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• Is the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport the real life DOSAC?

  11-01-2018 18:36
  Under-qualified Ministers, photo-ops with minimal media presence and a mash-up of policy areas which don’t really align, it’s like government is taking advice from the writers of The Thick of It.
  For those who haven’t seen the show, the Thick of It is a BBC series which satirizes the inner workings of modern British government. There are calamities, botched policies, a lack of funding and Ministers who seem to be making it up as they go along. The series focuses around the fict
  
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• Ericsson and MTN claim African 5G first

  11-01-2018 18:15
  Ericsson has teamed up with operator MTN to undertake what they claim is the first 5G technology and applications trial in Africa.
  The main aim seems to be to find useful things to do with 5G in a continent where many countries would be grateful for a decent level of 4G penetration. This project has been in the pipeline for some time, with the two companies even going so far as to demonstrate their mutual commitment via the signing of an MoU at AfricaCom 2017.
  Of course it wouldn’t be a 5G
  
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• Increasing IoT value through open standards to be discussed in upcoming oneM2M webinar

  11-01-2018 15:00
  Register today for the complimentary webinar which will be held on Thursday, January 18 2018 at 15.00 GMT.Sophia Antipolis, France, 11 January 2018: The importance of open standards in advancing Internet of Things (IoT) applications that use Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks will be discussed during a webinar hosted by oneM2M.Dr. Omar Elloumi, of Nokia, Chair of the oneM2M Technical Plenary, and Regional Marcom Vice Chair Chris Meering, of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), will...Source: RealW
  
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• Aareon Opens New Office Suite In Southampton Science Park

  11-01-2018 13:24
  Aareon UK (www.aareon.co.uk) has opened a new office suite, in Southampton Science Park. The new location, 5 Benham Campus in Chilworth, is now one of three Aareon UK offices. The move cements Aareon UK’s operational merger with Science Park success story 1st Touch, the established leader in the supply of mobile and digital workforce software for the UK’s social housing, property services and local government sectors. Peter Birkett, CEO of The University of Southampton Science...Sour
  
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• Thumbs up for Telefonica tests on T-SDN

  11-01-2018 13:22
  Telefonica and Huawei have completed lab tests on a T-SDN (Transport Software-Defined Network) solution, which will help the telco plan, manage, monitor and diagnose its photonic mesh.
  The successful trial is the green light for the commercial deployment of T-SDN, which is a controller to improve network operations in the photonic mesh. Telefonica initially started deploying its photonic mesh in 2009, which now covers 200 locations in Spain. While there were benefits in terms of reliability and
  
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• Huawei says who needs AT&T, we’ve got Wonder Woman

  11-01-2018 12:39
  Having been spurned by the US carrier channel Huawei has decided to appoint actress Gal Gadot as its first Chief Experience Officer.
  Gadot, of course, plays the role Wonder Woman in the film… Wonder Woman. As a consequence she is a high profile figure, especially in the US, and therefore seems like a good choice for one of those made-up c-suite job roles technology companies apparently feel the need to create when they decide to pay a famous person to favourably bang-on about their gear.
  
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• Hulu shows telcos there is profit in long-term thinking

  11-01-2018 12:34
  Hulu has started to post some serious numbers, perhaps showing the telcos not every initiative has to be a silver bullet to reap billions.
  The content world is one which promises profits, prominence and relevance, hence why the telcos are so keen to find a seat at what is traditionally quite an exclusive table. The OTTs might have disrupted the status quo with their own content platforms, stealing market share and inspiring a generation of cord cutters, but the telcos are still gazing longingly
  
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• UK start up to provide FTTH services to 35% of new homes by 2021

  11-01-2018 01:00
  Broadband and technology entrepreneur Elfred Thomas has launced British Fibre Networks, a new company which aims to provide pure fibre connectivity and a choice of Internet Service Provider (ISP) to all new build homes in the UK.British Fibre Networks will offer new homeowners the chance to experience greater broadband capacity and speeds of up to 1GB from their chosen ISP…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TE Subcom wins key contract on transatlantic Havfrue project

  11-01-2018 01:00
  Subsea communications specialists TE Subcom has been awarded a contract for work on the Hafvrue cable system. TE Subcom will act as the system supplier to a consortium of companies, including Aqua Comms and Facebook…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• PT CEO: Portugal could be the best connected European nation by 2020

  11-01-2018 01:00
  2017 was an eventful year for Portugal Telecom's new CEO Alexande Fonseca. Fonseca began the year as CTO at Portugal's biggest operator, simultaneously juggling an ambitious optical fibre project, the revamping of the country's 3G and 4G networks and the launch LTE services – all whilst Altice was implementing a comprehensive restructuring of the company. "One of the big challenges that we faced in 2017 was being able to deliver on these projects while simultaneously completing this
  
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