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• Vodafone pulls out a genuinely good 5G demo – get ready for holograms!

  21-09-2018 18:03
  While many 5G demos show technical progress, few wow an audience in the same way Vodafone did at its Future Ready press conference, unveiling the UK’s first live holographic call.
  After CTO Scott Petty set the stage with a number of impressive announcements indicating Vodafone is perhaps not the cumbersome beast we have come to expect, an underwhelming skit involving a VR headset and England Women’s football captain Steph Houghton led irritable journalists towards a slumber. But with
  
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• Q&A with Stephane Proust of Orange

  21-09-2018 17:57
  As we are fast approaching the Voice and Advanced Communications Summit 2018 we got in touch with some of our speakers – Stéphane Proust, a Senior Member of the Orange Group Expert Community. He’s heading the project for Orange Corporate in charge of the evolution of communication and real time services towards 5G (voice/video & messaging) his main objectives are to support Orange European Business Units for their trials & first 5G deployments and anticipate network ev
  
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• OnePlus grabs global market share in the era of the affordable flagship

  21-09-2018 14:12
  It looks like we may have hit the ceiling with respect to what people are prepared to pay for a flagship smartphone and cheaper alternatives are benefiting.
  Counterpoint Research has released some interesting data tracking the global smartphone market by vendor and also by price tier and region. This kind of slicing and dicing of data can reveal some interesting trends and in this case it uncovers some significant movement in the price tiers immediately below premium.
  Apple continues to kick ass
  
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• Alexa is starting to turn into a genuinely helpful assistant

  21-09-2018 14:00
  Amazon has unveiled a host of new features and skills for its Alexa virtual assistant, edging the living room closer to the intelligent dream we’ve all been promised.
  While you cannot argue with the gimmicky entertainment brought by virtual assistants, you have to wonder whether it is anything more than five minutes of entertainment or making our lives easier in the very smallest (and often irrelevant) of ways. The new features and skills released by Amazon are starting to add some clarity
  
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• Twitch is blocked by China’s Great Firewall

  21-09-2018 13:54
  The Amazon-owned game streaming platform Twitch confirmed on Friday that it became inaccessible from China, the latest of a string of popular services banned from the world’s largest internet market.
  That China has banned another internet site can hardly hit the headlines nowadays. On the contrary, often it is the clandestine or not so clandestine efforts from those blocked to re-enter China that are making the news. As a matter of fact, among the top 10 most visited websites based on the
  
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• eSIM smartphone market set for growth following Apple iPhone support

  21-09-2018 12:36
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Logan Armendone-Mowbray, Content & Communities Manager at KNect365, explores how with Apple onboard the eSIM market is set for accelerated growth and why the technology is likely to impact operator’s roaming revenues.
  The benefits of Apple’s eSIM adoption in the latest iPhones will extend further than just consumers, who will be able to choose an
  
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• Vodafone announces 2019 commercial launch and 1k 5G sites by 2020

  21-09-2018 11:52
  Vodafone has confirmed it will be ready to hit the 5G on-switch as soon as devices are available on the market, though only in Manchester in the first instance.
  Speaking at the gloriously named Future Ready press conference in the telcos Newbury HQ, CTO Scott Petty confirmed the team will be ready for a commercial launch in 2019, though whether the devices will be available is another matter. Having launched in seven urban and rural locations over 2019, Vodafone will have 1,000 5G sites live by
  
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• Vodafone announces 2019 5G commercial launch and 1,000 sites by 2020

  21-09-2018 11:52
  Vodafone has confirmed it will be ready to hit the 5G on-switch as soon as devices are available on the market, though only in Manchester in the first instance.
  Speaking at the gloriously named Future Ready press conference in the telcos Newbury HQ, CTO Scott Petty confirmed the team will be ready for a commercial launch in 2019, though whether the devices will be available is another matter. Having launched in seven urban and rural locations over 2019, Vodafone will have 1,000 5G sites live by
  
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• Edge Computing vs Fog Computing

  21-09-2018 11:28
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece freelance Journalist Charlie Osborne explains the differences between edge and fog computing.
  The Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices, which are able to facilitate data collection and storage at the edge of networks, have the potential to transform enterprise systems and the way we manage data irrevocably. As the number of IoT devices in circulation i
  
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• The benefits of edge computing, IoT for mobile operators in the smart city space

  21-09-2018 10:48
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece freelance Journalist Charlie Osborne explores the role of edge computing in enabling the smart city.
  Mobility has paved the way for the rapid adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices worldwide. At the core of IoT and edge computing technologies is mobile networking, which has given rise to Big data, analytics, and cloud computing taking ove
  
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• Vodafone's S Europe troubles show 'bums on seats' still an issue that 5G won't fix

  21-09-2018 02:00
  European mobile operators are still chasing customers, because they are struggling to make money from anything other than connectivity, with efforts to push VAS revenue streams largely coming to nothing, and despite their best efforts to hype the promise of 5G, there is no evidence to suggest anything will change with the arrival of the next generation of mobile technology.This 'bums on seats' approach - to borrow an expression that was oft-used to describe the Internet giants a decade or so ag
  
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• Telit parts company with another CEO

  21-09-2018 02:00
  Telit Communications on Friday announced that CEO Yosi Fait will step down with immediate effect.The announcement comes after pressure from a group of shareholders which called for the removal of Fait and another director…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Tele2 shareholders OK Com Hem takeover, name new directors

  21-09-2018 02:00
  Tele2 and Com Hem have both been granted the approval of shareholders for their plan to merge their businesses in Sweden.Both operators held an EGM on Friday at which shareholders gave the green light to the deal…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Philippines finally names date for third operating licence applications

  21-09-2018 02:00
  Companies wishing to become the Philippines' third national telecoms operator have until 5 November to submit their applications, the government announced on Friday.The country's Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and regulatory body the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) together released the final documentation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Norway ices high-band spectrum sale

  21-09-2018 02:00
  Norway has postponed the auction of high-band mobile spectrum just two months before it was due to take place, after two of the country's telcos filed complaints over proposed spectrum caps…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Italian 5G auction exceeds €4 billion

  21-09-2018 02:00
  Italy's ongoing 5G spectrum passed the €4 billion mark after the sixth day of bidding on Thursday, the government announced.The winners of spectrum in the 700 MHz band were decided last week…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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