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• Five takeaways from Light Reading’s Big Communications Event

  17-05-2018 21:24
  Three days, 100 speakers, temperatures in the thirties and a couple of notable hangovers, but here’s what we took away from Light Reading’s Big Communications Event in Austin.
  The edge is hitting centre stage
  5G use cases dominated the headlines for years, but the edge was the big focus at this year’s Big Communications Event. The idea of the edge is nothing new, and it did get its fifteen minutes a few years back, but since then the conversation has wandered elsewhere. But now
  
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• Traditional operators are incapable of digital transformation

  17-05-2018 19:35
  The Digital Transformation World event this week shone a light on quite how far from achieving digital transformation many operators are.
  Such is the perceived importance of this concept to the future health of the CSP industry that TM Forum, which has traditionally been more focused on just the underlying technology used by CSPs, decided to rebrand its big show of the year accordingly. Everyone in attendance seemed to agree it’s important, but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s
  
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• Anam in partnership with HGC to deploy SMS Firewall & A2P Security Services in Vietnamobile network

  17-05-2018 16:46
  Dublin, May 17, 2018. Anam Technologies are delighted to announce a partnership with HGC to offer its Industry leading SMS Firewall and A2P Managed Services to Vietnamobile, one of the Hutchison Group networks. The joint initiative will generate increased A2P revenues and deliver improved customer satisfaction by addressing SMS Spam on the back of a secured SMS infrastructure. Anam was very recently declared the No 1 Tier 1 SMS Firewall vendor for 2017. The research...Source: RealWire
  
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• Ofcom reveals UK consumer telecoms value for money is improving

  17-05-2018 14:26
  UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a report into what people pay for their communications services and it implies we’re getting better at shopping around.
  The report is titled ‘Pricing trends for communications services in the UK’. Among its headline findings are that, while some people are still paying a fair bit more for their broadband, mobile, etc, they’re getting less ripped off than they were a few years ago.
  For example, around four million UK homes with ADS
  
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• BT faces the threat of strikes over job cuts

  17-05-2018 13:56
  UK engineering union Prospect has announced 100 BT union rep members voted on the telco’s proposal to cut 13,000 management jobs.
  An emergency motion allowing members to keep all options open was proposed at the Prospect BT annual conference and passed unanimously. What exactly that means remains to be seen but whenever unions grow restive, industrial action is the WMD in the room, and it’s easy to see how that could be very damaging to BT on many levels.
  The specific phrasing of the
  
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• Refunds onto Mobile Phone Bills Now Possible for First Time

  17-05-2018 13:47
  BillMobile launches quicker, cheaper and more convenient refund technology; signs Enarpee Services as first client Newcastle, May 17th, 2018: Thanks to the new MobileRefunds solution (mobilerefunds.com), launched today, businesses that charge a consumer’s mobile phone bill - for anything from digital goods, to charity donations - can, for the first time, refund directly back onto that mobile phone bill if needed.BillMobile (billmobile.com) has developed the new technology, to help business
  
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• One plus six equals flagship killer

  17-05-2018 12:16
  Disruptive Chinese smartphone vendor One Plus launched its latest flagship device, which offers premium specs for far less money than the competition.
  The OnePlus 6 has a 6.28-inch AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, a 16MP main camera, supported by a 20MP secondary camera, loads of RAM and storage and all the other bells and whistles that you would associate with a flagship smartphone. But one of these will set you back around £519, while an equivalent Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus co
  
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• Altice delivers strong subscriber numbers sending shares up 11%

  17-05-2018 07:50
  European arm of telecoms and cable group shows hints of recovery after torrid period
  
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• Syniverse reports massive growth in India's 4G LTE roaming

  17-05-2018 02:00
  Inter-regional 4G LTE roaming has grown by 3,300 per cent year on year, according to new data released by Syniverse.
  The data was gathered by analysing data traffic across Syniverse's platform…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Strong performance at home and abroad fuels solid revenue growth for TIM

  17-05-2018 02:00
  Telecom Italia has reported a 2.7 per cent year on year increase in its revenues for the first quarter of 2018, according to a company release. Revenues for Q1 2018n stood at &euro…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Facebook CEO to meet European leaders over data privacy

  17-05-2018 02:00
  Facebook CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, will meet members of the European Parliament to discuss the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that engulfed the company last month.
  While a date for the meeting has not yet been set…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EE: Average UK Smart Home will have 50 connected devices by 2023

  17-05-2018 02:00
  The average UK household will contain 50 connected devices by 2023 as the Smart Home sub-sector booms, according to Marc Allera, CEO of EE and BT's Consumer division.
  Speaking at a BT Consumer Group event in London on Tuesday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Mobile to ramp up 5G focus in Shanghai

  17-05-2018 02:00
  China Mobile has said that it will launch 100 5G ready base stations in Shanghai later this year, as the company prepares to launch commercial 5G services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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