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• Openreach pulls the plug on dark fibre access

  15-08-2017 18:47
  Following a recent ruling overturning an Ofcom dark fibre access directive, Openreach has decided to call the whole thing off.
  A year ago Ofcom decided one of the ways to improve competition in the UK broadband market was to force BT (specifically wholesale arm Openreach) to make its fibre infrastructure available to third parties in raw, unmanaged form, otherwise known as dark fibre. Predictably Openreach thought this was a bad idea and referred the case to the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
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• NewVoiceMedia appoints President and Chief Operating Officer to strengthen U.S. presence

  15-08-2017 17:53
  LONDON, 15 August 2017 - NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of cloud contact centre and inside sales technology that enables businesses to have more successful conversations, today announced that it has appointed Dennis Fois as President and Chief Operating Officer to strengthen its executive team.Dennis’s responsibilities include global leadership of NewVoiceMedia’s marketing, product marketing and customer success functions. He brings more than 25 years of experience in inter
  
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• NEC/Netcracker, Red Hat, Juniper and Dell EMC combine for Malaysian virtualization platform

  15-08-2017 17:19
  NEC and Netcracker have announced a new tie up with Red Hat, Juniper Networks and Dell EMC to offer an end-to-end multivendor 5G-ready virtualization platform in Malaysia.
  The new collaboration will see NEC and Netcracker position itself as a full SDN/NFV solution provider, offering services to both ISPs and enterprise customers. The pair claim the proposition will allow them to design and deploy a network architecture concepts, able to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into bu
  
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• Aussies show us how it’s done in the broadband world

  15-08-2017 16:24
  Just to put the sluggishness of the UK into perspective, Australian operator nbn has exceeded targets to bring connectivity to surfers, avid BBQers and dingos everywhere.
  In reporting its annual numbers, the number of number of premises ready for ‘fast’ broadband service almost doubled from 2.9 million to 5.7 million, exceeding the target for the year by 300,000. With the increase in end users, revenue more than doubled from $421 million to $1 billion, up on the $900 million which th
  
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• Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei all get a piece of $650m Mobily network upgrade gig

  15-08-2017 14:25
  Saudi Arabian operator Mobily has recruited a dream team of networking vendors to upgrade its mobile network over the next three years.
  Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei are all getting a piece of the action, although it has not been disclosed how the three fierce competitors are going to coexist during the project. The total amount Mobily (otherwise known as Etihad Etisalat) expects to shell out for the project is SAR 2.4 billion (~$650 million), for which it doesn’t expect to need fresh debt.
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• Qualcomm tries to muscle in on VR euphoria

  15-08-2017 13:10
  Qualcomm has tried to forget its legal woes for the moment with the launch of a Snapdragon 835 VR Development Kit, which targets the next breakthrough in the VR world.
  It’s probably a sensible move from the chipmaker which hasn’t really made much noise in the VR world to date. Instead of playing catch-up with the current trends and developments, it is looking further forward, creating a foundation for the next breakthrough in VR; precise, low-latency 6 degrees of freedom (6-DoF) moti
  
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• Apple and Google’s squalid symbiosis revealed

  15-08-2017 12:21
  An Apple analyst reckons Google will pay Apple $3 billion to keep its position as the default search engine on its devices this year.
  A research note written by respected Apple analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford Bernstein was seen by CNBC. In it he noted that Apple paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 and reckons that will have ramped up to $3 billion this year. He also opined that this may well have accounted for a quarter of all Apple’s operating profit growth over the last couple of years.
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• AWS beefs up security with a new bouncer named Macie

  15-08-2017 12:12
  AWS has launched a new machine learning-based security service, which it claims will help customers identify anomalies inside their network.
  The launch comes only a month after its S3 storage hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, as Verizon customer data was left on an unsecured Amazon database, accessible by anyone who knew how to. It is highly unlikely this offering was developed as a result of this story, but it is a nice coincidence.
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• Orange Poland Future-proofs BSS with Virtualized Policy and Charging from Openet

  15-08-2017 10:00
  Openet’s virtualized policy and charging solution with pre-packaged use cases provided the foundation that Orange Poland needed to get new services to market fastDUBLIN, Ireland – 15th August, 2017 – Openet, a global leader in the supply of digital BSS (business support systems) and Customer Engagement solutions, today announced that Orange Poland has implemented virtualized versions of its Policy Manager and Evolved Charging solutions.As the leading communications service prov
  
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• ETL Systems supplies equipment for new SES gateways

  15-08-2017 10:00
  New Ka-band and Ku-band gateways utilise tailored ETL solutionsMadley, UK. 15 August 2017: ETL Systems, a global designer and manufacturer of RF distribution equipment for satellite communications, has provided essential equipment for ground stations and gateways to support three new SES satellites. ETL Systems supplied a large amount of the RF hardware required for the six Ka-band and nine Ku-band gateways and ground stations, which are located around the world. These include four ground statio
  
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• RCom swings to €162m fiscal Q1 loss

  15-08-2017 02:00
  Reliance Communications this week revealed it swung to a fiscal first quarter loss, as India's relentless price war took its toll.Revenue in the three months to 30 June plunged 33% year-on-year to 35.91 billion rupees (&euro…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Openreach scraps dark fibre access launch

  15-08-2017 02:00
  Openreach on Tuesday scrapped plans to offer dark fibre access (DFA) from 1 October, after the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) earlier ruled that regulator Ofcom made mistakes when it ordered the U.K. incumbent to make it available.As part of its Business Connectivity Market Review (BCMR), Ofcom concluded that BT's infrastructure arm should be required to offer DFA in areas of the country where it holds significant market power (SMP)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Mobily signs €547m worth of network deals with Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia

  15-08-2017 02:00
  Saudi Arabia's Mobily this week signed framework deals with Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia worth a total of 2.4 billion riyals (€547…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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