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• Telefónica Germany and Nokia form a 5G cluster

  31-01-2018 18:12
  The stampede to acquire 5G allies continues with Telefónica Germany and Nokia agreeing to form nothing less than a 5G Innovation Cluster.
  In this context a cluster seems to refer to a collection of labs that have agreed to play nice with each other. To make sure everyone knows where they stand the two companies have taken a leaf out of Huawei’s book and signed a memorandum of understanding, complete with compulsory photo of people in suits shaking hands.
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• Resilient plc granted significant patent enabling multiple GSM numbers on a mobile device

  31-01-2018 17:58
  London, 31st January 2018 - Resilient plc today announced that it has been granted a patent by the UK Intellectual Property Office for techniques used within its leading mobile call recording and BYOD service, smartnumbers mobile.The patent which has been awarded includes a number of claims relating to techniques used by smartnumbers mobile to manage multiple GSM mobile numbers on a single device. Prior to this invention, most solutions for managing multiple numbers on a...Source: RealWire
  
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• ZTE flogs $2bn shares in effort to be 5G ready

  31-01-2018 17:42
  ZTE board members have approved the issuance of 686,836,019 A Shares in an effort to raise capital for 5G research and development.
  While ZTE could sometimes be seen as a poor man’s Huawei, in truth it is just as threatening to the more traditional network infrastructure vendors. Over the last couple of years, Huawei might have been grabbing the headlines and second helpings of global market share, ZTE has also been eating into the profit margins at former world-beaters Ericsson and Nokia.
  
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• Infographic: Does social media influence our spending?

  31-01-2018 15:26
  Advertising on social media is nothing new, but some sceptical individuals might question whether there is any value in it. New data from Post Office Media argues the case it is more influential than we think.
  The majority of people are stubborn. This might sound like a very broad statement, but look at the person sat next to you and ask whether it is true. Despite the Post Office’s data showing a substantial chunk of us are influenced by friends or celebrity posts, or sidebar ad
  
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• Amdocs drops $224 million on Vubiquity for an extra shot of VOD

  31-01-2018 14:17
  Communications software vendor Amdocs has made a strategic move into the video-on-demand market with the acquisition of Vubiquity for $224 million.
  Vubiquity has specialized in providing video-on-demand infrastructure and operations for some time, and seems to be well positioned as telcos increasingly look to the multiplay model to add value to their subscribers. Amdocs will have noticed that many of its customers want to get better a video and general content services, so this acquisition will
  
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• HYLA Mobile: Mobile device trade-in programs returned more than $2bn to customers and consumers in 2017

  31-01-2018 14:00
  An additional $55 million returned to consumers in 2017 compared to 2016, despite them holding onto devices for longer 31 January 2018 – Mobile device trade-in programs put $2.156 billion back in the pockets of US consumers in 2017, an increase of $55 million from 2016, illustrating the growing momentum of the global used device ecosystem. This is despite consumers choosing to hold onto their devices for longer (more than two months on average) than...Source: RealWire
  
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• Apple faces US probe after phone slow downs

  31-01-2018 13:40
  Apple has confirmed it has been contacted by US agencies over its admission it has been slowing down the performance of older devices.
  According to Bloomberg, Apple has been contacted by the US Department of Justice and the SEC which are in the preliminary stages of investigating wrongdoing to any of the claims. This is very much a hushed investigation for the moment and it is not sure what sort of financial penalties, if any, the iLeader would face if found guilty.
  It should also be noted that
  
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• More gloom for Ericsson – sales down, shares down, media unit sale fudged

  31-01-2018 13:38
  It was yet another tough quarter for networking giant Ericsson, with sales down 12% and an unsatisfactory conclusion to the strategic review of its media business.
  Sales were down by a rather worrying 12% (7% when adjusted for adjustments), although Ericsson says that was expected. Much of the blame has been placed on reduced sales of LTE gear in mainland China, as well as the Digital Services unit. There was also the big write-down Ericsson warned us about a few weeks ago. Here’s the Q4 2
  
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• Ericsson shares down 9% on fifth consecutive quarterly loss

  31-01-2018 13:12
  Swedish telecoms group caps miserable 2017 with drop in sales
  
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• Ericsson shares down 8%on fifth consecutive quarterly loss

  31-01-2018 13:12
  Swedish telecoms group caps miserable 2017 with drop in sales of 12%
  
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• Samsung profits shrink despite record revenues

  31-01-2018 12:34
  Samsung has reported its earnings for the final quarter of 2017, and while profits shrunk year-on-year it does seem to be pretty good news for the Koreans.
  Over the course of the quarter, operating profit fell slightly to $14.25 billion, though total revenues did increase 24% compared to the same period to roughly $62 billion. Over the course of the 12 months, revenues increased 19% to just over $224 billion, while operating profit jumped a monstrous 83% to just over $50 billion.
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• Cake served up as alternative to Safari and Chrome

  31-01-2018 12:33
  Cake Technologies has raised $5 million to expand its business and tackle a very ambitious goal; stealing market share off internet browsers Chrome and Safari.
  Any challenge to the status quo should be more than welcomed but this is a tall ask. Cake is aiming to deliver an internet browser which is developed specifically for mobile devices in an attempt to make a name for itself in the highly lucrative search advertising business. The idea is sound but whether the entrenched position of Google&r
  
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• Nokia and Telefonica Germany sign 5G testing MoU

  31-01-2018 01:00
  Nokia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telefonica Germany to develop a joint 5G innovation cluster, according to a company release.The companies agreed to test a series of new 5G technologies in Telefonica's research and development lab in Munich…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• InterDigital completes 5G ready MMW wireless crosshaul tests

  31-01-2018 01:00
  Mobile technology research and development company InterDigital has completed a successful trial of its millimeter wave (mmW) EdgeLink 60GHz solution and Fast-Forward 70GHz solution. The tests meet new 5G transport requirements…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson posts challenging financials for 2017, despite cost saving efficiencies

  31-01-2018 01:00
  Ericsson has posted a challenging set of full year financials for 2017, with reported sales decreasing by 10% compared with last year.  The company's gross operating margin also fell from 29…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AI, IoT and SDN set to dominate the industry in 2018

  31-01-2018 01:00
  Whilst there will, no doubt, be surprises on the business front – with mergers, acquisitions, and regulatory initiatives - we will also continue to be surprised and excited by the innovation in the applications and over-the-top providers space.  It would be unwise to make specific predictions in such cases.  However, underpinning much of this are the big technology trends already well underway…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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