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• Silicon Valley was founded with family, this generation is killing the idea

  21-08-2018 17:53
  With some of the tech industry’s biggest names acting incredibly irresponsibly, the friendly and welcoming reputation of Silicon Valley is fast becoming a thing of the past.
  With each passing week, there seems to be a new scandal emerging from the dark corners of Silicon Valley. This week’s installment sees Google getting sued for trampling all over user privacy rights, as well as potentially misleading millions through underhanded practises and overly-complicated terms of use. Unfor
  
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• Silicon Valley was built with friendly vibes, but this generation is killing them

  21-08-2018 17:53
  With some of the tech industry’s biggest names acting incredibly irresponsibly, the friendly and welcoming reputation of Silicon Valley is fast becoming a thing of the past.
  With each passing week, there seems to be a new scandal emerging from the dark corners of Silicon Valley. This week’s installment sees Google getting sued for trampling all over user privacy rights, as well as potentially misleading millions through underhanded practises and overly-complicated terms of use. Unfor
  
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• InfiNet Wireless introduces a new peak-performance and spectral-efficient solution to the LATAM market at Andicom 2018

  21-08-2018 16:00
  On display will be the state-of-the-art Quanta 5 which is built on the most advanced hardware platform using InfiNet's latest Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologyCartagena, Colombia, August 21: Operators in the LATAM region looking to overcome the challenges of increasing bandwidth demands and interference mitigation are set to benefit when InfiNet Wireless, the global leader in fixed broadband wireless connectivity, launches its latest SDR technology solution to the Latin America market at t
  
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• Could a 5G network actually be the best dumb pipe ever?

  21-08-2018 14:49
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Alon Segal, Senior Vice President of Software and Services at Telit, ponders some of the new opportunities offered by 5G.
  For operators, 5G networks represent a promised land of new, highly valued, digital services and solutions with differential pricing and endless capacity for innovation.  A new digital network with an ambition to unlock revenue stre
  
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• Q&A with Ivan Landen, Chief Executive Officer at Blue Wireless

  21-08-2018 14:36
  The 2.7bn unique mobile subscribers across the APAC region represent a market unrivalled anywhere else. According to Analysys Mason, “Emerging Asia–Pacific will continue to be one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of telecoms revenue”. With that in mind, it came with little surprise, if none at all, that the MVNO market in region was named the front runner when it comes to the growth opportunities at the Shaping the Global MVNO Market 2018 survey conducted th
  
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• BASE takes the 4G lead in Belgium – OpenSignal

  21-08-2018 14:26
  Network monitor OpenSignal has released its mobile networks update for Belgium and it reveals BASE as made the biggest improvements.
  OpenSignal spent 90 days measuring the Belgian market from the start of May. It found that BASE has taken the lead in the key 4G download speed metric, having been level with Orange six months ago. BASE now averages 45 Mbps, up 5Mbps from the last time, while Orange has fallen off to a mere 34 Mbps. Proximus is right in the middle with 39 Mbps.
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• BASE takes the 4G lead in Belgium – OpenSgnal

  21-08-2018 14:26
  Network monitor OpenSignal has released its mobile networks update for Belgium and it reveals BASE as made the biggest improvements.
  OpenSignal spent 90 days measuring the Belgian market from the start of May. It found that BASE has taken the lead in the key 4G download speed metric, having been level with Orange six months ago. BASE now averages 45 Mbps, up 5Mbps from the last time, while Orange has fallen off to a mere 34 Mbps. Proximus is right in the middle with 39 Mbps.
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• Jio closes the gap as Indian market continues growth

  21-08-2018 14:00
  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has released its monthly update on telco subscribers across the country, and Jio is continuing to erode the gap with its rivals.
  On the whole, the Indian telco market is continuing to grow. Wireless subscriptions increased by 1.37%, adding just over 15 million new subscriptions to the armoury taking the total up to 1.14 billion across the country.
  What is slightly encouraging is the fairly balanced uptake; there might be a social divide between the rural
  
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• Google faces lawsuit for snooping which would even embarrass spooks

  21-08-2018 13:00
  One Napoleon wanted to conquer the Commonwealth Empire, but this one only wants to topple Google. We’re not too sure which mission is more difficult.
  San Diego resident Napoleon Patacsil has filed a lawsuit against Google following the revelation the internet giant was continuing to track user location after the user had opted out from location tracking services. Patacsil is suing for unspecified damages and class-action status on behalf of US users. The San Francisco court will first have
  
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• ETSI releases security standards for distributed systems

  21-08-2018 12:59
  The distributed, cloud-based technological environment required by 5G and IoT will present a novel set of security challenges.
  In anticipation of this the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) technical committee on cybersecurity has released two specifications focused on attribute-based encryption (ABE). This seems to be a more flexible, tailored, bespoke form of encryption that can be applied to specific scenarios.
  Here’s the ETSI explanation: “ABE is an asymmetric
  
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• Nokia set to make €3 per 5G smartphone in licensing boom

  21-08-2018 12:12
  Nokia has announced it is set to make €3 per smartphone through the company’s 5G portfolio of standard essential patents (SEPs), as the commercial realities of the awaiting 5G era start to become clearer.
  Perhaps this was a move to calm the nervously shifting investors who have been waiting for the windfall for some time now. Nokia’s management team have been promising 5G fortunes through equipment upgrades, though the new dawn is yet to emerge, while operators continuing to ins
  
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• UK government calls for participants in 5G smart-rail trial

  21-08-2018 02:00
  The UK government is looking for interested parties to join its forthcoming 5G Trans-Pennine smart railways project, which will explore the transformative potential of mobile 5G technology on Britain's ailing rail industry…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia reveals licencing charges for access to its 5G patents

  21-08-2018 02:00
  Finnish tech giant Nokia has revealed that it expects to charge 5G smartphone vendors €3 per device in order to access its various 5G patents. Nokia said that it expects to hold a number of key 5G patents by the time 5G smartphones begin to find their way on to the market in the first quarter of 2019…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MBNL extends deal with Ericsson on the UK's largest mobile network

  21-08-2018 02:00
  EE and Three's network sharing joint venture, MBNL, has signed a new managed services contract with Ericsson, extending the current deal by an additional two years.
  MBNL was set up in 2007 by UK mobile operators Three and EE as a way of cutting costs and allowing shared access to certain elements of their network infrastructure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 4G focus fuels strong growth for China Telecom

  21-08-2018 02:00
  China Telecom has posted a strong set of financials for the first half of 2018, with net profits rising 8.1 per cent on a year-on-year basis.
  China Telecom beat analysts' expectations…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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