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• Paving the road to 5G

  28-08-2018 19:31
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Li-Ke Huang, VP of Wireless Technology, Wireless Business Unit at Viave Solutions, argues mobile operators must develop a robust 5G roadmap that leverages their existing network assets.There is no universal approach to 5G development, as different markets face different circumstances which require different approaches. In the US, for example, operators such as V
  
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• Trump declares war on Google

  28-08-2018 19:15
  US President Donald Trump has tweeted that Google search results about him are biased in favour of leftwing media.
  Leaving aside whatever Machiavellian motives Trump has for tweeting for the time being, this move seems to mark an escalation in the debates over the role the big internet companies play in controlling the flow of public information and discussion. Being openly accused of acting in bad faith by such a powerful person is not something Google can afford to ignore.
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• DC Cloudification & Consolidation Smooths Digital Transformation for Operators

  28-08-2018 18:50
  The cloud transformation that Huawei helped operator W implement comprised four steps: The first was forming a hybrid cloud blueprint and planning the migration rollout roadmap for the solution with the best return on investment (ROI). The second was building the cloud platform, consolidating the ecosystem, and putting everything into an ‘as-a-service’ model. The third is a smooth move to the cloud for all cores services while significantly reducing OPEX. The fourth was continuous st
  
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• TelcoCraft Enables Network Automation Through Digital Services

  28-08-2018 17:54
  The business opportunities of digital services are driving operators to accelerate network cloudification. Ovum, a world-renowned consulting and analysis organization, released Market Opportunity Analysis: NFV/SDN in January 2018, which reported that operators are projected to continually increase their investments in NFV/SDN over the next five years. From 2017 to 2022, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of NFV/SDN investments is estimated to reach 28%. The development of new technologies, s
  
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• UPDATE: Virtual Mobile Services in the U.S.

  28-08-2018 16:11
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Whitey Bluestein explores the steady development of the virtual mobile service market over the last two decades and the main drivers of subscriber growth for these service providers.
  The virtual mobile service market has grown steadily over the past 20 years and represents an important and evolving segment of the U.S. mobile market. It’s also the oldest an
  
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• How can MVNOs secure their place in digital value ecosystems?

  28-08-2018 16:09
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Thandi Demanet, Business Analyst at TMForum, explores the digital value ecosystems and how MVNOs can have a bright and strong future role in this emerging economic paradigm.
  The business of IoT is rapidly growing, and despite a certain level of maturity, it’s not getting any simpler. As the speed of evolution and development continues, stakes too continue
  
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• Toyota invests half a billion dollars in Uber to save both companies

  28-08-2018 15:05
  Japanese car maker Toyota has invested $500 million dollars to expand its collaboration with ride-sharing company Uber in autonomous driving cars.
  After putting a brake on its self-driving car tests earlier this year, Uber has entered a new phase of collaborating with car makers as exemplified by this venture. Both companies will contribute their respective auto-driving technologies, as well as Uber’s ridesharing and Toyota’s car making expertise, to a new purpose-built Toyota S
  
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• YouTube mobile app now tells you how much of your life you’re spending on it

  28-08-2018 13:39
  Google seems to be concerned about pathological use of its YouTube video platform to it has made some new tools to help manage addiction.
  The wonderfully euphemistic premise for this move is the neologism ‘digital wellbeing’. Since we don’t actually exist digitally this can only refer to the health (largely mental but in extreme cases possibly physical too) implications of spending too much time online. “Our goal is to provide a better understanding of time spent on YouTu
  
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• IoT: Manage & Conquer

  28-08-2018 12:20
  The IoT market is getting bigger and bigger with billions of devices to control. It’s time telcos – the experts in device management – came on the scene and took the lead in building the foundation of connectivity
  One of the reasons of the networking boom, was to connect people and to let them work more efficiently but today the number of devices connected to the Internet is much bigger than the entire population of the world. Even if your house is not built around a smart home
  
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• Nokia gets half a billion euros from Europe to get better at 5G

  28-08-2018 11:54
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has been granted a €500 million loan from the European Investment Bank to help with its 5G R&D efforts.
  The EIB is part of a larger ecosystem of pan-European financial services bodies that allocate public money in order to pick private-sector winners within the bloc. The over-arching concept is the Investment Plan for Europe, which the EU fawningly refers to as the Junker Plan after its dear leader. Within that is yet another group called the European Fund for S
  
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• RCom completes the sale of its fibre optic network to Reliance Jio

  28-08-2018 02:00
  Indian telecommunications firm Reliance Communications (RCom) has completed the sale of its fibre optic network to Reliance Jio, in a deal worth around $4.2 billion.
  RCom has been looking to sell off its telecoms assets to alleviate spiralling levels of debt and the sale of its fibre optic network to Jio will go some way to balancing the company's balance sheet…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei kicks off subsea project in Baja California

  28-08-2018 02:00
  Huawei's Marine and Megacable division has commenced a subsea survey for its Topolobambo – La Paz project in Mexico.
  The project will bring next generation connectivity and super low latency applications to Baja California…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Etisalat and Microsoft sign online gaming partnership in the UAE

  28-08-2018 02:00
  Abu Dhabi based telco, Etisalat, has signed a strategic partnership with Microsoft to streamline content purchasing for customers in the United Arab Emirates…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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