Telecom news

• Sky and Virgin team up to make super-targeted advertising platform

  15-06-2017 18:45
  
  Sky and Virgin Media have announced a new advertising partnership in an attempt to combat the drain of cash towards internet players such as Facebook and Google.
  The partnership itself will focus across both traditional broadcast and also the Video on Demand (VOD) services. Combining the two portfolios will allow advertisers to target a potential audience over time of more than 30 million viewers, which the newly formed pair claims put them on par with social media networks. By estimates of Stat
  
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• Huawei wins big at TechXLR8 awards

  15-06-2017 16:19
  
  Networking vendor Huawei prevailed in three categories at the inaugural TechXLR8 awards, which are designed to represent a cross-section of emerging technologies.
  The TechXLR8 event at the Excel is run by the KNect365 division of Informa and sees several of its telecoms and technology events hosted under one roof for the first time. Among the sectors covered are: IoT, 5G, VR & AR, Connected Cars, Cloud & DevOps, AI & Machine Learning, and Apps and it forms part of the even broader Lo
  
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• 5G will be the first wireless generation designed by the end-user

  15-06-2017 14:10
  
  Keynote speakers on the second day of 5G World 2017 agree that the nature of 5G will be determined by demand such as never before.
  Previous mobile technology generations have largely gone with a ‘build it and they will come’ philosophy. This probably hit its peak with the coincidence of the dotcom speculative bubble and the 3G spectrum auctions, which saw operators almost bankrupt themselves in their haste to jump on those bandwagons, but saw little return on that investment for year
  
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• Voice is a natural step in the technology evolution – Amazon

  15-06-2017 13:34
  
  If there is any doubt in which direction the technology world will head next, its being brushed aside by AWS; voice is the natural progression.
  Speaking at TechXLR8, Amazon’s David Low highlighted that the voice user interface will be the next step change in the technology roadmap, and it’s going to come sooner than we think.
  “Interfaces have followed a strange path over time,” said Low. “We all speak from birth, but as interfaces started they started from the other
  
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• "IoT Evangelist of the Year" prize for oneM2M's Omar Elloumi

  15-06-2017 10:56
  
  London, UK, 15 June 2017: The tireless work of oneM2M’s Technical Plenary Chair Dr. Omar Elloumi was last night paid tribute to, as he collected a prestigious “IoT Evangelist of the Year” industry award recognising his contribution to the progression of the Internet of Things (IoT). Held at IoT World Europe, in London, the TechXLR8 awards celebrate outstanding contributions in converging technology areas, covering industries such as 5G, virtual and augmented reality, the IoT, c
  
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• Lord Mendelsohn 'deeply concerned' by UK govt's lack of ambition

  15-06-2017 02:00
  A leading Labour peer on Thursday expressed concern that the U.K.'s competitive position, already at risk due to Brexit, could slip further if the government is not more aggressive about deploying ultrafast broadband.In a keynote at Total Telecom's Connected Britain event in London, Lord Mendelsohn, shadow minister for business…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EU roaming charges finally scrapped

  15-06-2017 02:00
  The European Union on Thursday heralded the long-awaited abolition of retail mobile roaming charges.From today, consumers travelling within the EU will pay the same rate for voice, messaging and data that they do in their home country."The end of roaming charges is a true European success story…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• European telecoms brace for losses as roaming charges end

  15-06-2017 01:01 via ft.com
  But dozens of operators have already applied to be exempt
  
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