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• Fitness freaks prop up wearables market

  06-12-2016 16:04
  
  It would appear the wearables market isn’t as bad as we thought, after research from IDC has growth at 3.1% year-on-year for the third quarter.
  Before anyone starts to get too excited about smartwatches taking over the world (again), let’s put things in perspective a bit. Basic wearables, mostly fitness bands, comprised of 85% of worldwide sales and experienced double digit growth to hold up the lumbering segment. Total sales for the quarter came in at roughly 23 million units.
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• Ofcom says ‘put your money where your mouth is’ to UK fibre moaners

  06-12-2016 15:43
  
  Ofcom has unveiled its masterplan to reduce the UK’s reliance on Openreach, allowing CSPs greater access to BT’s ducts and poles to encourage rivals to lay their own ‘full-fibre’ networks.
  While the move will be welcomed by many ultra-fast broadband enthusiasts, it will also test the bank accounts of BT’s chasing pack and their appetite to invest in initiatives where the ROI is not so short-term. It is a clever move from the Ofcom team, as it takes the shouting away
  
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• Quortus CEO heralds “massive opportunity” in multi-access edge computing for operators and developers

  06-12-2016 15:04
  
  Andy Odgers to present at fourth annual Carrier Network Virtualization Conference / MEC Congress USACamberley, UK - 6th December 2016 – Quortus Founder and CEO Andy Odgers will outline the “massive opportunity” represented by multi-access edge computing technology in a series of speeches at this week’s Carrier Network Virtualization / MEC USA event (December 5th – 8th Palo Alto, California).Quortus is a sponsor at the event, which aims to provide a holistic view of
  
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• ‘Listening’ DVLA Will Supply Tacho and CPC Data Through The ADLV

  06-12-2016 14:08
  
  Following a recent survey of over 100 senior UK haulage fleet managers, conducted by the Association for Driving Licence Verification (ADLV) www.adlv.co.uk, the DVLA has now agreed to supply Tacho and CPC Data to the haulage industry. The data will be made available in the New Year, alongside driving licence data already available through the ADLV. The ADLV welcomes the news to make the data available and believes that it can be used to significantly...Source: RealWire
  
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• Zinwave names Slavko Djukic chief technology officer

  06-12-2016 14:00
  
  Global in-building wireless provider taps former Ericsson and Corning DAS expert to lead the development of company’s innovative technology platformLondon – December 6, 2016 – Zinwave, a global provider of wideband distributed network solutions for in-building wireless, today announced that it has named Slavko Djukic its chief technology officer (CTO). Djukic, an expert in DAS and small-cell systems, will lead the development and refinement of technologies to improve the mobile
  
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• Nokia updates its mobile cunning plan

  06-12-2016 13:04
  
  Samih Elhage, President of Mobile Networks at Nokia, offered an update on the recently-announced corporate strategy, including plans for diversification.
  The conclusion we drew from the Nokia capital markets day was that Nokia was counting on the emergence of 5G to drive the investment conspicuously absent from the telecoms scene at the moment. Elhage was able to give that view a bit more nuance in a recent briefing, highlighting the opportunities for growth he believes remain available eve
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast – iPhones are for Girls

  06-12-2016 12:52
  
  Download now or subscribe on iTunes here for the latest podcast every week: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-week-in-wireless-podcast/id1124414975?mt=2
  And in case you missed it, here’s another chance to check out last week’s edition of AWIW: BeeTeeHeeHee
  
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• Oracle predicts the end of human interaction

  06-12-2016 12:25
  
  The way brands build their relationships with customers are set to undergo a significant change over the next couple of years thanks to the normalization of technologies such as VR and AI.
  Research from Oracle has claimed human-to-human interactions will significantly decrease over the coming years, as technology evolves the day-to-day lives of the end consumer. In a survey focused on responses from marketing professionals from across the EMEA region, 78% of brands anticipate customer experience
  
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• Amazon uses driverless car tech to build supermarket of the future

  06-12-2016 12:22
  
  Amazon has decided shops don’t need checkouts anymore.
  It’s not often you see online retailers make the move to bricks and mortar, but Amazon is planning on doing just that by opening a beta concept store requiring zero checkouts, no queues, no cash or anything.
  Amazon Go is based on IoT, computer vision, a bucket load of sensors and lots of other cleverness that can monitor who is taking which product from which shelves. Those products are properly identified by the gamut of technol
  
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• Top Five Networking Predictions for 2017

  06-12-2016 11:00
  
  David Galton-Fenzi, CEO of Zycko, specialists in advanced networking, and CCO of Nuvias Group (of which Zycko is part), looks towards 2017 and gives his top five networking predictions Software Defined NetworkingThe move to-software-defined-everything will continue in 2017, and some of the biggest disruptors in the networking market will be Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN), and Software Defined Datacentre (SDDC).By abstracting some of the functional
  
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• Deutsche Telekom attacks Ofcom over BT split

  06-12-2016 06:05 via ft.com
  German stakeholder says separation of Openreach ‘won’t work’
  
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• Vodafone names new enterprise director

  06-12-2016 01:00
  Vodafone on Tuesday named Brian Humphries, COO of Dell EMC's infrastructure solutions group, as its new group enterprise director.He succeeds Nick Jeffery…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Verizon sells 24 data centres to Equinix for $3.6bn

  06-12-2016 01:00
  Verizon on Tuesday agreed to sell 24 data centre sites to data centre operator Equinix for $3.6 billion (€3.35 billion).The all-cash transaction will see Equinix take ownership and management of 29 individual data centre buildings – amounting to 2…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom fleshes out BT duct and pole plans

  06-12-2016 01:00
  Ofcom on Tuesday announced new proposals that aim to make it cheaper and easier for the U.K.'s altnets to deploy their own fibre on BT's ducts and poles."Fibre is the future for broadband, and Ofcom is helping to deliver that through competition between networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NZ to decide on Vodafone/Sky merger in February

  06-12-2016 01:00
  New Zealand's Commerce Commission announced on Monday that it will decide whether to approve the merger between Vodafone and Sky by 23 February 2017.In a brief statement…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Unicom launches UK MVNO

  06-12-2016 01:00
  China Unicom Global (CUG) has launched a U.K. MVNO service that allows customers to assign more than one phone number to a single SIM card.The service, called CUniq, runs on O2's network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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