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• Virtualization and the deployment and operation of 5G networks

  10-10-2018 18:21
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece John English, Director of Marketing, Service Providers Solutions at Netscout offers a quick overview of the need for virtualization with 5G.
  While 5G undoubtedly holds enormous potential, meeting its demands for increased speed, performance, scalability, and flexible service deployment is likely to result in untenable complexity and OpEx for service operato
  
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• Android creator rumoured to be working on completely idiotic idea

  10-10-2018 18:05
  Essential Products, the consumer electronics company founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is reportedly working on a new smartphone that messages people for you and has a significantly smaller screen.
  It’s an idea which sounds like something out of Hollywood, which is partly because it is. According to Bloomberg, Rubin has ditched efforts to follow up his first-attempt at a smartphone and also an entry into the smart speaker market for an idea which quite frankly sounds ridiculous.
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• Shortlist revealed for INCA Awards

  10-10-2018 15:06
  Brightest names in innovative alternative networks to be honoured at London event London, UK, October 10, 2018: The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) has published the 16 companies that have been successfully shortlisted for its inaugural awards ceremony. The INCA Awards have been launched to celebrate the UK’s most innovative and inspirational alternative network providers (altnets) currently operating in the UK. Eight INCAs will be presented in total, with multiple entr
  
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• Even Snapchat is getting into the original content game

  10-10-2018 14:32
  With social networking services seeking to improve the quality of content they host by making their own, even ephemeral messaging service Snapchat has felt compelled to act.
  Snapchat has been teasing the idea of creating its own video content for at least a year, but this somewhat counter-intuitive move has taken a while to become reality. There is presumably only a very specific type of video content that is best consumed via a mobile messaging apps and now we finally get to see what that is.
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• Google adds some Pixels

  10-10-2018 13:06
  Internet giant Google ramped up its involvement in the consumer hardware space with the launch of new Pixel branded smartphones and tablets as well as a home hub.
  The Pixel 3 and its XL variant offer both an industrial design and spec upgrade on their predecessors. Initial impressions indicate the redesign is well received and the spec upgrades are significant. There also seems to be more AI stuff going on, including a call screening functions that taps into Duplex technology to save you having
  
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• Huawei doubles, triples and quadruples down on AI

  10-10-2018 13:02
  Huawei has stoked the artificial intelligence fire as the industry continues along the path towards the digital, data-orientated, economy.
  It’s a full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio according to Huawei. New services and new products, which happen to be built on-top of a new series of AI chips, known as Ascend. There’s more AI than you can shake your finger at and so much use of the word ‘Intelligence’ you have to wonder what the team is compensating for.
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• AI and security sets us apart from the crowd – Google Cloud CEO

  10-10-2018 12:28
  Google Cloud is not winning the cloud battle with AWS and Microsoft Azure right now, but with security credentials and artificial intelligence smarts, CEO Diane Greene thinks the future looks profitable.
  Speaking at Google Next ’18 event in London, Greene claims superior security and industry-leading AI are differentiators for Google Cloud which will lead it to the top of the rankings. This is a business which is not shy about spending its way to success, the last 18 months have seen huge
  
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• Lack of superfast business broadband costs Cornwall up to 1170 jobs a year

  10-10-2018 11:24
  Avanti Communications slashes superfast satellite broadband prices to less than £1 per day to help remote businesses get connected10th October 2018. Cornwall, UK. An estimated 6,500[1] Cornish businesses are stuck in the economic slow lane without access to superfast broadband – it’s costing jobs and holding back new start-ups, says Avanti Communications. If the businesses based in the rural, underserved locations across Cornwall had been connected to superfast broadband over t
  
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• Nokia plugs openness ahead of Broadband World Forum

  10-10-2018 10:01
  Open is one of 2018’s buzzwords and Nokia is cashing in on the bonanza ahead of Broadband World Forum in a couple of weeks.
  This is only the first of several announcements from the Finns, but it builds on the fibre connectivity and virtualisation foundations set last year. The first installment is focused on fixed access network slicing and multi-vendor optical network units (ONU).
  Starting with the network slicing piece, the team plan to launch a fully open and programmable network slicin
  
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• VXFiber strengthens UK leadership team

  10-10-2018 02:00
  Swedish fibre to the home (FTTH) specialists VXFiber has strengthened its leadership team in the UK, with the appointment of a new regional manager for the Midlands and North of England…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TalkTalk invests in expansion of its metro aggregation network

  10-10-2018 02:00
  UK telecoms provider TalkTalk is to expand its metro aggregation network by utilising Infinera's XTM II platform.&nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange focuses on R&D to help 500 start-ups to market by 2020

  10-10-2018 02:00
  Orange Business Services aims to help 500 start up companies bring their products and services to market by the year 2020, according to a senior company executive.Speaking to Total Telecom at Orange's Innovation Garden Campus in Paris on Wednesday, Nicolas Demassieux, senior vice president at Orange Labs Research…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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