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• Ofcom deems broadband digital divide ‘unacceptable’

  16-12-2016 21:14
  More than 1.4m homes suffer with speeds less than 10 Mbps
  
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• Microsoft tries to find itself in the location-aware IoT segment

  16-12-2016 16:10
  
  Microsoft has announced a new partnership with TomTom to enhance its capabilities in the fast-growing IoT segment.
  The current Microsoft portfolio puts it in a strong position to reclaim the glories from previous decades, and CEO Satya Nadella has proven himself to be a shrewd businessman in recent years. Under his leadership, a shift in focus towards cloud computing has put the company back at the top of the technology world, the Cortana artificial intelligence suite is growing solidly and bols
  
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• Ofcom: UK broadband still a bit rubbish

  16-12-2016 13:58
  
  UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has embarked on a frenzy of pre-Christmas publication and had concluded our broadband is still not good enough.
  The Connected Nations 2016 report found things are headed in the right direction but still thinks operators need to do more, especially in terms of geographical coverage and quality of service. The key point of dogma for Ofcom seems to be 10 Mbps broadband, which has apparently become a basic human need alongside food, water and sanitation, and its sketchy a
  
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• SACE and SIMEST (CDP Group) with BNP Paribas for Prysmian and National Grid: $519 Million for the North Sea Link Project

  16-12-2016 13:27
  
  The world’s longest submarine interconnectorLondon/Rome/Milan, 16 December 2016 – SACE and SIMEST (Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group) and BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) announce the finalisation of export financing of $519 million for National Grid North America, a company of the National Grid Plc Group, the UK’s main electricity and gas utility company, in support of the works and supply orders awarded to Prysmian as part of the international project Nor
  
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• Oracle makes suspect claim during earnings call

  16-12-2016 13:05
  
  Oracle has reported revenues of $9 billion during its latest quarterly earnings call, but its assessment of the global SaaS market was wide of the mark.
  Cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues were $878 million, up 81%, with the IaaS business collecting $175 million representing a less-than-enthralling growth of 6%. The company’s shift into cloud computing has been slow, after Executive Chairman Larry Ellison dismissed the importance of the technology in the early days, but there does seem to be some
  
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• Barclaycard breakthrough boosts UK boozer business

  16-12-2016 12:26
  
  Pay @ Pump is a self-service beer pump that you can pay for contactlessly with your phone, enabling punters to get drunk more quickly than ever before.
  The innovation was inspired by Barclaycard’s empathy for UK boozers who often have to wait for minutes for their next fix of lovely, wholesome ale. The resulting loss of drinking productivity is a cause of national concern as arguments about the football and character assassinations of absent colleagues are being put on hold in order to sta
  
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• Noose tightens around net neutrality as Democrat Chairman leaves FCC

  16-12-2016 11:37
  
  FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has announced he will step down as Chairman on January 20, but also leave the agency completely on the same date.
  While his standing down as Chairman was assumed as each president has the right to elect a Chairperson during each term, Wheeler did have the opportunity to see out his term as a Commissioner through to November 2018 (For a full write-up on the final FCC open meeting of the year check out our sister site Light Reading). The decision drastically changes the la
  
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• Türk Telekom and Argela Announce World’s First Dynamically Programmable RAN Slicing Demonstration in a Commercial Network

  16-12-2016 10:09
  
  Argela and Türk Telekom announce that they have successfully realized world’s first RAN slicing demonstration in a commercial LTE-A network. This will enable Türk Telekom to develop innovative business applications for 5G technologies.Türk Telekom, Turkey’s leading communication and entertainment technologies provider, and Argela, a leading provider of telecommunications solutions for mobile and fixed operators as well as government and public safety, jointly announced
  
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• TIM rolls out 500 Mbps 4.5G network

  16-12-2016 01:00
  TIM this week commercially launched 4.5G services, upgrading the peak speed of itsnetwork in Rome, Palermo and Sanremo to 500 Mbps.The Italian incumbent is aggregating frequencies in the 800 MHz…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telenor reportedly in talks to sell India operation to Idea

  16-12-2016 01:00
  Telenor has held talks to sell its Indian operation to local rival Idea Cellular, it emerged on Friday, but the Norwegian incumbent may struggle to exit the market in the wake of this year's spectrum auction…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Review of 2016: The big 'D'

  16-12-2016 01:00
  The telecoms industry has been using the word "disruption" with such frequency over the last 15 years that it has almost lost all meaning. However, the events of 2016 showed that in fact, disruption is only just getting properly started, and it has a dark side too.At no point was this more apparent than when Donald Trump shocked the world by winning the U.S. election, and the alleged roles that blanket media coverage, fake news disseminated via Facebook, and supposed cyber attacks carried out b
  
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• Ofcom slams UK's poor geographic 4G coverage

  16-12-2016 01:00
  Ofcom on Friday slammed poor 4G coverage across the U.K. landmass, and said it is concerned that the country compares unfavourably to its peers when it comes to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) connectivity.In a letter sent to the CEOs of the U.K.'s mobile operators, Ofcom CEO Sharon White said there could be a range of technical approaches and regulatory options &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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