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• Who are the haves and have nots of the internet?

  18-09-2017 18:13
  The UN has released its latest report regarding the presence and influence of the internet around the world, and some of the statistics are a little bit surprising.
  Let’s start at the top of the list with internet penetration. Western Europe tops the charts with 79.6%, then comes CIS with 67.7% and the Americas with 65.9%. These three regions sit above the world average, which is perhaps unsurprising, with Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa sitting below at 43.9%, 43.7% and 21.8%.
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• Telecom Italia: call waiting

  18-09-2017 17:47
  Breaking up looks sensible on paper; in practice it would be a mistake
  
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• EU-US Privacy Shield faces its moment of truth

  18-09-2017 17:19
  While you were tucking into your ham sarnie European Commission Věra Jourová touched down in the US to start the first annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield.
  It’s the reason why the internet giants of Silicon Valley can do business in the European bloc, or at least the reason why it can be done this easily. It’s the mechanism which allows these companies to move personal information outside of the European Union. It is the only thing which maintains the privacy a
  
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• Vodafone’s European fibre push continues with Spanish gigabit first

  18-09-2017 16:42
  Vodafone Spain has finally unveiled its shiny new gigabit fibre offering, almost two years after starting work on it.
  The announcement comes hot on the heels of the announcement of a €2 billion investment by Vodafone in fibre for Germany. At the end of 2015 Vodafone unveiled a network expansion programme featuring a bunch of European countries, including Spain. The announcement of availability, tariffs, etc indicates it’s work there is done.
  The new Spanish services will be available
  
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• Calls for industry-wide IoT collaboration sparked at oneM2M Industry Day

  18-09-2017 14:24
  IoT dream may not be realised without a harmonised solution that takes all technologies into accountMemphis, TN, 18 September 2017: Organisations working to standardise and interoperate the Internet of Things (IoT) need to significantly increase collaboration if ubiquitous connectivity is to become successful on a mass market scale. That was the message delivered at oneM2M’s first North American Industry Day held in Memphis, TN.Representatives from several global standards organisations sh
  
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• Swiss private equity firm bags UK MVNO Lebara

  18-09-2017 14:10
  Swiss investor Palmarium has acquired UK-based MVNO Lebara Group for an undisclosed fee.
  The acquisition, which was made through the VIEO subsidiary will see Lebara founder and current CEO Ratheesan Yoganathan, as well as the rest of the existing management team will stand-down.
  “Lebara is a vibrant and exciting growth business with a great deal of potential,” said Graeme Oxby, who will head up the new leadership team as CEO. “I’m excited to be at the helm, and believe th
  
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• Why assurance and analytics are crucial for 5G and microservices

  18-09-2017 14:05
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Scott Sumner, Director of Business Analytics at Accedian, insists that future telecoms offerings are going to need a lot more management to succeed.
  Mobile network operator (MNO) revenues are currently flat, thanks to today’s saturated subscriber markets and mature network technologies. To address this unsustainable situation, MNOs are planning for th
  
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• Satellite Brings Australia’s Solar Car World Championship To Global Stage

  18-09-2017 13:51
  Newtec, Network Innovations, VRT Sandbox and Pacific Live Media have teamed up to enable the Punch Powertrain Solar Team to live stream from the Australian outback. DARWIN, Australia, and IBC2017 Show, AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, 18 September 2017. Satellite will be used to live stream interviews and backhaul action video clips of the Punch Powertrain Solar Team as they compete in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge – a 3,000 km solar car race across the Australian...Source: RealWire
  
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• The Telecoms.com podcast: Light Reading sandwich

  18-09-2017 13:40
  Now with added video!
  
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• Nokia uses forced acronym to help ‘verticals’ exploit wireless megatrends

  18-09-2017 12:58
  A new industry group has been created by Nokia Bell Labs with the aim of working out how certain industry verticals can get the most out of things like 5G and IoT.
  The modern business consensus is that if a thing’s worth doing it’s worth creating an acronym for. But the traditional approach of just picking the first letter of each constituent word has long been abandoned in the name of creating acronyms you can actually pronounce. In keeping with this custom Bell Labs cleverly compre
  
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• Google makes major mobile wallet move in India

  18-09-2017 12:47
  Google has made a play for the booming Indian mobile commerce market with the launch of Tez, its new mobile wallet app designed specifically for the country.
  Rumours over Google’s entry into the Asian mobile payments world have been swirling around for a while, but now it’s official. The app is now available on Google Play and the App Store, and supports English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.
  “To make digital payments truly work for India,
  
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• Huawei Works with Industry Partners to Promote 50GE Industry Development for 5G Commercial Use

  18-09-2017 12:41
  [Shenzhen, China, September 6, 2017] At the 2017 China International Optoelectronic Exposition held in Shenzhen, Huawei and industry partners jointly held an industry development meeting on 50GE interfaces — a key 5G bearing technology, to promote the commercial use of 5G bearing. This meeting brought together partners throughout the industrial chain, including China Mobile, Huawei, Accelink, Hisense, Spirent, and Ixia. This meeting was intended to promote industry cooperation and developm
  
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• Huawei Leads FlexE-based 50GE Interface Testing to Facilitate Commercial Use of 5G

  18-09-2017 12:28
  [Shenzhen, China, September 4, 2017] Huawei announced that its 50GE interface based on Flex Ethernet (FlexE) technology was the first such interface to pass functionality and performance testing organized by the China Mobile Research Institute. Testing results show that the interface is capable of line-rate forwarding at 50 Gb/s with a transmission range of 40 km, performance that is sufficient for the access layer of 5G metro bearer networks. The interface also supports FlexE network slicing, e
  
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• tekVizion Expands EMEA and APAC Presence to Address Growing Customer Demand

  18-09-2017 12:08
  Experienced telco specialist Simon Richards appointed EMEA and APAC Managing Director to lead growth strategy across Cloud and Connected Business communications 18 September, 2017, London, UK: tekVizion, the independent experts in multi-vendor business communications, today announces its expansion into the EMEA and APAC markets, adding a new member to its leadership team. Simon Richards, Managing Director EMEA and APAC at tekVizion joined the company on 1st July 2017 and brings with him more tha
  
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• De-Skilling Critical If Europe Is To Hit Fibre Installation Targets, Says Emtelle

  18-09-2017 12:00
  Gothenburg, Sweden. 18 September 2017: De-skilling of installation staff throughout Europe is absolutely critical if mass deployment of optical fibre is to be achieved as part of the European Union targets for 2020. This was the warning given at today's opening day of ECOC from the region's major provider of blown fibre and ducted network solutions for the telecoms industry, Emtelle.“If Europe is to achieve its goal of a Digital Single Market by 2020, then...Source: RealWire
  
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• "Intense power saving is needed to conquer the battle of growing bandwidth demands," ProLabs warns at ECOC 2017

  18-09-2017 10:00
  Tony Lefebvre discusses how to overcome the major power consumption concern in the design of data centres Gothenburg, Sweden. 18 September 2017: Tony Lefebvre, VP of Product Management & Marketing at optical transceiver specialist, ProLabs, today addressed why monitoring power consumption is integral to manage data centre environments.Speaking at ECOC 2017, Mr Lefebvre warned that operators need to be extra vigilant as data rates increase beyond 10G to 100G. “On a short-range optic, we
  
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• COBO President: "Advance bandwidth growth with new optical modules to help realise next generation of technology"

  18-09-2017 09:00
  Gothenburg, 18 September 2017 – Next-generation technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, 5G, and the Internet of Things (IoT) stand to benefit from equipment manufacturers’ adoption of on-board optics, the President of Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO), Brad Booth highlighted today.Speaking on the opening day of ECOC 2017 – Europe’s largest global optical communications exhibition – Booth explained how the data center infrastructure will need new approaches
  
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• Vodafone launches Gigabit broadband in Spain

  18-09-2017 02:00
  Vodafone plans to launch a 1-Gbps fibre broadband service in Spain next week.The telco said the service will be available from 25 September to 4 million properties in the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Oxby heads up Lebara after PE buyout

  18-09-2017 02:00
  Experience telecoms executive Graeme Oxby has been named as the new chief executive of Lebara following its acquisition by investment firm Palmarium.The Swiss-based outfit announced it has completed the acquisition of Lebara…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia, LG patent spat settled

  18-09-2017 02:00
  Nokia on Monday announced that a patent dispute with rival LG is now at an end following a court decision in the matter.The Finnish vendor declined to disclose the value of the settlement…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T could raise $8bn from LatAm TV asset sales

  18-09-2017 02:00
  AT&T is working on the possible sale of TV assets in Latin America in a bid to reduce debt, it emerged late last week.The U.S. operator is working with a financial adviser to help manage the sale, Reuters reported on Friday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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