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• Smart cities: what are the opportunities for telcos?

  17-02-2017 17:17
  
  There has been plenty made of the future market size of Internet of Things (IoT), and almost everyone in the telecoms industry is very familiar with numbers claiming “IoT will be worth billions by 2020”. However, it would be fair to say that the IoT market in general failed to capture the public’s imagination in 2016, with the majority of consumer offerings being picked up by early adopters and tech enthusiasts – it will still take some time before IoT solutions are more
  
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• Google moonshot division hopes for Loon boon soon

  17-02-2017 14:20
  
  The bit of Google/Alphabet that tries out new stuff reckons its getting the hang of using balloons to deliver connectivity, sort of.
  Google seems to spend as much time trying to think of smart-arse names for its divisions as anything else these days. The holding company is now called Alphabet, apparently just so it could use the URL abc.xyz, and the division responsible for more speculative ventures – or moonshots as they insist on calling them – is just called X. It’s like wat
  
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• UK Government slaps cloud providers into submission

  17-02-2017 13:26
  
  The UK Competition and Markets Authority has concluded its review of Amazon, Apple and Microsoft’s cloud storage terms and conditions, and found them wanting.
  The review itself was a look into whether the consumer cloud storage providers were compliant with consumer law in the UK. As a result, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have separately agreed to make changes to their respective terms and conditions, in areas such as notification periods before significant changes are made to the service,
  
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• IBM + IOT = OMFG + LOLs

  17-02-2017 12:25
  
  IBM has just unleashed what can only be described as a spasm of IoT announcements that, on reflection, could easily have been condensed into one.
  While its artificial intelligence proposition, Watson, has led the digital transformation charge for IBM, one of the most immediate and prominent applications of the technology will be IoT. IBM has been relatively quiet in recent weeks however the flurry of announcements today certainly makes up for it.
  Firstly, the team has announced a new partnership
  
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• OpenCloud snapped up by Metaswitch for its software VoLTE riches

  17-02-2017 12:15
  
  UK Telecoms cloud software company Metaswitch has acquired mobile virtualiztion company and fellow brit OpenCloud to offer a pure-play software VoLTE solution.
  VoLTE has been a work in progress for a while but as be progress through the 4G decimal points in the run up to 5G it is becoming ever more important to use it for voice as well as data. This is one of OpenCloud’s core strengths and one that Metaswitch thinks will be a key component of its telecoms cloud offering.
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• Return of $1bn block trade energises HK market

  17-02-2017 02:00 via ft.com
  Bank and telecoms sales raise hopes for revival in interest in China-related stocks
  
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• Telenor to cut 170 jobs in line with digital strategy

  17-02-2017 01:00
  Telenor this week said it will cut 170 jobs at its Norwegian operation, as the telco restructures in line with its digitalisation strategy.The incumbent said its operations and IT divisions will be merged into its technology division…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sorry week for Samsung

  17-02-2017 01:00
  Power, if not wielded properly, can blow up in your face.Just ask Samsung, which this week saw further proof that its exploding battery problem cost it top spot in the global smartphone market, and the arrest of heir apparent Lee Jae-yong for his alleged involvement in currying political favours in return for charitable donations.Lee is accused of making 41 billion won (€33.51 million) worth of donations to non-profit foundations owned by Choi Soon-sil, a friend of South Korea's president
  
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• AT&T latest to ramp up unlimited offer

  17-02-2017 01:00
  AT&T has become the latest U.S. telco to ramp up its unlimited price plan, following a similar move by major rival Verizon earlier this week.AT&T stopped offering unlimited tariffs to smartphone customers in June 2010. It later began offering them again…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G worth more to UK economy than fibre by 2026 – O2 UK

  17-02-2017 01:00
  The direct economic benefits of 5G to the U.K. economy will overtake those delivered by fibre-based fixed broadband by 2026, claimed O2 this week.According to the results of a study published by the operator on Thursday, 5G will deliver a &pound…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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