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• Trump appointments confirm net neutrality hostility

  22-11-2016 15:33
  
  US President-elect Donald Trump has announced several appointments to his ‘landing team’ including FCC overseers who appear to be against net neutrality.
  Jeffrey Eisenach, a SVP at NERA Economic Consulting, and Mark Jamison, a Professor at the University of Florida, are two of the appointments with responsibilities specific to the FCC’s evolution to a Trump administration. Both were supporters of Trump throughout the campaign, and both have previously shown themselves to be sit
  
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• NEC technology uses geomagnetism to locate individuals

  22-11-2016 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  NEC says that it has developed a technology that utilizes geomagnetism to determine the exact location of subjects inside of buildings, where the frame and other steel materials may interfere with GPS signals. Click here for more.
  
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• Mobile Drives Over a Third of All Email-Generated Revenue for the First Time

  22-11-2016 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the first time, mobile accounted for a third of all email-driven revenue in Q3 2016, a milestone in the shrinking gap between desktop and mobile, Click here for more.
  
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• Far EasTone and Ericsson to expand cooperation on 5G and IoT in Taiwan

  22-11-2016 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ericsson has announced the extension of its contract with Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET).Click here for more.
  
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• 5G subscriptions to reach half a billion in 2022

  22-11-2016 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  North America will lead the way in uptake of 5G subscriptions, where a quarter of all mobile subscriptions are forecast to be for 5G in 2022. Click here for more.
  
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• UK in £1 billion fibre and 5G lottery – ENTER NOW!

  22-11-2016 13:54
  
  After months of what looked like empty rhetoric, the UK government is finally getting its act together and will announce a £1.1 billion investment lottery for fibre and 5G.
  There has been a tonne of noise recently coming from the government and top dudes in the industry lamenting the UK’s allegedly ‘crap’ broadband. That talk came to a head over at Broadband World Forum in October when Openreach told Ofcom to pull its finger out, the government minister for Cult
  
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• Saudi Telecom aims for data refuel of oil-led economy

  22-11-2016 12:36
  Dominant telco taps youthful population with new digital services
  
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• IBM triples data centre capacity in UK

  22-11-2016 12:22
  
  IBM has announced it will triple its cloud footprint in the UK opening four new data centres across the course of 2017.
  According to the Cloud Industry Forum, cloud adoption rates have increased to 84% in the UK over the last five years, with the public cloud market only going upwards through to 2020 as more and more businesses embrace the digital economy. The new data centres take the total for IBM in the UK to six, as the nation staggers towards a separation from the European Union in 2017.
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• HUBER+SUHNER to showcase Connected Mobility solutions for reliable railway connections at SmartRail Asia

  22-11-2016 12:19
  
  Global connectivity supplier HUBER+SUHNER will be exhibiting its comprehensive portfolio of products for the rail industry at SmartRail Asia 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-2. Illustrating the Switzerland-based company’s commitment to creating the future of railway communications, HUBER+SUHNER will demonstrate a wide-ranging collection of highly efficient and robust solutions for on-board, train-to-ground, and trackside communications. “Passengers have developed a certain expec
  
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• Network maintenance evolution and best practices for NFV assurance

  22-11-2016 11:55
  
  NFV transformation drives new network assurance strategies
  Telecom service providers testify they are responding to pressures on their business models by changing the way in which they design, develop and deliver services. This transformation is targeting a shift from today’s legacy network operations to implementing a transparent service delivery, operations and management environment that enables customers to self-service and monitor service-level agreements (SLAs) and key performance in
  
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• AWS melts Glacier prices to continue race to the bottom

  22-11-2016 11:35
  
  The news Alibaba is stepping up its focus on the international markets will be some to worry, though AWS flexing its financial muscles to lower prices and capitalize on the sheer volume of customers it already has will make life difficult for the likes of Google, Microsoft and IBM who all have lofty ambitions in the public cloud segment.
  AWS has announced this week it will be reducing prices for S3 Standard Storage and for Glacier storage, as well as introducing additional retrieval options for
  
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• LTE and TETRA Integration Critical for Updating Legacy PMR Systems say ETELM

  22-11-2016 11:28
  
  Technologies must come together and integrate now to tackle increasingly complex challenges within PMR, urges ETELM DirectorCologne, Germany, 22 November 2016 – Nicolas Hauswald, Sales and Marketing Director of ETELM, a leading manufacturer of advanced Mission Critical communications systems, says LTE should offer additional broadband services but not replace TETRA. Instead, the two technologies should come together in a unified way, on the LTE Core as an open, international standard platf
  
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• MFS Africa connects 120 million mobile wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa

  22-11-2016 10:17
  
  Largest network on the continent allows merchants, banks and mobile operators to scale transactions cross-border, cross-currency and cross-network Johannesburg, South Africa, November 22nd 2016 – MFS Africa, the leading Pan-African fintech company, today announced that its MFS Hub is now connected to 120 million mobile wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through partnerships with mobile network operators including Airtel, Econet, MTN, Orange, Tigo and Vodafone, MFS Africa now has unparalleled r
  
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• Research reveals millennial demographic “meaningless” for financial institutions and FinTechs

  22-11-2016 10:12
  
  Younger millennials are not financially independent and slower to embrace FinTechTech savvy older millennials are more interested in spending and saving 29-34 year olds use more FinTech but lower tolerance for security and convenience issues 42.2% of millennials have switched provider due to a poor mobile experienceLondon, 22nd November 2016 - New research has found that the millennials classification is not a meaningful way for financial institutions and FinTechs to understand those aged betwee
  
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• Fujikura Europe adds a new suite of modular test products to its product offering

  22-11-2016 10:00
  
  Chessington, UK. 22 November 2016: Fujikura Europe today announced it will add RogueTM and aeRosTM – a suite of modular test products built completely around the way network operators build, operate, and maintain their networks – to its product offering. The patent pending architecture from sister company AFL enables technicians to control their test hardware directly from any Android smart device.“By eliminating the baggage associated with legacy systems, AFL were able to leve
  
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• Full-fibre broadband to receive £400m boost

  22-11-2016 01:01
  Funding aims to spur £1bn of investment to speed up replacement of copper network
  
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• UK govt to launch £1bn fibre fund

  22-11-2016 01:00
  
  Reports claim chancellor's autumn statement will also offer public funding for 5G trials.
  
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• Telefonica Germany CEO brings departure forward

  22-11-2016 01:00
  
  Thorsten Dirks was due to leave company at end of September but will leaves at end of March instead.
  
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• Proximus to sell mobile users' location data

  22-11-2016 01:00
  
  Anonymous information designed to enable more targeted marketing, help with event planning.
  
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• Daisy snaps up Alternative Networks for £165m

  22-11-2016 01:00
  
  Shopping spree continues as Daisy seeks to strengthen enterprise comms portfolio.
  
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