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• LPWAN company Actility acquires IoT geolocation specialist

  03-05-2017 18:48
  
  French LPWAN player Actility has forked out on Abeeway, a geolocation system specialist, to augment its ThingPark IoT platform.
  The thinking behind this first acquisition since Actility secured a fresh round of funding last month is that this is a significant, strategic acquisition for the company. It’s easy to see how geolocation would add value to an IoT platform, especially in areas such as transport and logistics, supply chains and security.
  “We’re seeing massive demand for
  
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• Samsung gets L-plates to test out self-driving car solutions

  03-05-2017 18:06
  
  Samsung has notched a win in the race to the self-driving car as the South Korean government has given the company permission to test its solutions on the road.
  Ambitions for the company to enter into this lucrative arena are hardly new, pretty much every tech company wants to play with self-driving cars, but this certainly is a milestone. Testing solutions on test tracks is a strong start for any challenger, but it is hardly going to impress the car manufacturers in the long-run.
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• Discussions on the value of connectivity, building the hyperdense 5G HetNet and service creation for new technologies are set to be in full swing at SCWS World this May in London

  03-05-2017 16:00
  
  London, UK. 3 May 2017 – The agenda for the annual SCWS World, organised by Avren Events, has been updated with a string of new influential representatives, including from Google, Vodafone, Ocubis and Ericsson, which has recently joined as joint diamond sponsor alongside Huawei. Gathering the latest innovative wireless connectivity use cases and solutions, leading operators, vendors and enterprises will discuss the business issues and priorities in a series of panels, seminars and keynote
  
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• Q1 2017 smartphone market – Chinese vendors to the fore

  03-05-2017 15:16
  
  The Q1 2017 global smartphone shipment numbers are out and they show solid growth with nearly all coming from Chinese vendors, largely from their domestic market.
  As a result the two big players – Samsung and Apple – continue to see stagnation in their shipments numbers. This is probably as good as Samsung could have hoped for given the Note7 disaster and it probably resorted to heavy discounting of other devices to keep the numbers up. Apple continues to struggle to match its 2015 h
  
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• Turns out PAYG subscribers aren’t very loyal – who knew?

  03-05-2017 13:33
  
  What’s the trick to creating loyalty for prepaid mobile subscriptions? Knowing who your customers actually are, apparently.
  According to research from Juvo, using data-science driven mobile financial services will improve customer loyalty and profitability in the prepaid market. It’s a sound theory, albeit an already recognized one, however identifying, understanding and driving individual customer behaviour allows operators to transform their customer relationships.
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• 4G sucks on the south coast – Which

  03-05-2017 13:26
  
  UK consumer top-tips group Which has teamed up with OpenSignal to look at 4G performance across the country and found it’s worst on the south coast of England.
  The study looked at 4G signal availability and average 4G download speeds in 20 cities across the country. Inevitably there was a degree of variation, but as you can see from the table below Southampton and nearby cities are the worst for coverage and a bit further east along the Channel coast Brighton is the worst for speed. Taking
  
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• ‘There’s An App (Market) For That’ – Industry Resource Provides App Developers Essential Guide To Massive Market Opportunities Across Alternative App Stores

  03-05-2017 13:02
  
  White paper outlines how app companies can increase reach, audience and revenues by harnessing new mobile app strategy platform and distribution LONDON – May 3, 2017 – Millions of mobile apps, billions of mobile devices and trillions of sensors that make up the Internet of Things are combining to boost the growth of the global App Economy, but app developers, brands and companies that limit distribution and promotion of their apps to the Apple iTunes...Source: RealWire
  
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• IBM deal puts final nail in the Verizon enterprise cloud coffin

  03-05-2017 11:58
  
  We’ve been expecting it for a while, but Verizon’s sale to IBM confirms the giant has officially given up on the cloud.
  Financials of the deal have not been revealed, but it ends a pretty dire couple of days for Verizon’s enterprise IT business. Following up the confirmation it would be selling 29 US data centres to Equinix, IBM will now purchase the cloud and managed hosting service, effectively putting an end to Verizon’s ambitions in the field.
  “Last week, Verizo
  
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• Open Hub Med: Mediterranean data traffic consortium data centre goes live

  03-05-2017 10:00
  
  London, UK, May 3, 2017 – Open Hub Med, the European technological consortium, has activated a data centre to make Italy the bridge between the internet networks of Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the rest of the world. One of the first members of the consortium, Interoute, has simultaneously activated its transmission systems present at the site, and is ready to receive requests for connectivity. Fastweb and Retelit are pending the activation...Source: RealWire
  
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• Data Science Could Boost Global Prepaid Market by USD $70 Billion

  03-05-2017 10:00
  
  Report Reveals Mobile Financial Services, Rooted in Data Science, Drive Digital Transformation by Increasing ARPU, Reducing Churn and Doubling Lifetime ValueSAN FRANCISCO, May 3, 2017 – A new report by Juvo, the pioneer in mobile Identity Scoring, reveals that data-science driven mobile financial services will significantly impact the global pre-paid market, increasing operator revenues by as much as USD $70 billion. The report, Data Science: Driving Mobile Operator Digital Transformation,
  
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• Sprint narrows Q4 loss but sheds postpaid users

  03-05-2017 02:00
  Sprint on Wednesday reported a smaller fiscal fourth-quarter net loss thanks to growth in equipment revenue; however, just like rival U.S. telcos AT&T and Verizon, the company also lost a considerable number of postpaid customers.Sprint ended March with 59.70 million mobile customers, up from 58…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Profiling prepaid users worth $70bn to telcos – Juvo

  03-05-2017 02:00
  Profiling prepaid customers and offering them mobile financial services could be worth a whopping $70 billion (€64.15 billion) to the world's operators, claimed Juvo on Wednesday.A report published by the company said operators stand to increase ARPU by 10%…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Equinix completes $3.6bn Verizon data centre deal

  03-05-2017 02:00
  Equinix this week completed its $3.6 billion acquisition of 29 Verizon data centres.The all-cash transaction, agreed in December, covers 24 individual sites spread across 15 metro areas in the U.S. and Latin America.When the deal was originally struck…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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