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• Red Hat Offering Telcos The Power of Innovation from Open Source Community

  28-03-2018 18:45
   
  
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• Ericsson CEO plays the ‘strong and stable’ card

  28-03-2018 18:16
  Börje Ekholm, CEO of Ericsson, laid out his updated strategy at this company’s AGM and seems to have taken inspiration from the world of politics.
  A lot of what Ekholm said echoed what we heard in our interview with his second-in-command Fredrik Jejdling. Last year was all about consolidation, streamlining and trying to sort the wheat from the chaff. “We are confident that the strategic choices we have made will create a strong and successful Ericsson over time,” said Ekho
  
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• Facebook is changing privacy practises three years too late

  28-03-2018 18:02
  Facebook’s announcement that is has refreshed its privacy and transparency is a good step but the whole saga just shows the internet industry doesn’t care about you unless it has to.
  Back in 2006, your correspondent joined Facebook and it was great. The news feed was filled with photos of the previous night, updates from friends and prods about upcoming events; how things have changed. Finding a post from someone you actually know between adverts, promoted news stories or the latest
  
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• LuxCarta Supports Orange and Samsung with Specialized Geodata for 5G Fixed Wireless Access Trial in Romania

  28-03-2018 15:42
  Introduces Innovative New 3D Tree Model for 5G Planning Sophia Antipolis, France – March 28, 2018 – LuxCarta, the leading global geodata provider to the wireless ecosystem, announced today it is delivering its new specialized geodata to support simulation planning for 5G trials involving Orange Romania and Samsung in Romania. The company is providing its new 3D tree model digital maps, along with 3D buildings and related terrain & clutter designed for use with centimeter...Source
  
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• TIM kicks off government-appeasement project

  28-03-2018 13:48
  Telecom Italia has notified Italian regulator, AGCom, that it has officially started the legal separation of its fixed access network.
  The new company, which will be known as NetCo, will be 100% controlled by TIM though it will now be in a similar reporting structure as Openreach in the UK. While the profits will flow back into the TIM bank account, the network, business and personnel will theoretically be independent of the TIM business.
  “The model will guarantee full equality of treatmen
  
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• Ofcom slaps cap on Openreach broadband packages

  28-03-2018 13:35
  After receiving no criticisms from the European Commission, Ofcom is moving forward with measures to regulate the broadband wholesale market in a bid to drive competition and network upgrades.
  This project has been ongoing for months, but the final statement from Ofcom puts forward three measures which will apparently improve the broadband market for the consumer. Firstly, BT must make its telegraph poles and underground tunnels open for competitors to build their own full-fibre networks. Second
  
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• Nokia celebrates China Mobile SDN win for Nuage

  28-03-2018 13:04
  There’s nothing Nokia likes more than trumpeting a deal win for its Nuage Networks SDN unit and this time it’s with the world’s biggest operator.
  It’s actually a subsidiary called China Mobile (Suzhou) Software Technical Company that has chosen Nuage to provide the SDN platform for its public and private enterprise cloud services offering. The platform includes all kinds of juicy cloud buzzwords, including virtual machines, Kubernetes (K8S) containers and OpenStack Ironic
  
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• Vivendi and Elliott lock horns over Telecom Italia

  28-03-2018 13:01
  Former monopoly at centre of a battle between two corporate raiders
  
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• Data scandal set to stall Facebook’s assault on the smart home

  28-03-2018 12:23
  Facebook’s data privacy scandal is heading into the second week and it doesn’t look like it’s going to calm down, so much so the team has reportedly decided against unveiling its smart home products in May.
  Sources close to Bloomberg claim the social media giant is going to push back the launch of a new range of smart home products as it weathers the privacy storm. The launch was supposed to take place in May, during the company’s developer conference, but will now likely
  
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• Largest Installation of Cellular Mobile Uplinks in Egypt as ANA Selects TVU Networks Exclusively for Newsgathering Operations

  28-03-2018 09:00
  Transmission Reliability, Picture Quality, Operational Cost Savings, Remote Software Upgrades and Small Form Factor Cited as Reasons for Selection BARCELONA – March 28, 2018 - As part of the largest implementation of TVU Networks’ gear in Egypt, the Cairo-based Arab News Agency (ANA) purchased more than 55 new and upgraded IP video equipment such as TVU One mobile IP transmitters and TVU Transceivers for its newsgathering operations. ANA will use TVU Networks equipment exclusively fo
  
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• AT&T faces $1.1bn in payouts over Time Warner bid funding

  28-03-2018 06:00
  Telecoms group may have to honour mandatory redemption requirements for $30bn bond sale
  
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• UK rural businesses to be guaranteed minimum speeds of 10Mbps by 2020

  28-03-2018 02:00
  Internet service providers in the UK will be legally obliged to provide minimum broadband speeds of 10Mbps from 2020 as new legislation was proposed in the UK parliament today.The Universal Service Order (USO) will ultimately be administered by UK regulator Ofcom…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telstra unveils 5G WIFI hotspots in Australia

  28-03-2018 02:00
  Australian telco Telstra has launched the world's first public 5G hot spot, in Australia's Gold Coast. However, as there are currently no commercially available 5G devices on the market…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange injects some energy into Africa's telecoms market

  28-03-2018 02:00
  Orange is expanding its plan to bring solar energy to a swathe of countries across the African continent. Following successful implementation of the sustainable energy initiative in The Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar, Orange will now widen its remit to include Burkina Faso…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom kicks off Germany's biggest fibre broadband initiative

  28-03-2018 02:00
  Deutsche Telekom has today embarked on a network renovation programme that will bring fibre to the home (FTTH) services to 40,000 people in north-eastern Germany. &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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