Telecom news

• Cisco pulls out crystal ball with cloud predications

  10-11-2016 17:57
  
  Despite the telco industry being fascinated by 5G deployments in the build up to 2020, Cisco piped up to make sure we don’t forget about the cloud.
  Bringing out its crystal ball, Telecoms.com can only assume the report was written by a few of the teams ‘futurists’, though it would appear the cloud is taking over the world. No-one should be particularly surprised considering the power available to organizations around the world through the implementation of cloud computing, thou
  
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• BBWF 2016 – Bart Vercammen, VP of Product Management at Technicolor

  10-11-2016 16:59
  
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• Huawei OTF 2016 – Lester Thomas, Chief IT Systems Architect at Vodafone Group

  10-11-2016 15:38
  
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• Telecoms.com eBook: AI in CEM – the opportunity for telcos

  10-11-2016 14:50
  
  Advances in artificial intelligence presents an opportunity for telecoms operators to entirely revolutionise their approach to customer experience management.
  Customer service, specifically, comes with a standard cost per user – and every time the customer makes contact to discuss a problem that’s a charge to the operator. Therein lies the problem with the existing model, it isn’t pre-empting customer experience issues.
  By introducing elements of behaviour prediction, network c
  
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• Predicting the polls – did Google know Trump and Brexit would happen?

  10-11-2016 13:49
  
  In the aftermath of 2016’s second historical political event, we ask whether Google search data predicted both Brexit and Donald Trump’s win.
  Social media went mental, protests rose up across the country and civil unrest threatens to dominate the days following Donald Trump securing his seat in the Oval Office for the next four years. It was a similar tale for the Brexit vote in June.
  So far, things aren’t quite as crazy today as they were in the immediate aftermath yesterday;
  
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• Zylpha Announces Free Client Matter Inception Plugin for Visualfiles

  10-11-2016 13:41
  
  Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) the UK’s leading legal systems innovator, has announced the launch of a Client Matter Inception (CMI) plugin, which will be available free to all users of the LexisNexis Visualfiles case management system. CMI is the preliminary step for all law firms, either acting for new clients or when representing existing clients in a new matter. The process aids compliance with the Legal Services Act, helping to avoid potential conflicts of interest and adhering...Source: Rea
  
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• Grey market creates $15bn black hole

  10-11-2016 13:30
  
  Shut down the routes to claw it back says Dialogue CEO Hugh SpearLondon, November 10, 2016: More than half of the world’s mobile operators are losing more than half of their potential revenue from business-led Application to Person (A2P) SMS traffic which is able to by-pass network charges by using so-called ‘grey routes’. SMS message aggregators, working on behalf of many of the world’s biggest brands, are using these grey routes to avoid network operator...Source: RealW
  
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• Apple and PayPal continue crusade to end human interaction

  10-11-2016 13:19
  
  Apple and PayPal have joined teams to take even more human contact out of our day-to-day lives – nice guys.
  Starting today (November 10) Siri will be integrated with PayPal meaning customers no longer have to go through the process of talking to other people when transferring money. After all, with the necessity to tweet about the US election, catch-up on an episode of the Walking Dead or conquer the next level of Candy Crush, who has time to interact with other people anyway.
  “For i
  
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• Inoapps Launches Optimisation Service for Oracle ERP Cloud Invoice Scanning

  10-11-2016 12:27
  
  Oracle Platinum Partner Inoapps (www.inoapps.com) has launched an Optimisation Service for users of Oracle Cloud Invoice Scanning. The service, staffed by highly skilled consultants will help users to optimize the benefits of Invoice Scanning within their own business. The new service is just one of a wide range of Oracle products and services available through Inoapps, the recent winner of both Oracle’s EMEA and Global Cloud Transformation Partner awards.The Oracle ERP Cloud Invoice Scann
  
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• Deutsche Telekom releases highly efficient quarterly results

  10-11-2016 12:00
  
  Europe’s largest telco Deutsche Telekom has released healthy quarterly results, praising the US T-Mobile business unit in particular.
  Group revenues grew by 5.9% to €18.1 billion for the third period, with its home market in Germany decreasing slightly to €5.5 billion and the US accounting for €8.2 billion, a 17.3% year-on-year increase. The European region on the whole, excluding Germany, increased by 1.2% across Q3 to €3.2 billion.
  The Uncarrier initiatives in the US
  
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• SSE Enterprise Telecoms Connects London Stock Exchange Group's Customers

  10-11-2016 11:50
  
  London Stock Exchange Group and its customers to take advantage of SSE Enterprise Telecoms’ ultra-resilient, low latency optical network, tailored specifically to meet the needs of the trading communityLondon, UK – 10 November 2016 – SSE Enterprise Telecoms – the UK’s leading provider of network infrastructure and data centre services, and part of the SSE group – today announced that it has been named an Accredited Connectivity Partner (ACP) by London Stock Ex
  
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• Robi improves customer smartphone experience with Ericsson WCDMA flow of users

  10-11-2016 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robi, the third largest operator in Bangladesh, selected Ericsson WCDMA Flow of Users to help serve its rapidly growing base of smartphone customers.Click here for more.
  
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• iPass Partners with ER-Telecom to Extend its Wi-Fi Footprint in Russia

  10-11-2016 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wi-Fi roaming provider, iPass has announced a partnership with Russia's ER-Telecom to give iPass customers access to more than 4,500 new Wi-Fi hotspots Click here for more.
  
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• Turkcell selects Ericsson as long term managed services partner

  10-11-2016 09:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Turkcell has selected Ericsson as its partner to manage and operate its mobile and fiberoptic fixed network,Click here for more.
  
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• Ericsson and Qualcomm successfully Test CAT-M1 for Telstra

  10-11-2016 09:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ericsson and Qualcomm have successfully executed network and device testing of data communications on Cat M1 with the MDM9206 modem, designed to support LTE Cat-M1 for Internet of Things (IoT) Click here for more.
  
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• 31% of Apple Watch owners use voice commands and 45% make phone calls on a weekly basis on their watch

  10-11-2016 09:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Apple Watch owners are more engaged with their devices than all other smart watch owners,Click here for more.
  
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• Arran benefits from broadband’s white open spaces

  10-11-2016 01:01
  TV spectrum freed up to create first service of its kind in Europe
  
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• Telcos must look beyond consumers to monetise 5G – Ericsson

  10-11-2016 01:00
  
  Third-party collaboration, IoT to play significant role in generating a return on 5G, says Swedish kit maker's survey.
  
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• Telcos could recover $15bn in A2P SMS revenue by tackling grey routes

  10-11-2016 01:00
  
  Research by Dialogue Communications reveals scale of shady A2P messaging activity.
  
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• SK Telecom joins 5GAA

  10-11-2016 01:00
  
  South Korean operator says recently-formed industry group will play 'pivotal role' in creating new business opportunities.
  
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• DoCoMo to launch trial 5G network in 2017

  10-11-2016 01:00
  
  Japanese telco to test use cases, radio performance in select areas of Tokyo.
  
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