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• Telecoms chiefs warn of Europe’s 5G pipe dream

  01-03-2017 17:30 via ft.com
  European Commission told that region could fall behind US and Asia without new rules
  
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• Red Hat insists EU competition rules do more damage than good

  01-03-2017 16:18
  
  With profitability elusive in the industy many of the world’s leading telcos are looking to the M&A market for inspiration. Unfortunately, EU rules on competition are inhibiting the prospect of innovation.
  According to Darrell Jordan-Smith, Red Hat’s VP of Worldwide Sales, the European Commission’s (hereafter known as the Gaggle of Red-tapers) approach to market consolidation is actually preventing investment and innovation at some telcos within the region. For many the roa
  
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• Competing in the digital economy means owning the smart home – Accenture

  01-03-2017 16:10
  
  The IoT craze engulfing the telecoms and technology industries promises to deliver untold fortunes for many but for the telcos, owning the smart home market is critical to avoid extinction.
  According to Francesco Venturini, Managing Director for Global Industry Media and Communications at Accenture, speaking at MWC 2017, the smart home segment is prime for telcos to demonstrate their worth and recoup lost fortunes. That said, a sluggish start could see repeat disruptors Google and Amazon take ow
  
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• Jasper – IoT just needs to work

  01-03-2017 13:05
  
  At the end of its first year as part of Cisco, Jasper reflects on the progress it has made and the development of the IoT industry as a whole.
  We spoke to Macario Namie, Head of IoT Strategy at Cisco Jasper, at ‘Innovation City’ MWC 2017 and he revealed that the business has accelerated under the stewardship of Cisco. Key metrics such as number customers and number of devices supported have all multiplied and the company is adding 400 new enterprises per month (see slide below).
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• “What do we really need from 5G?” – Amdocs

  01-03-2017 12:44
  
  Amid the frantic nature of MWC, Amdocs wants to take a step back from gimmicky 5G mayhem and get operators asking ‘what do we really need?’.
  This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has been an especially hype-tastic affair. We covered the disconnect between tech marketing and reality earlier in the week, and a dose of reality from one of the software world’s more notable players is a welcome relief.
  Speaking to Telecoms.com, Gabriel Kerner – Amdocs head of pr
  
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• Amdocs calls for retreat from MWC 5G hype

  01-03-2017 12:44
  
  Amid the frantic nature of MWC, Amdocs wants to take a step back from the 5G mayhem and get operators asking ‘what do we really need?’.
  This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has been an especially hype-tastic affair. We covered the disconnect between tech marketing and reality earlier in the week, and a dose of reality from one of the software world’s more notable players is a welcome relief.
  Speaking to Telecoms.com, Gabriel Kerner – Amdocs head of product
  
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• 5G-enabled remote surgery – sorting the wheat from the chaff

  01-03-2017 11:41
  
  Following our story expressing scepticism about all the hype around 5G we spoke to some people who are actually following through on all the utopian talk.
  Mischa Dohler is a Professor at King’s College London and a prominent driver of using communications technology in the medical environment. We first encountered him exactly a year ago talking about the tactile internet at an Ericsson event in King’s. He read our story bemoaning the overuse of examples like remote surgery to prematu
  
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• Aricent Announces Autonomous Network Solution with Self-Learning and Self-Optimization Capabilities to Support the Evolution to 5G Networks

  01-03-2017 10:30
  
  Aricent Autonomous Network Solution features zero-touch automation and network orchestration for service providers to enhance the customer experience and raise operational efficiencyMOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona and REDWOOD CITY, California - March 01, 2017 - Aricent, a global design and engineering company, today announced new capabilities as part of its Autonomous Network Solution (ANS) for intelligent automation of next-generation virtualized networks. Aricent ANS components are based on i
  
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• Openwave Mobility Strengthens Mobile Digital Identity with Subscriber Privacy upgrade

  01-03-2017 10:00
  MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS AND REDWOOD CITY, CA 1 March 2017 – Openwave Mobility, a software innovator enabling operators to manage and monetize encrypted mobile data, today announced that it has released key User Privacy upgrades as part of SmartIDM, a comprehensive digital identity solution for mobile operators partnering with OTTs. This launch comes at a time of heightened interest from network operators and regulators for secure subscriber identity solutions and robust privacy safeguards. S
  
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• Sterlite Tech – Elitecore announces innovative Wi-Fi solutions for Carriers and Enterprises at MWC – 2017, Barcelona

  01-03-2017 09:55
  
  Introduces Enterprise Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Global Roaming, Wi-Fi calling and Middleware solutionsMumbai – India | Barcelona – Spain: March 01, 2017:- Sterlite Technologies’ Telecom Software Division – Elitecore is a global provider of Public Wi-Fi, Mobile Data offload and Wi-Fi monetization offerings, today, announces next generation Wi-Fi solutions including Enterprise Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Global Roaming, Wi-Fi calling and Middleware for Carriers and Enterprises at MWC 2017.Elitecore se
  
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• TEOCO releases SMART Capacity Management Solution

  01-03-2017 09:00
  
  Smarter capacity forecasting enables Service Providers to significantly reduce escalating CAPEX spendFAIRFAX, VA., USA – 1 March 2017 – TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to over 300 communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, today released its SMART Capacity Management Solution. The solution is designed to help CSPs use advanced traffic forecasting and load algorithms to optimize current capacity and plan optimized CAPEX in
  
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• Quortus and Telefónica demonstrate ‘LTE Nano’ mobile network at MWC

  01-03-2017 09:00
  
  Companies combine to showcase private cellular solutions at Barcelona eventMobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 1 March 2017 - Quortus today announced that it has partnered with operator Telefónica España, to drive the rapidly emerging trend towards the use of private cellular networks in a broad range of applications. The two companies will illustrate their private cellular capabilities via LTE Nano, a low-footprint, ultra-compact and highly scalable 4G network-in-a-box implem
  
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• MWC 2017: Orange to roll out LTE-M in Spain, Belgium

  01-03-2017 01:00
  French incumbent still not sure about NB-IoT; plans to deploy LTGE-M across its entire European footprint.Orange this week revealed plans to deploy LTE-M in Spain and Belgium this year, with a view to eventually rolling out the cellular IoT technology across its entire European footprint…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MWC 2017: Huawei CEO eyes $1trn video opportunity

  01-03-2017 01:00
  Huawei's deputy chairman and rotating CEO Eric Xu on Tuesday said video represents a $1 trillion revenue opportunity for telcos.Entertainment video will account for the lion's share – a whopping $650 billion – he said in a keynote presentation at Mobile World Congress. Industry video &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MWC 2017: Deutsche Telekom taps Genband for Immmr messaging app

  01-03-2017 01:00
  Cloud communications and WebRTC specialist Genband revealed this week that its Kandy platform is being used by Deutsche Telekom to power its new Immmr OTT comms service.Using Kandy…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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