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• Truphone and Redtea among the first to exploit the Apple eSIM opportunity

  01-11-2018 18:08
  Apple’s support of eSIM in its latest iPhones promised to kick-start that market and a couple of specialist companies are leading the way.
  UK outfit Truphone, which recently raised £18 million in funding, valuing the company at £386 million, has just launched what it claims is the first eSIM app for the new iPhones. The app exploits the ease and flexibility promised by eSIM to allow users to purchase instant local connectivity for their devices in 80 countries.
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• Trufone and Redtea among the first to exploit the Apple eSIM opportunity

  01-11-2018 18:08
  Apple’s support of eSIM in its latest iPhones promised to kick-start that market and a couple of specialist companies are leading the way.
  UK outfit Truphone, which recently raised £18 million in funding, valuing the company at £386 million, has just launched what it claims is the first eSIM app for the new iPhones. The app exploits the ease and flexibility promised by eSIM to allow users to purchase instant local connectivity for their devices in 80 countries.
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• Telcos are getting pretty good an impersonal communications

  01-11-2018 16:13
  They might be slowly headed in the right direction, but telcos are still not great at relating to customers.
  In the pursuit of relevance in the digital economy, personalised experiences are a hot topic, but the telcos are no-where near as good on the delivery front as the internet giants. There are of course many reasons for this, but one of the most apparent is the structure of the organization according to Intent HQ CEO Jonathan Lakin.
  Here is the current state of affairs. The telcos have
  
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• BT increases profit on declining revenues by getting rid of 2,000 people

  01-11-2018 13:13
  Operator group BT saw its revenues decline in the six months to the end of September but still managed a 30% increase in net profit.
  Profit is revenue minus overheads and reducing the latter is a time-honoured way for companies to keep themselves in the black. Among BT’s five strategic highlights for the fiscal half-year, which included finding a new CEO and demonstrating its 5G capability, was the ‘removal’ of around 2,000 roles over that time. The other two were a small NPS g
  
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• Sky flexes its AI muscles

  01-11-2018 11:58
  Artificial intelligence might be the buzzword of 2018, but few actually know what to do with the technology. That said, Sky seems to be surging ahead of the pack.
  At the Telco Data Analytics and AI conference in London, an interesting statistic was put to the audience; 60% of the AI R&D spend in the telco industry is being directed towards network optimization. This is certainly a valid quest, though the problem with inward R&D investment is that it won’t prevent the slow wander to
  
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• oneM2M launches Smart Device Template to model and manage connected devices

  01-11-2018 11:16
  oneM2M members Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and Huawei will discuss the standardised abstraction model in an exclusive webinar on Wednesday, November 7 at 2pm CET / 8am ETSophia Antipolis, France, 1 November 2018: The new functionalities of oneM2M’s Smart Device Template (SDT) and how it provides a simple, modular and agnostic framework to enable service providers to seamlessly manage smart home devices will be revealed in a oneM2M-hosted webinar. As a result of oneM2M’s abstracti
  
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• BT restructuring starts to pay off for profits

  01-11-2018 08:55
  Earnings climb 2% despite fall in revenues after 2,000 staff leave telecoms group
  
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• Indian business fights to reopen door to citizen data

  01-11-2018 04:59
  Losing access to the world’s biggest biometric database could damp digital growth
  
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• Budget is good start, but don’t get too excited – National Infrastructure Commission

  01-11-2018 01:01
  The National Infrastructure Commission has given the UK’s Autumn Budget the thumbs up, but will the shiny new roads take much needed funding away from the country’s quest towards the digital economy?
  While it might be a boring topic, roads and railways received a lot of attention during the budget announcement. But this is one of the bigger concerns for the NIC, which is wondering whether the a lack of private investment in such schemes would detract from government investment in oth
  
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• Three UK to boost 4G network speeds by up to 33%

  01-11-2018 01:00
  UK mobile network operator, Three, has deployed state of the art 4G technology on its networks, which it says will boost mobile internet speeds by up to 33 per cent…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Three UK to boost 4G network speeds by 33%

  01-11-2018 01:00
  UK mobile network operator, Three, has deployed state of the art 4G technology on its networks, which it says will boost mobile internet speeds by up to 33 per cent…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Culture – not technology – is the key to digital transformation for telcos

  01-11-2018 01:00
  Operators’ Digital Transformation strategies will only be effective if they place employees at the heart of programmes and ensure a cultural shift, as a well as a technical one.This was the resounding message delivered during a Corporate Transformation panel at Total Telecom Congress 2018.
  Featuring speakers from Facebook, OTE Group and Bakcell, the discussion was chaired by Michael Dargue, Principal Analyst at Cartesian, who started the session by stating that corporate transformation is
  
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• Carriers must be ready for the impact of blockchain

  01-11-2018 01:00
  Blockchain technology will be among the key disruptive trends, emerging in the global enterprise telecoms sector, according to industry experts.
  Speaking exclusively to Total Telecom…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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