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• Operator innovation: is it even possible?

  27-09-2017 18:43
  The Service Delivery Innovation Summit 2017 in central London took another look at the age-old problem of how operators innovate, renew and avoid commoditisation.
  A packed morning of speakers was opened by Telefónica’s Head of Network Virtualization Strategy Antonio Jose Elizondo Armengol, who detailed some of the technological challenged but also emphasised that is won’t work without accompanying cultural transformation within operators.
  This sentiment was echoed by Stefan Ru
  
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• Are operators even capable of innovation?

  27-09-2017 18:43
  The Service Delivery Innovation Summit 2017 in central London took another look at the age-old problem of how operators innovate, renew and avoid commoditisation.
  A packed morning of speakers was opened by Telefónica’s Head of Network Virtualization Strategy Antonio Jose Elizondo Armengol, who detailed some of the technological challenged but also emphasised that is won’t work without accompanying cultural transformation within operators.
  This sentiment was echoed by Stefan Ru
  
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• Smart speaker battle starts to get real

  27-09-2017 18:09
  Amazon and Google has vaulted miles past the rest of the competition in the battle for the living room, and the fight was always going to get sour at some point. Barring Amazon from YouTube is the first shot.
  Because the competition is so intense and the rewards so great, something like this was always going to happen. The speaker, or more accurately, the virtual assistant, who control access to the customer in the living room also controls the flow of cash. Some people might question where the
  
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• Smart speaker battle starts to get nasty

  27-09-2017 18:09
  Amazon and Google are miles ahead in the battle for the living room, and the fight was always going to get sour at some point. Withdrawing YouTube from Echo Show was the first shot.
  Because the competition is so intense and the rewards so great, something like this was always going to happen. The speaker, or more accurately, the virtual assistant, who control access to the customer in the living room also controls the flow of cash. Some people might question where the money is going to come from
  
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• BT scrapes bottom of Ofcom rankings (again)

  27-09-2017 16:19
  It’s that time again. Ofcom has released data on who are the best and worst for customer service in the UK. And BT has struggled for another quarter.
  Three months ago, the watchdog released the figures for Q1, and while there has been a slight improvement across the board, BT is still struggling. When you compare the figures for this quarter against those from 2011, there certainly is a notable improvement, but perhaps we as consumers are just getting more demanding; it doesn’t reall
  
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• Huawei prods consumer cloud world, but only just

  27-09-2017 13:13
  The last few years has seen Huawei’s position in the consumer world become stronger and stronger, and now it seems to have worked up the confidence to take on Google.
  The latest announcement from the consumer business group will see Huawei offer customers free cloud storage on its devices. It shouldn’t be considered an unusual move, most device manufacturers are increasing looking for ways to different their products as hardware has pretty much hit a standstill, but we’re not t
  
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• Ford Lyft’s it’s self-driving ambitions

  27-09-2017 12:23
  Ford has announced a new partnership with ride-sharing business Lyft, which is proving to be a bit of a social butterfly in the autonomous world.
  The partnership itself will focus on playing around with the software so Ford cars will be able to seamlessly connect with the ride-hailing networks. What this means in the long-run remains to be seen, but if Ford has ambitions to dominate the Lyft fleet, like Prius does with Uber, it might find some resistance from General Motors, which is an investor
  
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• Republicans say wireless is competitive, Democrats disagree; surprised?

  27-09-2017 11:35
  The FCC has released the 20th Mobile Wireless Competition Report coming to the conclusion the wireless market in the US has an effective amount of competition, and guess what, the Democrats disagree.
  The report itself looks to address a simple question; is the mobile market in the US offering a suitable level of competition to ensure a fair deal for the consumer. It might sound easy, but the Democratic Commissioners have been picking holes in the depth of the report, as well as the definition of
  
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• How To Transform Your Teenagers’ Career Prospects

  27-09-2017 10:30
  ‘INSPiRED Teenager’ - from the UK’s Top Careers Advisor - Offers an Online Toolkit For Savvy Parents To Max Their Teenagers’ Prospects A new online resource will enable parents to transform their own teenagers’ academic and vocational career prospects. The ‘INSPiRED Teenager’ programme is an eight-part video-based career coaching toolkit complete with a set of accompanying eBooks. Developed by Carolyn Parry, the CDI’s Career Coach of the Year, the
  
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• Vodafone research reveals number of large scale Internet of Things (IoT) projects doubled in the last year

  27-09-2017 10:00
  Vodafone published today its fifth annual IoT Barometer Report – the leading global survey of business sentiment regarding investment and innovation in the Internet of Things.The Barometer report found that:The percentage of companies with more than 50,000 connected devices active has doubled in the last 12 months84% of IoT adopters say that their use of IoT has grown in the last year51% of IoT adopters say that the technology is increasing revenues or opening up...Source: RealWire
  
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• Tata may retain some of Teleservices, but will sell mobile ops

  27-09-2017 02:00
  Tata may retain a portion of its Tata Teleservices business, but not its mobile operations, according to an Indian press report this week.There has been talk of Tata selling out of the telecoms space altogether for a number of years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• IPX is not dead, but it needs a makeover

  27-09-2017 02:00
  Low adoption among retail telcos does not mean that there is no future for IPX, but the technology must reinvent itself, according to key industry stakeholders."Most carriers are IPX-ready," said Philippe Millet, chair of the i3forum and head of technical strategy at Orange Labs Network, speaking at Carriers World in London on Wednesday.However, mobile network operators have largely not embraced IPX, which raises questions over the technology's future.When it comes to IPX…read more on To
  
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• India telco mergers on track, execs say

  27-09-2017 02:00
  Consolidation in the Indian mobile market is progressing according to plan, executives from two of the country's operators said this week.Bharti Airtel will close its takeover of Telenor's Indian business by February…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Dark fibre not yet hitting the high street in the UK

  27-09-2017 02:00
  The U.K. is lagging many other markets when it comes to dark fibre adoption, according to speakers at Carriers World 2017.Zayo has a dark fibre customer in France whose business is selling handbags, Annette Murphy, SVP of fibre solutions at Zayo said on Tuesday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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