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• O2 denounced for ruining Christmas

  13-01-2017 17:58
  
  The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has decided to prove its worth by shaming O2 as the Christmas Grinch with its redundancy message to employees.
  Prior to the Christmas period, CEO Mark Evans apparently delivered a Christmas video to employees in which he announced 5% of the workforce would be made redundant in the new year. The management team only made the details of the redundancies clear this week, with 160 CWU-represented grade employees now ‘at risk’ of redundancy. 118 of th
  
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• WhatsApp faces another privacy PR disaster

  13-01-2017 17:53
  
  WhatsApp has picked up in 2017 where it finished in 2016 fighting another potential PR disaster as researchers claim there is a security backdoor to its encryption.
  The encryption used by the messaging platform has been one of the more prominent marketing messages put forward by the team, though the University of California’s Cryptography and Security Researcher Tobias Boelter claims to have found a backdoor, according to the Guardian. Boelter believes the company can in fact read messages
  
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• Networking giants thunder into cloud infrastructure game

  13-01-2017 14:04
  
  IDC has estimated sales of infrastructure products grew 8.1% year-on-year to $8.4 billion in Q3 of 2016, with companies traditionally from networking segment upsetting the status quo.
  IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, which accounts for all products relating to cloud IT, including public and private cloud, states cloud IT infrastructure now accounts for 39.2% of all IT infrastructure spending in Q3, up from 34.7% in 2015. Revenues from private cloud grew 8.2% to $3
  
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• Court rules Apple can be sued over App Store monopoly

  13-01-2017 13:59
  
  Apple’s insistence that its devices only support apps sold directly through its app store is potentially monopolistic, a US appeals court has concluded.
  This means a legal challenge originally filed in 2012, but chucked out by a lower court, can be reinstated. The original class-action suit was filed on behalf of consumers, who claimed the 30% of the cost of an iOS app they pay direct to Apple was unfair and excessive, enabled by the fact that Apple doesn’t allow apps purchased anywh
  
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• Sequential poaches AT&T exec for CEO, also grabs Synchronoss activation tech

  13-01-2017 12:29
  
  Telecoms customer care outsourcer Sequential Technology International has appointed grizzled AT&T veteran Kent Mathy as its new CEO.
  This move coincides with the acquisition of most of the device activation business of fellow New Jersey outfit Synchronoss, which is focusing mainly on its white-label cloud business following the acquisition of B2B secure cloud provider Intralinks for $821 million. Sequential is dropping $146 million on the activation tech.
  Mathy was formerly the Regional Pres
  
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• New US spy law could reignite Safe Harbour debate

  13-01-2017 12:19
  
  New US legislation allowing intelligence agencies unprecedented access to personal information could see the issue of transatlantic data transfer policies flare up in Europe once again.
  In what could be one of the final acts of President Obama before he leaves the White House, the NSA has now been given permission to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections. While this might be perceived as l
  
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• Successful commissioning of the submarine interconnector CNP-1 in the Philippines

  13-01-2017 10:56
  
  Contract was awarded to Prysmian by the grid operating company NGCPMilan, 13 January 2017. Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announces the successful commissioning of the submarine power cable link to connect Negros and Panay islands in the Philippines. This is the first stage of the project CNP-1 (Cebu-Negros-Panay phase 1), awarded to Prysmian Group by the Filipino grid operating company NGCP (National Grid Corporation of the Philippines). This...So
  
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• There are teenagers who can't remember a world without the iPhone

  13-01-2017 01:00
  This week marks the 10th anniversary of a momentous event that rocked the global telecoms industry to its very core. That's right: I joined the ranks of Total Telecom as a young, fresh(ish)-faced junior reporter, hungry to sink my teeth into this complex and groundbreaking industry.They never said anything at the interview stage about all the acronyms I would have to learn. Weighing the merits of MPLS against PBB-TE (that's provider backbone bridge traffic engineering, by the way) was a particu
  
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• Myanmar awards fourth licence to Viettel-led venture

  13-01-2017 01:00
  Myanmar this week finally awarded its fourth mobile licence to a joint venture led by Vietnam-based Viettel.Reuters reported on Thursday that Viettel owns 49% of Myanmar National Tele and Communications (MNTC)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• M1, StarHub mull closer mobile network sharing

  13-01-2017 01:00
  StarHub and M1 this week signalled their intention to ramp up their network-sharing activities.The Singaporean mobile operators on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see them look into how they might share their radio access networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Global VoLTE connections to hit 3.3bn by 2021

  13-01-2017 01:00
  Global VoLTE connections will grow to 3.33 billion by 2021 from 324 million, predicted Ovum on Friday.That forecast represents 53% of expected worldwide mobile subscriptions by 2021."The main reason operators are strengthening their commitment to roll out VoLTE today is for cost reduction…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Global VoLTE connections to hit 3.33 billion by 2021

  13-01-2017 01:00
  Global VoLTE connections will grow to 3.33 billion by 2021 from 324 million, predicted Ovum on Friday.That forecast represents 53% of expected worldwide mobile subscriptions by 2021."The main reason operators are strengthening their commitment to roll out VoLTE today is for cost reduction…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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