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• How to stay competitive in a digitally transforming world

  03-09-2018 17:52
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Sacha Gera, SVP Cloud Products at Ribbon Communications, offers some digital transformation tips for CSPs.
  Enterprise communications and collaboration are undergoing a major transformation. To a large extent, this is being driven by a new generation of customers, employees and partners who have grown up mobile first, cloud first and who are constantly conne
  
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• Operator virtualization strategies in Asia

  03-09-2018 17:06
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Anuradha Udunuwara, Senior Engineer at Sri Lanka Telecom, gives us his perspective on how operators can best approach the move to virtualization.
  Virtualization in telecommunication, whether it is network virtualization or network function vitalization this has been a long-discussed topic. Related topics such as network softwarization, includes Software Def
  
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• China Mobile IoT: China Mobile Partners with Huawei to Create the Era of IoE

  03-09-2018 16:50
  The IoE Era Is Coming
  The world is beginning to feel the effects of the explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is a driving force for social development, powering industrial transformation: smart cities, transportation, finance, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, smart home or consumer electronics, and offering the potential for Communications Service Providers to capture new services and revenue – estimated to reach 15 billion connections by 2020, and over $2 trillion
  
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• UK media and telco industries demand more red tape for social media content

  03-09-2018 13:12
  A coalition of UK media and telco businesses have written a letter demanding the UK government introduce an independent regulatory oversight of the content carried over social networks.
  In the letter written to the Sunday Telegraph, the BBC, Sky, ITV, Channel 4, BT and TalkTalk have attacked unregulated tech giants Facebook, Google and Twitter, suggesting the creation of a new watchdog with the purpose of tackling the increasing presence of abuse and misinformation online is the way forward.
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• Ronan Dunne said to be in the running for the BT CEO gig

  03-09-2018 13:12
  Current Verizon exec and former O2 UK boss Ronan Dunne is reported to be one of the people BT is considering to replace Gavin Patterson.
  The rumour comes courtesy of the Telegraph, which has sources that claim Dunne was recently over here to speak to BT about the opportunity. That’s about it as far as the Telegraph story goes – no comment from either Dunne or BT and it could just be blind speculation. But it is also plausible as Dunne has a lot of relevant experience and could be kee
  
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• California defies FCC and Trump by passing tough net neutrality laws

  03-09-2018 12:33
  The state versus federal argument looks like it is heading towards full-throttle as California passes what it describes as the toughest net neutrality laws in the country.
  The FCC and President Trump’s administration are seemingly set on creating a regulation-free USA, though some states are not having it. California is the latest to demonstrate its mistrust of the US telcos, passing its own net neutrality laws.
  “We passed the strongest net neutrality standards in the nation,”
  
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• Ericsson gets more Liberty Global managed service work

  03-09-2018 12:01
  Ericsson’s PR efforts currently seem devoted to promoting its managed services division and a pan-European fixed line gig with Liberty Global presents some low-hanging fruit.
  Before we get too carried away it should be stressed this is the renewal of an existing partnership between the two, but it at least indicates Ericsson hasn’t been screwing things up. The new contract includes the consolidation of network service delivery in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland and
  
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• Liberty Global extends European partnership deal with Ericsson

  03-09-2018 02:00
  Liberty Global and Ericsson have signed an extension to their ongoing partnership in Europe, which will help Liberty consolidate and optimise its networks. The contract will include the consolidation of Liberty Global's Network Operation Service Centre service delivery in the UK…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei surges past Apple to become world's 2nd biggest smartphone producer

  03-09-2018 02:00
  A new report issued by the International Data Corporation has revealed that Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has surpassed Apple to become the world's second biggest producer of smartphones. The report shows that Huawei produced 54 million handsets in the second quarter of 2018…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom rebuffs calls for a fourth MNO as Germany prepares for 5G

  03-09-2018 02:00
  Deutsche Telekom has called for "fair and clear auction and investment conditions" as Germany prepares for the rollout of 5G mobile networks in 2020.Speaking at a press conference at the IFA 2018 event in Berlin on Friday, Deutsche Telekom board member…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT eyes Verizon's mobile boss for CEO role

  03-09-2018 02:00
  Verizon's Group president for Wireless, Ronan Dunne, has emerged as a potential candidate to succeed Gavin Patterson as CEO of BT, according to reports in the British press.
  The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Dunne…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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