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• Small-cap focus: telecoms

  02-12-2016 15:48
  Fibre debate prompts question whether those ploughing a mobile-only path can survive
  
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• iPhones are for girls, Android is for good honest folk

  02-12-2016 13:02
  
  If you’re reading this on your iPhone, chances are you’re a woman. If you’re reading this on your Android device, chances are you’re a humble and honest mature gentleman.
  Disregarding the incendiary headline for one moment, the research comes from Lancaster University’s Lecturer in Computational Social Science, David Ellis. The research is based on a study of 500 smartphone users who were asked a series of questionnaires about their attitude towards their mobile pho
  
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• Intel weighs into smart home segment with AWS tie-up

  02-12-2016 12:45
  
  Intel and AWS have announced plans to work alongside each other in a number of smart home initiatives including an Intel-based smart speaker which includes that includes the Alexa virtual assistant.
  The first project will see Alexa Skills remotely control and coordinate device actions with an Intel-based Smart Home Hub, but the second will be a broader Intel-based smart speaker reference design with Amazon Alexa. The team has said it hopes to help hardware manufacturers accelerate development of
  
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• Brexit gets real with 22% Azure price hike in UK

  02-12-2016 12:07
  
  While most international vendors were keen to state Brexit would not impact the UK negatively in the aftermath of the referendum, it would appear Microsoft has given up treading lightly around the situation.
  Microsoft Azure customers received an email which has outlined a price hike for UK customers as of January 1 2017. The tech giant has said it will increase Azure pricing by 22% to ensure it aligns more effectively with Euro prices. This does appear to be a global move as prices are also set
  
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• KPN IoT LTE-M trial targets most acronyms in a single sentence

  02-12-2016 11:54
  
  Earlier this year Telecoms.com wrote about how LTE-M, the IoT-enabling LTE tech, will keep operators relevant in the IoT era.
  Since that we’ve seen a bunch of operators move to help standardise alternative narrowband IoT forms, such as LoRA of Sigfox. BUT, now Dutch incumbent KPN claims to have made the first European trial of LTE-M, in partnership with Qualcomm and Ericsson.
  The trial focussed on utilising cellular connectivity for low data rate IoT applications. According to Qualcomm&rsq
  
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• Huawei urges operators to embrace the video opportunity

  02-12-2016 11:05
  
  Global ICT giant Huawei feels so strongly about helping operators diversify that it devoted an entire two-day event in the beautiful historic town of Wuzhen to exploring the issue.
  The event in the first week of November was named the Operations Transformation Forum (OTF) and, as the name implies, it focused not just on new business opportunities for operators but the ways in which they need to transform themselves if they want to capitalise on them.
  Digital transformation is a popular buzzword
  
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• 3 companies fighting against gender inequality in tech

  02-12-2016 11:01
  
  Despite improvements towards gender equality, women are underrepresented and underpaid in the US workforce. On average, women make only 79% of what men make, and they are also a distinct minority in the office. Nowhere is this more clear than in the tech industry. Silicon Valley has been associated with “bro culture” in the past, and while that may be extreme, the tech scene is nevertheless predominantly composed of men.
  In fact, women hold only 26% of computing jobs in the US workfo
  
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• Prysmian has won an auction to acquire the assets of Shen Huan Cable for € 42 M

  02-12-2016 10:53
  
  The Group shifts to an independent High Voltage offer in China, significantly improving competitiveness, flexibility and operational efficiency“Prysmian Technology Jiangsu will offer the Group’s full range of HV technologies and become the HV Centre of Excellence in APAC,” declares Luigi Migliorini, CEO Prysmian Group ChinaMilan, 02 December 2016 – Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announces it has won a bankruptcy auction for
  
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• Vivendi dismisses Telecom Italia pay TV deal

  02-12-2016 01:00
  Vivendi on Friday denied that it is involved in a new deal for Italian broadcaster Mediaset's pay TV business that would have involved Telecom Italia.The French media group, which remains Telecom Italia's largest shareholder despite having diluted its stake last month…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telcos whack their way to WCA glory

  02-12-2016 01:00
  Total Telecom's 18th annual World Communication Awards took a turn for the slightly sinister this year, when one of our esteemed judges warned that most of the audience was going to get whacked."That's business," said Janet Watkin, CEO of customer experience analysis firm Ocean82, and now Don of the WCA, which is henceforth known as the capofamiglia of telecoms award ceremonies.Fortunately, Watkin meant "whacked" in the sense of being out-competed at the awards by a rival, rather than being tak
  
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• KPN trials LTE-M

  02-12-2016 01:00
  KPN this week became the first operator to trial LTE-Machine Type Communications (LTE-M), and said it expects the IoT technology to go into service by the end of 2017.In a statement on Thursday, the Dutch incumbent said it views LTE…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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