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• New iPhone set to stretch pricing and length of ownership

  07-09-2017 18:46
  Apple looks to offer premium version amid trend of users holding on to phones longer
  
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• Google licks lips at thought of DCI pie

  07-09-2017 18:35
  Google might be raising some eyebrows with its traditional business, but the Cloud team has started down an interesting route in the world of data centre interconnect.
  It has been a quiet couple of months for the Googlers, aside from tussles with the European Commission, but the Cloud team has been keeping busy and now we can see why. The most recent announcement from the team will see the launch of Dedicated Interconnect, adding an extra pillar to the ever-expanding business.
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• Huawei dangles $70 million co-marketing carrot at partners

  07-09-2017 18:18
  There’s nothing like a juicy bit of co-marketing to keep partners sweet so Huawei has is apportioning a big chunk of its new partner programme to just that.
  The announcement was made at Huawei’s big partner-fest – Huawei Connect 2017 – and is part of a $250 million partner programme aimed vendors, SIs and service providers of all kinds. As with all partner programmes the aim of this is to encourage the channel to incorporate Huawei stuff into its solutions and thus flog s
  
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• Fears about AI are a load of rubbish – Capgemini

  07-09-2017 17:10
  Capgemini has roared into the AI battle with new research which claims the human cost of automation is a myth.
  There might be a few people who will raise concern over such a claim, but in a survey of almost 1000 organizations with revenues of more than $500 million, who are implementing some sort of AI solution, there are nothing but benefits. Looking specifically at the numbers, 83% of respondent state AI has created extra roles within the organization, 10% have seen an uplift in sales, while 8
  
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• Samsung and KDDI break 5G speed record

  07-09-2017 14:07
  On the day the latest issue of the Guinness Book of Records is released, one of the most obscure is broken in Korea.
  The 5G speed record in this case is not data throughput but the ability of 5G to work with a fast-moving vehicle. Samsung and Japanese telco KDDI conducted a demo at Everland Speedway in South Korea in which a vehicle accelerated from 0 to 205 km/h and they still managed to zap it with lovely, high capacity mmWaves, apparently for the first time. They even managed to hand over bet
  
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• Nokia reckons digital transformation is still a buzzword worth hanging onto

  07-09-2017 13:01
  Nokia has announced a host of new toys for digital transformation enthusiasts, aimed at helping organizations create their own private wireless networks.
  The new capabilities focus around small cells, wifi connectivity, Multi-access Edge Computing and Cloud Packet Core capabilities, everything the digital-boffin will need to keep them quiet and entertained for hours; no temper-tantrums here.
  Firstly, Nokia’s Flexi Zone Citizen Band Radio Service (CBRS) small cells will allow companies in t
  
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• Ericsson makes major autonomous driving move with Zenuity partnership

  07-09-2017 12:55
  The Ericsson IoT Accelerator platform will be used to power the Zenuity Connected Cloud, a white-label autonomous driving cloud solution for car-makers.
  In a great illustration of how megatrends such as 5G and IoT are creating new opportunities for the telco industry, Ericsson is effectively getting into bed with a major car-maker and the biggest car-safety component supplier. That’s because Zenuity was created earlier this year as a joint-venture between Volvo and Autoliv specifically to
  
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• A little less conversation, a little more action please!

  07-09-2017 12:55
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Harsha Gowda, Vice President of Service Transformation and Strategy at Colt Technology Services, looks at some of the ways telcos can improve customer experience.
  It is widely acknowledged that the telecoms industry needs to become more customer-oriented. Indeed, earlier this year regulator Ofcom even published a tool to help customers find out just how bad
  
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• What we learnt at CloudSec: life, death and Twitter

  07-09-2017 12:44
  Before you get too excited about the down and dirty world of cloud security, we should warn you this is more of a light-hearted report on the quirky things we picked up at CloudSec.
  First of all, let’s start in the world of social media and artificial intelligence. This is a bit of a dark and weird one so if you are a bit overwhelmed by some of the tech quirks of the world, you might want to scroll down a couple of paragraphs.
  Do you know what happens to your social media accounts when you
  
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• 365squared's A2P solution achieves ISO 27001 certification

  07-09-2017 11:16
  Malta, 7 September 2017 - 365squared, a premier value-added services enabler to the mobile network operator (MNO) community, today announced it has been awarded the ISO 27001 certification, the international standard for information security management systems (ISMS). By choosing to implement the recommendations from the standards program, this achievement strengthens 365squared’s position as a trusted value-added services partner, offering best-in-class, innovative SMS solutions to mobile
  
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• Vodafone sells down Vodacom stake to meet stock market regs

  07-09-2017 02:00
  Vodafone on Wednesday announced that it has sold a 5.2% stake in Vodacom to institutional investors, thereby meeting the minimum free float requirements of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telenor Bank gets new leader

  07-09-2017 02:00
  Telenor Microfinance Bank has a new CEO in the shape of Shahid Mustafa, who returns to the company he helped to found more than a decade ago.He replaces Ali Chaudhry…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei sees cloud convergence coming

  07-09-2017 02:00
  Huawei is making a serious play for the cloud space.The Chinese vendor made a series of announcements in Shanghai this week, outlining its ambitions to become a sizeable presence in the global cloud market, including a commitment to spend US$500 million over five years on the development of cloud services.Meanwhile, news outlets were buzzing with the news that Huawei aims to become one of the world's top five cloud computing companies in the coming years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bankers pitching debt financing to Altice for Charter deal

  07-09-2017 02:00
  There was a further indication this week that expansionist cable operator Altice could make a move for Charter Communications, with Reuters reporting that bankers are working on debt financings of around US$70 billion…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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