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• Q&A with Pierre-Francois Dubois from Orange

  02-10-2018 18:09
  Pierre-Francois Dubois is the Director Marketing Products at Orange. Here’s what he had to say ahead of the Voice and Advanced Communications Summit 2018, where he is speaking about the new revenue streams and monetisation opportunities for voice and advanced communications.
  How is the demand for Telco communications services changing and what is the place of the traditional Voice Telco offering in this ecosystem?
  Because of mobile data, communications services tend to be unlimited which i
  
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• Infinera closes on Coriant purchase before share price tumbles 15%

  02-10-2018 18:01
  24 hours after completing the acquisition of Coriant, Infinera share price has dropped 15% over comments rival Ciena is on the verge of stealing one of its biggest customers.
  The acquisition not only notably increases the revenues of Infinera but also brings some pretty heavyweight customers into the fray. Six of the global internet content providers are now customers, as well as nine of the top 10 global network operators. Not a bad bit of business for Infinera.
  “This is an exciting day f
  
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• Telarix and Starhome Mach merge to offer global wholesale telecoms portfolio

  02-10-2018 17:59
  A couple of companies involved in the areas of operator interconnectivity, roaming and general wholesale action have decided to merge.
  The combination of Telarix and Starhome Mach inevitably claims to offer a full end-to-end set of wholesale solutions for operators, covering voice, SMS, clearing, settlement and fraud prevention. The new company has 450 customers in 130 countries. All this mucking about with telecoms plumbing also creates business opportunities in BSS, subscriber analytics and th
  
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• Benefit Management Solutions transforms contact centre operations and customer experience with NewVoiceMedia

  02-10-2018 15:31
  Benefits administration firm reports improved reliability and quality assurance after implementing the NVM platformLONDON 2 October 2018 – NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of cloud contact centre and inside sales solutions, today announced that New York-based benefits administration firm Benefit Management Solutions (BMS) is reporting improved contact centre reliability, productivity and quality assurance, along with significant cost savings, since implementing the NVM Platform. BM
  
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• Nearly all UK workers muck about on mobile devices during meetings

  02-10-2018 13:51
  UK VAR Probrand surveyed 1,000 UK workers about their use of tech in the workplace and found most of them multitask regularly.
  89% of the people surveyed said they check devices during meetings, which may be indicative of poor attention spans or being over-worked but is more likely to be a coping mechanism for pointless meetings and tediously self-important presentations. Having said that 81% of them dick about on devices while they’re doing other stuff too.
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• Liberty Global throws weight behind G.hn standard to bolster wifi game

  02-10-2018 13:51
  Liberty Global is the latest telco to join the HomeGrid Forum, having already deployed a G.hn wifi extender solution to improve connectivity in the home.
  The wifi extender, which has been deployed in some Liberty Global subsidiaries since 2015 including Telenet in Belgium and Virgin Media in the UK, delivers improved wifi speeds in rooms far away from the residential gateway, with the G.hn standard claiming the praise. In the HomeGrid Forum, Liberty Global is joining dozens of other organization
  
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• Sprint asks under-threat employees to support redundancies

  02-10-2018 12:40
  In a move which perhaps indicates the Sprint/T-Mobile team is starting to get nervous, Sprint CEO Michel Combes is rousing employee support for the very merger which could potentially make them redundant.
  On Friday 5 October, Combes is inviting as many employees as possible to a special edition Town Hall which will feature John Legere and Mike Sievert, who will take over as CEO and COO of the combined company should the merger be given the go-ahead. The attendees will be able to ask questions an
  
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• Zylpha's new Hubshare integration allows Visualfiles users to collaborate for the first time

  02-10-2018 12:18
  An innovative new integration enables files stored in Visualfiles to be accessed collaboratively between departments or practices for the first time.The new product integration is the result of a strategic partnership between leading legal technology innovator Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) and Nikec Solutions, the developers of Hubshare, the extranet platform that streamlines sharing and collaboration of documents and information with other legal teams and/or clients.By using the integration, Visualfi
  
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• Broadband World Forum 2018: Zyxel to unveil next-generation broadband solutions

  02-10-2018 10:57
  The new-to-market solutions go beyond broadband to deliver exceptional user experience and reduce churn Hsinchu Taiwan, 2 October 2018 – Zyxel Communications will host the worldwide debut of its brand new next-generation solutions at this year’s Broadband World Forum – empowering service providers to meet the demands of security-conscious, WiFi-demanding and bandwidth-hungry customers, while minimizing costs and churn. Zyxel’s new Home Cybersecurity solution enables leadi
  
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• Rezatec provides AHDB with innovative geospatial data analytics to map true extent of potato crops across the UK

  02-10-2018 10:11
  Harwell, Oxfordshire, 2nd October 2018 – Rezatec, the leading provider of geospatial data analytics to the Infrastructure, Forestry and Agribusiness sectors, has been working with The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), to demonstrate the effectiveness of using satellite data to map the extent of potato crops in pilot locations across England and Scotland.AHDB is the UK’s statutory levy board funded by farmers, growers and others in the supply chain. Its purpose is
  
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• Openreach to rollout full fibre gigabit services in Coventry

  02-10-2018 02:00
  Openreach has announced that it is adding the city of Coventry to its Fibre First programme, providing a real boost to connectivity in the West Midlands region.
  The move is part of an initiative that will see Openreach deliver 3 million fibre to the home (FTTH) connections by 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom launches investigation into Vodafone and EE rural coverage claims

  02-10-2018 02:00
  The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has launched a new investigation into mobile network operators Vodafone and EE to ascertain whether the two MNOs provided up to date information for their mobile network coverage.
  According to section 135 and 136 of the government's 2003 Communications Act…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Indian telcos to face new wave of financial challenges following DoT probe

  02-10-2018 02:00
  India's beleaguered telecoms operators must brace themselves for a new round of financial challenges, according to ratings agency Fitch. According to a report published by Fitch, India's Department of Telecoms intends to launch a fresh audit of the country's mobile operators, covering the period 2012…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• FCC gives US telcos a $2bn small cell site boost

  02-10-2018 02:00
  The US' telecoms regulator, The Federal Communication Commission (FCC), has ruled that town and city governments cannot charge wireless carriers exorbitant fees for small cell site access. The move is expected to save US telcos around $2 billion and has been implemented to &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Duterte: New Filipino telco by Christmas or I step in

  02-10-2018 02:00
  Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte will directly intervene if his government have not formed a third telco by Christmas, according to reports in the press…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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