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• Orange in deal to beam satellite broadband to Europe

  06-04-2018 20:13
  Eutelsat venture is latest sign of telecoms groups looking to space to expand reach
  
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• RCom gives green light to offload wireless unit

  06-04-2018 16:50
  Reliance Communications has been given the go-ahead to sell off its wireless business unit after National Company Appellate Law Tribunal removed an order blocking the sale.
  The NCLAT had blocked the sale of the wireless assets due to various legal challenges, including one from Ericsson. The Swedes claimed RCom had not paid it for equipment and services for two years, and instead tried to pull a fast one by issuing a few post-dated cheques. After this obstruction has been lifted, RCom is now fre
  
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• Telegram faces ban in Russia

  06-04-2018 16:16
  Messaging app Telegram is on the ropes in Russia after the state communications watchdog said it filed a lawsuit to limit access after it refused security services access to its users’ secret messages.
  According to Reuters, Russia’s FSB Federal Security service had requested information hidden behind the app’s encryption software, but was refused. Citing respect for users privacy, Telegram refused access for the intelligence services who were reportedly following leads of terro
  
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• France wants to reallocate 134 MHz of 2G and 3G spectrum to 4G

  06-04-2018 14:07
  Arcep, the French telecoms regulator, has opened a public consultation on the reallocation of a bunch of frequency bands.
  Around 134 MHz of spectrum in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2.1 GHz bands is in play, which is currently being used for 2G and 3G by Orange, SFR and Bouygues. The 900 and 1800 were allocated in 2006 and 2009 under 15-year licenses, so are up for grabs again in 2021 and 2024. The 2.1 GHz was doshed out in 2001 and 2002 on a 20-year license.
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• Verizon targets end-2018 for CBRS deployments

  06-04-2018 13:41
  Verizon has teamed up with a host of vendors with the objective of launching services and devices on Citizen Band Radio Spectrum by the end of 2018.
  After successful initial trials last year, Corning, Ericsson, Federated Wireless, Google, Nokia and Qualcomm, have all come together in Verizon’s Irving lab to develop further use of the spectrum. After the FCC authorized shared use of the spectrum with wireless small cells in 2016, Verizon has been burrowing away with progress seemingly stead
  
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• Multi-Access Edge Computing will transform network economics

  06-04-2018 12:54
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Bejoy Pankajakshan, SVP, Technology and Strategy at Mavenir, take a look at what Multi-access Edge Computing will bring to the table.
  Rapid advances in mobile computing power are pushing machine intelligence to the very edge of the network. Known as Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), this development is a critical success factor in the rise of the new 5G mo
  
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• Research paints gloomy 5G picture for Europe

  06-04-2018 12:36
  New findings from research consultancy CCS Insight forecast Europe lagging behind the US and Asia as countries look towards the future 5G world.
  While the 5G promise has been a slow burner so far, this was largely expected. The telco industry is excellent at overhyping a technology in its infancy, only for the world to be impatient at what should be considered normal progress. That said, the emergence of the 3GPP NR standards at the end of 2017 gave a jolt of life to the old-timers falling aslee
  
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• Samsung beats profit expectations for Q1

  06-04-2018 11:51
  Samsung has announced its Q1 2018 earnings guidance and its profit is set to be significantly higher than analysts were expecting.
  Markets were advised that Samsung brought in around 60 trillion won ($56.4 billion) in sales and 15.6 trillion won ($14.7 billion). According to Reuters analysts were expecting profits closer to 14.5 trillion won, but Samsung’s share price still declined a bit because people seem to think this quarter is an exception and semiconductor sales are set to decline i
  
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• ZTE partners with Taboola to drive content consumption

  06-04-2018 02:00
  Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE has signed a deal with content discovery platform Taboola. The partnership marks the first instance of ZTE utilising a personalised content news aggregator on its handsets to drive revenue streams…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• StarHub switches on world's first 1 Gbps 4G network in Singapore

  06-04-2018 02:00
  Singaporean mobile network operator, StarHub, has increased the top speed of its 4G networks to a blistering 1 Gbps, according to a company release.The move will make StarHub the fastest commercially available 4G network in the world…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G Fanfare – Will overpaying for spectrum come back to haunt the UK's big 4?

  06-04-2018 02:00
  Collectively, Britain's big four mobile network operators spent more than £1.35 billion at Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction – a princely sum but significantly less than the £2.3 billion raised in the 4G auction of 2013. Indeed, the figure pales into near insignificance when compared to the absurdly bloated figure of £22.5 billion raised in 2000 for the 3G licenses.  Despite the comparatively low revenues generated, analysts are hailing the auction as a success, with
  
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