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• Virgin Media brings in Versa to bolster its SD-WAN

  01-02-2018 18:21
  Virgin Media Business has announced a partnership with Versa Networks which will allow it to offer its enterprise customers a variety of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) services.
  As part of the partnership, Virgin Media Business will use Versa Network’s Cloud IP platform to provide fully managed SD-WAN services. We should come expect more partnerships along these lines as automation and intelligent services is at the heart, answering the industry’s call for more IT solutions which can
  
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• Cisco trumpets Orange orchestration win

  01-02-2018 18:20
  Orange has decided to deploy some Cisco orchestration tech and Cisco wants you to know all about it.
  The announcement was made at the Cisco Live corporate fest in Barcelona, presumably intended as a dress rehearsal for Mobile World Congress later this month. ‘Join us in Barcelona to transform your outlook, your career, and your potential with 5 days of education, networking, and fun!’ says the #CLEUR landing page. What’s not to like?
  Luckily for those of us unable to attend Cis
  
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• UK yield stocks: Shell is surest

  01-02-2018 17:36 via ft.com
  The oil group and Vodafone are both cash machines but the former looks a better long-term bet
  
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• Q4 2017 Earnings round-up: Microsoft, Qualcomm, Alibaba and AT&T

  01-02-2018 17:17
  That time of the quarter is upon us so here is a quick snap-shot of the Q4 2017 results from Microsoft, Qualcomm, Alibaba and AT&T.
  Microsoft
  While investors might not have been blown away by this performance, all things are looking rosy for Microsoft as it hit roughly what analysts were expecting.
  Share price remains relatively stable (at the time of writing) but a 12% year-on-year rise for total revenues to $28.9 billion is certainly something for Microsoft to be proud of. Operating income
  
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• BT fleshes out ultra-fast broadband plans

  01-02-2018 16:53 via ft.com
  Operator says fibre-optic network will allow users to stream 200 high-definition movies at once
  
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• Rajant CEO: "Wireless Mobility Is The Key To Secure Military Communications"

  01-02-2018 15:37
  Robert Schena addressed delegates at the Network Centric Warfare Conference in RomeROME – February 1, 2018 – Addressing delegates today at the Network Centric Warfare Conference in Rome, Rajant Corporation CEO, Robert Schena, stressed that wireless mobility is the key to ensuring secure military communications. Discussing the top communications challenges for today’s information-age warfare, Schena stated that military is unlike no other market in terms of the emphasis on a net
  
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• Openreach makes big FTTP statement, but with strings attached

  01-02-2018 14:08
  Openreach, the UK’s dominant fixed-line wholesaler, has vowed to ramp up its fibre-to-the-premises roll-out to hit three million premises by the end of 2020.
  As everyone knows, you can’t make a grand public statement without giving it a name, so BT-owned Openreach came up with the ‘Fibre First’ programme, presumably to distinguish it from the previous strategy of combining FTTC with copper augmentation via Gfast. The underlying point seems to be to virtue-signal about its
  
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• Telcos are losing the battle of the brands

  01-02-2018 13:54
  Brand Finance has released it rankings of the top 500 brands worldwide, and while the future is looking rosy for the technology industry it is a bit more gloomy for the telcos.
  According to the rankings, the internet giants are the biggest, baddest and best around. Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung and Facebook complete the top five, showing some extraordinary climbs in brand value across the year. Amazon sits at the top of the table with a brand value of $150 billion (a 42% jump from last year), b
  
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• Facebook agonizes over how to re-engage community

  01-02-2018 13:53
  In terms of profiting from the digital economy few (if any) have done it better than Facebook, but user numbers are starting to slow. Is Facebook focusing too much on advertising to the detriment of user engagement?
  The Facebook business model is simple; make an engaging platform, attract users, build a wall around the community and charge third-parties to access this luscious garden though advertising. It continues to be immensely successful, but is mostly reliant on scale to be the profit-mons
  
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• Nokia thrives despite cutbacks by telecoms customers

  01-02-2018 13:35 via ft.com
  Finnish group boosts investment in next generation 5G network to speed adoption
  
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• Telecoms operator TDC moves on Swedish media group

  01-02-2018 12:25 via ft.com
  Danish company offers $2.5bn for MTG’s TV station Viasat and other entertainment assets
  
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• Nokia Q4 OK but it wants 5G spending to start ASAP

  01-02-2018 12:23
  Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has come out feeling buoyant after another year of declining sales, warning again it’ll be a tough 12 months trudging through the infrastructure desert, but the 5G oasis is almost within touching distance.
  The final quarter of the year was largely in line with analyst expectations but did demonstrate a 1% decline in revenues to €6.67 billion, while across 2017 on the whole total revenues a nervous 3% to €23.2 billion. Considering where the industry is on the
  
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• Aricent demos at MWC 2018

  01-02-2018 11:43
  February 1 2018: Aricent, the global design and engineering company will this year showcase a number of innovative solutions. These include Artificial Intelligence (AI) based 5G solutions for zero touch networks, multi-access edge technology and blockchain-based security. Where: Fira Gran Via, Barcelona Meeting room #2.1B7Ex.What: The demos are as follows: Demo 1: Intelligence at the Edge - Demonstration with Microsoft’s HoloLens how mobile operators can use edge computing capabilities wit
  
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• Qualcomm bolsters bid defence with Samsung 5G tie-up

  01-02-2018 01:47 via ft.com
  US chipmaker is fighting a hostile takeover attempt by Broadcom
  
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• Virgin Media Business and Versa Networks agree strategic partnership

  01-02-2018 01:00
  Virgin Media Business is to partner with network solutions firm Versa Networks to provide its enterprise customers with a host of secure software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) services. These services will allow Virgin Media Business' customers to integrate with the cloud and improve automation and network security…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Openreach commits to 3 million FTTP connections in the UK by 2020

  01-02-2018 01:00
  Openreach has promised to significantly boost the UK's fibre to the premises (FTTP) footprint, as the company launches its Fibre First campaign. The first phase of this programme will see Openreach increase its current commitment to FTTP services by 50% - promising to reach 3 million homes and businesses by 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Idea merger can't come quick enough for Vodafone, as it suffers a big hit to its Indian revenues

  01-02-2018 01:00
  Vodafone Group has revealed a 23.1% drop in its Indian business operations, which it says is caused by hyper competitive market conditions and a sharp decrease in termination charges.
  The Indian market has been dramatically impacted by the emergence of Reliance Jio…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Eir pulls out of Ireland's National Broadband Plan

  01-02-2018 01:00
  Former Irish incumbent Eir has announced its intention to withdraw from Ireland's National Broadband Plan tender process with immediate effect. "Based upon the significant commercial issues and complexity within the tender process…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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