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• Nokia reveals its new cunning plan: wait for 5G

  15-11-2016 17:40
  
  Nokia has had its first investor day four two years and the underlying message was not to expect much growth any time soon.
  The company was keen to infer it’s in better shape than some of its competitors but the underlying strategy seemed pretty similar to Ericsson’s: get the core business back on track while trying hard to diversify away from it and at the same time cut costs. Nokia seems to think its licensing business has some long term potential too.
  “Nokia is extremel
  
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• Teenager admits hacking in TalkTalk data breach

  15-11-2016 17:34
  Operator posts 44% rise in profits and presses on with effort to restore image
  
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• The African Market Outlook 2016

  15-11-2016 16:59
  
  The African Market Outlook is now available for download
  This free report, published by Telecoms.com Intelligence, analyses and presents the findings of an in-depth questionnaire answered by nearly 150 operators from the African market involved with a variety of areas relating to mobile across the continent.
  Included in the report are three distinct areas related to African Market:
  How pre-pay churn is forcing a rethink of CEM strategies
  Boosting 4G uptake
  The opportunities that exist in the Afr
  
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• European companies aren’t taking EU GDPR seriously yet

  15-11-2016 16:20
  
  Although data protection and data privacy have been a hot topics over the last couple of months, one area which has shrunk into the shadows is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
  The EU GDPR is the new data protection policy which aims to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals within the European Union. It addresses not only the export of personal data outside the EU, but also how a company manages an individual’s personal information, and the amount of
  
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• Vodafone — voice of reason

  15-11-2016 15:41
  India’s wireless telecoms market is, to put it mildly, very competitive
  
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• Naka Mobile drives international expansion into LATAM and APAC

  15-11-2016 14:18
  
  Delivers roaming-free voice and data services for consumers and connected IoT devices in over 180 countries globallyBuchs, Switzerland, 15 November 2016 – Naka Mobile, a mobile telecommunication and technology company, today announced plans to expand its global footprint into LATAM and APAC on the back of major customer wins. With international travellers still plagued by exorbitant roaming charges on voice and data services, Naka Mobile is bringing an end to this by delivering truly globa
  
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• Nokia warns of shrinking telecoms equipment market

  15-11-2016 13:12
  Finnish group aims to increase profit margins in the absence of top-line growth
  
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• Winners and losers will be defined by data agility – MapR

  15-11-2016 13:10
  
  While the digital world has created opportunities, fueled globalization and encouraged diversification, it has also threatened some segments with the prospect of extinction.
  The 80s and 90s were a time of new technology, but in a very different manner. New hardware entered the market, and the size of a company’s wallet mainly decided on how effectively it could compete. Fast forward to 2016 and the digital economy is upsetting the hierarchy. AirBnB has disrupted the hotel industry, and Ube
  
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• IoT global standards initiative, oneM2M, to host testing event in Japan

  15-11-2016 13:06
  
  Event follows successful test sessions in France and South KoreaKobe, Japan. 15 November 2016: oneM2M, the global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced it will host its third interoperability event in Kobe, Japan, from Tuesday, November 29 to Friday, December 2, 2016. This event follows the success of its two previous test sessions. Interop 3 – co-organised by the Telecommunications Technology Association of Korea (TTA) and ETSI
  
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• SK Telecom jumps the gun with 5G car

  15-11-2016 12:58
  
  They love a connected car over in Korea and operator SK Telecom is so keen it has already pimped one up with a 5G connection.
  The more substantial achievement was the deployment of what SKT claims is the world’s largest millimetre-wave trial network in partnership with Ericsson. Specifically it used the 28 GHz band over a network covering 240,000 square meters at a BMW driving centre. The network supports peak data rates of 20 Gbps.
  The car is called T5, although we would’ve preferre
  
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• Multi-billion dollar market opportunities may be lost unless Next Generation Broadband meets Seven Key Challenges

  15-11-2016 12:39
  
  New Strategy Analytics report outlines requirements for IoT Services, Security, FMC, Cloud, Network Slices, 5G and Bursty Video
  This new report from Strategy Analytics identifies seven challenges that could be ‘show stoppers’ for the key multi-billion dollar markets where Service Providers are looking for revenue growth over the next decade.
  This report identifies unique requirements for:
  • IoT Services• Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC)• Cloud• Network Slicing•
  
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• Ericsson forecasts 8x mobile data traffic and 550 5G subs by 2022

  15-11-2016 12:28
  
  Ericsson has released its latest mobility report and, unsurprisingly, it sees smartphone and video-driven mobile data consumption continuing to grow exponentially.
  The headline stat is that total global mobile data traffic is forecast to increase by a factor of eight by 2022. Video already accounts for half of mobile data traffic and that proportion is forecast to increase to three quarters by 2022. The other headline-grabber from the report is that Ericsson is still looking at 2020 (not sooner,
  
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• Vodafone takes €6.3bn hit on Indian business

  15-11-2016 12:22
  Rival Jio’s aggressive new-entrant promotions cost UK telecoms group
  
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• Ooredoo implements new Ericsson solution for charging and billing customers

  15-11-2016 11:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ooredoo Group and Ericsson have agreed a five-year contract to implement a revenue management system across the Group's footprint in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. Click here for more.
  
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• Mobile Phone Fraud in Canada Grows 66% since beginning of the year

  15-11-2016 11:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Total growth in unwanted nuisance calls in Canada has grown 66% since January and nearly doubled since the middle of the year. Click here for more.
  
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• SENTECH migrates to multiservice with Newtec

  15-11-2016 11:08
  
  Newtec Dialog® at the core of SENTECH’s new 800 sites multiservice platform in South AfricaGAUTENG, JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 15 November 2016. Newtec, a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications, today announced that state-owned broadcasting signal distributor SENTECH has selected the Newtec Dialog® multiservice platform including the MDM2500 IP Satellite Modem for 800 of its sites acr
  
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• Tablets Play a Key Part in Digital Transformation with Hybrids Meeting New Productivity Needs

  15-11-2016 03:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tablets are among the top IT spending priorities for 2017 in European enterprises, with sectors such as education, hospitality, government, and transport ranking them among their top 3 priorities. Click here for more.
  
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• New US Cell Phone Securitization Positive for Carriers

  15-11-2016 03:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The advent of cellular equipment installment plans (EIPs) and the securitization of pools of the payments on those plans diversifies cell phone carriers' financing, provides liquidity and can lower carriers' overall financing costs, Click here for more.
  
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• ATandT and NASA Collaborate on Drone Traffic Management System

  15-11-2016 03:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the USA, ATandT and NASA are researching traffic management solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Click here for more.
  
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• Vodafone widens 1H loss on India writedown

  15-11-2016 01:00
  
  U.K.-based telco takes €5 billion non-cash charge as competition from Reliance Jio bites.
  
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• Reliance launches Indian IoT venture in partnership with Cisco Jasper

  15-11-2016 01:00
  
  UNLIMIT to use Cisco Jasper's IoT management platform, RCom's networks; aims to drive smart cities growth in India.
  
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• Nokia follows Ericsson with dour forecast

  15-11-2016 01:00
  
  Finnish kit maker expects low single-digit decline in addressable network market in 2017.
  
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• GSMA begins WRC-19 lobbying effort

  15-11-2016 01:00
  
  Industry group calls on governments, regulators to free up plenty of harmonised 5G spectrum.
  
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• 5G subscriptions to reach 550m by 2022 - Ericsson

  15-11-2016 01:00
  
  Swedish kit maker expects North America to account for 25% of world's 5G connections.
  
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