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• You may be using RCS without even knowing

  02-05-2018 18:36
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Guillaume Le Mener, GM of Enterprise Solutions at Mavenir argues that there may still be a lot more to RCS than you think.
  We have taken it for granted. When we use our smartphone, it is just another icon on the screen but, believe it or not, SMS is more than 35 years old. It was first proposed for the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) in 1982, althoug
  
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• Pentagon halts Huawei and ZTE phone sales on military bases

  02-05-2018 18:26
  The Pentagon isn’t allowed to ban personnel from having ZTE and Huawei devices for personal use (not yet anyway) but it can stop retail outlets on US military bases around the world from stocking them.
  For every week that passes there seems to another step-up for US aggression in the looming trade war with China. This week now sees the Pentagon move to ban the sale of Huawei and ZTE devices on any US military base around the world, according to the Wall Street Journal. It should hardly com
  
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• Key announcements from Facebook’s developer conference

  02-05-2018 18:09
  This year’s edition of Facebook’s developer conference was always going to be an interesting one, with executives scuttling away from the Cambridge Analytica fallout.
  As with every year, it would be fair to expect some blockbuster announcements, but considering the nefarious maze the firm is currently negotiating, fire-fighting privacy concerns should also be on the agenda. So what did we gather from Day One?
  Advertising business concedes a little bit of leverage
  Personalised and tar
  
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• Inmarsat loses shareholder vote on pay

  02-05-2018 18:09 via ft.com
  Satellite company is first listed UK business to suffer remuneration defeat this year
  
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• Shaping the Global MVNO Market

  02-05-2018 16:52
  The MVNOs Series asked mobile market movers and shakers from across the globe their opinions on the key trends shaping the MVNO sector in 2018, the challenges, opportunities and what their priorities and aspirations are. The result is an authoritative account of how the industry is continuing to evolve across different regions, and where those best placed to know expect it to head next.
  In the report ‘Shaping the Global MVNO Market’, we have combined the results from the annual MVNOs
  
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• Satellite Evolution Group launches NewSpace industry platform

  02-05-2018 15:25
  Horsham, UK, 2nd May 2018: Satellite Evolution Group, a leading multimedia information and marketing platform for the global satellite industry, today announced the launch of NewSpace International – a new magazine and online platform to track and analyse developments in the rapidly growing private spaceflight industry. Updated daily with all the latest news and events in the space sector, the website will complement the bimonthly issue of NewSpace International magazine – the indust
  
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• Ofcom, FCC, UK House of Lords and Microsoft open DSA Global Summit 2018

  02-05-2018 15:00
  22 regulatory bodies from around the world are being represented at this week’s conference in LondonLondon, United Kingdom, 2 May 2018: The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) Global Summit 2018 began this morning with opening keynotes from representatives from the UK House of Lords, Ofcom, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Microsoft. Each representative summarised the importance of open communication on modern and innovative spectrum management methodologies, including dynamical
  
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• Visit PMC on the Star Stand at RBTE 2018 to find out how Specsavers benefits from Mobile Payments with Store Enabler

  02-05-2018 14:30
  High Wycombe, UK, 2 May 2018 - International POS printer manufacturer Star Micronics has today announced that PMC will be demonstrating its mobile payment solution Store Enabler on the Star stand F100 at RBTE 2018 (2 - 3 May, Olympia, London). Working in partnership with Star, PMC’s solution has allowed Specsavers to mobilise the payment process and create a highly personalised customer experience. Without doubt, Tablet POS can facilitate and enhance the entire customer experience....Sourc
  
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• Nokia set to sell Withings back to its founder

  02-05-2018 14:04
  Having indicated it wanted to get out of the digital health game earlier this year, Nokia is selling Withings back to the bloke it bought it from.
  Éric Carreel is one of the founders of Withings and he seems to have held on to much of the cash he trousered when Nokia bought his company two years ago for €170 million. Nokia isn’t revealing how much he’s buying it back for but, since it’s been on the market for 2-3 months it seems safe to assume he bought it back at a
  
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• GDPR is just the beginning as Europe targets ‘digital sweat factories’

  02-05-2018 13:21
  The European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli has set his sights on Silicon Valley’s biggest internet players with an agenda to tackle the ‘unbalanced ecosystem’ being created in the digital economy.
  The message here is simple; the tech giants are abusing their power and scale over the general population and Buttarelli is going to try and put a stop to it. The upcoming GDPR will have an impact on the way in which data is collected, controlled and monetized, but we
  
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• Smartphone market Q1 2018: Apple is doing just fine

  02-05-2018 13:10
  Amid rumours that sales of its flagship smartphone have disappointed, Apple posted yet another set of impressive numbers.
  The past few weeks saw a bunch of stories all claiming to have insight into the Apple supply chain, suggesting that the flagship iPhone X hasn’t been selling in anything near the volumes Apple was hoping for. Apparently it’s too expensive and the screen is too fragile.
  Well Apple’s Q1 2018 numbers pretty much contradict those rumours, with Apple shifting 52.
  
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• Amazon censors Signal’s censorship tackling strategy

  02-05-2018 12:18
  Amazon has written to Signal threatening to kick the secure messaging app off its CloudFront web service unless it stops anti-censorship practice known as domain-fronting.
  The technique has been used by the secure messaging app for the last couple of years as a means to combat censorship and government assaults on free of speech in countries such as Egypt, Oman, Qatar, and UAE. Known as domain-fronting, developers disguise web traffic to look like it’s coming from a different source, which
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER showcase full solutions offering for critical communications at CIDEX 2018

  02-05-2018 10:09
  Its display at the exhibition will include fail-safe solutions for airborne, ground and naval applicationsBeijing, 02 May 2018 – Leading international manufacturer of components and systems for optical and electrical connectivity, HUBER+SUHNER will be showcasing its ground-breaking solutions for critical communications and defense at the China International Defense Electronics Exhibition (CIDEX), in Beijing, May 7-9. With defense communications a common issue across the world and with oper
  
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• Verizon to donate up to $250K to Wounded Warrior Project on behalf of new wireless customer accounts in May

  02-05-2018 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Verizon is honoring Military Appreciation Month in May and extending its long-standing leadership in support of military members and their families. Click here for more.
  
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• Verizon collapses key network elements, improving efficiency and customer functionality

  02-05-2018 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  NEW YORK - Verizon - along with Cisco and Juniper Networks - is using software-defined networking (SDN) technology to combine all of its existing service edge routers for Ethernet and IP-based services onto a single platform, improving the operational efficiency of its networks while also adding increased functionality and flexibility. This new multi-service edge solution features a disaggregated control plane and leverages external compute to enhance the capabilities of that control plane beyon
  
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• Harris County Sheriff's Office renews agreement with Verizon for wireless services

  02-05-2018 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  HOUSTON - Harris County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) is better equipped to serve the more than four million residents of Harris County, Texas, thanks to a new agreement with Verizon. In addition to the 4G LTE wireless service that the nation's third largest sheriff's office has enjoyed for the past 10 years, Verizon will improve Harris County's ability to communicate directly and more expeditiously to front line first responders and the general public by implementing a solution that deploys real time
  
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• Orange beefs up its network security in Poland

  02-05-2018 02:00
  Orange Polska has announced a strategic partnership with Israeli cyber security specialist SecBI, to ramp up its network security in Poland. The agreement will see the two companies working together to broaden Orange&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia confirms sale of Digital Health Unit

  02-05-2018 02:00
  Finish mobile technology giant, Nokia, will sell off its Digital Health business unit, according to a company release. The digital health business unit will be sold to Eric Careel…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nearly 1 million Brits still making do with sub par broadband

  02-05-2018 02:00
  Almost a million people across the United Kingdom are still unable to access broadband speeds of at least 10Mbps, according to an industry report. In its Connected Nations report…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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