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• Amazon grocery offensive continues with Alexa Ocado win

  29-08-2017 18:03
  Supermarkets be afraid, be very afraid.
  With the completion of its $13.7 billion acquisition of US organic food grocery chain Whole Foods Market, Amazon has wasted little time in unveiling a raft of aggressive moves apparently designed to challenge the traditional supermarket sector.
  Here in the UK online grocer Ocado has announced it will be the first national supermarket to launch an app for the Amazon Alexa voice UI. Now you can say things like “Alexa, ask Ocado to add tea to my basket,
  
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• Apple and Accenture announce alluring alliance

  29-08-2017 17:46
  Apple and Accenture have jumped into bed with each other to create a new digital agency which will help customers design business solutions for iOS.
  It’s a relatively simple idea; the digital economy is growing and people want to make money off it, but they don’t know how. In theory, when you take experts from one of the largest business consultancies in the world, and put them together with Apple employees, they should be able to make your idea more compatible with the iPhone or iPa
  
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• Huawei to Help Kenya’s Safaricom Rapidly Deploy an FTTH Network to Greatly Shorten ROI Period

  29-08-2017 15:53
  Huawei announces that it is working with Kenya’s Safaricom to deploy a fiber to the home (FTTH) network. Safaricom adopts Huawei’s end-to-end (E2E) FTTH solution to rapidly deploy the FTTH network and expand its capability to new home broadband services.
  Kenya has a steadily developing economy, but its fixed broadband penetration rate is lower than 1%, failing to meet the network requirements of home and enterprise users. Safaricom plans to enter the home broadband market. However, i
  
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• China Mobile and Huawei to Accelerate the Development of the Cloud-based CU-Separated BNG Architecture Standard

  29-08-2017 15:11
  In the recent Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 99th meeting, China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI) and Huawei jointly submitted multiple proposals for a cloud-based CUseparated broadband network gateway (BNG) architecture standard; C stands for the control plane and U the user plane, or forwarding plane. These proposals attracted wide interest from the experts in attendance from all over the world.
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• China Mobile and Huawei take another small step with Massive MIMO

  29-08-2017 13:51
  China Mobile and Huawei have jointly announced the completion of the second phase of Massive MIMO research, a project with the objective of 1.09 Gbps cell throughput.
  The field trials, focused on 4.5G Evolution in which spatial multiplexing of Massive MIMIO, used on commercial UEs, with the pair claiming they had achieved 1 Gbps cell throughput with 20 MHz TDD spectrum.
  Huawei believes such a breakthrough will go a long way in aiding the development of 3D beamforming, accurate channel calibratio
  
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• Breaking the bottleneck of counter fraud management

  29-08-2017 13:43
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Joseph George, Senior Vice President of Fraud & Security at Mobileum, argues operators need to revise their approach to countering fraud.
  We live in a golden age of data. For operators looking to counter fraud, there has never been more actionable information available at their fingertips, than there is now.
  In theory, this is an amazing advantage for commun
  
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• New ADLV Team Eyes Evolving Opportunities Including GDPR

  29-08-2017 12:57
  Several new faces have joined the Association for Driving Licence Verification (www.ADLV.co.uk) board. The changes, made in accordance with the Association’s founding charter, see Licence Check’s Terry Hiles elected as Deputy Chair to support the existing Chair, Malcolm Maycock of Licence Bureau. Chris Thornton of DriveTech joins as Treasurer and Mark Sugden of GBG takes over as Secretary and Head of Marketing. Kevin Curtis of Driving Monitor remains as Technical Director. The new te
  
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• Fitbit finally launches a smartwatch in bid to reclaim wearables crown

  29-08-2017 12:53
  Long-time wearables king Fitbit has belatedly got into the smartwatch game in a bid to fight back against Apple and Xiaomi.
  As you would expect, the Fitbit Ionic comes at the smartwatch category with a distinctly health-and-fitness bias. A prominent feature is an SpO2 (peripheral oxygen saturation) sensor, which can apparently tell how much oxygen there is in your blood. This seems to be the sort of thing health/fitness fanatics like to obsess over so it’s likely to be a crowd-pleaser.
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• Ericsson, Qualcomm and Verizon team up for CBRS carrier aggregation trial

  29-08-2017 12:47
  It’s a trio which we have been hearing a lot from recently, but Ericsson, Verizon and Qualcomm have teamed up again to announce what they claim is another first for the US.
  This time the trio opened up their warm embrace to bring Federated Wireless into the fold as the team used the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band 48 spectrum in an LTE Advanced carrier aggregation demonstration.
  “The use of CBRS spectrum greatly advances our work in emerging spectrum bands.  Verizon
  
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• Vodafone begs Indian government not to screw it again

  29-08-2017 12:14
  Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao has written to India’s government, pleading with ministers to stand strong under pressure from Reliance Jio to reduce Mobile Termination charges (MTC).
  Executives at Reliance Jio have been seeking a reduction in the charges after it essentially accused incumbents who benefit from the charges of holding the industry to ransom. In the letter to Indian ministers, Colao seems worried they might actually be considering a change to the charges set-up, which would pro
  
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• LINX announce price cuts of up to 40% on port fees at IXManchester

  29-08-2017 11:30
  LINX, the leading European provider of Internet interconnect services, announced at the LINX98 member conference on 21st August that it is to significantly reduce 10GE and 100GE port fees at its regional exchange, IXManchester. These are to come into effect from 1st October 2017.Monthly 10GE port prices will be cut by 22.8% to £270 with 100GE fees reduced by over a third to £1350 (39.3%). In addition, the first 1GE port at IXManchester is available...Source: RealWire
  
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• oneM2M smart city data chosen to power Hackathon at IEEE event

  29-08-2017 10:25
  Data from real-world applications will be used by app developers, product managers and solution architects from across the IoT industryBerlin, Germany, 29 August 2017: Critical data from oneM2M’s successful smart city deployments will be used in the WISE-IoT Consortium’s IoT4Tourism Hackathon. The Hackathon will be held at the IEEE ICCE Berlin Conference, in conjunction with the IFA consumer electronics fair, which will be held September 3-4, 2017.The test bed data – taken from
  
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• ZTE hires ex-govt official to smooth way in US

  29-08-2017 02:00
  ZTE has appointed a new executive to manage its dealings with the U.S. government, and as a former government employee, the newcomer brings some valuable insight to the role.Angela Simpson will serve as vice president of U…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Saudi Telecom in talks on Turk Telekom takeover

  29-08-2017 02:00
  Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has emerged as the most likely player to acquire a majority stake in Turk Telekom, but the Turkish government could also step in to take control of the operator…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Hutch disputes €4bn India tax demand

  29-08-2017 02:00
  The Indian government is still trying to boost its coffers by generating tax revenue from the sale of Hutchison Essar to Vodafone a decade ago.The country fired its latest salvo earlier this month, sending CK Hutchison a penalty notice for 79 billion rupees (&euro…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Elisa to complete Tampere 5G build by early-2018

  29-08-2017 02:00
  Elisa on Tuesday detailed plans to roll out a "5G-ready" network covering the city of Tampere over the next six months.The Finnish telco said it will begin construction in September with a view to finishing the the build in February next year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti closes 4G spectrum deal

  29-08-2017 02:00
  Bharti Airtel has closed the acquisition of Tikona Digital Networks, a move that will give it access to spectrum and cell sites across five of India's telecoms circles.India's biggest mobile operator announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tikona Digital's shares and that the unit has become a wholly…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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