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• Italian government to buy up to 5% stake in Telecom Italia

  05-04-2018 19:19
  Move comes amid battle between Vivendi and Elliot Management over control
  
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• Verizon takes industry lead in working with key partners to drive advancements on CBRS spectrum

  05-04-2018 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  IRVING, TX - Leading companies and vendors from across the wireless industry have come together at Verizon's facility in Irving, Texas to accelerate using 4G LTE technology over the CBRS (Citizen Band Radio Spectrum) spectrum. After the successful initial trials last year, Corning, Ericsson, Federated Wireless, Google, Nokia and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, are all collaborating in end-to-end system testing to further develop the use of this new spectr
  
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• ICO broadens data privacy investigation to 30 organizations

  05-04-2018 18:21
  The ICO has announced it is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, to understand how personal data and analytics can impact political campaigning and influence elections.
  Following the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the ICO was sharp out of the blocks to kick-start an investigation in how personal data has been used in an unethical or potentially illegal manner. While we are usually quite critical about the sluggishness of the public sector, the ICO defied logic by securing a
  
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• Google employees say no to blowing stuff up

  05-04-2018 18:18
  More than 3,000 Google employees have signed an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai requesting the termination of Project Maven which uses the firm’s AI to make drone strikes more accurate.
  Google no-longer promotes the ‘don’t be evil’ tagline, but such a project could not be further away from such a mantra.
  Project Maven was started last year, focusing on computer vision which autonomously extracts objects of interest from moving or still imagery. It’s an area of AI w
  
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• 5G spectrum auction: Olé

  05-04-2018 18:17
  Quick as a flash, Telefónica’s O2 has managed to play catch-up
  
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• Q&A with Futoshi Sasaki, Internet Initiative Japan Inc

  05-04-2018 18:02
  Deputy Manager of the MVNO Business Management Office, MVNO Division, at Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Futoshi Sasaki spoke with the MVNOs World Congress 2018 team on eSIM, IoT and their impact in the MVNO space.
  How does the e-SIM ecosystem look like after the announcement of the 3rd phase of e-sim provisioning specifications?
  The most important essence for building e-SIM ecosystem is terminals. The 3rd phase of e-SIM standardization is including many of attractive new features like LPA-API a
  
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• Q&A with Whitey Bluestein, Bluestein & Associates

  05-04-2018 17:37
  Ahead of MVNOs World Congress 2018, we spoke with Whitey on the state of the MVNO market in the US, the growth areas for Wholesalers and the implications of IoT/M2M on the MVNO space. Read the interview to discover Whitey’s comments on these topics and many more.
  Can you take a moment and describe what you do at Bluestein & Associates?
  I work with clients as their corporate development executive, developing carrier relationships, negotiating deals with operators and strategic part
  
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• Q&A with Federico Homberg, Deutsche Telekom

  05-04-2018 17:27
  Whilst for consumers using their phones in Europe became significantly cheaper, the decision made by the EU to ban roaming charges across its member countries has clearly impacted the mobile wholesale market. To keep up with the all the recent changes, wholesalers need to adjust their business strategies and consider different approaches.
  Head of Business Development for Commercial Roaming at Deutsche Telekom, Federico Homberg talks innovation, growth areas and how telco operators should respond
  
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• Meet MYCOM OSI at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World 2018

  05-04-2018 17:00
  MYCOM OSI joins conference agenda, demonstrates 5G proof of concepts and will announce new cloud native assurance and automation solutionsLONDON, UK – 5th April 2018 – MYCOM OSI, the leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced details of its participation at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World, which takes place from 14th to 16th May in Nice, France.Digita
  
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• MobiCom awarded andapos;Best Socially Responsible Companyandapos;

  05-04-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  KDDI CORPORATION subsidiary MobiCom Corporation LLC (Headquarters: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Chairman and CEO: Tatsuya Hamada) has been selected as the "Best Socially Responsible Company" by the Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its biennial Silk Road-2018 Awards, honoring corporate public conscientiousness.
  Presented every other year to honor nine categories of activity and contribution, the Silk Road Awards recognize foreign business entities, international organizations, dip
  
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• KDDI enhances connectivity in Asia with Southeast Asia-Japan 2 (SJC2) submarine cable

  05-04-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tokyo, 15 March, 2018―KDDI and the members of the Southeast Asia-Japan 2 consortium (SJC2) signed an agreement with NEC Corporation to build a high performance submarine cable connecting Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Korea and Japan. Click here for more.
  
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• We could have done more, but so could the user – Facebook CEO

  05-04-2018 14:19
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has opened up over the privacy scandal which has gripped the headlines over the last month, but don’t expect the social media giant to change that much.
  The briefing, which you can read fully here, was surprisingly open for a man who values his privacy so highly. Admission of guilt was present, but only at arm’s length; as a PR exercise this is pretty much as good as it comes for Facebook. Admit fault, but pass the blame elsewhere.
  So far, this would appe
  
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• OpenSignal report reveals relative performance of UK MNOs

  05-04-2018 14:17
  The latest State of Mobile Networks: UK report from OpenSignal has EE as the clear leader according to its metrics, with O2 and Three needing to raise their game.
  You can see the charts for each of the nationwide 3G and 4G metrics below, but to cut a long story short EE won nearly all of them. It also leads in 4G availability with 86.6%, followed by O2 on 83.4%, Vodafone on 79.5% and Three on 66.6%. However our average 4G speed of 23.1 Mbps apparently lags even Armenia and Mexico. Maybe the extr
  
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• UK’s 5G auction raises £1.35bn from four bidders

  05-04-2018 13:57
  Proceeds beat expectations but are far cry from £22.5bn 3G windfall in 2000
  
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• Mobile groups bid £1.35bn as 5G auction beats forecasts

  05-04-2018 13:57
  Proceeds are long way from £22.5bn 3G windfall for Treasury in 2000
  
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• SFR gets fined for the print of its fine print

  05-04-2018 13:54
  French telco SFR has lost its argument in the Paris Court of Appeal for illegal and abusive clauses, with the ruling also noting font size T&Cs was too small for the consumer to fully appreciate the contract.
  The case itself was brought forward by French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, which claimed a number of the clauses in SFR contracts were not fair to the consumer. One of these clauses allowed SFR to deny responsibility for any network issues resulting in up to 10% failure rate in calls
  
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• UK 5G auction: O2 and the state win, Three and consumers lose

  05-04-2018 13:41
  The UK auction of 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz spectrum has concluded at a higher cost than expected, with O2 winning the most and Three the least.
  On offer was 40 MHz of 2.3 GHz band, to be used for 4G, and 150 MHz of 3.4 GHz band, to be used for 5G. The bidders were the four UK MNOs plus small-cell specialist Airspan. The total spent was £1.356 billion, well above previous estimates of £630 million to a billion, which might explain why Airspan didn’t end up winning anything.
  The big w
  
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• Microsoft strives for an intelligent edge in IoT

  05-04-2018 13:34
  Microsoft has announced it will invest $5 billion in the Internet of Things over the next four years focused on security, creating development tools and intelligent services for IoT and the edge.
  With IoT set to offer profits for certain segments of the ecosystem, Microsoft is in a solid position, and who would have thought we would have been saying that a few years ago. Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO the company successfully transformed into a powerhouse of the cloud world, which offers a
  
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• UK telcos spend big as 5G spectrum auction raises £1.35 billion

  05-04-2018 02:00
  The initial phase of the UK's 5G spectrum has come to a close, with four operators securing 34 lots of spectrum across two bands. Vodafone, O2, Three and EE all won large amounts of spectrum at the auction, while the fifth qualified bidder, Airspan Spectrum Holdings, walked away with nothing (although they are expected to make more serious bids in the 28GHz spectrum auction, which will be held at a much later date).  The £1.35 billion raised far exceeded the predicted amoun
  
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• Italian government to buy 5% stake in TIM

  05-04-2018 02:00
  Italy's state lender is to purchase a 5 per cent stake in Telecom Italia (TIM), according to a report by Reuters. Three separate sources told Reuters that the move was intended to strengthen the Italian government's influence in a strategically important company…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Global telecoms capex to increase by 1% per year until 2020

  05-04-2018 02:00
  Capital expenditure in the global telecoms sector is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 1 per cent per year between 2017 and 2020, according to a new report. The new report…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Mobile International partners with Aryaka on SD-WAN enterprise solutions

  05-04-2018 02:00
  China Mobile International has signed a strategic agreement with Aryaka to deliver the world's first fully compliant global SD-WAN service for Chinese companies with a global presence, as well as international companies with locations in China…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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