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• Nokia to test drones at Twente Airport… is that a great idea?

  26-09-2016 18:43
  
  Nokia has announced plans to open Europe’s first drone-based Smart City traffic management test facility at Twente Airport in the Netherlands.
  This will enable Nokia to develop and trial its UAV Traffic Management (UTM) system for the use of drones in proximity of urban areas, people, manned aircraft and other projects. While the industry has made significant strides forward in the development of UAV’s in recent years, they are still pretty far from 100% reliable. With
  
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• BlackBerry phones face thumbs down

  26-09-2016 18:06
  Chief John Chen’s self-imposed deadline for handsets’ profitability falls this week
  
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• Sir Three joins the knights of the Broadband Table to slay the Openreach dragon

  26-09-2016 18:04
  
  In a kingdom not so far away there has lived an evil dragon by the name of Openreach, which was the sworn enemy of Britannia’s internet.
  The knights of the Broadband Table, Earl Sky, Lord TalkTalk and Baron Vodafone had fought the evil Openreach dragon for eons as they believed the dragon, driven by its master Gavin Hasslehoff, was hoarding the fabled riches of high-speed broadband and thus starving the rest of Britannia of Netflix boxsets at Merlin-speed.
  Until re
  
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• Rajant’s New Monitoring And Diagnostic Tool Helps Wireless Network Administrators Deliver Strategic Value To Network Users

  26-09-2016 17:30
  
  BC|Enterprise Offers Historical Insights into Kinetic Mesh NetworksLAS VEGAS – September 26, 2016 – Rajant, the pioneer of innovative mobile mesh technology for private wireless networks, announced today BC|Enterprise, a powerful tool that adds historical data analysis to Rajant’s management and monitoring functionality, giving administrators strategic insights into their networks.Rajant makes mobile, scalable and highly reliable kinetic wireless mesh network technology, which
  
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• European Union Agency for Railways publishes report by LS telcom on co-existence of GSM-R system with future LTE system

  26-09-2016 16:17
  
  Lichtenau / Baden, Germany – The European Union Agency for Railways has recently published a report by LS telcom on the possibility of using the ER/R-GSM spectrum by other radio communication systems for railways in coexistence with the existing GSM-R system operated in that frequency band. The objective of the study was to find out whether new spectrum is required for a successor system or whether band sharing during migration from GSM-R to its successor...Source: RealWire
  
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• Prysmian To Display Innovative, Sustainable And Cost Effective Cable Solutions For The Offshore Wind Industry At WindEnergy Hamburg 2016

  26-09-2016 14:30
  
  Focus On EPR Technology For Inter-Array Applications Up To 66 kV, Enabling Up To 15% Cost Reduction Of Offshore Wind FarmsStrengthened Installation Capabilities With 3rd Prysmian Cable-Laying Vessel, UlisseMilan, 26 September, 2016 – Prysmian Group, world leader in energy and telecom cable systems, will showcase its state-of-the-art range of products and services for offshore wind at the 2016 edition of the WindEnergy Hamburg event in Germany. From September 26 to 30, hall B6 booth 562....
  
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• Southeast Asian Cable Operators MegaVision and Converge ICT Leverage Calix to Make Leap to Fiber

  26-09-2016 14:28
  
  Calix E7-2 and GigaFamily systems deliver an unmatched fiber experience to subscribers in Indonesia and the Philippines PETALUMA, CA – September 26, 2016 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX), the world leader in enabling next generation service delivery with an unmatched subscriber experience, today announced cable operators Cemerland Multimedia (MegaVision) in Indonesia and Converge ICT (CICT) in the Philippines are leveraging Calix GPON solutions as they transform portions of their networks
  
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• Samsung and MTS become friends with benefits

  26-09-2016 14:11
  
  Samsung and Russian operator group MTS have decided to take their friendship to the next level via the time-honoured route of signing an R&D collaboration MoU.
  While not as romantic as a candle-lit dinner or a naughty weekend, the Memorandum of Understanding is an established corporate courtship tradition that can often be the precursor to more formal commitments such as the joint venture, strategic partnership or outright marriage.
  In the build up to the next major wireless standa
  
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• Mobile phone market to stagnate for five years

  26-09-2016 14:04
  
  Research from CCS Insight has forecast a glass ceiling for mobile phone growth capping the market at two billion units a year for the next five years.
  Although the smartphone segment is expected to grow its proportion of sales over the period, the total number of mobile phone shipments will remain consistent at two billion. The doom and gloom forecast has been a favourite topic of analysts for some time now, so this prediction shouldn’t come as a shock and not many tears are likely to
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Bromancing the Broadband

  26-09-2016 13:49
  
  Download now or subscribe on iTunes here for the latest podcast every week: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-week-in-wireless-podcast/id1124414975?mt=2
  And in case you missed it, here’s another chance to check out last week’s edition of AWIW: Putting the coms in telecoms
  
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• BT embarks on crusade to dominate UK premium TV

  26-09-2016 13:13
  
  UK telco BT has launched the latest phase of its grand plan to wrest control of the UK premium TV market from Sky with its largest ever marketing campaign for BT TV.
  In recent years BT has rapidly evolved from being solely a fixed-line telephony and broadband player to the dominant multiplay company in the UK via the acquisition of the largest MNO EE and a bunch of premium telly such as Premier League and Champions League football. The multiplay domination strategy is to offer such an overwhelmi
  
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• Snapchat takes digital narcissism to a new level

  26-09-2016 13:08
  
  Snapchat has announced the rebrand of the company to Snap as well as a new product launch Spectacles that promise to facilitate social media exhibitionism like never before.
  The rebrand is relatively simple. The company was built around the Snapchat app which was its only product at the time, what else would you name it? Now the team have stories, memories, sponsored channels, filters and now spectacles. The move is an attempt to show Snap is more than Snapchat – m
  
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• Calvi selected by Vodafone Germany to create a more customer-centric billing experience

  26-09-2016 12:02
  
  Düsseldorf, Germany, Monday 26 September 2016 - Calvi has been selected as the premium bill presentment and telecom expense management (TEM) solution provider for Vodafone Germany’s entire enterprise customer base. Calvi’s bill presentment platform “Calvi Insight” has enabled Vodafone to increase the transparency and personalisation of their billing and invoicing, while delivering easy-to-use TEM and billing analytics capabilities, suitable for enterprise customers o
  
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• Twitter attracts interest from Google, Salesforce

  26-09-2016 02:00
  
  Report claims social network could be sold before end of year.
  
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• Router issue takes down Vodafone Australia network

  26-09-2016 02:00
  
  Memories of 'Vodafail' as customers are left without voice, SMS, data services for several hours.
  
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• Egypt eyes international 4G auction after telcos reject licence terms

  26-09-2016 02:00
  
  Vodafone, Orange claim not enough spectrum was being made available.
  
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• CityFibre extends reach with Redcentric deal

  26-09-2016 02:00
  
  U.K. altnet adds metro fibre assets in three cities; first-half net loss more than doubles on higher costs.
  
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• 3UK joins 'Fix Britain's Internet' campaign

  26-09-2016 02:00
  
  CEO Dave Dyson calls on Ofcom to take bold decision on BT/Openreach split.
  
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