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• Technology is only half of the digital economy story

  16-05-2018 19:17
  What the world looks like in a decade is any bodies guess, but the success of the digital economy is so much more than simply getting technology to work seamlessly.
  That was one of the messages which came out of the keynote sessions at the Big Communications Event in Austin. Yes, technology will fundamentally change the world, morphing the landscape into something which might be inconceivable to us today, but to ensure success companies will have to look at much more nuanced aspects as well, som
  
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• TETRA and LTE are essential for mission critical users so why not take advantage of both says ETELM

  16-05-2018 17:00
  Berlin, Germany, 16 May 2018 - While TETRA and LTE interconnection is raising many challenges for the mission critical industry, it is important to consider alternative ways of leveraging legacy technologies to move forward with LTE, says Nicolas Hauswald, Director of Sales and Marketing at ETELM. Speaking today at Critical Communications World 2018 in Berlin, Hauswald commented that barriers preventing users from deploying LTE could be removed by using an integrated solution instead of an...Sou
  
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• Fixed Wireless Access technical challenges and solutions

  16-05-2018 15:53
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Derek Johnston, Head of Marketing, Networks Division at Samsung Electronics America and Robert Kubik, Director of Public Policy at Samsung Electronics America discuss the technical challenges and solutions with Fixed Wireless Access technology.
  The primary challenges with Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) lie predominantly within the spectrum being used. In order to deliver
  
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• BT presses button on deeper integration of consumer arm with EE

  16-05-2018 14:44
  Telecoms group makes push in latest bid to reframe company after a torrid few months
  
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• BT hatches a cunning new multiplay plan

  16-05-2018 14:42
  UK operator group BT has unveiled a bunch of initiatives for its consumer business unit, focusing on a new ‘BT Plus’ converged plan.
  The point is apparently to offer BT punters the best combination of services across its three UK consumer brands: BT, EE and Plusnet. It’s all about keeping them connected regardless of the brand and the connectivity method – whatever gets the job done. There’s also a fair bit of posturing about customer service and improved retail.
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• Telefónica gets intimate with Amazon Web Services

  16-05-2018 13:56
  Telefónica Business Solutions has got into a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services in order to offer more cloudy stuff to its customers.
  This seems to be a fair bit more than just a reseller agreement, with TBS creating an in-house team of AWS specialists as well as a ‘Cloud Center of Excellence’ in Spain that will relentlessly obsess about all things AWS. It’s all about holding companies’ hands during their cloud and digital transformation journey.
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• Open Fiber chooses Italtel for Network Automation

  16-05-2018 11:49
  Italtel, operating in a temporary group of companies led by Maticmind, has created a team of excellence for the highly innovative project Milan, Italy, May 16, 2018 – Italtel, alongside Maticmind, today announced it has completed a pioneering network automation project to automatically configure network services for Open Fiber, the wholesale-only FTTH Italian operator, which expects to reach around 19 million property units in Italy with FTTH ultra-broadband in the coming years. Open Fiber
  
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• Sky expands wholesale connectivity offering by partnering with SSE Enterprise Telecoms

  16-05-2018 11:15
  Significant network connectivity deal extends reach to 96 per cent of UK business postcodesLONDON, UK – 16 May 2018 – SSE Enterprise Telecoms – one of the UK’s leading connectivity providers, and part of SSE plc – today announced a connectivity partnership with Sky Business, to deliver new high-capacity Ethernet connectivity solutions to businesses across the UK. The agreement sees an expanded reach in footprint for SSE Enterprise Telecoms, enabling them to access 9
  
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• Airangel appoints new Chairman of the Board

  16-05-2018 11:00
  Warrington 16th May 2018: Airangel reported today that the Company’s Board of Directors has elected Roger Taylor as Chairman. Roger brings the benefit of a decade of senior leadership positions with technology enabled growth companies serving the global hospitality and travel industry. Initially, CEO of Quadriga Worldwide, the second largest global provider of hotel TV, WiFi and network services, and latterly Chairman of Hoppa, Europe's largest provider of airport transfers, iRiS Software
  
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• India’s Reliance Communications to face bankruptcy proceedings

  16-05-2018 10:20
  Court order threatens deal with Jio and sends shares down by a fifth
  
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• Fujikura Europe launch new intelligent Optical Fibre Cleaver

  16-05-2018 10:00
  Available from this summer, the CT50 provides a dramatic reduction in handling time and maintenance costsChessington, UK. 16 May 2018: Leaders in optical connectivity and splicing technology, Fujikura Europe, will be launching the new CT50 Optical Fibre Cleaver, an improved complete cleaving product, offering increased operability and maintainability compared to any other cleaver of its kind on the market today. The CT50 provides enhanced drop and impact resistance and allows customers like neve
  
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• Vodafone: UK must get Brexit right

  16-05-2018 02:00
  The UK government must deliver a strong Brexit package or risk alienating its telecommunications sector, according to Vodafone's departing CEO Vitorrio Colao. During a media briefing in London this week, Colao said that the UK government must consider the role of immigration in fuelling innovation in its telecoms sector…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Verizon to rollout 5G in 4 key US cities by Q4 2018

  16-05-2018 02:00
  Verizon will launch fully commercialised 5G networks in four US cities later this year, according to the company's CEO Lowell McAdam…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT's hybrid Smart Network will offer seamless connectivity by 2022

  16-05-2018 02:00
  BT is launching the UK's first fully converged communications network, which will allow its customers to access seamless connectivity across BT's broadband, WIFI and mobile networks. The new converged Smart Network is scheduled to be completed in 2022…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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