Telecom news

• Google resists the dark side of the force

  09-10-2018 18:46
  Google has decided not to compete for a lucrative Pentagon cloud-computing contract, worth up to $10 billion, stating the project might conflict with its corporate values or AI principles.
  The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (yes, JEDI) cloud project is an initiative to modernise and revise IT policies, improve security and remove barriers of adoption. The cloud computing and storage environment would extend from the ‘home-front to the tactical edge’, and would be accessible
  
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• Equipment vendors battle for early lead in 5G

  09-10-2018 15:40
  Industry heavyweights vie for deals to supply kit for next-generation mobile networks
  
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• Europe approves merger of Tele2 and Com Hem, Kirkby will move to TDC

  09-10-2018 14:25
  The merger of Swedish MNO Tele2 with Swedish cableco Com Hem has been approved but Tele2’s CEO Allison Kirkby isn’t hanging around.
  Europe had a look at the merger, as it invariably does with any telecoms M&A on the continent, and concluded it raises no competition concerns. The resulting creation of a multiplay operator doesn’t take any players out of either the mobile or fixed markets and therefore there’s still enough competition to allow the EC to sleep soundly at
  
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• T-Mobile gives prepaid customers the 5G luxury

  09-10-2018 13:34
  T-Mobile has become the first US telco to commit the 5G euphoria to its prepaid customers, alongside unlimited plans which will feature Amazon Prime and Google One.
  Previously known as MetroPCS, the prepaid brand has been shortened to Metro, and is the first service to commit to 5G as a prepaid offering. Starting from $30 a month and heading up to $60, the various plans are data-centric, aiming to appeal to teenagers and millennials.
  “When we talk about 5G for All, it’s not just nati
  
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• Google responds to Google+ data privacy breach by shutting it down

  09-10-2018 13:33
  The product designed by Google to take on Facebook appears to have suffered from a similar flaw in the way it allowed developers to access user data.
  According to a report from the WSJ, a software glitch in Google’s social networking platform – Google+ – gave developers access to private user data between 2015 and 2018. On the surface this looks similar to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that caused Facebook so much trouble earlier this year.
  In this case Google identified the
  
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• Microsoft looks to take Xbox experience onto mobile

  09-10-2018 12:37
  Microsoft has announced the launch of Project xCloud to take the world of Xbox gaming onto mobile.
  The idea is a relatively simple one. Gaming is traditionally a better experience on consoles which are specifically designed for gaming, but Microsoft wants to take this experience into the mobile world of tablets and smartphones. Trials will start next year and will allow gamers to take the same content from games built for the Xbox console and PC onto their smartphones, using a Bluetooth enabled
  
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• DT searches for fibre efficiency with Fraunhofer AI

  09-10-2018 12:36
  Sometimes there are stories which come along and prove stereotypes can be true. In the search for efficiency, Deutsche Telekom is turning to artificial intelligence to help with its fibre rollout plans.
  Partnering Fraunhofer IPM, DT has unveiled a pilot project where artificial intelligence will look at images and information gathered by a measurement vehicle, before deciding what the best way to dig trenches and lay fibre will be. The pilot will take place in Bornheim, near Bonn.
  “The sho
  
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• Connecting devices: Could iSIM be the key to opening up the IoT?

  09-10-2018 11:33
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Freelance Technology Journalist Kate O’Flaherty offers an in-depth analysis on iSIM, launched by ARM earlier this year. What is it, how does it differ from eSIM, and how will it impact the market?
  This year’s saw ARM take aim at the internet of things (IoT) with the launch of iSIM technology – an integrated component built into the same ch
  
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• CityFibre and Vodafone to bring gigabit services to 3 more UK cities

  09-10-2018 02:00
  UK fibre to the home (FTTH) specialists Cityfibre have announced the next three cities that will benefit from its gigabit broadband fibre rollout, in collaboration with Vodafone. Customers in Cambridge, Leeds and Southend…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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