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• ViaSat plans legal action in UK over Inmarsat airline broadband

  12-10-2017 20:32
  Californian group upset rival aims to use mobile licence to operate network on planes
  
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• DT claims Europe’s first 5G antennas in Berlin

  12-10-2017 18:22
  Deutsche Telekom has got four of its radio cells in Berlin pumping out shiny New Radio goodness in a real-world setting, claiming a European first.
  Technically this is ‘pre-standard 5G NR’, but the lack of a standard hasn’t stopped everyone banging on about 5G for year and DT isn’t about to miss out on all the gun-jumping fun. We’re told this mini-network is managing a throughput of 2 Gbps so a single device and a latency of 3 milliseconds.
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• Facebook might have cracked the mass market for VR

  12-10-2017 18:14
  There have been murmurs that VR euphoria might be a bit of a dud, but they clearly haven’t made it to Mark Zuckerberg’s office as Facebook doubles-down on the tech.
  Zuckerberg announced the Oculus Go, priced at $199, as the ‘most accessible’ piece of kit the industry has produced to date. And if it proves to be any good, he might have a point. $199 is still perhaps a bit on the expensive side, but it is a price point which has the potential to slip into the mainstream. As
  
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• Tata offloads consumer mobile business to Bharti Airtel

  12-10-2017 15:02
  Indian telecoms operators continue to consolidate under pressure from cut-price Jio
  
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• Cambium Networks Connects The Unconnected Around The World With Affordable Quality In Wireless Broadband

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Cambium ships more than seven million wireless broadband modules that provide affordable high-speed connectivity to connect industry, enterprises and residential customersROLLING MEADOWS, IL, October 12, 2017 — Cambium Networks, a leading global provider of wireless networking solutions, today announced that high-speed connectivity being deployed by network operators around the world, drove shipment of more than seven million radio modules. Proven to support education and spur economic dev
  
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• Bharti says we’ll have a bit of Tata

  12-10-2017 14:24
  Rumours have been swirling for a few days and it would appear there is some substance; Bharti Airtel will absorb Tata Group’s struggling mobile business.
  The acquisition is still subject to regulatory approval, however it would transfer all customers and assets of Tata Consumer Mobile businesses to Bharti Airtel. It wouldn’t necessarily be considered one of the major players in the Indian space, but Bharti will still bolster its ranks by an additional 40 million customers. Not a
  
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• Vodafone says it’s ‘ready’ but does it speak for all operators?

  12-10-2017 14:21
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Niall Norton, CEO at Openet, a BSS and customer engagement systems provider, reflects on Vodafone’s recent rebrand and considers if it’s indicative of a wider identity crisis the global operator community is starting to recover from  
  Vodafone recently announced a change in its brand positioning. It includes logo tweaking and a new straplin
  
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• China/US 5G: wavelength warfare

  12-10-2017 14:01
  Chinese push for bigger share in design of next spectrum should worry Qualcomm
  
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• Distributed cloud delivery company Akamai is buying DNS specialist Nominum

  12-10-2017 12:55
  Akamai, a prominent player in distributed content delivery, is buying privately-owned DNS specialist in order to boost its security offering and its telco channel.
  Nominum’s focus on the Domain Name System gives it novel insight into internet traffic and thus cyber security matters, and the operator channel has been one of its key targets. Akamai provides content distributors with a distributed cloud platform that allows them to serve their content from servers closer to the consumer,
  
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• Disney sneaks in with content aggregator move

  12-10-2017 12:43
  A couple of weeks ago on the podcast we discussed an idea where telcos could add worth to the content value chain, and now Disney has snuck in there ahead of the telcos.
  The idea of the super-aggregator of content is an interesting one, because there is just so much content out there. Ericsson released a survey recently which stated 70% of consumers would want a super search engine which would collect all the content in one place. The time it takes to find something you want to watch is increasi
  
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• Rethink business models or face falling behind, Iskratel tells operators

  12-10-2017 12:00
  The Hague, The Netherlands, 12 October 2017 – Operators need to update their business models to offer services for new vertical industries through digital transformation to keep up with the pace of a rapidly evolving market, Iskratel’s CTO said today.Presenting a keynote – titled ‘Building rock-solid cloud solutions on a non-consolidated foundation’ – at SDN NFV World Congress, in The Hague, Damjan Slapar said delivery of this digital transformation would also
  
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• 28% of telcos expect to deploy 5G in 2018 – Ericsson

  12-10-2017 11:22
  Ericsson has released its annual 5G Readiness Survey, and the results are starting to look very positive. In fact, 28% of respondents expect to deploy 5G next year.
  Comparing the last two reports, the trends are certainly heading in the right direction. 78% are in the trial phase of 5G, compared to 32% in 2016, while the strategies to actually make use of the technology are starting to become a bit clearer. 59% now have a clear strategy in place for 5G use cases, while 36% feel they have a clear
  
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• Openet is selected by Liberty Global to deliver seamless connectivity between cellular and Wi-Fi networks

  12-10-2017 10:00
  Openet’s Network Selection Intelligence (NSI) solution will help Liberty Global bolster network connectivity options and drive traffic to its networkDUBLIN, Ireland – October 12 2017 – Openet, a global leader in the supply of real-time BSS (business support systems) and customer engagement systems, announced that its Network Selection Intelligence (NSI) solution has been incorporated into Liberty Global’s Connect App. Liberty Global’s newly-released Connect App offe
  
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• SDN will bring Doom for consumers and revenues for telcos

  12-10-2017 02:00
  There has been much talk in the industry about whether or not consumers really want multiple gigabits of bandwidth into their homes and, more to the point, whether they are willing to pay for it.The answer, according to one industry expert, is a resounding 'yes', and far from bringing about a situation in which operators roll out fatter pipes only to see the revenues syphoned off by over…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti buys Tata's mobile operations

  12-10-2017 02:00
  Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced that it will acquire Tata Group's consumer mobile businesses for an undisclosed sum, bringing to an end years of speculation over the future of the operations.Under the terms of the deal, Tata Teleservices and Tata Teleservices Maharashtra will be subsumed by Bharti Airtel on a cash-free and debt-free basis, with the exception that Bharti will assume a small portion of Tata's unpaid spectrum liabilities with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)…r
  
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• AT&T warns of earnings hit, video customer losses in Q3

  12-10-2017 02:00
  Natural disasters across its operating footprint will impact on AT&T's revenues and earnings in the third quarter of this year, the U.S. telco warned on Wednesday, adding that it will also report hefty video customer losses, in part due to the recent hurricanes and also as a result of market competition…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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