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• BT demos ‘hyperfast’ broadband, ‘pre-standard 5G’ and SDN for live video

  12-06-2017 20:43
  
  UK operator BT has been showing off the latest inventions at its Adastral Park labs, with a focus on fixed-line performance.
  Arguably the headline piece of wizardry is the coining of the term ‘hyperfast’ to describe broadband that’s even faster than ultrafast and loads faster than superfast. In this case we’re talking about test equipment designed to replicate a real-life FTTP connection, which managed to yield a data rate of no less than 100 Gbps. It was developed in par
  
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• Altice plans to raise $1.4bn with US listing

  12-06-2017 19:47 via ft.com
  Investors would have no voting rights in debt-laden cable company
  
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• The 5G finish line is so close you can almost touch it – Nokia

  12-06-2017 18:33
  
  If the road to 4G was a complicated one it appears things might be a little different in the build up to 5G according to Hossein Moiin, CTO of Nokia’s Mobile Networks business group.
  With anticipation for the super speed networks starting to hit euphoric levels, the small and steady incremental steps towards 5G are bringing the finishing line to within touching distance. Business cases for the technology are beginning to ramp up, and standards dangerously close to completion, surely it won
  
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• Is untapped data the biggest missed opportunity for telcos?

  12-06-2017 14:19
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Ken Parnham, General Manager Europe at Near, looks at how telcos can make better use of the huge amounts of data generated by smartphone users.
  Much has changed since Motorola first made mobile handsets accessible to the masses in 1984. Smartphones now account for over half of global mobile subscriptions and 8.4 billion connected devices are expected to be
  
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• Huawei reckons it has overtaken Apple as no 2 smartphone vendor

  12-06-2017 14:05
  
  A Huawei exec has claimed that the company sold more smartphones than Apple last December, thus overtaking it to the global number two spot.
  In a report from the Indian press agency PTI Huawei India Director for Product Centre Allen Wang said ““Huawei overtook Apple in global sales volume share in December.” He also reckons the margin was considerable, with Huawei claiming a 13.2% share, compared to Apple’s 12%. If accurate this is also significant because December is usu
  
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• Nokia takes fixed-line fight to Huawei in its own backyard

  12-06-2017 13:25
  
  Nokia has taken another step towards a face-off with Huawei, collecting a useful little customer win in the shape of China Mobile.
  The announcement builds on an already existing relationship between the two, and will aim to extend ultra-broadband access and intelligent home services to homes across China. As part of the agreement, Nokia’s optical network terminal (ONT) home gateway will support China Mobile’s intelligent home services, while its home gateway will be deployed in fiber
  
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• Intel tries to menace latest Windows on ARM initiative

  12-06-2017 12:53
  
  Microsoft wants to run full Windows on ARM processors using an x86 emulator but Intel is suggesting that may be illegal.
  Windows on ARM-based chips, which run pretty much every mobile device, has been an aspiration across the tech industry for years. For a long time the ‘Wintel’ symbiotic relationship between Microsoft and Intel meant the latter was disinclined to facilitate such a move, but times have changed.
  At the recent Computex show a few PC vendors announced plans to launch Wi
  
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• Europe pokes its nose into Qualcomm’s $47bn NXP purchase

  12-06-2017 12:46
  
  Moving at the breakneck speed which we have all learned to endure, the European Commission has decided to put Qualcomm’s $47 billion acquisition of NXP under the microscope.
  The initial move was announced back in October, seeming a play from Qualcomm to become a bigger player in the IoT and NFC segments, though we have been scratching our heads, trying to figure out what the European Commission (hereafter known as the Gaggle of Red-tapers) has been doing for the past six months.
  “We
  
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• Dixons Carphone and Sprint walk away from joint venture

  12-06-2017 12:43
  
  Dixons Carphone and Sprint have announced the end of a joint-venture, with the US telco taking full control of the initiative.
  The UK group entered into an agreement with Sprint in 2015 open and manage a number of Sprint-branded stores in the US, as part of wider expansion plans of the business. Dixon’s has cited a challenging and changing mobile landscape in the US for the exit.
  The initial idea was deemed a success, with the experimental 20 stores being expanded to 500, though following
  
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• Cisco includes Italtel’s enterprise SDN application in official catalogue

  12-06-2017 12:19
  
  The first time for an Italtel product to be part of Cisco’s Global Pricing List (GPL) Milan, 12 June 2017 – Italtel, a multinational company operating in the Information and Technology sector, with a strong focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), SDN/NFV, cyber security, analytics and all-IP communication solutions, today announced its Netwrapper application has been included in the official Cisco GPL catalogue. Netwrapper is the outcome of the strong cooperation between Italtel and..
  
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• Details of UK IoT transport initiative - and how oneM2M standards accelerated project - to be revealed

  12-06-2017 11:16
  
  Alan Carlton, of InterDigital and oneM2M, to present on panel of industry experts at IoT World Europe, in LondonLondon, UK, 12 June 2017: The UK is taking a leading role in delivering real world Internet of Things (IoT) applications, with initiatives such as InterDigital’s oneTRANSPORT project providing a blueprint for future smart city applications. The role of oneM2M, the global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and the IoT, in the project will be discussed by...Source: R
  
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• Technology giants among big name exhibitors as ECOC Exhibition 2017 expands due to popular demand

  12-06-2017 11:00
  
  Fibre’s role in key industry trends such as 5G and the IoT will be highlightedLondon, 12 June 2017: The latest fibre optic solutions for emerging technologies such as 5G and the Internet of Things will be on show at this year’s European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) Exhibition. Key industry names such as Finisar, Fujitsu, Huawei, Lumentum, Sumitomo and Viavi will join more than 300 other exhibitors in Gothenburg, Sweden, with event organiser Nexus Media...Source: RealWi
  
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• Sprint buys Dixons Carphone out of US retail JV

  12-06-2017 02:00
  Sprint late last week agreed to buy Dixons Carphone's 50% share of their U.S. retail joint venture.Sprint and Dixons Carphone's Connected World Services (CWS) division agreed in July 2015 to open and manage a number of Sprint Connect…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EU's transnational OTT rules set for Q1 2018

  12-06-2017 02:00
  The EU's bid to give consumers access to their OTT content services while abroad has taken another step forward, after the plan was approved by the EU Council.The rules are due to come into force during the first quarter of 2018…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EC probes Qualcomm's NXP acquisition

  12-06-2017 02:00
  The European Commission late last week opened an in-depth investigation into Qualcomm's $47 billion (€42.96 billion) acquisition of NXP.The antitrust watchdog is concerned that the tie…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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