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• Megabattery tech that charges in seconds, lasts a week and is the size of a fingernail. Oh dang.

  24-11-2016 18:40
  
  The famous last words of literally (not literally) every smartphone user at one point or another are “Oh cool I’ve got 40% battery left, it’ll be fine.”
  Pretty much everyone has been there. Roughly 18 months to 2 years into owning a once shiny new smartphone, the signs begin to emerge. The early battery-related fatigue that, before you know it, has turned into a fully-blown terminal decline and old Mobly is off to see out his days at the mobile hospice. A mobile phone 40%
  
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• T-Mobile US in hot water after accusations of dodgy accounting

  24-11-2016 18:28
  
  T-Mobile US CEO John Legere may find himself in a bit of hot water after CtW Investment Group claim to have uncovered some slightly underhanded accounting practises in the business.
  In a letter written to the US Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC), CtW Executive Director Dieter Waizenegger requested the regulator investigate accounting activities at Deutsche Telekom’s US business specifically relating to revenue estimates from its sales of Equipment Installment Plans (EIPs) among other
  
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• Apple’s $100 surcharge gives it nearly all the smartphone profits

  24-11-2016 18:25
  
  The latest smartphone industry profit numbers from Strategy Analytics show Apple is cleaning up like never before, and no wonder.
  As if being able to count on millions of people to pay a $100 dollar surcharge on smartphones of similar spec to Android equivalents (32GB iPhone 7 – $649, 32GB Galaxy S7 – $549) wasn’t enough, Apple can now count in its biggest competitor scoring own-goals of epic proportions.
  As a result Apple accounted for $8.5 billion of the $9.4 billion total pr
  
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• Let’s get more women into engineering

  24-11-2016 17:28
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Natalia Molinero Mingorance of behindthesciences.com asks why more women don’t choose STEM careers and what can be done about it.
  Nowadays, career paths with better professional futures are those related to Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the so called “STEM). However, in 2016, girls still avoid enrolling on these STEM courses.
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• Netflix house of cards set to collapse – Ovum

  24-11-2016 14:01
  
  Analyst firm Ovum reckons Netflix’s spending on original content is unsustainable and something’s got to give.
  Series such as House of Cards, Daredevil and The Crown reportedly cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce and deliver no immediate return on investment, such as advertising and licensing deals. The only reason they’re produced is to drive up the number of Netflix subscribers, but Ovum reckons the cost is too high.
  In a report entitled ‘Netflix’s Cur
  
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• Responsibility for IoT security lies with vendors – study

  24-11-2016 13:57
  
  The Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) has challenged the industry to improve online security ahead of the IoT tsunami as its no-where near good enough at the moment.
  The Internet of Things has been championed in recent years as a means for the telco industry to tackle eroding profits after those pesky internet kids came onto the scene. Text and voice calls were no longer revenue streams the telcos could rely on, but the growing euphoria surround IoT could generate serious cash.
  
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• 5G and LTE need to learn to share – Huawei

  24-11-2016 13:48
  
  Huawei reckons the early success of 5G lays with successfully interoperating new radio infrastructure with existing LTE.
  Running live demos at its Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) in Japan this week, Huawei said it was able to run a 5G/LTE dual connectivity trial leaning on a cloud-based RAN system, achieving peak single-user speeds of a frankly ridiculous 21.1 Gbps
  Extending the principle into the real-world, Huawei reckons early deployments of 5G into central hotspots in major urban areas will be
  
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• UK declares war on perverts

  24-11-2016 12:39
  
  The new Digital Economy Bill, which is currently working its way through Parliament, has found itself tackling the darker side of internet porn.
  The Digital Economy Bill was initially announced in the Queen’s Speech on 18 May 2016 and introduced in the House of Commons on 5 July, with the stated ambition of maintaining the UK’s position ‘as a world leader in the digital economy’. Little did they know they would be entering into the dark world of spanking, bukkake (do not
  
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• Ericsson scales cliché mountain to announce NFV solution

  24-11-2016 12:01
  
  Ericsson has announced the launch of a comprehensive NFV infrastructure, which it insists is definitely totally interoperable, definitely not proprietary and does all the clever things NFV is famed for.
  It calls the full NFVi solution completely ‘verified’, though at no point does Ericsson actually specify by whom the infrastructure is verified. Nonetheless, the Swedish vendor has powered through with its NFV solution which it says is based on a well-defined architecture and complete
  
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• Managed Services & Hosting Summit-UK 2017 announced

  24-11-2016 10:21
  
  Leading Vendors, Solution and Service Providers to meet in London in September 2017[London, 24 November 2016] IT Europa and Angel Business Communications announced today that they will jointly be staging the sixth annual Managed Services & Hosting Summit-UK on 20 September 2017. The event will bring leading hardware and software vendors, hosting providers, telecommunications companies, mobile operators and web services providers involved in managed services and hosting together with Managed
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER to bring Connected Mobility to InnoRail India 2016

  24-11-2016 09:00
  
  HUBER+SUHNER, leading international manufacturer of components and systems for optical and electrical connectivity products, is set to display its innovative RADOX® portfolio and rail connectivity solutions at this year’s InnoRail exhibition in India.HUBER+SUHNER’s booth at InnoRail focuses on solutions for Connected Mobility – the notion that HUBER+SUHNER brings communications and railway together by providing instrumental components required to enable broadband network co
  
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• Trump's FCC team spells trouble for net neutrality

  24-11-2016 01:00
  
  Jeffery Eisenach testified against U.S. regulator's Open Internet rules, while Mark Jamison has questioned the need for the FCC altogether.
  
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• Telia, Elisa, DNA win 700-MHz spectrum in Finland

  24-11-2016 01:00
  Telia Company, Elisa, and DNA on Thursday all announced they have won 700-MHz spectrum in Finland.Six blocks of 2x5 MHz spectrum in the 703 MHz-733 MHz and 758 MHz-788 MHZ bands went under the hammer…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Liberty Global wants the EU to give DOCSIS a fair shake

  24-11-2016 01:00
  Liberty Global on Thursday urged the European Commission not to focus too much on fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) when it comes to ultrafast broadband policy, arguing that alternative technologies can also deliver Gigabit speeds.The Commission has set a target of providing 1-Gbps broadband to schools…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson alleged to have paid huge bribes in 1998-2001

  24-11-2016 01:00
  
  Swedish kit maker denies reported claims of deliberate, systemic practice of making corrupt payments to win contracts.
  
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