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• BT may offer assets to trustees of pension scheme

  25-05-2017 21:54 via ft.com
  Telecoms group considers ways to reduce amount of cash it spends to plug deficit
  
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• Cellnex adds Switzerland to European tower crusade with Sunrise purchase

  25-05-2017 18:22
  
  Telecoms infrastructure company Cellnex has bought 2,239 towers in Switzerland from Sunrise, as part of an investment consortium.
  Sunrise is apparently strapped for cash so it packaged up its towers into a company called, appropriately enough, Swiss Towers AG, and flogged it to a consortium headed up by Cellnex. Swiss Life Asset Managers and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners are minority partners in the deal, which cost them €430 million.
  Cellnex was spun out of Spanish infrastructure compa
  
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• Red Hat buys its developers a present in the form of Codenvy

  25-05-2017 17:22
  
  Open source enterprise software vendor Red Hat has announced its first acquisition for a year in the form of cloud development startup Codenvy.
  Red Hat’s whole business model hinges on further developing open source software – principally Linux and its offshoots – to make it ‘enterprise grade’, i.e. finished products for a range of enterprise needs. Its fastest-growing vertical these days is telecoms and Red Hat seems strongly positioned to assist the industry with
  
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• EU urged to push ahead with telecoms deregulation

  25-05-2017 14:49 via ft.com
  Operators warn that proposed changes to plans put 5G investment at risk
  
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• Carrier-Grade vBRAS: Key to the Cloud MAN

  25-05-2017 14:21
  
  By Chen Chixin, ZTE Corporation
  In 2017, the wait-and-see period of NFV of the telecommunications industry comes to an end. NFV is substantively introduced. As the preferred scenario for the NFV transformation of fixed network services, the vBRAS separates the control plane from the forwarding plane to remedy the defects of traditional BRAS equipment, including the uneven resource usage, long deployment period of new services and heavy workload of decentralized configurations and O&M. Labora
  
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• Sony ditches ‘premium standard’ smartphone category

  25-05-2017 14:02
  
  Sony’s orderly retreat from the smartphone market continues with the discontinuation of the entire sub-flagship product category.
  This move is somewhat counter-intuitive since this category coincides with the price band that is experiencing the strongest growth in the smartphone market right now. In spite of that it seems this is the area in which Sony is struggling the most right now, perhaps because it lacks some of the manufacturing efficiencies and economies of scale enjoyed by the Chi
  
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• AT&T resorts to the connected fridge to show its IoT credentials

  25-05-2017 12:47
  
  Like junk food and the Daily Mail sidebar-of-shame, the connected fridge is a vice many just can’t resist indulging in from time to time.
  The latest company to weaken in the face of this superficially compelling consumer IoT use-case is giant US operator AT&T, which has got into bed with perky drinks company Red Bull to connect a million branded fridges worldwide and… keep them cold.
  Yes, you read correctly, thanks to the power of IoT we may now finally be free of the curse of w
  
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• Apple jumps on the 5G bandwagon

  25-05-2017 11:54
  
  Gadget giant Apple has asked the US regulator for a license to test the millimeter-wave technology expected to be a core element of 5G in devices.
  Light Reading reports that Apple wants to test on 28GHz and 39GHz spectrum as momentum grows in 5G research from the device perspective. It also notes that most US operators have holdings in those spectrum bands and that there is a growing global consensus that these will be key components to the high data-rate features of 5G, although many issues sti
  
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• Iskratel expands Partner Program with two new sign-ups

  25-05-2017 10:26
  
  Cologne, Germany, and Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 25, 2017 – Iskratel, the leading European infocommunications vendor and solutions provider, today announced it has signed contracts with two broadband specialists, HFC Technics and Tantec Digital, as part of its Partner Program. The initiative – which already involves a number of companies from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America – provides support across a range of areas to enable companies to grow into market leaders in emergi
  
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• AdaptiveMobile launches 'Global Brands Subscription Service', expanding Grey Route Controls product capabilities to a broader market

  25-05-2017 10:13
  New service enables carriers to recover lost grey route revenue without inspecting traffic DUBLIN and DALLAS, 25 May 2017 – AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile network security, today launched ‘Global Brands Subscription Service’. The expansion of their core Grey Route Controls service capabilities leverages AdaptiveMobile’s global intelligence to enable carriers to identify and block unwanted international inbound grey route messages from Global Brands while addre
  
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• Cisco leans on the edge of the IoT world with Microsoft partnership

  25-05-2017 09:54
  
  With IoT becoming increasingly congested there needs to be a strong USP to cut through the noise. Cisco’s latest plunge into IoT sees the power of edge computing as just that.
  When launching a new IoT platform which is already fashionably late to the party, as Cisco has just done, there needs to be a bit of a reason. Imagine turning up to a buddy’s birthday two hours late, but then unveiling a couple of bottles of Tequila; all would be forgiven. In simultaneously announcing a partner
  
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• Sunrise in CHF500m towers sale to Cellnex consortium

  25-05-2017 02:00
  Switzerland's Sunrise Communications this week sold its towers business to a consortium led by Spanish infrastructure firm Cellnex.Cellnex and its partners – Swiss Life Asset Managers and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• STC launches $500m VC fund

  25-05-2017 02:00
  Saudi Telecom Company (STC) on Thursday unveiled a $500 million (€445.6 million) venture capital fund, aimed at stimulating the Middle East's digital ecosystem.Called STV, it will be the largest technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Irish 5G spectrum auction raises €78m

  25-05-2017 02:00
  Ireland this week completed its 3.6-GHz auction, raising €78 million from five successful bidders, including a new player.The 350 MHz of nationwide spectrum was offered by regulator ComReg in lots spread over nine regions &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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