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• Sprint and T-Mobile USA rekindle merger talks

  10-04-2018 21:05
  Third attempt to create a wireless group that can better take on Verizon and AT&T
  
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• EU to back €2.1bn fund for European start-ups

  10-04-2018 18:42
  The European Union has announced it will back a Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds programme, known as VentureEU, to boost investment in start-up and scale-up companies across Europe.
  The EU itself will only be providing €410 million of the total amount, which will be raised from other private and public sources. The VentureEU fund will invest in six venture capital fund of funds, which is hoped to raise a total of €6.5 billion, double the amount of capital investment which is
  
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• Facebook’s desperation to survive could bring about its demise

  10-04-2018 18:38
  Social media giant Facebook is so desperate to get out of the doghouse it seems likely to police speech on the platform to a self-defeating extent.
  CEO Mark Zuckerberg is going to testify in front of a bunch of stern politicians tomorrow and CNBC got hold of his prepared introduction, which he will read out before the main interrogation commences. Some of his comments indicate a willingness to significantly increase editorial control over everything posted on the site.
  “Facebook is an idea
  
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• Could net neutrality challenges lead to the end of the FCC?

  10-04-2018 17:00
  Governor Kate Brown has signed House Bill 4155 making Oregon the latest US state to push back against FCC moves to repeal net neutrality laws, but are these challenges undermining premise of the FCC?
  The whole situation is starting to get a bit messy for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai who has effectively turned almost half of the states against federal efforts to relegate net neutrality to the footnote. While the foundations of the challenges from the states are still a little bit shaky, the Communicatio
  
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• Aricent launches intent-based networking framework to improve overall efficiency of operations and enhance the customer experience

  10-04-2018 14:31
  Unique approach to self-learning networks combines multiple capabilities including transfer learning, smart telemetry and network function orchestration Santa Clara, California – April 10, 2018 – Aricent, a global design and engineering company, announced the launch of NetAnticipate, a self-learning capability for private/public clouds, central offices rearchitected as data centers (CORD), 5G, and satellite networks. The carrier-grade solution combines a library of network Artificial
  
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• Unlocking the true potential of Mobile Edge Computing in Mobile Networks

  10-04-2018 14:17
  Despite the extensive interest in MEC, widespread deployment faces major hurdles as previously available MEC solutions implement proprietary non-3GPP standard solutions in order to maintain compatibility with security, legal intercept, charging, paging. These solutions require deep changes in operator network architecture, which is challenging for operators and are yet unable to provide highly secure and reliable low latency services (e.g. Industry4.0) that must operate independently of backhaul
  
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• Actility announces development of LoRa IoT ‘City Hub’ in Sweden

  10-04-2018 14:13
  Low-power WAN specialist Actility has announced it’s working with Swedish fibre network operator Öresundskraft to develop a commercially neutral IoT connectivity platform.
  The Open City Hub model involves the creation of an open access, commercially neutral network available to all companies or consumers in a given municipality. In this case the lucky recipient of a LoRa-powered IoT network will be Helsingborg, which looks set to be the first product of the StadshubbsAlliansen (City H
  
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• Lebara scrutiny grows after financials corrected

  10-04-2018 13:49
  Seller of phone cards must present audited accounts by end of April to avoid technical default
  
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• Apple flexes its green muscles

  10-04-2018 13:33
  Apple has claimed it is now globally powered by 100% clean energy, as it brings another nine of its suppliers onto the green mission.
  The firm now claims all retail stores, offices, data centres and co-located facilities across 43 countries are now powered 100% by clean energy, with the number of its suppliers committing to the same mission now up to 23. While this is a commendable achievement, it should be worth noting that ‘clean’ does not mean renewable.
  “We’re committ
  
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• Nokia gets a big piece of China Mobile optical transport gig

  10-04-2018 13:05
  The world’s biggest MNO – China Mobile – recently held a central bid to supply equipment for its regional optical transport network, in which it ranked Nokia top.
  The gig seems to be that a bunch of vendors are going to help out with the deployment of an optical transport network for 13 city metro and two provincial backbone networks, but that China Mobile will apportion the work between them according to some arbitrary ranking system. The good news for Nokia is that it came to
  
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• San Francisco building own Open Access Fibre network for $1.9bn

  10-04-2018 12:34
  A report has emerged from City Hall in San Francisco which assesses the final details for the city to build its own fibre network, passing 100% of homes and businesses, for $1.9 billion.
  While there will be likely be hundreds of conversations around the US on how fibre can be delivered to the home, most of which will be nothing more than blue-sky thinking, this is one we like. The city already has the appetite for fibre after false-promises from Google Fiber last year, and the attitude
  
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• Calix and Infosys Enter Strategic Co-Creation Partnership to Accelerate Time to Market for New Capabilities on AXOS Platform

  10-04-2018 12:03
  The partnership represents a major step forward in the development of the AXOS ecosystem, focusing the technology and engineering expertise of Infosys on creating new offerings on the AXOS software platform PETALUMA, CA and BENGALURU, INDIA – April 10, 2018 – Calix (NYSE: CALX) today announced a strategic multi-year partnership with Infosys (NYSE: INFY), that will accelerate communications service provider (CSP) adoption of AXOS, its Software Defined Access (SDA) Platform. Calix and
  
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• Buying bespoke solutions can cut operators' OpEx by up to 70%, says Iskratel

  10-04-2018 10:04
  Cologne, Germany, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Poilley, France, 10 April 2018 – Operators should avoid blindly implementing off-the-shelf automation solutions if they want to see significant reductions in their Operational Expense (OpEx), Iskratel’s CTO warned today.According to Damjan Slapar, operators looking to virtualise their networks can increase savings by up to 70% by working with vendors to create and deploy tailor-made solutions which not only keep ongoing costs to a minimum, bu
  
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• Fibre optic connectivity must be our key priority

  10-04-2018 02:00
  European governments must focus their attention on investing in full fibre networks, or risk being left behind in the race to roll out super-fast connectivity, according to an industry expert.  Speaking ahead of the Gigabit Access event in Brussels…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Europe must focus on fibre

  10-04-2018 02:00
  European governments must focus their attention on investing in full fibre networks, or risk being left behind in the race to roll out super-fast connectivity, according to an industry expert.  Speaking ahead of the Gigabit Access event in Brussels…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Europe could be looking at a €150 billion shortfall in fibre funding BY 2025

  10-04-2018 02:00
  Industry experts are predicting a potential €150 billion shortfall in investment in the race to roll out universal gigabit connectivity across Europe by 2025.Speaking at the Gigabit Access event in Brussels on Tuesday, Anthony Whelan…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bell hits important FTTP milestone in Canada

  10-04-2018 02:00
  Bell has announced that its full fibre network now covers "most homes and businesses" in the Toronto area. Bell invested $1.5 billion in its fibre optic network…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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