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• Cyber attacks lead Yahoo to accept price cut from Verizon

  15-02-2017 19:35
  Internet company and acquirer close to agreeing $300m discount
  
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• MWC 2017 will be all about 5G for Ericsson

  15-02-2017 18:44
  
  Ericsson was the last of the big three kit vendors to preannounce its MWC agenda and it’s going straight for the big one – 5G.
  Huawei had its reveal at the start of this week, which had a decidedly cloudy feel to it, while Nokia has spammed so many press releases out since the start of the month that it would be easier to list the themes it hasn’t covered. Ericsson is unashamedly shooting for the big prize and its messaging is that it’s ahead of the game when it comes to
  
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• Softbank keeps rolling the dice with $3.3bn Fortress acquisition

  15-02-2017 18:02
  
  Softbank has confirmed its $3.3 billion acquisition of Fortress Investment Group, a US-based asset manager which currently has significant holdings in various tech companies including Lyft.
  While last years’ ARM acquisition may have hogged the headlines, the Softbank VC team has been much more active. Alongside the £24.3 billion to buy ARM, the team has also recently invested $1 billion in Korean mobile commerce company Coupang, as well as substantial cash injections into Indian e-co
  
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• Quortus and Expeto announce commercial availability of enterprise communications platform as a service

  15-02-2017 15:40
  
  Applying “IT cloud” to cellular enables Intranets of Things, integrated enterprise communicationsCamberley, UK and Victoria, BC, 15 February 2017 – Quortus and Expeto today announced commercial availability of a unique “platform as a service” (PaaS) solution that gives enterprises and other organizations complete control of their cellular communications. Field trials of the solution are already under way in conjunction with a major multi-national natural resources c
  
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• Huawei and Vodafone in LAA LAA Land with latest ‘world first’

  15-02-2017 15:27
  
  Huawei has laid claim to yet another world ‘first’, after a project with Vodafone successfully proved the live potential for License Assisted Access technology (LAA).
  Huawei utilised LAA technology on a live Vodafone network in Turkey, using standardised technology based on the 3GPP’s release 13 standards. According to the Chinese kit vendor, the introduction of LAA demonstrates a co-existence with wifi in similar frequency bands, while also making more efficient use of the sam
  
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• “What’s my content strategy?”

  15-02-2017 14:44
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In the content delivery era, telcos need a smarter approach if they want to properly monetise their content and services, says Ted Woodbery, VP of Marketing at Synchronoss.
  “What’s my content strategy?”
  It’s a question that keeps many telco executives awake at night.
  In today’s era of static revenues and static profits, fixed and mobile telecom o
  
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• SK Telecom, DT and Ericsson take 5G on a world tour

  15-02-2017 14:18
  
  Everyone likes a bit of network slicing but a common complaint is that it’s just not federated enough. Now those dark days are behind us.
  SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson has done a demo of what they claim is the world’s first intercontinental 5G trial network. This piece of globe-trotting was enabled, apparently, by federated network slicing, which allows sharing of network slices between different operators.
  ”5G is not just a faster network. 5G will provide extreme u
  
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• EE claims clean sweep of latest Rootmetrics numbers

  15-02-2017 14:00
  
  Rootmetrics has released the results of its UK’s national mobile performance for the second half of 2016 with EE claiming top spot.
  EE was in fact the best performing mobile brand in the UK across all categories (Overall, Reliability, Speed, Data, Text, Call), replicating the clean sweep which it achieved during the first half of 2016. The research also claims the number of UK consumers able to access 4G networks has increased by approximately seven million over the past 12 months, taking
  
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• AT&T US-Mexico LTE-M network flouts border tensions

  15-02-2017 12:35
  
  AT&T has announced its plans to launch a LTE-M network for IoT across the US in Q2 and Mexico towards the end of the year.
  The team has stated the move follows a successful pilot of LTE-M Low-Power Wide-Area network at AT&T Labs in San Ramon, California, and will support nearly 400 million people across the two countries.
  How this move will be received by the White House is not known at the moment, but you can just imagine the grammatically incorrect tweet which will be produced from Tru
  
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• Diversification is a search for fools’ gold – Colt CEO

  15-02-2017 12:09
  
  In an industry that has seen money been thrown around like confetti in a bid to diversify business models, Colt has bucked the trend and simply said no.
  With its 25th birthday just around the corner, you could forgive the company for looking back on yesteryear and wondering whether its life choices were the most sensible. We all do it, but that is not to say the company is not in a good position, it currently employs around 4,000 people worldwide and brought in revenues of about €1.5 b
  
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• NewVoiceMedia wins Corporate Vision’s UK Technology and Software Top 10 Award

  15-02-2017 11:47
  
  LONDON, February 15, 2017 – NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of inside sales and contact centre technology that helps businesses sell more, serve better and grow faster, has been awarded Corporate Vision’s 2017 UK Technology and Software Top 10 Award for its ContactWorld solution. ContactWorld is a multi-tenant intelligent communications platform that enables sales and service reps to have more successful conversations with their customers and prospects worldwide. Core contac
  
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• Zinwave eliminates mobile phone 'not-spots' at Sky's new HQ

  15-02-2017 11:00
  
  Cambridge-based Systems Integrator Herbert has deployed Zinwave’s UNItivity distributed antenna system (DAS) to eliminate mobile phone coverage issues at Sky’s headquarters LONDON – 15/02/17 – Zinwave and its UK partner Herbert today announced that it has deployed Zinwave’s UNItivity DAS to eliminate wireless coverage and capacity issues at Sky’s new headquarters in London. The Sky campus, located in Osterley, West London, has recently undergone an extensive r
  
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• MWC 2017: Zyxel to debut new premium LTE indoor gateway LTE5366

  15-02-2017 10:37
  
  The LTE5366 provides superior Wi-Fi experiences with 11ac Wave 2 technology combined with LTE CAT6February 15, 2017 – Hsinchu, Taiwan – Zyxel Communications, a global leader in networking solutions and technologies, today announced it will launch its LTE gateway LTE5366 – one of the first LTE indoor gateways with 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi technology – at Mobile World Congress 2017. Zyxel’s LTE5366 brings ultra-fast mobile broadband connectivity to the home or office, wh
  
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• Computime and Naka Mobile partner to power Koko GPS Watch and provide parental peace of mind

  15-02-2017 10:05
  
  Naka Mobile‘s global network coverage delivers constant connectivity globally, with no hidden roaming cost surprisesBuchs, Switzerland, 15 February 2017 – Naka Mobile, a global mobile telecommunication and technology company, today announced a partnership with Computime, the global manufacturing, technology and brand distribution company, to provide best-in-class global connectivity for its Koko GPS Watches. The Koko GPS Watch is designed with child safety top-of-mind. Features inclu
  
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• Ignore cable upgrades and focus on fiber, says Iskratel

  15-02-2017 09:00
  
  Marseille, France, February 15, 2017 – Cable operators looking to upgrade their networks must look past the latest cable upgrades and deploy fiber sooner rather than later to remain competitive, according to Iskratel’s latest executive white paper.Speaking on the release of “GPON vs. DOCSIS 3.1 in Six Simple Points” – which coincides with the second day of FTTH Conference 2017 – Iskratel’s Chief Architect Simon Cimzar said there is an increasing number o
  
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• SoftBank to buy Fortress Investment Group for $3.3bn

  15-02-2017 02:24
  Masayoshi Son makes push into private equity with deal for US asset manager
  
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• Vodafone Turkey preps commercial LAA network

  15-02-2017 01:00
  Vodafone Turkey and its suppliers Huawei and Qualcomm claimed on Wednesday to have deployed the world's first licence assisted access (LAA)-ready LTE network.Incorporated into 3GPP Release 13 (R13), LAA aggregates LTE carriers operating in licensed spectrum with those operating in unlicensed spectrum…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica in Chile NB-IoT project

  15-02-2017 01:00
  Telefonica on Wednesday launched its first narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) project in Chile in partnership with a water utility.The utility in question is testing connectivity management of a telemetry solution for residential smart water meters…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Softbank buys investment firm Fortress for $3.3bn

  15-02-2017 01:00
  Softbank on Wednesday agreed a $3.3 billion (€3.13 billion) acquisition of Fortress Investment, a U.S.-based asset management firm.The publicly-listed company boasts 1,750 institutional clients and private investors…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson carry out transcontinental 5G trial

  15-02-2017 01:00
  SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson on Wednesday announced they have successfully carried out a transcontinental 5G trial.The three companies were able to demonstrate network slicing – where a single physical network is partitioned into multiple virtual networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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