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• WhatsApp mulls business revenue streams

  05-09-2017 19:28
  Facebook-owned IM service WhatsApp reckons it might finally be able to make some money by charging businesses for clever access to their punters.
  Apparently quite a lot of people already use WhatsApp around the world to interact with shopkeepers and other relatively simple business transactions such as placing orders, but the company reckons that experience can be improved. So it’s going to be spending the next few months WhatsApp is going to focus on special features for this sort of thin
  
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• Huawei talks up cloud efforts at Shanghai announcement fest

  05-09-2017 17:10
  There’s nothing Huawei likes more than a great, big corporate event and at Huawei Connect 2017 in Shanghai it made a bunch of cloud-related announcements.
  The stated theme of the event is ‘grow with the cloud’ and seems to be a prolonged exercise in bigging-up Huawei’s cloud strategy. The opening keynote exploring this theme was delivered by Rotating CEO Guo Ping, in which he sought to assure the assembled partners and customers what a great job Huawei is doing in the who
  
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• MWC Americas shines spotlight on latest progress on IoT standardisation efforts

  05-09-2017 16:14
  Demonstrations and presentations from oneM2M members will show how interoperability challenges are being addressedSan Francisco, CA. 05 September 2017: The growing momentum behind a horizontal, standards-based approach to further evolve the Internet of Things (IoT) will be on show at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Americas, with numerous oneM2M member companies speaking and exhibiting at the event.According to Gartner, there will be 8.4 billion connected devices in use by the end of 2017 – bu
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER to launch solutions for network densification on the road to 5G at Mobile World Congress Americas

  05-09-2017 16:00
  Solutions underline HUBER+SUHNER’s expertise as a physical layer expert for network architecture evolutionHerisau, 5 September 2017 - HUBER+SUHNER, leading manufacturer of components and systems for electrical and optical connectivity, will unveil its solutions for Centralized RAN (C-RAN) at this year’s Mobile World Congress Americas in San Francisco.HUBER+SUHNER’s booth (#1156) at the event will focus on the forthcoming network topology changes necessary to prepare for the con
  
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• Zylpha's New Letterhead Software Chosen by Tickle Hall Cross Solicitors

  05-09-2017 13:53
  Letterhead software from Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) has been chosen by solicitors Tickle Hall Cross for use with its SolCase case management software. The newly available solution enables the practice to automatically add the correct legal letterhead to word document based correspondence.As a leading practice in the St Helens and Prescot areas, Tickle Hall Cross supplies a wide range of services including: Conveyancing, Family Law, Business Services, Wills and Probate. With many different departmen
  
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• Three formally launches its spectrum auction legal challenge

  05-09-2017 13:39
  Having threatened it for ages, UK operator Three has finally filed its demand for a judicial review of Ofcom’s decision on UK spectrum caps in the coming 5G auctions.
  Back in July Ofcom decided to cap the amount of usable mobile spectrum owned by any one operator at 37%. Three, which currently only owns 15%, wanted that cap to be 30% so it was pissed-off by the decision and hasn’t stopped moaning about since.
  Meanwhile EE, which had initially indicated it was fine with the restrictio
  
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• Be honest about digital transformation; it’s a risky business – BT Security CEO

  05-09-2017 13:39
  The risks are big, but the opportunities are even bigger; that’s why only the bravest are making the most of the digital economy to date.
  Digital transformation has been used so often, by so many people, the phrase itself has almost lost all meaning. And this is perhaps one of the problems organizations are facing today; the overuse of the phrase has meant people do not have a clear enough understanding of what it encompasses. It has become generic, transparent and glorified, but the under
  
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• Ericsson augments 5G platform with FDD and Massive MIMO support

  05-09-2017 12:03
  Kit vendor Ericsson has revealed the first major additions to the ‘5G platform’ it launched earlier this year, featuring its first FDD radio to support Massive MIMO.
  The AIR 3246 is being positioned as a piece of 5G future-proofing thanks to its support of both LTE and technologies expected to form part of 5G NR. Support for FDD is, of course, a key part of this as much of the world’s mobile networking uses that technology. The first lot of products launched with 5G branding wa
  
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• Prysmian supports ultra-broadband development in Italy

  05-09-2017 11:26
  Partnership renewed with Telecom Italia for the supply of optical cables and accessoriesFibre for next-generation networks will be manufactured in BattipagliaMilan, 05 September 2017 - Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has renewed its partnership with Telecom Italia through three different one-year contracts for the supply of fibre optic cables and connectivity solutions. The products supplied will be used to implement the telephone operator’s n
  
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• TalkTalk looks to hang up on its mobile business

  05-09-2017 06:00
  New strategy could see it return to its roots as budget internet provider
  
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• Vodafone NZ working on float

  05-09-2017 02:00
  Vodafone New Zealand is pushing ahead with a share listing, despite the collapse of its proposed merger deal with Sky, according to a local news outlet.The telecoms operator has engaged the services of Deutsche Bank to advise it on the float and is in the process of setting up meetings for a roadshow designed to test institutional investor appetite for such a move…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telstra names new retail head as Kevin Russell departs

  05-09-2017 02:00
  Telstra on Tuesday announced the appointment of company insider Vicki Brady as its new group executive for consumer and small business, replacing Kevin Russell, who leaves the telco after just 18 months in the job.The Australian operator gave no reason for Russell's departure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SK Telecom lowers latency on LTE

  05-09-2017 02:00
  SK Telecom on Monday took a step forward in its plans to develop real-time services when it announced that it has reduced latency over LTE to just 2 milliseconds.The South Korean operator said that in partnership with Nokia it was able to demonstrate 2…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Chile OKs AT&T/Time Warner deal with conditions

  05-09-2017 02:00
  Chile's competition watchdog has given the go-ahead for AT&T's planned acquisition of Time Warner, subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions.The Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE) approved the US$85.4 billion takeover deal AT&T announced in October last year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Australia to sell 5G spectrum with no ownership caps this year

  05-09-2017 02:00
  The Australian government will allow mobile operators to bid for 5G spectrum later this year without placing limits on the amount a single player is permitted to own, the country's comms minister revealed on Monday.An upcoming multi-band spectrum auction scheduled for late 2017 will include airwaves in the 3.4 GHz band that Australia…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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