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• Vodafone and Nokia aim for the moon

  27-02-2018 18:26
  Telecoms groups team up to build first lunar 4G network
  
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• ProLabs to launch 100G transponder with lowest power consumption of its kind at OFC 2018

  27-02-2018 17:00
  New product highlights the company's expansion into complete solutions offeringsSouth Cerney, UK. 27 February 2018: ProLabs, leading optical transceiver specialist, today announced it will be debuting its innovative new transponder offering at OFC 2018 – the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals – taking place March 13-15 in San Diego.The ProLabs 100G transponder, the EON-121 Transponder product set, is one of the smallest of
  
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• Huawei Launches Full Range of 5G End-to-End Product Solutions

  27-02-2018 16:03
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2018] At today’s World Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona, Spain, Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei 5G Product Line, unveiled a full range of end-to-end (E2E) 3GPP-compliant 5G product solutions. This release covers the core network, the bearer network, base station, and terminals. Huawei’s 5G product solutions are entirely based on 3GPP standards, with full range, full scenario, and all-cloud being the defining characteristics. The featured
  
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• Huawei Launches the Intent-Driven Network Solution to Maximum Business Value

  27-02-2018 16:00
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2018] At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018, Huawei launched the Intent-Driven Network solution. This solution will bridge the gaps between the physical network and business goals by creating a digital twin of the network infrastructure. These technologies will enable software-defined networks (SDNs) to evolve into intent-driven networks, and maximize business value.
  Huawei’s Global Industry Vision (GIV) predicts that by 2025, there will be 100 billion connect
  
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• Huawei and Bouygues Telecom Sign 5G Joint Innovation Agreement, with First 5G Network Trial in Bordeaux

  27-02-2018 15:56
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2018] Huawei and Bouygues Telecom announced today a joint innovation program to experiment 5G in France. Bouygues Telecom is part of the first operators worldwide to experiment 5G 3GPP in field with Huawei. Bordeaux will be the first city for a 5G network trial, from single site to multi-site coverage.
  With the release of industry’s first 3GPP-based E2E 5G network system solutions developed by Huawei, the deployment of 5G networks is about to begin. Bouygues
  
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• Huawei and Telefónica Jointly Demonstrate the Industry’s First 5G Slicing-based Interactive VR Service

  27-02-2018 15:47
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2018] During the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Telefónica and Huawei jointly demonstrated the industry’s first VR service using 5G end-to-end (E2E) network slicing technology. The demonstration offered visitors the opportunity to enjoy the ultimate immersive 5G interaction experience. Interactive VR will be introduced to gaming, education, entertainment, e-Health, industry design etc., which will bring new business opportunities to operato
  
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• Huawei 5G Transport Helps Telefonica Demonstrate the Industry’s First 5G Slicing-based Interactive VR Service

  27-02-2018 15:42
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2018] During the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Telefonica and Huawei jointly demonstrated the industry’s first VR service using 5G end-to-end (E2E) network slicing technology underpinned by Telefonica’s UNICA program. This demonstration involved the wireless access network, core network, transport network, and terminals, with the transport network being formed by one of the industry’s first network slicing routers for 5G transport fro
  
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• Huawei Unveils AUTIN – A New Digitized Operations Services

  27-02-2018 15:40
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2018] Huawei has launched AUTIN, an Operations Consulting and Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for Digitized Operations Services to help operators manage complex hybrid ICT environments. AUTIN delivers AUTomation and INtelligence to modernize and reshape operations for the digital era.
  Building on its award-winning Operation Web Services (OWS), Huawei new AUTIN brand is introducing new functionality and machine learning for intelligent operations. AUTIN lever
  
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• Introducing the Samsung Galaxy S9 on Verizon - the best streaming network meets a revolutionary Infinity Display

  27-02-2018 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Preorder your Samsung Galaxy S9 on Verizon starting March 2 and experience mobile entertainment like never before on the best streaming network. What's more? You can save up to $500 when you switch to Verizon and trade in your old phone for a new Galaxy S9*. Available in two sizes to fit your lifestyle, the 5.8" Galaxy S9 and 6.2" Galaxy S9+ feature Samsung's stunning edge-to-edge Infinity Display**, powerful stereo speakers, a new dual-aperture lens that powers an innovative low-light camera***
  
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• Zylpha 2018 Survey: Client Care, Brand Reputation and New Technology Emerge As Top Legal Practice Priorities

  27-02-2018 14:02
  Client care, brand reputation and new technology have emerged as the top priorities for Legal Practices, in the third annual survey carried out by UK legal technology innovator Zylpha (www.zylpha.com). In all, 92% of respondents feel that optimizing Client Care is now the main objective, albeit this contrasted with a figure of 78% when the survey was conducted last year. This year’s result is reinforced with the figure that 87% of respondents feel that practice...Source: RealWire
  
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• From smart cities to connected shoes: beyond smartphones

  27-02-2018 13:40
  Mobile phones no longer dominate Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
  
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• From smart cities to connected shoes: a world beyond smartphones

  27-02-2018 13:40
  Mobile phones no longer dominate Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
  
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• We figured out what MWC 2018 is missing – news

  27-02-2018 11:34
  We’ve been stalking the halls of the Fira, chatting over coffee and attending press conferences for the last two days and the only thing which is missing is an announcement with any substance.
  Samsung has made a splash with its launch, but smartphones offer very little to be excited about these days, Ericsson’s press conference was more of a reassuring nudge, Huawei is talking up the cloud, ZTE is hitting the inbox hard with an exceptionally aggressive amount of incremental spam, but
  
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• Taking the BS out of BSS

  27-02-2018 10:48
  Conversations at MWC 2018 with a couple of telecoms vendors reveal a more pragmatic, bespoke approach to doing business.
  One manifestation of this is a tendency to move away from telecoms-specific vernacular to the language of the broader tech industry. So we no longer use defensive, them-and-us language like OTTs to describe internet companies and vendors such as Openet and Amdocs seems to be avoiding categorising their offerings along traditional lines such as BSS, in favour of the more custom
  
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• Telcos are precious about their data and it’s making AI hard – Ericsson

  27-02-2018 10:26
  Artificial intelligence promises to be one of the key drivers for the next industrial revolution but until telcos become a bit more liberal with their data the benefits will never be felt.
  This is according to Ulrika Jägare (the surname means Huntress in Swedish), Ericsson’s Director Analytics and Machine Intelligence. The reason we haven’t cracked AI for the moment is because it is really complicated and the telcos don’t want to share their data.
  “We haven’t p
  
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• Small Cell Forum: Europe risks falling behind in smart cities and industrial IoT

  27-02-2018 10:00
  SCF welcomes call for more urgency on dense networks to ensure IoT-ready 5G for EuropeLONDON, 27 February 2018 – Small Cell Forum, the telecoms organization driving network densification worldwide, has welcomed a report urging more urgency and innovation in the development of Europe’s communications infrastructure.According to a new report from Rethink Technology Research, fragmented regulation and the need for greater urgency from larger MNOs mean Europe is currently falling well be
  
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• Comcast threatens Murdoch’s Sky bid with rival £22bn proposal

  27-02-2018 10:00
  Takeover approach by NBC parent sends UK broadcaster’s shares surging 18%
  
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• SIMPoint and ASPIDER-NGI Partner on eSIM

  27-02-2018 09:46
  The Netherlands, Feb 27, 2018: ASPIDER-NGI, provider of independent mobile solutions for managing IoT connectivity, today announced a partnership with SIMPoint, a specialist in IoT, M2M and Lora connectivity.The partnership provides full access to the ASPIDER-NGI IoT and eSIM solutions: instant online access, simple controls to activate, control and analyse. Also included a fully branded web tooling and API integration to allow the partner to better manage their customers. The program provides f
  
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• Ten Operators Deployed Openwave Mobility's NFV Solutions in 12 Months

  27-02-2018 09:00
  Exponential growth in data and mobile video is driving operators to virtualize their networks in 2018REDWOOD CITY, Calif – February 27 2018 – Openwave Mobility, the market leader in mobile data traffic management solutions, today announced that ten operators have deployed its NFV-based solutions in the past 12 months. This includes customers from North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa and the Far East, bringing an additional 380 million end-users to Openwave Mobility’s s
  
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• MYCOM OSI Announces ProAssure™ 2.0 Digital Service Quality Management

  27-02-2018 09:00
  Integrates Service Impact Management and Service Quality Management in cloud native solutionMobile World Congress, Barcelona, 27th February 2018 – MYCOM OSI, the leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced the latest version of its ProAssure™ Digital Service Quality Management solution. MYCOM OSI ProAssure™ 2.0 monitors and identifies root causes of service de
  
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• AdaptiveMobile delivers significant new revenues for African operator group

  27-02-2018 09:00
  Largest grey route deal across the globe protects 10 operator networks from A2P grey route abuseMOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, SPAIN, 27 February 2018 – AdaptiveMobile Security, the world leader in mobile network security, today announces a new agreement with an African operator group to secure an additional 10 properties in their network and enable significant new revenue opportunities. The partnership sees AdaptiveMobile’s Messaging Revenue Assurance product widely deployed acro
  
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• US to hold 5G spectrum auctions in November 2018

  27-02-2018 01:00
  The US plans to launch 5G spectrum auctions later this year, according to Ajit Pai, chairman of the US' Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telecoms sector undergoing major digital transformation

  27-02-2018 01:00
  The telecoms sector is undergoing a digital transformation, which will change the way telcos deploy software within their network architecture…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Mobile World Congress round up – Day 2

  27-02-2018 01:00
  Vodafone and Nokia to offer 4G coverage… ON THE MOON! Vodafone and Nokia have revealed that they intend to create a 4G network to be deployed on the surface of the moon. The experiment will take place during a planned mission to the moon by PTScientists in 2019. Vodafone Germany has appointed Nokia as its technology partner to help devise a portable 4G network which weighs less than a bag of sugar. “This project involves a radically innovative approach to the develop
  
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• Huawei launches AUTIN – Its new digital operations solution

  27-02-2018 01:00
  Huawei has released its new digital operations solution, AUTIN, which it says will revolutionise opertions for telcos in the digital era. The company unveiled the new service at a packed press conference at Barcelona's Renaissance hotel…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Caribbean telecoms - How do you solve a problem like Maria?

  27-02-2018 01:00
  Last September, the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the Caribbean ripped through the region, causing unprecedented levels of destruction. Hurricane Irma produced sustained winds of more than 200mph, far in excess of the 156mph required to meet the highest Category 5 status…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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