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• Operator confidence raises 5G connections forecast to 340 million in 2021

  11-09-2018 19:14
  CCS Insight has suggested 5G connections will reach 340 million in 2021, before surpassing one billion in the first half of 2023.
  The confidence in raising its forecasts come after more bullish behaviour from the operator segments in the industry, with more telcos declaring their 5G ambitions before expected. Telia in Finland was one which suggested it will hit the on-switch in 2019, while EE is another to confirm the 5G bonanza next year.
  “The intentions of major US carriers to launch 5G
  
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• IBC 2018 – TMT industry must focus on innovation to reignite growth in core services

  11-09-2018 17:41
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Gavin Mann, Global Broadcast Lead for Accenture, offers a preview of the key topics that will define IBC 2018.
  As big tech companies move into content creation and distribution, media and entertainment businesses face an unprecedented array of challenges from new competition to the growing purchasing power of the digital native generation.
  Established players mu
  
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• Ericsson lands $3.5 billion T-Mobile US 5G contract

  11-09-2018 17:26
  Kit vendor Ericsson has announced a major deal win in the form of a $3.5 billion contract to bring TMUS into the 5G era.
  Not much detail has been offered up, but it involves Ericsson hardware such as ERS and plenty of involvement from the Digital Services silo, including dynamic orchestration, BSS and Ericsson Cloud Core. The chances are a spot of managed services may well be chucked in for good measure.
  “We have recently decided to increase our investments in the US to be closer to our le
  
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• EE breaks out the tractor for 2019 5G launch

  11-09-2018 17:19
  EE has confirmed it will re-farm 3G mobile services in 2100 MHz spectrum band to boost 4G experience and lay the foundations to hit the 5G on-switch next year.
  While it has generally been accepted the European telcos are lagging behind North America and Asia in the 5G race, EE is attempting to show you cannot bundle the entire block under the banner of boresome. In targeting 2019, EE joins the likes of Telia leaving the vast majority of European competitors in the trailing peloton.
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• Google fights back against EU plans to impose its regulations on rest of world

  11-09-2018 13:53
  Today the European Court of Justice will make a decision which will impact the global digital economy. Does the European Union have the right to impose its own data protection and privacy standards on everyone else?
  The one-day hearing has been brought about because of French data protection watchdog, CNIL, pressing for Google to extend the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling to all of its domains. When such a request is made and accepted, Google will remove content from search results in
  
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• AT&T and Verizon compete for yet more 5G ‘firsts’

  11-09-2018 13:50
  US carriers AT&T and Verizon have completed what they both claim to be the world’s first data transfer to a smartphone form factor device over mmWave 5G live networks.
  If we put together all the 5G ‘firsts’ claimed by the industry players it would make a long read, especially if we included cases where similar firsts have been claimed by different companies. In this most recent case, both AT&T and Verizon called themselves the world’s first to successfully tr
  
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• Elliott slaps Vivendi down over TIM rant

  11-09-2018 13:06
  Activist investor Elliott Advisors has hit back following criticism of TIM by French conglomerate Vivendi.
  Last week Vivendi, which lost control of the TIM board to Elliott earlier this year, decided to issue a public diss of TIM, with the apparent aim of showing what a rubbish job Elliott is doing. The core of the argument was that the share price is down since it lost and furthermore there has been some gossip in the press.
  For such a massive and well-resourced company that was a pretty weak e
  
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• Teens feel they’re being manipulated by tech giants

  11-09-2018 12:39
  A new report from US youth-advisory NPO Common Sense claims 72% of US teens feel they are being manipulated to spending more time on their smartphones.
  The report, which covers a wide range of topics from the preferences of teenagers in the US through to the emotional impact social media has on their lives, makes the bold claim Silicon Valley is playing the puppet master with the emotionally fragile teens being pulled from pillar to post. Unfortunately, while these teenagers realise they are bei
  
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• Telenor: Carriers must simplify their business plans and re-engage with customers

  11-09-2018 02:00
  Operators in the carriers and wholesale telecoms community must simplify their business models and re-engage with their customers, if they are to halt rapidly declining profitability in the industry, according to industry experts…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei: Global ultrafast broadband industry is booming

  11-09-2018 02:00
  Next generation, symmetrical gigabit broadband services will come to underpin every facet of our digital lives, according to Huawei's President of Carrier Business Group, Ryan Ding.
  Speaking at the company's fifth Ultra Broadband Forum in Geneva this week…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson signs huge $3.5bn NR 5G deal with T-Mobile

  11-09-2018 02:00
  Swedish kit giant, Ericsson, has signed a $3.5 billion agreement with US cellco T-Mobile, to help the company roll out 5G networks across the US.
  Under the terms of the contract…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EE confirms 5G launch in 2019

  11-09-2018 02:00
  EE has confirmed that it is to launch 5G mobile phone services across the UK in 2019, a full year ahead of many of its European neighbours.EE will switch on its 5G network in 2019, with some 5G sites being built on top of upgraded existing 4G sites…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Asia's middle class is a key source of revenue for carriers today

  11-09-2018 02:00
  With traditional voice based revenues being rapidly eroded by advances in VoIP technology, carriers are having to realign their service offerings and their customer make up, in order to remain profitable.
  Speaking at the Carriers World event in London on Tuesday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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