the last twelve months, it finished in last place with an index of 72.9, behind the likes of utilities and public services. The industry was one of the strongest improvers over the course of the last twelve months, improving its score by 1.2, it is still the industry with the highest numbers of complaints, 2
  
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• Europe approves Deutsche Telekom vectoring upgrade after further concessions

  20-07-2016 12:55
  
  The European Commission has decided to let German telco Deutsche Telekom upgrade its fixed network with vectoring technology, having received assurances over competitive safeguards.
  DT wants to upgrade its copper network using vectoring technology to increase broadband speeds. The German telecoms regulator BNetzA had approved the plans but the EC wasn’t happy about the potential for this upgrade to take resources away from other German telcos who lease fixed line capacity from DT, and init
  
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• Mercedes-Benz completes 19km autonomous bus journey using IoT

  20-07-2016 12:09
  
  Mercedes-Benz claims to have successfully demonstrated an IoT-enabled autonomous bus in Amsterdam, while Android Auto has taken its number of automotive customers to 50.
  Using an IoT network to connect with its surroundings, the Mercedes FutureBus allegedly completed a 19 kilometre journey from Haarlem in Amsterdam to the international Schiphol airport, involving multiple passenger stops, traffic lights, traffic systems and tunnels.
  Mercedes says its IoT system for the connection, CityPilot, is
  
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• Microsoft continues cloud transformation with 100% Azure growth

  20-07-2016 11:44
  
  Microsoft has reported 5% revenue growth to $22.6 billion as the Intelligent Cloud business unit led the charge, with the Azure cloud offering more than doubling in revenues and compute usage.
  The Intelligent Cloud unit, which includes server products and cloud services, Azure and enterprise mobility offerings grew 7% to $6.7 billion, while the Productivity and Business Processes, which includes Office commercial and consumer product lines as well as the Dynamics suite, grew 5% to $7 billion. De
  
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• Vodafone UK launches fixed voice, broadband to small businesses

  20-07-2016 02:00
  
  Telco offers 24-month contracts from £31 per month; pledges to fix faults within one working day
  
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• Telia posts Q2 revenue decline, writes down Eurasian assets

  20-07-2016 02:00
  
  Swedish operator reaffirms full-year outlook, expects flat to slightly increased earnings compared with 2015.
  
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• Orange completes Airtel Sierra Leone buy

  20-07-2016 02:00
  
  France-based telco adds market number 21 in Africa.
  
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• Niel reduces interest in Telecom Italia

  20-07-2016 02:00
  
  French businessman offloads much of his long, optional position in Italian incumbent in line with commitments made in Iliad's 3 Italia/Wind assets deal.
  
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• Mexico again delays shared mobile network project

  20-07-2016 02:00
  
  IFT to announce winner of tender to build shared LTE network in second half of November.
  
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• EU approves Germany's tweaked vectoring plan

  20-07-2016 02:00
  
  Commission requires German telco watchdog to submit detailed plans for virtual unbundling.
  
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• AT&T, Verizon among five bidders left in running for Yahoo

  20-07-2016 02:00
  
  Report claims Internet company could choose a suitor in a week.
  
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