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• Subscribers Demand New Communication Methods from Service Providers

  08-11-2016 22:22
  
  We are currently witnessing a dramatic shift in the balance of power between communications service provid¬ers (CSPs) and their subscribers. Fueled by increased internet use, mobile technologies and social media, today’s empowered subscribers expect self-directed, on-demand, two-way engagement anywhere, on any device.
  This research paper examines the changing attitudes of subscribers and the ways they prefer to communicate with their service provider. CSPs must make critical business a
  
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• Google tries to cash in on US Election Day hype

  08-11-2016 18:32
  
  Google has had one last go at capitalizing on US election euphoria by offering (near) real-time updates on the progress of the odious Trump vs Clinton contest.
  The company will now display the results of the election directly in search in over 30 languages, as soon as the polls close, as well as YouTube live streaming election results coverage from several news rooms including NBC, PBS, MTV, Bloomberg, Telemundo and The Young Turks.
  “For the past several months, Google has helped people fi
  
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• Nokia trumps rivals with Smart City Playbook

  08-11-2016 18:26
  
  Nokia is doing its level best to trump its rivals and prove just how smart it is with the release of its apparently US inspired ‘Smart City Playbook’.
  The Finnish vendor is aggressively pursuing status as the leader of all things smart after commissioning research into how the 22 smartest cities around the world became so damn intelligent. It reckons there are three main routes most commonly used to become smart:
  Anchor – where a city develops a single application designed to r
  
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• Huawei OTF 2016 – Wei Bing, CMO of Huawei GTS

  08-11-2016 16:52
  
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• Altice given €80m spanking for jumping the gun

  08-11-2016 15:12
  
  Super acquisitive telco conglomerate Altice has been spanked with an €80 million fine for prematurely engaging in post-M&A relations.
  The French Competition Authority imposed the fine for what it considered to be “gun-jumping” in relation to the 2014 acquisition of SFR – basically trying to get things moving with the deal before regulatory blessing had been given. Altice protests its innocence, saying everything was done in good faith and that was simply hoping for a b
  
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• Huawei smartphones said to be running rampant in EMEA

  08-11-2016 14:02
  
  Research firm Canalys has made another confident statement claiming Huawei has increased its Q3 smartphone shipments by 70% year-on-year to 10 million in EMEA alone.
  The team are seemingly not against making bold claims following last week’s estimates which put the smartwatch segment on a fast and furious rise through Q3, when the rest of us had assumed it was stagnating. We are a bunch of silly sausages. The latest research puts Huawei in third position in the EMEA smartphone market with
  
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• Huawei smartphones said so be running rampant in EMEA

  08-11-2016 14:02
  
  Research firm Canalys has made another confident statement claiming Huawei has increased its Q3 smartphone shipments by 70% year-on-year to 10 million in EMEA alone.
  The team are seemingly not against making bold claims following last week’s estimates which put the smartwatch segment on a fast and furious rise through Q3, when the rest of us had assumed it was stagnating. We are a bunch of silly sausages. The latest research puts Huawei in third position in the EMEA smartphone market with
  
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• AT&T, Colt and Orange have a virtualization party

  08-11-2016 12:45
  
  Wholesale operator Colt has claimed its position as the network for networks after doing some SDN and NFV cleverness with AT&T. Separately, or not, Orange announced the launch of an SDN project.
  Colt is going soft all over the place, using software defined networking and network functions virtualization APIs to make service provider architectures interoperable with each other. Ultimately, this means SDN-managed services can be booted up and migrated across multiple networks in near real-time
  
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• UK slams Facebook and WhatsApp data relationship

  08-11-2016 12:21
  
  The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has cast a shadow over data sharing between Facebook and WhatsApp in a move which could have complicated implications in the long-run.
  The decision to share data between WhatsApp and Facebook was seen as slightly controversial when it was announced back in August, considering WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum had repeatedly promised the company would not sell users personal data. Strictly speaking WhatsApp has done nothing wrong, Facebook does techni
  
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• Telcos are not innovative, Openstack changes that – Red Hat

  08-11-2016 12:06
  
  The 00’s were seemingly a slowly declining slide for the telcos, who slowly witnessed the more agile and innovative internet players erode profits.
  For Darrell Jordan-Smith, Red Hat’s VP of Worldwide Sales, Openstack offers the telcos an opportunity to be innovative, and above-all-else, level the playing field against the new wave of internet companies who are causing the major disruptions.
  “A lot of the telcos are looking at deploying opensource technologies to try and leverag
  
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• Capita plc, Updata Infrastructure And SSE Enterprise Telecoms Sign Major Fixed Line Network Sharing Deal

  08-11-2016 11:42
  
  Seven year strategic partnership doubles regional network footprint for SSE Enterprise Telecoms and gives Updata and Capita plc a new high availability, terabit capacity, national optical network for major outsourcing projects.London, UK - 8th November 2016 - SSE Enterprise Telecoms - the UK’s leading provider of network infrastructure and data centre services and part of SSE Plc - today announce a ground-breaking, large scale, fixed line network sharing deal with Capita plc, Updata Infras
  
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• Interoute opens for business in Miami to address strategic Americas demand

  08-11-2016 10:55
  
  New Point-of-Presence expands Interoute’s Americas coverage and supports access to South AmericaLondon, 8 November 2016 – Interoute, owner operator of a global cloud services platform and one of Europe's largest networks, today announced that it has opened a new core location in Miami. The new Point of Presence (PoP) expands the reach of Interoute’s platform for all Interoute customers with a fourth location in the Americas region. Building on Interoute’s existing U.S. pr
  
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• Android Captures Record 88% Share of Global Smartphone Shipments in Q3 2016

  08-11-2016 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments reached 375 million units in the third quarter of 2016.Click here for more.
  
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• Comprehensive IoT network planning support now available in TEOCO’s ASSET suite

  08-11-2016 10:00
  
  Licensed and Un-licensed spectrum options supported, including NB-IoT, LTE-M, LoRa and Sigfox FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 8 November 2016 - TEOCO, the leading provider of engineering, assurance and analytics solutions to communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide, today announced comprehensive support for the planning of next-generation IoT networks. TEOCO’s market-leading network planning solution, ASSET Radio, now supports emerging IoT standards including NB-IoT, LTE-M and unlicense
  
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• Mexico disqualifies one of two bidders for shared mobile network

  08-11-2016 01:00
  
  SCT says Rivada-led consortium failed to pay MXN 1 billion bid bond in time.
  
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• EE, Vodafone top P3 network tests

  08-11-2016 01:00
  
  Voda makes biggest improvement on last year, taking top spot in terms of voice-call quality.
  
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• CK Hutchison, VimpelCom complete Italy JV deal

  08-11-2016 01:00
  
  Wind chief executive Maximo Ibarra to lead venture' 3 Italia CEO Vincenzo Novari takes on advisory role.
  
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• AT&T, Colt trial SDN interoperability

  08-11-2016 01:00
  
  Telcos pave way for deploying new services on each other's networks in a matter of minutes.
  
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