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• GSMA demands Europe overrules Dutch on net neutrality

  12-10-2016 18:28
  
  The Dutch have passed a law that bans zero-rating of mobile data but the GSMA isn’t happy about it and wants the EC to overrule.
  This the type of sovereignty issue that will always blight a supranational organisation such as the European Union. The recent case of the EC overriding Irish law to claim billions of back taxes from Apple was another example and the sovereignty debate was the biggest reason Europe lost the Brexit vote.
  Europe’s interminable Digital Single Market initiative
  
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• GigaSpaces gives a TOSCA about VMware

  12-10-2016 18:11
  
  VMWare and GigaSpaces have announced a new partnership focused on open standards-based orchestration for NFV applications.
  More specifically, GigaSpaces open-source TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) proposition Cloudify, will support VMware’s vCloud NFV offering as it strives towards expanding its role in the Telco Cloud subsector. The key message throughout the majority of VMWare’s marketing messages has been cost reduction and increased agility
  
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• The Note 7 — from fab phablet to fiasco

  12-10-2016 15:45 via ft.com
  Personal tech columnist Tim Bradshaw looks at the Note’s legacy
  
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• Telecom Visionary Bernd Hesse Joins Calix as NG-PON2 Era Dawns

  12-10-2016 14:25
  
  NG-PON2 Forum founder and chairman brings 30+ years of leadership in fiber access to CalixLONDON – October 12, 2016 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX), the world leader in subscriber driven access, today announced that telecommunications veteran and fiber access evangelist Bernd Hesse has joined the company as senior director, technology development. With more than 30 years in the industry, Bernd has extensive experience leading and forming interest groups and technology forums, driving inte
  
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• Broadband Forum focuses on the business end of NFV at SDN World Congress

  12-10-2016 14:22
  
  CEO sets out future broadband vision October 12, 2016: Embracing Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the cloud will enable a worldwide broadband market for the first time, according to the CEO of Broadband Forum.Speaking at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in the Virtual Broadband Forum track, Robin Mersh set out a clear vision for the future of broadband and what needs to happen in order to achieve it. According to Mersh, broadband will be revolutionized...Source: RealWire
  
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• Zycko joins the Nokia Global Partner Program

  12-10-2016 14:00
  
  London, England: 12th October 2016 - Specialist value added distributor (VAD) Zycko, now part of the Nuvias Group, today announced it has been selected as Nokia’s first pan-EMEA distributor and will have access to a comprehensive suite of Nokia solutions. This partnership marks an important step forward in the go-to-market diversification at Nokia, extending channel and value-added distribution, to help expand the company’s footprint in the enterprise and mid-market space across EMEA
  
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• Note7 disaster cuts Samsung Q3 profits by $2.3 billion

  12-10-2016 13:36
  
  On a calamitous day for quarterly earnings guidance Samsung has written off 2.6 trillion Korean Won ($2.3 billion) on the back of its decision to pull the plug on the Galaxy Note7.
  Samsung Electronics issued Q3 2016 earnings guidance on 7 October of 49 trillion won in sales and 7.8 trillion won of operating profit. Then reports that the supposedly fixed Note7s were exploding started to come in and Samsung eventually decided to throw in the towel on the Note7 permanently.
  Since the Note7 was Sams
  
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• Google supersizes Project Fi with group plan

  12-10-2016 13:29
  
  Google has taken another step this week with the expansion of its Fi proposition with the inclusion of a group plan, as part of its plans for world domination.
  Whether its Google’s expansion in India, Facebook’s declaration of war against Amazon or Uber’s mission to relegate the Black Cab to the London Transport Museum, the ‘new’ generation of technology companies are making their presence felt throughout the world. While it may feel unusual to call Google new, let&
  
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• Samsung battery not so guilty as charged

  12-10-2016 13:04 via ft.com
  Smartphone maker may have pushed tech limits too hard to beat Apple
  
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• Ericsson warns Q3 will be ugly, stock plummets

  12-10-2016 12:17
  
  Networking giant Ericsson has issued preliminary Q3 2016 earnings and they indicate a significant acceleration in its decline.
  Overall sales declined by 14% year-on-year, the main culprit being the networks segment, which declined 19% annually and 13% on the previous quarter. Especially worrying for Ericsson and its shareholders is that the increased decline seems to have taken place quite recently, making it likely that Q4 will be a car crash too.
  “Our result is significantly lower than w
  
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• Nokia breaks transoceanic cable systems record, world keeps spinning

  12-10-2016 12:14
  
  Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks and Nokia Bell Labs have jointly announced they’ve broken another record which very few people knew about in the first place.
  The pair have achieved a record transmission capacity over a 6,600 km single mode fibre, demonstrating a total 65 Tbps transmission using ‘submarine grade dual band erbium doped fibre amplifiers’. Seriously, that’s an actual quote. You couldn’t make it up.
  “This new record is the latest in a long s
  
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• Virtual IMS on ETSI NFV architecture unveiled by Iskratel at SDN World Congress 2016

  12-10-2016 10:49
  
  Hague, October 12, 2016 – Iskratel, the leading European infocommunications vendor and solutions provider, will present a unique case study of Virtual IMS deployment at a major European Tier-1 operator at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in The Hague, Netherlands, October 10-14, 2016.Iskratel will present the case study experience with deployment of Virtual IMS solution on its carrier-grade Cloud-Services Platform at a major Tier-1 operator. The main advantage of Iskratel's vIMS and V
  
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• New RF connector system for small cells to debut at Electronica 2016

  12-10-2016 10:00
  
  The NEX10 Miniature Low PIM RF coax connector system created in partnership by HUBER+SUHNER, RADIALL and ROSENBERGER.HUBER+SUHNER, in partnership with RADIALL and ROSENBERGER, is developing a new RF connector system for small cell applications, which will make its debut at Electronica 2016. As the telecommunications industry moves towards smaller equipment and small cell approach, the radios and antennas also become more compact demanding high-performing coaxial RF connectors in a small size. By
  
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• Ericsson issues profit warning

  12-10-2016 09:03 via ft.com
  Shareholders press Swedish telecoms equipment maker to cut costs
  
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• Telefonica issues €2bn worth of bonds

  12-10-2016 02:00
  
  Spanish incumbent raises fresh capital in wake of failed Telxius IPO.
  
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• Samsung slashes Q3 forecast after scrapping Note 7

  12-10-2016 02:00
  
  Troubled electronics giant now expects operating profit to decline compared to last year.
  
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• Ericsson issues Q3 profit warning

  12-10-2016 02:00
  
  Revenue, operating income plunge on weaker-than-expected network equipment sales.
  
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• Dutch net neutrality law puts Digital Single Market at risk – GSMA

  12-10-2016 02:00
  
  Industry body says strict new rules are incompatible with the EU's own net neutrality legislation.
  
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