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• Vodafone: towers of power

  17-09-2018 20:15
  Values do not support a sale of the UK mobile group’s masts
  
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• Pai declares California resistance to net neutrality demise as illegal

  17-09-2018 18:32
  Speaking to an audience at the Maine Heritage Policy Center, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has slammed California for even thinking about going against his holier-than-thou word on net neutrality.
  It’s a divisive topic which doesn’t seem to want to go away, but Pai and his cronies can’t have imagined there would be this much of a backlash against the demise of federal net neutrality rules. Resistance was bound to be expected, though it now appears the disagreement is about to escalate
  
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• Here launches interactive Traffic Dashboard

  17-09-2018 18:20
  Digital mapping company Here has launched a new product designed to let users plan their urban journeys based on real-time traffic congestion information.
  It’s called Traffic Dashboard and it not only reports existing congestion and traffic incidents, but anticipated ones too. It has been launched ahead of ITS World Congress and, to be honest, it looks like a bit of a gimmick to generate some coverage and little more, so job done there then,
  “Nobody likes to be in traffic,” inf
  
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• telent to showcase rapid-response CCTV breakthrough at InnoTrans 2018

  17-09-2018 15:30
  The Arbitex system is making waves in the digital railway revolutionWarwick, 17 September. The UK’s leading mission-critical network solutions provider, telent Technology Services, is set to showcase its innovative solution for automated CCTV maintenance and monitoring at InnoTrans 2018 at the Messe Berlin, 18-21 September. Originally developed for deployment across the London Underground’s camera estate, the Arbitex CCTV status monitoring system is a cost-effective analytics solutio
  
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• Darker days forcing Vodafone CEO towards tower unit sale

  17-09-2018 14:42
  The doom and gloom outlook at Vodafone seems to be strangling the glint out of the eyes of designate CEO Nick Read, as the incoming boss ponders selling off the tower business.
  According to the Financial Times, Read made comments at Goldman Sachs 27th Communacopia Conference in New York, seemingly reacting to a slump in Vodafone share price since the beginning of the year. With €31 billion debt and share price down roughly 35% through the last twelve months, something needs to change.
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• Bridging the gap between hosted voice and AI

  17-09-2018 14:21
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Chris Martin, CTO at PowWowNow, takes a look at the evolution of hosted voice in the AI era.
  The growth of new technologies has contributed to data becoming more abundant in business than ever before and led to the development of AI-based tools that can drive more intelligent and meaningful uses of data in the workplace. However, while 84 per cent of business le
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: 5G, IoT and Apple iPhone

  17-09-2018 14:17
  Now with added video!
  
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• Amazon China staff were reportedly selling-on user data

  17-09-2018 13:28
  Amazon is conducting an internal investigation into allegations that its staff in China received bribes from merchants for user data.
  According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, staff of the online retailing giant’s China operation received between $80 and more than $2,000 to part internal user and sales data to brokers, who would then re-sell them to merchants who do business on Amazon platform. According to the WSJ report, it was not only Amazon’s internal sales metrics and u
  
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• Italy trousers €2 billion in pre-5G 700 MHz auction

  17-09-2018 13:16
  A spectrum action in Italy covering a bunch of bands has concluded its first phase with prices roughly in line with expectations.
  Bidding is underway on spectrum in the 700 MHz, 3.7 GHz and 26 GHz bands, but only the former has concluded. The starting price was €338 million per 2×5 MHz block of 700 MHz spectrum and TIM, Vodafone and Iliad all got 2×10 paired. Iliad apparently didn’t need to bid but the other two don’t seem to have craven the price up much as you can
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER to showcase end-to-end connectivity portfolio for the “Connected Train” at InnoTrans 2018

  17-09-2018 12:37
  The company’s industry leading RADOX® cabling portfolio will be on display together with the recently launched 5G-capable SENCITY® rail multi antennaPfäffikon and Herisau, 17 September – Utilising different technologies and devices across radio frequency, low frequency and fiber optics, the “Connected Train” is a complete rail connectivity concept realised by HUBER+SUHNER, leading manufacturer of components and systems for optical and electrical connectivity.
  
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• Aussies telcos given yellow card for foul-play in ‘unlimited’ advertising

  17-09-2018 12:37
  UK consumers might find some comfort that lying to misleading the masses isn’t a speciality of telcos here; everyone around the world is up to no good.
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has told telcos to keep a better handle on advertising claims, demanding more honesty. Transparency and accuracy might seem like strange concepts to telecommunications companies, who have made somewhat of a speciality of applying flexibility to the definition of certain terms, but the
  
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• IBC 2018: Nokia moonwalking explained by Velocix CEO

  17-09-2018 11:43
  The video segment has been claiming scalps faster than Conan the Barbarian recently, but Velocix thinks it’s a move which makes perfect sense for Nokia.
  While many at IBC 2018 this week have been complaining fragmentation in the industry is making business harder to conduct, Velocix feel this is the very factor which will oil the cogs and get the machine running smoothly again. Following the announcement Nokia would be divesting its interest in the video segment, we took the opportunity to
  
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• Sterlite Tech to double its optical fibre cable solutions capacity to meet global demand for network densification

  17-09-2018 10:51
  - Expansion will place the Company among the top integrated optical fibre and cabling companies globally Pune, India – September 17, 2018: Sterlite Tech [BSE: 532374, NSE: STRTECH], an end-to-end global technology leader in smarter digital networks, today announced the addition of 15 million fibre km to its optical fibre cabling capacity, doubling it to 33 million fibre km. This expansion will place the Company among the top integrated optical fibre and cabling technology providers...Sourc
  
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• Arabsat And Newtec Sign New Multi-Million Euro Agreement

  17-09-2018 10:28
  New Newtec Dialog® deployment will strengthen existing partnership and provide the base for Arabsat’s new HTS services in the Middle East and AfricaIBC2018, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, September 2018. Newtec – a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications – and Arab Satellite Communications (Arabsat) have signed a new multi-million Euro contract, expanding their long-term partnership.The new agreement will enable
  
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• Vodafone’s incoming chief weighs masts sale

  17-09-2018 05:00
  Nick Read says disposal a ‘consideration’ as he details job losses to cut £31bn debt
  
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• Vodafone’s incoming CEO weighs masts sale

  17-09-2018 05:00
  New chief says disposal a ‘consideration’ as he details job losses to cut £31bn debt
  
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• Waning share price forces Vodafone's new CEO to consider towers selloff

  17-09-2018 02:00
  Vodafone's new CEO, Nick Read, is considering selling of the company's towers business unit, as the company's share price continues to fall.
  Vodafone's debt levels rose to €31 billion following the acquisition of a string of Eastern European assets from Liberty Global…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SIRO to rollout 65,000 FTTH connections to the city of Cork

  17-09-2018 02:00
  Ireland's Minister for Trade, Simon Convey, has unveiled plans for 65,000 homes in the city of Cork to receive fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband services.
  Irish utilities and broadband provider, SIRO, will spearhead the initiative…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Singtel and Ericsson hit 1.5Gbps 'peak LTE' in Singapore

  17-09-2018 02:00
  Singtel and Ericsson have announced that they have achieved "peak LTE" – achieving speeds of 1.5Gbps in a lab environment.
  The pair performed the tests in Singapore using 5 carrier aggregation and achieved the fastest LTE speeds in Asia…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Australian telcos slammed over 'misleading' unlimited data plans

  17-09-2018 02:00
  Australia's big three mobile network operators have been warned by the country's telecoms regulator to stop using the term "unlimited" in their advertising campaigns…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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