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• If Jio nails FTTH too it could be game over for Indian rivals

  13-02-2018 18:22
  Jio has been causing hell in India when it comes to mobile but a convergence offer to potentially be launched in March could elevate those headaches to death sentences.
  A broadband offering has been in the making for a while, with previous rumours believing a late 2017 launch, but the latest report has late March as the new deadline. According to TelecomTalk, the launch of its own fiber broadband network, JioFiber, will aim to disrupt the market with the same price undercutting strategy which wo
  
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• Arm launches dedicated chip designs for machine learning

  13-02-2018 18:13
  UK mobile chip design giant Arm has created specialised chip designs specifically for machine learning and object detection.
  Arm, which at some stage in the past few months seems to have decided its name is no longer an abbreviation of Advanced RISC Machines and is instead a type of limb, is best known for providing the designs for mobile chips such as applications and baseband processors. As the tech world gets increasingly keen on artificial intelligence and mobile edge computing, it makes sen
  
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• Telco digital transformation wreaking havoc on vendor sales process

  13-02-2018 17:35
  A cry for help: 78% of operators are demanding more of vendors to support digital transformation, 98% expect them to play a bigger role in driving innovation State of flux: 77% of telcos have restructured at least once, and almost half at least twice in the last three years. 52% have changed leadership; and 72% have introduced new Board or senior management roles in the last three yearsConsensus buying confusion: 74% of telcos now see...Source: RealWire
  
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• UK Government unveils its own AI to detect terrorist content online

  13-02-2018 16:46
  The UK Government has announced the development of new software which promises to automatically detect terrorist content on any online platform.
  Developed by the Home Office and ASI Data Science, the Government boasted the piece of kit ‘detected 94% of Daesh propaganda with 99.995% accuracy’ during tests, with a small number of videos being reviewed by employees if the software gets confused. The tool can be used by any platform where videos are reviewed during the uploading process,
  
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• Google poaches IoT exec, what does this mean for Samsung’s software ambitions?

  13-02-2018 13:35
  Google has hired former Samsung mobile communications CTO Injong Rhee who will now lead the internet giant’s move into IoT under the very glamourous job title of Entrepreneur In Residence.
  Rhee, who left Samsung in December, was responsible for several heavyweight products at Samsung including Knox, its enterprise security platform, and mobile payment solution Samsung Pay. Specifics of Rhee’s role in Google is not entirely clear just yet, but he will lead the IoT business unit, repor
  
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• Ericsson reckons it’s ahead of the chasing pack when it comes to 5G gear

  13-02-2018 13:31
  We spoke to Ericsson CTO Erik Ekudden to get a sense of the kit vendor’s technology and product priorities ahead of Mobile World Congress 2018.
  Ericsson seems to have been in some form of crisis for years now, as the maturity of the 4G market led to a drop-off in networking gear spend, and its varied attempts to diversify away from this channel have yielded limited results. The last year has been characterised by multiple, wholesale changes to the senior management team, which included the
  
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• Verizon, Qualcomm and Nokia team up for first 3GPP compliant call

  13-02-2018 13:19
  Verizon is claiming it is the first operator to have completed an over-the-air call on a 3GPP-compliant 5G New Radio (NR) system using licensed spectrum, alongside Qualcomm and Nokia.
  The test itself made use of Verizon’s millimetre wave spectrum, Nokia’s 5G network technology on a 5G NR prototype device provided by Qualcomm. The news follows another announcement that Verizon had connected its CEO Lowell McAdam to KT CEO Chang-Gyu Hwang over video using 5G end-to-end (E2E) solutions,
  
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• Oracle has a crack at ending the idea of employees

  13-02-2018 12:27
  Oracle is making all the right noises ahead of Mobile World Congress with an aggressive expansion in data centre assets, a virtual assistant and a broader offering across its autonomous product portfolio.
  In October the team launched what it claimed was the world’s first autonomous database cloud and today’s announcement spreads the AI features to the rest of the Oracle world. The cloud database, naughtily known as 18c, was claimed to eliminate the human labour associated with tuning
  
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• Fujikura Europe unveils Hybrid FAST + Maintenance Free Cleaver solution at FTTH Conference 2018

  13-02-2018 12:00
  Chessington, UK. 13 February 2018: Fujikura Europe, leader in connectivity and splicing technology, unveiled its new Hybrid FAST + Maintenance Free Cleaver (MFC) solution at FTTH Conference 2018 in Valencia today. “The new hybrid FAST™ + MFC solution was created to negate the variance in the skill sets of FTTH subscriber installation teams, which vary from country to country globally. Not only is the new hybrid connectors’ performance great on correctly cleaved fibres, but it..
  
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• "NGPON2 should be evolved through effective co-existent deployment," proposes ProLabs at FTTH Conference 2018

  13-02-2018 10:00
  Anthony Clarkson discusses the need for service providers to re-think their existing modelsValencia, 13 February 2018: Anthony Clarkson, Technologist at optical transceiver specialist ProLabs, today addressed how a technology evolution path to NGPON2 would enable a faster deployment for new technologies in the future. At FTTH Conference in Valencia, he recommended that in order to successfully rollout NGPON2 – the latest telecommunications network standard for passive optical networks &nda
  
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• InfiNet Wireless to Showcase Its Latest Technologies and Developments for Mobile and Nomadic Connectivity at MWC 2018

  13-02-2018 09:30
  Valletta, Malta. 13 February 2018: InfiNet Wireless, the global leader in fixed broadband connectivity, today announced that it will be showcasing its latest solutions for uncompromised connectivity at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018.The InfiNet product portfolio showcased at MWC includes the InfiMAN 2x2, the unrivalled Point-to-Multipoint solution which performs equally well in near-LOS and non-LOS conditions, and is designed for applications where remote locations can be a challenge to connec
  
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• Co-existence is key to a cost-effective next-gen PON migration, says Iskratel

  13-02-2018 09:00
  Valencia, Spain, 13 February 2018 – Operators looking to unleash the full potential of next-generation PON technologies such as XGS-PON and NG-PON2 should wisely consider a period of co-existence between PON generations to ensure a gradual migration with minimum service disruption, Iskratel’s CTO said today.Speaking on the opening day of FTTH Conference, Damjan Slapar highlighted how operators could miss out on introducing revenue-generating applications if they don’t upgrade t
  
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• Vodafone and Liberty Global set the consolidation ball rolling

  13-02-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Asset sales in Germany and eastern Europe could trigger wave of secondary deals
  
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• Hyperoptic showcases UK's fastest 10Gbps home broadband

  13-02-2018 01:00
  UK based fibre broadband provider, Hyperoptic, has showcased the UK's fastest home broadband service, during a series of live tests in London. At the former Olympic Village, Hyperoptic achieved speeds of 10Gbps, 276 times faster than the UK's current average download speed…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Danish telco TDC accepts $6.6bn takeover bid

  13-02-2018 01:00
   Danish telco TDC has accepted a second takeover bid of around $6.6 billion from a consortium of local pension funds. The consortium, which is spearheaded by Australian firm Macquarie…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cayman Islands to emerge as key strategic hub for subsea cable sector

  13-02-2018 01:00
  The Cayman Islands could emerge as a key strategic hub, linking the US with developing markets in Central and Latin America, according to industry experts."The “Cayman Cable Hub” Concept; given our geographic proximity to just about&nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• £11.2m superfast broadband scheme to bring full fibre connectivity to 14,000 rural premises

  13-02-2018 01:00
  UK Internet Service Provider Airband has announced that it has connected the first customer in a scheme that will bring full fibre, superfast broadband services to 14,000 premises in Shropshire, England, by 2020. "Rural Shropshire suffers with some of the poorest broadband speeds in the UK…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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