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• US telcos back down from data sharing following Senator finger pointing

  20-06-2018 17:04
  The very public investigations by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregan have seemingly forced US telcos to back out of location-sharing partnerships with data brokers as privacy policies of the world’s largest companies continues to be questioned.
  The practice itself surrounds the selling of geo-location data from the telcos customers onto third parties, who in turn aggregate the data before reselling onto other organizations. While the concept of selling personal data, whether it is location, inter
  
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• Newtec empowers Myanmar's newest mobile operator

  20-06-2018 14:22
  Launch of satellite mobile backhaul network based on Newtec Dialog® platform provided by Com & Com enables Mytel to deliver optimal end-user experienceYANGON, Myanmar, and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 20 June 2018. Newtec - a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications - today announced it is enabling Communication & Commerce (Com & Com) to launch a mobile backhaul network for Telecom International Myanmar Company Limite
  
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• AR and VR headsets nosedive in Q1

  20-06-2018 13:43
  Shipments of augmented and virtual reality headsets have plummeted year-on-year across the first quarter, according to statistics from IDC, as telcos unbundle the kit from premium contracts and handsets.
  Despite the poor performance in the first quarter, down 30.5% year-on-year, totalling 1.2 million units, IDC does forecast the segment to return to growth for the remainder of 2018 as more vendors target the commercial AR and VR markets and low-cost standalone VR headsets such as the Oculus Go m
  
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• Telstra slashes 8k jobs in search for simplified structure and more profit

  20-06-2018 13:13
  Australian telco Telstra has announced it will be cutting 8,000 employees and contractors, as well as a reduction in 2-4 layers of management, in an effort to simply the structure of the business and improve profitability.
  The headcount reduction forms part of the Telstra2022, a three-year plan building on the strategic investments Telstra announced in 2016. The aim is to create a ‘smaller, knowledge-based’ workforce which is ‘agile enough to deal with rapid change’. As p
  
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• Instagram unveils new feature, but is it worth your time?

  20-06-2018 12:32
  This week Telecoms.com has 16 year-old Shannon O’Connor joining the team for work experience, and today is an assessment of Instagram’s new feature to moderate time spend on the app. Here are her thoughts. 
  Earlier this week, Instagram’s CEO Kevin Systrom has confirmed an all-new ‘time spent’ usage insights tool in a questionable bid to improve users mental wellbeing.
  Instagram is yet to comment on the ‘Usage Insights Tool’ so plans have not ye
  
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• NetComm Wireless: "Utilize cellular technology now to meet government targets and expand existing coverage"

  20-06-2018 12:02
  Els Baert, Director of Technology Strategy, explained how operators can leverage existing mobile assets and expand the “trusted zone” to offer high-speed broadband to a wider audienceThe Hague, The Netherlands, 20 June 2018: Opening up new revenue streams and expanding the addressable market will never be fully achieved if we continue to use traditional broadband services and don’t leverage mobile network assets, NetComm Wireless’ Director of Technology Strategy warned to
  
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• Vodafone gets the 5G ball rolling

  20-06-2018 11:36
  Vodafone has announced unveiled seven cities which will serve as the test sites for 5G trials between October and December later this year.
  Work on the seven cities, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Manchester, has already begun, with the team now discussing which enterprise customers will be invited to the trial. Vodafone has highlighted augmented and virtual reality in offices, factories and hospitals will be one of the areas the team hopes to explore.
  “We wan
  
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• Broadband Forum hits 5G milestone

  20-06-2018 11:14
  Fremont, California, June 20, 2018: Operators looking to quickly and cost-effectively deliver new 5G services are today a step closer to being able to do so, as the Broadband Forum and NTT successfully demonstrated the disaggregation of time-critical PON functions. Launched with NTT last year, the PON Abstraction Interface for Time Critical Applications (TCAs) project looks at how Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) can be applied to Optical Line Terminal
  
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• Telstra unveils ‘big bang’ turnround plan

  20-06-2018 10:02
  Telecoms group under pressure as shares hit six-year low
  
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• Vodafone reveals seven 5G test cities across the UK

  20-06-2018 02:00
  Vodafone is to launch seven 5G test-cities across the UK, with rollouts starting in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a senior company source.Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Manchester will all be transformed into 5G test cities…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK's connectivity trailblazers revealed at Connected Britain Awards 2018

  20-06-2018 02:00
  Britain's most ambitious and pioneering digital infrastructure companies were revealed on Tuesday evening at the inaugural Connected Britain Awards in London.Competition was stiff across the eight categories, as some of the UK's most progressive firms went head to head on 5G, FTTH and Smart City initiatives."We've been completely overwhelmed by the number of entries we've had…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• O2: The UK must do more to conquer 5G barriers

  20-06-2018 02:00
  The UK must do more to overcome a number of crucial roadblocks on its journey to rolling out fifth generation mobile network, according to a senior representative from 02. Derek McManus, chief operating officer at 02, said that the UK government had made a good start by commissioning its barrier busting taskforce, but that more needed to be done to streamline the rollout of 5G in the years to come…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT fined £77,000 over spam emails

  20-06-2018 02:00
  BT was ordered to pay a fine of £77,000 today, after it sent five million marketing emails to customers without their consent…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 02: The UK must do more to conquer 5G barriers

  20-06-2018 02:00
  The UK must do more to overcome a number of crucial roadblocks on its journey to rolling out fifth generation mobile network, according to a senior representative from 02. Derek McManus, chief operating officer at 02, said that the UK government had made a good start by commissioning its barrier busting taskforce, but that more needed to be done to streamline the rollout of 5G in the years to come…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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