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• Polish companies target Ukrainian workers as consumers

  10-07-2018 17:54 via ft.com
  Telecoms, banking and property groups take advantage of growing number of immigrants
  
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• Embrace Continuous Delivery Process

  10-07-2018 17:09
  The time has come to obsolete the waterfall process. Deployments of Network Functions must embrace Continuous Delivery methodologies as the industry moves towards fully software-based virtualized infrastructure.
  Continuous Delivery processes can enable operators to streamline implementation projects, reduce overall costs and gain immediate access to new features. Traditionally, telecoms operators have used a classic waterfall process to manage deployments of network elements. The waterfall
  
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• UK is getting worse at broadband – study

  10-07-2018 17:05
  Cable.co.uk has published its latest worldwide broadband speed league and found the UK is worse than 34 other countries.
  Our average broadband speed of 18.57 Mbps puts us 35th out of the 200 countries measured in the study, down from 31 the last time it was done. Singapore is the best at 60 Mbps, while Yemen can only manage 310 Kbps. You can check out all the data here.
  “It’s been very interesting looking at the data for a second year running, not least because we have three times as
  
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• Ericsson Media Solutions gets a rebrand

  10-07-2018 16:37
  Ericsson flogged the majority of its media solutions division to private equity at the start of the year and it has just got around to reflecting that in the brand.
  The days of cruel, callous media are behind us, it seems, and henceforth Ericsson Media Solutions will be known as MediaKind. So happy are Ericsson and One Equity Partners with this rebrand that they celebrated with a bunch of live events today, at which a new management team was also unveiled.
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: It’s coming home

  10-07-2018 15:25
  Now with added video!
  
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• The security of Polar users’ data could be comprised, in a big way

  10-07-2018 14:40
  The Finnish fitness device and software maker Polar has found itself in the centre of a data leaking scandal, which it’s feared could jeopardise the security of personnel on sensitive missions.
  In a country where personal space and privacy is highly respected, Finland can be rather transparent too. Every year at the beginning of November, the tax office will grant public access to data on how much income and capital gains made by everyone in the previous year as well as how much tax has be
  
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• Telcos: utility or futility?

  10-07-2018 12:57
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Professor Chris Bones, Co-Founder and Chairman of Good Growth, looks at what telcos can do about the growing spectre of commoditisation.
  It’s tough when your sector becomes a commodity market, it gives less room for price and pushes you into a significantly greater investment in promotion to drive growth more from increases in market share as opposed to grow
  
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• Pace Telecom unveils expansion on its 25th anniversary

  10-07-2018 12:45
  Expansion of product portfolio based on Centile’s unified communications platformHigh-tech offices officially launched by the Secretary of State for WalesSophia Antipolis, France, July 10 2018 – Wrexham-based telecom service provider Pace Telecom has unveiled its new telecom services, based on the ISTRA cloud platform provided by Centile, one of Europe’s leading providers of Cloud PBX, unified communications and fixed mobile convergence for service providers and integrators. Pa
  
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• Watch the World Cup Through Visualfiles

  10-07-2018 12:19
  A new Add-In from Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) enables users of LexisNexis Visualfiles case management software to continue their enjoyment of the World Cup 2018 and extend their support of the England football team whilst watching the final games of the World Cup from within Visualfiles. The add-in started out as part of a larger strategic project to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible from within the Visualfiles system which Zylpha has consistently managed...Source: RealWire
  
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• Openreach gets Nokia and Huawei involved in its Fibre First efforts

  10-07-2018 12:19
  UK fixed line wholesaler Openreach has announced both Nokia and Huawei have been selected to help it with the next phase of its fibre rollout.
  Openreach has been banging on about its ‘Fibre First’ strategy for a while, which essentially consists of vowing to hook three million homes and businesses up to full fibre by the end of 2020, and a more vague aspiration to hit ten million sometime in the mid 2020s. Opinion is divided about how ambitious these targets are, but they’re ce
  
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• How 5G will revolutionise the MVNO market

  10-07-2018 11:29
  5G networks will create new business models for operators and MVNOs. How can they take advantage? Kate O’Flaherty talked to a few industry insiders to find out.Soon-to-launch 5G is about to transform the business models of mobile operators and MVNOs. According to experts, this will see capabilities such as network slicing allowing MNVOs to run ‘mini networks’ for customers in specific sectors.
  Unlike its predecessors 3G and 4G, the technology is not just about faster speeds. Ba
  
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• CITIC Telecom CPC Boosts European Business Networks with Unique SD-WAN Offering

  10-07-2018 10:07
  New Software Defined Wide Area Network product seamlessly binds multiple access technologies into single logical path for improved performance, flexibility and cost-efficiencyLONDON, AMSTERDAM, TALLINN AND MOSCOW, 10 July 2018 - CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (“CITIC Telecom CPC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited, today announced the launch of its SD-WAN solution, branded as “TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid,” across its Europea
  
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• European telecoms industry pins hopes on US-style consolidation

  10-07-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Executives talk up merger prospects in France while CK Hutchison returns to dealmaking
  
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• Singapore leads the way as Britain slumps to 35th place for broadband speeds

  10-07-2018 02:00
   The UK has fallen to 35th place in the world tables for broadband connectivity, according to an annual report published by Cable.co.uk and M-Lab.
  The report shows the UK averaging broadband speeds of just 18.57Mbps, far below the 46.2Mbps claimed by Ofcom in its annual report…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Seaborn Networks appoints new member of its Advisory Board

  10-07-2018 02:00
  Submarine fibre optic cable specialist firm, Seaborn Networks, has announced that it is appointing Mehmet Akcin to its Board of Advisors with immediate effect.
  “We are very pleased to add Mehmet to our Board of Advisors…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia and China Mobile partner up in €1bn network and AI agreement

  10-07-2018 02:00
  Nokia and China Mobile have signed a €1 billion framework agreement that will see the pair collaborate on a wide range of initiatives.
  Under the terms of the agreement…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• India's telecoms sector could stabilise before the end of 2018

  10-07-2018 02:00
  India's beleaguered telecoms sector could be in line for a change in fortunes, according to India's Information and Credit Ratings Agency. In a note to the Economic Times of India, the ICRA said that it expected market conditions in India's telecoms sector to stabilise in the coming six months…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei wins key rail network contract in Australia as concerns over national security ease

  10-07-2018 02:00
  Chinese tech giant Huawei has been awarded a $136 million contract to deliver a radio system that will provide data and voice services across rail networks in Western Australia. The award comes despite a flurry of accusations from the Australian government over national security concerns that has led to speculation that Huawei would be locked out of Australia's push towards 5G rollout…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei and Nokia partner with Openreach to lead 3 million FTTH drive in the UK

  10-07-2018 02:00
  Openreach has revealed that it will partner with Nokia and Huawei in its bid to rollout 3 million fibre to the home (FTTH) connections by the end of 2020.
  “We’ll be going flat out to make FTTP available to three million homes by the end of 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• DCMS' new Secretary of State must focus on closing the digital divide

  10-07-2018 02:00
  The UK has a new Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), following a governmental cabinet reshuffle. Jeremy Wright has been named as the new Secretary of State for Digital, replacing Matt Hancock who was in the role for less than 6 months. Hancock was promoted to Secretary of State for Health, following a Brexit based backlash that led to five ministerial resignations in the UK overnight…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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