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• Huawei ramps up the 5G chest beating

  21-11-2018 19:41
  Huawei’s 2018 Mobile Broadband Forum has been all about bigging up 5G and the host hasn’t been shy about banging its own drum.
  Director of the carrier business group Ryan Ding used his keynote to announce that Huawei has already signed 22 commercial contracts for 5G. “Every new generation of network comes with new challenges, and this applies to 5G commercial deployment, too,” said Ding. “We take complexity and deliver simplicity. That means we will provide innovati
  
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• Repair or replace the device, keep the customer

  21-11-2018 18:45
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Kevin Gillan, European Managing Director at SquareTrade argues offering device insurance is a good way of improving the customer experience and reducing churn.
  We all know how important our smartphones are to us and we are only too aware of the fundamental role they play in our lives. They are the gateway to our digital existence, they hold our precious content, they k
  
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• EE does a 5G broadcast

  21-11-2018 18:23
  In the latest installment of its snowballing 5G marketing drive, UK MNO EE claimed to have conducted a live 5G broadcast between Wembley Stadium and the Excel Exhibition Centre.
  The two locations were chosen because EE has a 5G test network at Wembley and it was hanging out with Huawei at its MBBF event in the Excel. Specifically EE, together with BT Sport, ‘demonstrated the first live broadcast with remote production over 5G’ according to the announcement. It looks like MBBF attende
  
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• LINX Announce New Year Port Fee Reductions of 15% on its two London LANs and at US exchange LINX NoVA

  21-11-2018 15:36
  London, UK - 21st November 2018 - LINX, the London Internet Exchange, have committed to significantly reducing 10GE and 100GE port fees on its LON1 and LON2 networks in London, and at its regional exchange LINX NoVA in Northern Virginia, USA. This was ratified by a vote by LINX members at an Extraordinary General Meeting in London on the 20th November.As of 1st January 2019 prices on selected port sizes will be cut by 15%....Source: RealWire
  
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• Genish and Elliott embark on inevitable war of words

  21-11-2018 15:32
  The only surprising thing about ousted TIM CEO Genish publicly attacking Elliott was that it took so long.
  A week ago Amos Genish was removed as CEO of Italian telecoms group TIM by a board dominated by activist investors Elliott. They then replaced him sharpish with once of their own board nominees, Luigi Gubitosi, who will presumably enact those Elliott plans for the company that Vivendi-nominated board member Genish had resisted.
  We get the impression that Genish has been mucked about a fair
  
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• Brits can’t be bothered with Black Friday

  21-11-2018 14:21
  Americans like to spend a whole day giving thanks for stuff and then spend the next day buying loads more if it. Over here, not so much.
  Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the US that seems to be some kind of harvest festival, complete with traditional feast. For some reason they like to spend the next day engaged in a retail frenzy that has become known as Black Friday due, apparently, to the fact that this is the first time retailer’s balance sheets move into positive territory (in th
  
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• What is Zun: A Typical Component of Openstack to Provide Container Management Service

  21-11-2018 13:24
  OpenStack is a mainstream open source cloud management platform, aiming at providing rich cloud platform services supporting easy implementation, large-scale scale-in/out and unified standard. Hundreds of global famous enterprises are operating businesses based on OpenStack to reduce costs and act faster. Zun is the component of Openstack to provide container management service, established in June, 2016.
  What is Zun?
  As the component providing container management service, Zun allows users to r
  
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• TalkTalk launches subsidiary devoted to fibre roll out

  21-11-2018 12:43
  UK ISP TalkTalk is so devoted to rolling out fibre that it has launched a new company – FibreNation – devoted entirely to that.
  Apart from the statement of intent this move is noteworthy in so much as it signifies a new, serious competitor to Openreach and Virgin Media in the areas it will operate. It seems to be initially focusing on Yorkshire, but intends to eventually connect three million homes and businesses to ‘full fibre’.
  The company will operate as an Openreach-s
  
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• London Public Art: Shadwell DLR’s bike shed

  21-11-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A bike shed next to Shadwell DLR is an unlikely site for a piece of public art in London.
  This is Time and Tide by Alison Turnbull and was commissioned as a piece of art by the DLR who have a number of artworks across their network.The shelter consists of double-sided panels, one side of which features monochrome images of the lunar cycle, while the other side shows tide tables from three cities, London, Hamburg and Boston.
  The artist intends that the work will prompt thoughts of the sea, distan
  
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• Patchy broadband coverage leaves digital divide

  21-11-2018 05:00
  Ambitions for fast internet for all across the the continent face significant financial and policy hurdles
  
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• TalkTalk launches new company to deliver its full fibre network

  21-11-2018 01:00
  UK broadband provider TalkTalk has formed a new company to build its new full fibre network across the UK.The company, dubbed FibreNation, will eventually provide fibre to the home (FTTH) services to 3 million people in the UK…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• SubCom's Manatua cable system to boost South Pacific connectivity

  21-11-2018 01:00
  SubCom has announced that it is to commence work on the Manatua cable system, which will link the South Pacific island nations of Samoa and Tahiti, with landing stations in Niuie, the Cook Islands and Bora Bora.
  The 3,166km cable system will comprise of a new two/three fibre pair trunk between Apia and Toahotu with a two…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• GSMA: Mobile industry needs supportive regulation in run up to 5G

  21-11-2018 01:00
  European telcos require a supportive regulatory regime, including a more permissive attitude to consolidation, if they are to successfully roll out 5G services across the continent, according to the GSMA.Speaking exclusively at Huawei's Global Mobile Broadband Forum in London this week…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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