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• Tim Armstrong quits Verizon as Oath unit loses autonomy

  07-09-2018 18:16
  Exit of US telecoms group’s digital content guru follows arrival of new chief
  
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• Oath boss reportedly edging towards the exit

  07-09-2018 17:54
  Tim Armstrong, the boss of Verizon’s media unit Oath, is reportedly discussing terms to exit the business.
  The reasons behind the move are unclear for the moment, though, according to the Wall Street Journal, there have been internal disagreements on how to best utilise Verizon’s lofty position in the wireless world to aid the growth of Oath. What does seem to be a frustrating couple of years might be coming to a close for the man who spearheaded Verizon’s efforts to capture di
  
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• Fiber-optic is important for 5G but operators will need a range of options

  07-09-2018 17:13
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Jake Saunders VP, Asia-Pacific & Advisory Services at ABI Research, looks at some of the backhaul questions that need to be answered as we enter the 5G era.
  Momentum behind 5G is building. Through ABI Research’s own analysis, 48 countries have either carried out consultations or have taken steps to auction spectrum and licenses for 5G services. Korea,
  
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• The prospects and potential of Blockchain for the telecoms industry

  07-09-2018 16:58
  In ‘An Introduction to Blockchain’, the MVNOs Series team explores what Blockchain is and what it can do. The report starts with a crash course on Blockchain basics, before moving the focus to its wide-ranging benefits, its synergies with other emerging technologies, and the impact it could have on the telecoms ecosystem across-the-board.
  In the short space of a couple of years, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone from frontier technologies used by shadowy figures on the edg
  
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• Huawei caught being naughty with benchmark scores, but it doesn’t seem to care

  07-09-2018 13:46
  Four Huawei smartphone models have been delisted from independent benchmark service UL after they were found to be producing artificially high and misleading benchmark scores.
  After testing the devices in the UL lab and confirming claims breached rules, the P20, Pro Huawei Nova 3 and Honor Play models have been delisted from UL’s performance rankings. The Huawei P20 has also been removed after AnandTech’s testing and reporting, the outlet which initially discovered Huawei’
  
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• BMW launches its own virtual assistant – let’s hope that’s not the start of a trend

  07-09-2018 13:42
  BMW has made a bold statement this week, breaking free from the shackles of Silicon Valley. In launching its own virtual assistant, BMW is confident it can deliver a better experience than Google, Amazon or Microsoft.
  From March 2019, the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant will be powering the automotive experience. Whether its checking traffic conditions, learning your habits to create journeys which incorporate a McDonalds Drive Thru, telling you how certain features work or operating function
  
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• Ericsson and Qualcomm claim first 5G NR mmWave call to a smartphone

  07-09-2018 13:18
  The incremental ‘5G first’ claims continue as Ericsson and Qualcomm say they’ve done the first 5G NR ‘call’ over the 39 GHz band to a smartphone-like device.
  The test call was done in Ericsson’s labs in Sweden using the non-standalone flavour of 5G. It used Ericsson’s AIR 5331 5G NR radio and the test device (pictured) was running the Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem. It comes just days after Ericsson announced a pretty similar test with Intel, which pre
  
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• CityFibre taunts rivals with 10 Gbps speeds claim

  07-09-2018 13:10
  CityFibre has announced a partnership with Calix to deliver, what it claims, would be the world’s only Software Defined Access (SDA) operating system across, delivering mouth-watering speeds across its fibre network.
  With Calix’s AXOS platform, CityFibre is confident it will be able to claim to be the UK’s only advanced-intelligence, wholesale infrastructure company. With a Software Defined Networking (SDN) ecosystem, delivering new levels of programmability, network intelligen
  
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• Verizon mulls Oath spin off as CEO set to step down

  07-09-2018 02:00
  Tim Armstrong, CEO of Verizon's web based business unit, Oath, is said to be in talks with the company's board of directors to step down from his role, according to reports in the press…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica to boost FTTH connectivity in 20 Brazilian cities

  07-09-2018 02:00
  Spanish telecoms giant, Telefonica, has announced plans to rollout fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband services to an additional 20 cities in Brazil, as part of its attempts to overhaul connectivity in South America's largest nation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Iliad loses 70,000 subscribers in France but Italian venture fuels optimism

  07-09-2018 02:00
  French based telco, Iliad, has posted a mixed financial report for the first half of 2018.
  Iliad's mobile subsidiary, Free, lost 70,000 subscribers in H1 2018, despite its focus on providing low cost mobile access in France…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G's false dawn

  07-09-2018 02:00
  With every passing week, the clamour of noise in the 5G echo-chamber seems to ratchet up another couple of decibels. As companies jostle to be to the first to bring their particular part of the 5G puzzle to market, the levels of hyperbole surrounding next generation mobile networks is fast approaching critical mass. For me, 5G's false dawn began in May…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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