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• Orange targets Africa to increase mobile banking operations

  27-03-2018 20:14
  French telecoms group seeks banking licence covering 8 countries in west African union
  
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• Connectivity is the only reason little Bobby is failing school

  27-03-2018 17:51
  Parents are often the last to realise their children are little horrors and new research from uSwitch has given them another excuse for their little angel failing in school; rubbish internet.
  The research states that 69% of parents believe the internet is essential to their child’s education while 15% of parents, the equivalent of roughly 1.2 million children believe their little darlings grades are lower than they should be because of poor internet speeds. On average, parents say that the
  
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• Arizona suspends Uber autonomous car testing indefinitely

  27-03-2018 15:01
  Following the recent fatality caused by a self-driving vehicle being tested by Uber in Arizona, the state Governor has suspended his permission to do that sort of thing.
  Governor Doug Ducey has a fair bit of political capital on the line over this, having rolled out the red carpet to autonomous vehicle testing in 2016. The Associated Press seems to have been the first to report on Ducey’s decision but 12 News managed to get hold of his letter to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, which you can se
  
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• Innovating change: How FinTech and Blockchain will impact the mobile market

  27-03-2018 14:21
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Freelance Technology Journalist Kate O’Flaherty argues that value added services are the key to new revenue streams for mobile operators and MVNOs.
  At a time when margins are under increasing pressure, operators and MVNOs are looking to recoup revenues through value added services. An area offering growing potential is the technology enabled by the financi
  
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• Q&A with Bernard Bureau, 5G and Wireless CTO at TELUS

  27-03-2018 13:44
  What use cases do you think will drive adoption of 5G?
  Use-cases driving 5G adoption will occur in stages as the technology matures over time. Initially, 5G technology will be applied by the operators for a few use cases:
  Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB). The newest flagship smartphones will quickly support this use case and the end to end adoption will be driven mainly by two things:By the requirement for operators to lower unit cost for data. 5G technology can do this with technologies such as
  
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• Linux Foundation looks to open source growth for AI

  27-03-2018 13:19
  The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of LF Deep Learning Foundation, an umbrella organization which will support open source projects in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning.
  Amdocs, AT&T, B.Yond, Baidu, Huawei, Nokia, Tech Mahindra, Tencent, Univa, and ZTE will form the foundations of the group, which was announced at the Open Networking Summit in Los Angeles. As with all projects at the Linux Foundation the aim here is to harmonise developments across the i
  
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• Veon CEO calls it a day with no replacement lined up

  27-03-2018 13:15
  CEO Jean-Yves Charlier has decided to step away from the artist formerly known as Vimpelcom but they don’t seem to have even started looking for a new one.
  Ursula Burns, who has been Chairman of Veon since July 2017, will now become Executive Chairman, which basically means she’s doing the CEO job too. To be fair she’s pretty well qualified for the gig, having been CEO of Xerox from 2009-2016, but she’s presumably now in the board member phase of her career, including Ame
  
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• FCC’s Pai suggests new bans on nasty foreigners

  27-03-2018 11:43
  New proposals from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to further protect the US people from those nasty foreigners, suggesting a ban on equipment or services from companies that pose a national security threat to the US.
  The world is starting to become very small for the increasingly protectionist and paranoid US, which is currently doing all it can to resist that pesky trend known as globalisation. The suggested ban would stop any money from the FCC’s Universal Service Fund being used to buy equipment
  
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• Vodafone India's proposed merger with Idea Cellular enters "final stage of approval"

  27-03-2018 02:00
  The long awaited merger between Vodafone India and Idea Cellular has reached the "final stage of approval", according to reports in the Indian press.&nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• New initiative to position UK as a global hub for 5G

  27-03-2018 02:00
  The UK's Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has launched UK5G – a new initiative that aims to establish the UK as a world leader in the development and deployment of 5G technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• European Commission backs Ofcom on Openreach wholesale regulation

  27-03-2018 02:00
  Europe's highest regulatory body, The European Commission, has backed Ofcom's plans to regulate wholesale access to BT Openreach's broadband network. "The Commission particularly approves of the intention of Ofcom to make it more attractive for alternative operators to use Openreach's physical infrastructure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson makes key appointments to its executive team

  27-03-2018 02:00
  Ericsson has made a number of key appointments to its executive team as the Swedish kit maker looks to bring in fresh faces to drive the company's development. Xavier Dedullen has been appointed to the position of senior vice president…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Dark Fibre infrastructure to boost UK connectivity

  27-03-2018 02:00
  Elite has unveiled plans for its new full fibre network in the UK. The Next-Gen Network will bring full fibre connectivity to 100,000 postcodes in the UK, starting in London. The company claims that the network will allow it to provide its customers with the UK's most cost effective 100Mbps and 1Gbps broadband services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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