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• Half of UK telephone kiosks to be scrapped

  14-08-2017 18:44
  About 20,000 little-used phone boxes to be axed as mobile phones destroy business
  
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• Convenience of public phone boxes near end of line

  14-08-2017 18:44
  About 20,000 little-used booths to be axed as mobiles reduce their relevance
  
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• Interdigital claims first trial of mobile edge computing using 5G architecture

  14-08-2017 17:51
  Networking tech outfit Interdigital has announced what it claims is the first mobile edge computing 5G network architecture trial in Bristol, UK.
  The joint-public consumer trial was conducted in partnership with Bristol is Open and independent TV production company CTVC. It took the form of a smartphone-driven ‘treasure hunt’ in the centre of Bristol in which participants had to solve puzzles formed in part from live video.
  The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate improvements
  
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• The app economy is real, because our time is just too important

  14-08-2017 17:48
  Many famous faces have decorated our notes over the years, but just like the cheque, cold, hard cash is living on borrowed time.
  That is of course a prediction from those in the industry who have a vested interest in the digital economy. Bias will be present and propaganda flying, but the statistics are difficult to argue with. Globally, in-app advertising is predicted to reach $201 billion by 2021, and in Europe, 88% have used a mobile device to make a payment. On both the consumer and vendor s
  
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• Telefónica reportedly fancies launching its own video streaming service

  14-08-2017 14:24
  A report from Spain asserts that telco group Telefónica is looking at expanding the distribution of its Movistar+ pay-TV platform to other European countries.
  The scoop comes courtesy of Spanish broadsheet El Pais, which says Telefónica wants to convert Movistar+ into a Netflix-style streaming service that it can offer thought the standard online streaming model. The report claims that the plans are restricted to other European markets for now, as opposed to Latin America where Tel
  
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• TIM succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome

  14-08-2017 13:54
  Telecom Italia has sent a document to the Italian government stating it does not believe Vivendi has been up to anything dodgy during its pursuit of influence at the telco.
  The Italian government is currently investigating the situation to see whether the French group has broken the law in terms of notifying the government with any significant changes at strategic assets. Vivendi has owned a 24.9% stake in TIM since March 2006, an amount just below the threshold to force a formal take-over bid i
  
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• Huawei goes bear hunting at the 5G frontier

  14-08-2017 13:49
  With the 5G world looming ever larger on the horizon, Huawei has launched X-Haul, a solution to tackle the complications imposed on bearer network bandwidth, latency, connections and O&M.
  The launch itself seems to be focused around the idea of flexibility and agility on the network. Essentially, creating a proposition which allows for multiple use-cases and alterations dependent on customer demand, whether that would be 3G/4G/5G multi-service bearer or IoT, for instance.
  “The 5G era i
  
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• An intelligent multi-access core is central to a global interconnected fabric

  14-08-2017 13:40
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Rob McManus, Senior Product Marketing Manager, IP and Optical Networks at Nokia, explores the potential benefits of MP-TCP hybrid access.
  Communication service providers (CSPs) face significant new pressures on many fronts, often including ambitious broadband mandates set by governments worldwide. They will need to upgrade nearly every aspect of their operations
  
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• OpenAI bot defeats top players of biggest e-sports game – Dota 2

  14-08-2017 12:42
  An organisation devoted to the development of artificial intelligence has created a bot programme so sophisticated it beat some of the world’s best Dota 2 players.
  For anyone unfamiliar with Dota 2 it’s an evolution of the Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients, now owned by games developer and platform company Valve. It’s a real-time strategy game in which you take control of a hero whose powers increase over the course of the game according to choices made by the player. The
  
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• But what about the human cost of automation?

  14-08-2017 12:32
  New research from recruitment agency Robert Half has outlined the jobs which are under threat from automation, but when are we actually going to talk seriously about the dark side of AI?
  Now we’re not talking about Arnie coming back from the future, blowing up buildings and dropping memorable one-liners, but every step made towards a more efficient AI application is another step for someone towards the dole queue. The replacement of humans by machines is nothing new, but this revolution is
  
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• Telefonica mulls Netflix-like service

  14-08-2017 02:00
  Telefonica is preparing to launch a subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service in a bid to extend the reach of its growing catalogue of original programming to new markets…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NZ regulator warns telcos over fair trade violations

  14-08-2017 02:00
  New Zealand's competition watchdog on Monday warned four mobile operators over possible violations of the country's Fair Trade Act.The New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) has written to incumbent Spark, Vodafone, 2degrees and MyRepublic to inform them that they have engaged in conduct that is likely to have broken the rules…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Unicom issues H1 revenue warning

  14-08-2017 02:00
  China Unicom has warned that first half revenue will come in lower compared to last year, but profit will surge by almost 70%.In a statement late last week, the operator said it expects revenue for the first six months of the year to reach 138.2 billion yuan (€17.56 billion), down 1.5% from a year ago. China Unicom said the decline was attributable to lower equipment sales and flat fixed broadband revenue…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT investor calls for CEO to go

  14-08-2017 02:00
  BT CEO Gavin Patterson should be replaced by someone who has a background in regulation and engineering.This is the opinion of one of the U.K. incumbent's major investors, who said in a Telegraph report on Sunday that in hindsight, Patterson was not the right person for the job. According to the report, the unnamed investor is among BT's top 20 shareholders…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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