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• BT strikes deal with union to close defined benefit pension plan

  19-03-2018 20:46
  Hybrid scheme averts industrial action as group grapples with £14bn deficit
  
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• EE continues quest against not spots but still losing out

  19-03-2018 19:59
  EE has said it now covers 90% of the UK’s landmass thanks to an additional 105 sites built in the last six months to cover mobile not-spots, but research suggests its losing in the market share exchanges.
  Most of the new 4G and 2G coverage built by EE focus on the roads in areas that previously had zero mobile connectivity from any provider, and the plans are to roll out a further 350 new sites, though no timings have been released on these projects. The overall aim is to have 95% geograph
  
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• Government gets another weapon in the battle against privacy

  19-03-2018 19:57
  Government intelligence agencies and police forces have been briefed on a new tool known as ‘GreyKey’ which promises to unlock iPhones running iOS 10 and 11.
  The tool is brought to you by a low-key start-up called Grayshift, about which little is known, but Forbes believes the group is run by ex-US intelligence agency contractors and an ex-Apple security engineer. It’s only in the last couple of weeks Grayshift has been touting its services, and even gaining access to the websi
  
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• Introduction to Qualcomm’s 5G day and 5G NR demo

  19-03-2018 19:00
   
  
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• Qualcomm’s 5G Day, 5G momentum and IoT

  19-03-2018 18:48
   
  
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• European 5G progress and Qualcomm diversification

  19-03-2018 18:41
   
  
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• The first 5G modem – Qualcomm Snapdragon X50

  19-03-2018 18:15
   
  
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• The new Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem hits 2 Gbps

  19-03-2018 17:47
   
  
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• How drones can provide cell phone service following extreme weather and disasters

  19-03-2018 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Woodbine, New Jersey -Hurricanes.  Tornadoes.  Blizzards. Earthquakes.  Mother Nature can strike at any moment, leaving behind a path of destruction. If severe weather strikes, power and communication services can be disrupted for days. In early March, Verizon and American Aerospace Technologies, Inc. (AATI), took the next step in advancing cutting-edge wireless communications from a drone for disaster response with their fourth test of capabilities. Click here for more.
  
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• Huawei unveils Intent-Driven CloudCampus solution

  19-03-2018 15:18
  Huawei has announced its new Intent-Driven CloudCampus solution which promises automated service provisioning and O&M, and converged access.
  The new architecture was announced at Huawei Western Europe Partner Summit in Amsterdam and is built on the campus network insight engine CampusInsight and its campus network automation solution Software-Defined Campus (SD-Campus). Huawei has claimed CampusInsight can help build a predictive, self-healing closed-loop system with added visibility for eac
  
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• Telefónica looks for micro-location sweet spot

  19-03-2018 15:17
  Telefónica International Wholesale Services has unveiled new service known as Marketing Campaigns Manager, which will allow MNOs to tailor customer offers based on location.
  This is not a new idea, but one which fell pretty flat the first time around. Marketing Campaigns Manager will allow MNOs to use the location of a customer’s device to push various deals and promotions depending on the context. It was once considered mobile spam which infuriated many users, but now we are genera
  
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• The future of business services

  19-03-2018 15:14
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Tim Wright, Technology Director of the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP), reports on an ITP seminar held in London on 7 February 2018.
  Over the last decade, we have seen the continuing migration to all IP-based networks at the service level, underpinned by high capacity optical cores, with the delivery of ‘over-the-top’ consumer services a
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Smart moans

  19-03-2018 15:11
  Now with added video! 
  
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• The Cambridge Analytica scandal seems overblown, but Facebook could still be in trouble

  19-03-2018 13:26
  Facebook has suspended a couple of data analytics companies for violating its platform policies, but that didn’t stop the story from exploding over the weekend.
  A Cambridge University lecturer specialising in neuroscience named Aleksandr Kogan used a Facebook app called ‘thisisyourdigitallife’ to access information about the 270,000 people that downloaded it. While that all abided by Facebook’s rules, passing that information on to data analytics firm Cambridge Analytics
  
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• Inoapps Launches Subcontractor Management Cloud For The Construction Industry

  19-03-2018 13:23
  Leading global Oracle Platinum Partner Inoapps (www.inoapps.com) has launched a comprehensive suite of subcontractor management tools for the Engineering and Construction sector, which complement existing Oracle Cloud ERP software. The new Subcontractor Management Cloud application addresses each stage of the Subcontractor lifecycle, ensuring streamlined, effortless processes for all levels of management and for all sizes of project. Subcontractor management remains one of the major issues withi
  
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• Qualcomm chases out big thinking board member

  19-03-2018 13:21
  Qualcomm has announced it will not re-nominate Paul Jacobs to the Board of Directors after the executive made the decision to explore the possibility of making a proposal to acquire Qualcomm.
  Jacobs has been working at the chipmaker since 1990, holding the position of CEO between 2005 and 2014, and also serving as Chairman of the Board. But it seems ambitions of trying to take the company private where too much for the other 10 board members, who have said in a statement they would consider his
  
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• If an autonomous vehicle kills someone, who is liable?

  19-03-2018 13:19
  While we have all been getting excited about the prospect of autonomous vehicles a couple of issues seemed to have been overlooked, but now it seems the legal community is addressing a big one; liability.
  The technical challenges of autonomous vehicles are massive. Latency needs to almost non-existent, coverage needs to be almost ubiquitous and the AI components need to be almost perfectly intelligent while also demonstrating almost human like logic and context. These very complex problems, but
  
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• Italy's National Research Council CNR and Italtel Enter ICT Framework Agreement

  19-03-2018 12:24
  The collaboration aims to promote new synergies in areas such as Industry 4.0, smart cities, cyber security and big data Rome, March 19, 2018 – A new framework agreement to promote research, knowledge exchange and innovation within the Information and Communication Technologies sector has been signed by Italtel and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy’s national research council. Covering themes like ultrabroadband networks, telemedicine, big data, energy networks, Ind
  
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• Anam's Managed A2P SMS Services successfully launched with Tele2 Russia

  19-03-2018 12:11
  March 19, 2018; Dublin, Ireland. Anam is pleased to announce a substantial new 3-year contract with Tele2 Russia, involving the overlay of Anam’s Managed A2P SMS Services portfolio on the currently deployed SMS Firewall. The advancement of wholesale A2P SMS as a professional and reliable service is central to the Anam/Tele2 partnership because the channel has been suffering from low quality and grey routing into MNO’s across the world for a long time. Tele2 serves...Source: RealWire
  
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• DNS Threat Intelligence vs. AI Network Security

  19-03-2018 11:35
  Domain Name System (DNS) is a protocol dictating how computers exchange data on the Internet. It turns a user-friendly domain name into an IP address that computers use to identify each other. DNS protocol is unencrypted by default.
  Most security vendors still heavily rely on signature-based detection, such as DNS firewalls and DNS blacklisting. It essentially performs DNS query checks of known bad domains.
  In 2-3 years, all DNS traffic will be encrypted. Analyzing DNS traffic will not help to s
  
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• Ofcom and the UK Minister for Digital to keynote Connected Britain 2018

  19-03-2018 11:00
  London, UK, 19 March 2018 – As improving connectivity becomes more important than ever, Total Telecom has announced the keynote speakers for its upcoming Connected Britain event. Held at London’s Business Design Centre on the 19 – 20 June, Connected Britain 2018 returns for its fourth year to bring together the main stakeholders and key players in the digital revolution to discuss, learn and collaborate on the UK’s digital future. The Connected Britain agenda features...S
  
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• Mission Critical Technology: InfiNet Wireless provides reliable connectivity across 75 sq.km for the largest coal producer in Kazakhstan

  19-03-2018 10:00
  Kazakhstan. 19 March 2018: InfiNet Wireless, the leading global manufacturer of carrier-grade broadband wireless solutions, has successfully deployed a high-performance wireless infrastructure for Shubarkol Komir JSC, the largest coal producer in Kazakhstan. This new network effectively represents a major upgrade to the IT infrastructure and the mission-critical video-surveillance platform previously used by this energy company.The project, implemented in conjunction with InfiNet’s regiona
  
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• Mobileum launches new research report: The New Rules of Roaming and how Mobile Operators should play to win

  19-03-2018 09:00
  March 2018, Cupertino, California Mobileum, the leader in roaming and traveller data analytics, announces new research aimed at telecom service providers looking to understand key trends and identify new opportunities to transform and monetize roaming business in an increasingly disrupted marketplace. A key finding is that initiatives in customer behavorial analytics, and new predictive models, can deliver accurate conclusions of roaming customers, with clear graphical representation of results.
  
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• Weekend Round Up - Bharti Airtel acquires 1.5 million former Aircel customers

  19-03-2018 01:00
  Greece – The Greek Government has invited Deutsche Telekom to make a bid to purchase its minority stake in Greek telecoms provider OTE. The Greek government received no bids for its minority stake in OTE when it put it up for sale last month. As per the terms of its contract, the Greek government has now offered Deutsche Telekom the chance to buy it out. DT currently owns a 40 per cent stake in OTE…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Three passes the 10m customer mark and posts strong financials for 2017

  19-03-2018 01:00
  The UK's fourth biggest mobile operator, Three, has reached 10 million customers, according to its latest financial report. The company's active customer base grew by 10 per cent to 10 million individual users during 2017…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Hyperoptic to bring 100,000 FTTH connections to London borough

  19-03-2018 01:00
  The deal will see Hyperoptic bring gigabit fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband services to Southwark Council's entire housing portfolio, plus an additional 47,000 private residences.  The Borough of Southwark has previously been voted one of the 20 worst places to live in the UK for broadband download speeds, averaging just 10…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Facebook shares plunge 5% after claims it mishandled its customers' data

  19-03-2018 01:00
  Shares in the social media giant were trading at $185.09 at close of business on Friday but immediately slumped to $175.19 when markets reopened on Monday morning – equating to a $27 billion drop in the company's net worth.   Reports in the press have claimed that research group Cambridge Analytica harvested personal details from up to 50 million Facebook profiles and then used the information to build a predictive modelling tool to predict voting patterns of the US elector
  
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