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• 5G still has a risk of specification fragmentation

  08-12-2016 13:07
  
  While the progress of 5G has been closely monitored and chaperoned over recent months, the risk of fragmentation is becoming greater as we lumber towards deployment.
  Speaking at Light Reading’s Vision 2020 event in Rome, Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Gabriel Brown highlighted 2016 has been a great year for the development of 5G, though there are some trends which could be seen as worrying. Most notably the progress of Verizon and KT; are they storming off too quickly and too waywardly?
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• Qualcomm and Microsoft combine to finally bring Windows to ARM devices

  08-12-2016 12:56
  
  It’s a dark day for Intel as the chip giant now faces the biggest threat yet to its dominance of Windows devices.
  Microsoft and Qualcomm have announced that they have finally found a way to run full Windows 10 on devices powered by Snapdragon processors. This will mean things like tablets, Chromebooks and even smartphones will be able to run the same programs currently restricted to just PCs, thus significantly shaking up the whole productivity industry.
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• Boost for IoT interoperability as open source foundations and projects use oneM2M standards

  08-12-2016 12:29
  
  OpenDaylight, OCEAN, ATIS and Eclipse Foundation are among organisations adopting oneM2M specifications in IoT development projects Sophia Antipolis, France, 8 December 2016. oneM2M, the global standards partnership for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things (IoT), has revealed its standards are being used by a number of independent open source foundations and projects, in addition to commercial deployments, as the industry looks to accelerate take up of IoT products
  
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• VR wars! Samsung, Facebook and Google go toe-to-toe with Intel and Microsoft

  08-12-2016 11:59
  
  It’s fight night and war is in the air as the consumer tech industry has divided into factions to battle for the future of VR.
  In one corner, the Global VR Association (GVRA) has been born – the tech industry bloody loves a good association. Samsung, Google, Facebook’s Oculus, HTC Vive and Acer Starbreeze have joined forces to make sure VR doesn’t fall the way of 3DTV **shudder**. They’re aiming to develop standards, collaborate on technology development, as well as
  
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• 5G partnership of the day – Huawei and BT

  08-12-2016 11:51
  
  BT and Huawei continue their Anglo-Chinese bromance with a romantic new 5G partnership.
  The two companies have a long history of working together but 5G seems to have given them the opportunity to publicly renew their vows. The partnership itself seems to be a pretty standard affair, with the usual lofty but ill-defined ambition to ‘lead the global development of 5G mobile technologies’.
  Such specifics as there are concern the technical and commercial feasibility of deploying 5G tech
  
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• Newtec Appoints Sjoerd De Clerck As New VP Asia

  08-12-2016 09:00
  
  New Sales Vice-President will build on Newtec’s growth in region following new partnerships and customers SINGAPORE and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 8 December 2016. Newtec - a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications - today announced it has appointed a new sales Vice-President for the Asia-Pacific region. Sjoerd De Clerck will be responsible for leading the Asia-Pacific team and ensuring the company’s continued growth a
  
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• Telekom Austria buys Croatia's Metronet

  08-12-2016 01:00
  Telekom Austria on Thursday agreed to acquire Croatian altnet Metronet and merge it with its local operating unit, Vipnet.Metronet focuses primarily on the B2B market, offering voice, data…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KDDI to acquire ISP Biglobe

  08-12-2016 01:00
  KDDI on Thursday struck an ¥80 billion (€654.2 million) deal to acquire ISP Biglobe from Japan Industrial Partners (JIP).The Japanese operator, which offers mobile services under the Au brand…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson staff cuts ahead of schedule

  08-12-2016 01:00
  Ericsson on Thursday said its redundancy programme is ahead of schedule, which will result in higher-than-forecast restructuring costs for 2016.The kit maker is axing 3,000 employees in Sweden, through a combination of voluntary redundancies…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT, Huawei strike 5G research deal

  08-12-2016 01:00
  BT and Huawei on Thursday announced a wide-ranging 5G research partnership.The companies' work will centre on network architecture, a new air interface, network slicing, M2M and IoT, and security. As well as researching the technology itself…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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