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• Lycamobile throws on the sunblock and heads to Oz

  17-10-2016 19:20
  
  Lycamobile has announced the launch of 4G services across its Australian network expanding an already existing wider relationship with Telstra Wholesale.
  The new deal with Telstra Wholesale means Lycamobile now has 4G coverage of 95% of the Australian population, and 98.8% when 4G and 3G is combined, the team claims. This covers a total of 1.59 million square kilometres, but just to put things in perspective, Australia is roughly 7.7 million square kilometres big.
  “Through our extended rel
  
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• Nobody wants to go anywhere near a Note7

  17-10-2016 17:49
  
  Yup, you’re stuck with it. It’s time to put it at the bottom of your freezer and leave it there forever, because no one is letting these things go anywhere.
  Predictably, considering the Note7’s volatility, a couple of major institutions have said ‘Yeahhhhh, we ain’t touching that, bro’. Firstly, the US department of transportation has said it is totally banning the phablet from all flights into, out of or within the country. Or near the country, or on the same
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast – Noting a Meltdown

  17-10-2016 14:40
  
  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: AI for Dummies
  
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• Nobody wants to buy Twitter

  17-10-2016 14:09
  
  Twitter is one of the pioneers of social media but it looks like that’s not enough as its woes stretched into another week, following Salesforce dropping out of acquisition contention.
  Speaking in an interview with the Financial Times, CEO Marc Benioff has put considerable distance between Salesforce and the conversation platform. “In this case we’ve walked away. It wasn’t the right fit for us.” This is not the first time Benioff has said no to the ac
  
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• Project Fi: What’s The Really Big Idea?

  17-10-2016 13:15
  
  In the final instalment of this three-part series exploring the disruptive potential of Google’s aggregated MVNO Project Fi, Devicescape CEO Dave Fraser considers the possibility of a radical plan to embed Fi-style functionality into all Android smartphones.
  Whatever you might believe about the potential impact of Google’s Project Fi on the mobile establishment, one thing is certain: Google — one of the world’s most powerful and successful agents of change — looked
  
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• Facing up to digital transformation; the evolution of managed services

  17-10-2016 13:02
  
  EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW
  The advent of the internet has been lauded by some as technology’s great stride forward, it has also created a new demographic which is changing the way the world operates; say hello to the millennials.
  According to Huawei’s President of Assurance and Managed Services Leroy Blimegger, the new digitally demanding demographic is not only changing the customer-provider dynamic, it’s also creating the need for digital transformation within today’s business
  
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• Nokia and SK PONder proper fast fibre

  17-10-2016 12:59
  
  As if South Korea wasn’t far enough ahead of everyone else in the world, Nokia has just knocked it out the park by delivering fibre access speeds of 52.5 Gbps.
  SK Broadband, part of the SK Telecom group, worked with Nokia to upgrade its existing broadband speed, because 2.5 Gbps access just isn’t good enough. The 20-fold increase to broadband access speed was achieved using lots of PON cleverness. Somehow there’s like a billion variations of next generation packet optical netwo
  
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• BT Openreach report predicts 11% G.fast share by 2021

  17-10-2016 12:22
  
  New research from Ovum has predicted G.fast technology will be serving 30 million subscriber homes and businesses around the world by 2021.
  Although mostly concentrated in Western Europe, the technology is also catching internationally, with Chunghwa in fact announcing the first deployment of G.fast on a commercial basis last year. Within five years, the Ovum team anticipate 11% of broadband services will be delivered through G.fast. BT Openreach, M-net, Swiscom, NetCologne and Telekom Austria h
  
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• BT commissioned report says G.fast will be a big deal – funny that

  17-10-2016 12:22
  
  New research from Ovum, commissioned by BT, has predicted G.fast technology will be serving 30 million subscriber homes and businesses around the world by 2021.
  Although mostly concentrated in Western Europe, the technology is also catching internationally, with Chunghwa in fact announcing the first deployment of G.fast on a commercial basis last year. Within five years, the Ovum team anticipate 11% of broadband services will be delivered through G.fast. BT Openreach, M-net, Swiscom, NetCologne
  
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• Vodafone Egypt, Etisalat acquire 4G licences

  17-10-2016 02:00
  
  Operators regulator, reportedly resolve spectrum spat.
  
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• Softbank sets up venture capital fund

  17-10-2016 02:00
  
  Japan-based telco hopes to grow fund size to $100 billion by attracting additional investors.
  
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• Jio asks Idea, Vodafone for more interconnection points

  17-10-2016 02:00
  
  India's 4G newcomer reportedly accuses rivals of unlawfully withholding PoIs.
  
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• Global G.fast connections to reach 29m by 2021

  17-10-2016 02:00
  
  Ovum predicts 11% of broadband services in Western Europe could be delivered via the copper-upgrade technology within five years.
  
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