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• AT&T puts its 5G foot forward

  04-01-2017 18:26
  
  AT&T has announced its 5G evolution plans for 2017 to meet growing bandwidth demands on both its mobile and fixed networks.
  While the promise of 5G is something which will excite customers around the world who are demanding faster speeds, this announcement from AT&T will worry standards bodies who are keen to ensure the industry crosses the finishing line together. It isn’t the end of the world, but pre-standards fragmentation is starting to become a reality in the industry, as the
  
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• AsiaInfo European cull begins with UK workforce

  04-01-2017 18:07
  
  AsiaInfo has begun work on scaling back its European operations, and Telecoms.com understands the vast majority of its UK workforce has been laid off.
  Back in November, Telecoms.com broke the news of AsiaInfo planning a downsizing of its European marketing and sales functions. At the time, the Chinese BSS specialist, which has been aiming to compete with incumbent suppliers in Europe during the past few years, exclusively told us it would be “laying off a relatively small number of staff f
  
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• Gartner highlights another sluggish year for smartphones

  04-01-2017 16:24
  
  Research from Gartner has shown prospects for the worldwide smartphone market is not going to get much better over the next couple of years.
  The only saving grace for the smartphone manufacturers is that they are not marching towards the hearse like their cousins the PC manufacturers. For smartphones, worldwide sales are expected to 1.893 billion over the course of 2017, compared to 1.888 in 2016, though for the PC, sales are estimated to decline from 219 million in 2016 to 205 million this year
  
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• Fiat Chrysler launches concept connected car at CES

  04-01-2017 13:04
  
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has released its new concept autonomous vehicle, Portal, at CES which it claims has been designed for millennials by millennials.
  Autonomous vehicles and connected cars certainly have been at the top of the agenda in Las Vegas, and FCA has been making sure it isn’t left behind with the release of its slightly chunky concept car. While the car may not be featuring in any Bond movies in the near future, it has been designed for the next generation of buyers; digital
  
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• Why is there now a V at the end of LTE? Explaining LTE-V

  04-01-2017 12:37
  
  The telecoms industry is never short of a new acronym. At the moment, it loves adding extra letters to LTE to help explain a new use case.
  Orange and Ericsson have just announced a partnership including PSA Group, the French automaker behind Peugeot and Citroёn, to make some serious progress in the connected cars game. Right now it’s exploring LTE infrastructures jazzed up with a splash of NFV, in the future it wants 5G – obviously, everybody does. But in the medium-term the To
  
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• Qualcomm hits top gear in first week of 2017

  04-01-2017 11:29
  
  The Qualcomm team has been keeping everyone busy with a flurry of announcements at CES in Las Vegas focused around autonomous vehicles and the growing world of virtual and augmented reality.
  Central to all the announcements is its new flagship Snapdragon 835 processor, which is in production now and is expected to ship in commercial devices in the first half of 2017. The focus of the marketing here is beyond smartphones however, with the team concentrating on the emergence of next generation tec
  
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• Orange gets wheely, wheely excited about 5G connected cars

  04-01-2017 11:15
  
  Not content with letting the 5G Car Club have all the fun, Ericsson and Orange have announced a series of trials hoping to, someday, deliver super-intelligent 5G cars.
  Back in September Qualcomm and its vendor friends (friendors?) sparked the 5G Automotive Association into life. The 5GAA was a little bit of a clique at first, only allowing a couple of car manufacturers in the club. It latterly let Vodafone join the gang, and the merry bunch set about spreading the good word about all things to d
  
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• FTTH Council Asia-Pacific focuses on smart cities as it reveals 2017 conference location

  04-01-2017 11:09
  
  Twelfth annual event will be held in India for the second timeNew Delhi, India. January 4, 2017 – Smart cities and the building of digital economies will become new areas of focus for the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific, as it today announced details of its next Annual Conference and new board of directors which will take the council’s successful fiber roll-out program to the next level. The announcement follows the success of the 2016 Annual Conference,...Source: RealWire
  
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• Wick Hill Feature: Delivering Secure Wi-Fi

  04-01-2017 10:30
  
  Tony Evans from Wick Hill (part of the Nuvias Group) highlights the risks of Wi-Fi and provides some advice for delivering a secure hotspotThe fact that Wi-Fi stands for Wireless Fidelity hints at how long Wi-Fi has been around, but it was only in 1999 that the Wi-Fi Alliance formed as a trade association to hold the Wi-Fi trademark, under which most products are sold. Today, Wi-Fi is on the top of the list of...Source: RealWire
  
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• Interoute crowned Anglian Water’s champion supplier for customer service improvement initiatives

  04-01-2017 10:30
  
  Company awarded for driving improvements in Anglian Water’s customer relations via its innovative communications software solution London, January 4th, 2017 - Interoute, owner-operator of one of Europe's largest, most advanced networks and global cloud services platforms, has been awarded for its contribution to Anglian Water’s Service Incentive Mechanism (SIM) programme in this year’s Anglian Water Supplier Awards. The SIM, set by industry regulator Ofwat, measures the quality
  
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• Quortus enables Telecom26's Global Mobile Services Platform

  04-01-2017 10:00
  
  Integrated roaming, security and enhanced data servicesCamberley, UK, and Zug, Switzerland – 4th January 2017 – Quortus today announced that its EdgeCentrix (ECX) technology is deployed at a global scale to enable the Global Mobile Services Platform of Swiss mobile service provider Telecom26 AG. Telecom26 provides customers with “anywhere-you-go” access to over 700 global networks with no need to swap SIM cards and near real-time reporting and control of mobile services.T
  
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