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• Chip division continues to carry Samsung

  31-10-2018 18:37
  Samsung has released its quarterly numbers, and while it is an improvement on the last quarter, the business is seemingly being propped up by a surging semiconductor unit.
  Total revenues for the three months stood at roughly $57 billion, a 5.5% increase from the same period in 2017, while operating profit came in at roughly 15.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 20.9%. The earnings were largely in line with the expectations the management team floated a few weeks back.
  “In the third quar
  
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• Shareholder attitudes on fibre are shifting – investor

  31-10-2018 16:07
  Some telcos might have been afraid of committing to fibre deployment due to the vast expense and potential shareholder backlash, but attitudes are changing.
  Over the last few years the need to invest in fibre has become increasingly evident, though progress is incredibly varied. Forward-looking telcos, Orange for instance, have been pumping cash into fibre deployment for years, while stuttering operators such as BT and Deutsche Telekom has chosen alternative technologies in an incredibly short-s
  
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• Ofcom officially releases BT from its Openreach undertakings

  31-10-2018 14:33
  Measures BT undertook in 2005 to placate Ofcom over its wholesale operations are officially no longer relevant, so it doesn’t need to bother.
  This seems to be a bit of a formality, since the legal separation of Openreach from BT is supposed to mean BT has no direct influence over the fixed line wholesaler. But at the very least it marks a milestone in BT’s relationship with Ofcom and gives Philip Jansen one less thing to worry about when he takes over next year.
  The previous mileston
  
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• SoftBank: hard target

  31-10-2018 14:18
  Respite brought by mobile business’s IPO may be shortlived
  
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• Breakthrough Edtech system wins IDC awards as Information Visionary, leveraging Artificial Intelligence and bevy of CITIC Telecom CPC global ICT solutions

  31-10-2018 14:06
  The Netherlands, October 31, 2018: CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (“CITIC Telecom CPC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK:1883) and leading online education provider TutorABC have announced their collaborative Edtech project won twin awards for real-world application of visionary Artificial Intelligence and Big Data technologies.TutorABC’s revolutionary Dynamic Course Generation System (DCGS) generates personalised educati
  
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• Q3 validates O2 indifference towards convergence

  31-10-2018 13:52
  Telefonica’s UK business O2 has continued a strong 2018 performance with a 7.9% increase in revenues in the third quarter, while it greedily captured an additional 120,000 subscribers.
  The results perhaps justify the businesses decision not to enter into the convergence fight. Back in July, CEO Mark Evans confirmed the business would continue to focus on its mobile-only proposition, and wasn’t convinced entirely by the idea of bundled services. This statement is certainly contradicto
  
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• Spectralink Announces General Availability of its Next-Generation Enterprise Mobility Platform

  31-10-2018 13:49
  Purpose-built for today’s industry-specific workflows and working environments, the Versity solution delivers reliable enterprise-level performance, durability and security with a lightweight, user-friendly designDENVER, CO – October 31, 2018 – Spectralink, a leader in enterprise mobility solutions, today announced general availability of its Versity enterprise smartphone. This highly anticipated, next-gen product delivers all the power, performance and purpose-built functional
  
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• Facebook says sharing is increasingly going private

  31-10-2018 13:49
  While announcing another solid set of numbers, Facebook revealed that sharing is increasingly moving to private channels.
  This presents some business challenges for Facebook as monetising services such as instant messaging has proven to be more difficult than just slapping ads in the middle of public streams. As a consequence Facebook’s share price fluctuated a fair bit during the earnings call on the back of knee-jerk reactions from investors.
  “Public sharing will always be very imp
  
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• Microsoft recognises AI might screw over some employees

  31-10-2018 12:49
  Artificial intelligence has been hyped as the technology which will drive profits in the next era, though few in the technology want recognise how painful the technology will be for some segments of society.
  The propaganda mission from the technology world was incredibly present at Microsoft’s UK event Future Decoded. Of course, there are benefits from the implementation of AI. Business can be more productive, more intelligent and more proactive, tackling trends ahead of time and gaining a
  
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• Wi-Fi 6 and Next Generation Hotspot boost industry confidence in Wi-Fi

  31-10-2018 12:17
  WBA Annual Industry Report finds 84% of industry is as or more confident in Wi-Fi investment London 31 October 2018 – The growth in Wi-Fi continues unabated, with increasing volumes of Wi-Fi devices and traffic, an adoption breakthrough in Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) Passpoint™, and increasing confidence around the commercial deployment and specification of next generation technology Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax). The findings from the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) Annual Industry Report
  
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• Joomla 3.9's Privacy Tools Drive GDPR and Regulatory Compliance

  31-10-2018 11:57
  Joomla, one of the World's most popular Open Source CMS (Content Management Systems) has announced the release of Joomla 3.9. As a collaborative community-driven software release, Joomla 3.9 reflects and incorporates global user feedback gathered through extensive community surveys, Joomla forum posts and feature requests. Joomla have incorporated the very latest feedback in Version 3.9 to provide users with a comprehensive ‘Privacy Tool Suite’. This facilitates the compliance of Joo
  
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• White label, sub brands and MVNO, what is the right model?

  31-10-2018 11:40
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Lynda Burton, Director of Wholesale at Three UK, discusses white labeling, operator’s MVNO and diversification strategy.
  There will be many interesting debates happening at MVNOs Europe this November. One of the most fascinating will be on the future of sub brands and the value they will bring to an operator’s MVNO strategy over the next three t
  
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• Aareon 360 Portal Enables Social Landlords To Digitally Transform Customer, Staff, Supplier And Property Management Operations

  31-10-2018 11:10
  Aareon UK (www.aareon.co.uk) has announced the latest release of its Aareon 360 platform, the evolution of its widely acclaimed self-service solution. The portal platform enables Housing Associations and Social Landlords to digitally transform their customer, staff, supplier and property management operations.From a Housing organisation customer’s perspective, the Aareon 360 platform enables full online self-service access to a wide range of information, enabling them to transact seamlessl
  
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• Sterlite Tech combines network design innovation, service engineering with FTTx MANTRA™

  31-10-2018 11:07
  This industry-first Fibre-to-the-Point service solution converges design capability, fiberisation and virtualisation, delivering massive agile FTTx networks faster London, United Kingdom – October 31, 2018: Sterlite Tech [BSE: 532374, NSE: STRTECH], a global data network solutions company, has announced the launch of its new – FTTx MANTRA™ – an end-to-end FTTx-as-a-service solution. This solution allows swift roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Point (FTTx) networks at the scale, la
  
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• Telefónica lifts sales growth outlook on UK strength

  31-10-2018 09:20
  Spanish telecoms groups now expects revenues to be 2 per cent higher in 2018
  
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• Bwtech launches NetWarden, network monitoring and troubleshooting automation, powered by Machine Learning

  31-10-2018 09:00
  October 31, 2018 London, United Kingdom - Bwtech, a leading provider of end-to-end performance monitoring and optimization solutions for the mobile communication industry, announced today the launch of an innovative tool, NetWarden.The new tool takes advantage of state-of-the-art AI/ML algorithms to correlate all the data sources collected from across the network in order to automatically provide actionable insights for network monitoring, optimization and troubleshooting.The first automation st
  
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• Banks agree cut-price fees for SoftBank mobile IPO

  31-10-2018 06:00
  Underwriters accept 1.5% level to take part in what could be the largest offering ever
  
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• UK allocates £200m to boost rural fibre rollout

  31-10-2018 01:00
  The UK government is to allocate a further £200 million to boost rural connectivity across the UK.The government has made rural connectivity a key part of its telecoms manifesto this term and has repeatedly pledged to improve connectivity in some of Britain's most hard to reach areas…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google: Use AI as a tool kit to build great user experience

  31-10-2018 01:00
  Telcos should look to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool kit to build a great user experience, rather than focusing on ‘data science,’ Google’s EMEA Customer Engineering said today. Speaking during a panel on “Capitalising the AI opportunity” at Total Telecom Congress, Andy Kennedy described how Google has used AI and explored how these methods could help telcos take advantage of the technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Digital Transformation – the difference between winning and losing is the execution and the timing

  31-10-2018 01:00
  Whether an operator’s Digital Transformation is successful or not will depend on its execution and timing, according to Thomas Chalumeau, Strategy Director at Orange MEA.  Making the comments during an exclusive Total Telecom Congress panel, titled “Restructuring Business Models to Accelerate Digitalisation,” Chalumeau stated that Digital Transformation depends on a strong overall business model.  “I am struck by the fact that the industry is moving i
  
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