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• Torus and Aareon Collaborate on Housing Management Solution

  22-11-2018 16:51
  Following an exhaustive review of the solutions on offer, Torus Group has selected the QL system from Aareon (www.aareon.co.uk) as the single, integrated system to underpin their business. Formed in April 2015 when Helena Partnerships and Golden Gates Housing Trust joined forces, North West based housing and regeneration group Torus now owns and manages more than 22,000 homes.The decision to select Aareon UK systems led to a complex project to migrate the businesses from multiple...Source: RealW
  
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• telent awarded £7.6m HS1 station comms upgrade contract

  22-11-2018 15:00
  telent will renew the communication systems across St Pancras International, Stratford International, Ashford and Ebbsfleet stationsWarwick, 22 November – telent Technology Services Ltd (telent), the UK’s leading mission-critical network solutions provider, today announced it has been successful in securing the HS1 SCSR contract to upgrade the network infrastructure for High Speed 1 (HS1) stations. Supported by Fourway Communications Ltd, telent will be replacing life-expired assets
  
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• Rezatec to provide new water leak risk analysis tool for Utilities Kingston, Canada

  22-11-2018 15:00
  Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK, 22nd November, 2018 - Rezatec, a provider of geospatial data analytics, has announced it will work with Utilities Kingston – a multi-utility company based in Kingston, Ontario – to optimize the company’s leak detection activities across a section of the municipal water distribution system.Water pipeline leakage presents an opportunity for utility companies to significantly improve operating efficiency. The pilot project will see Rezatec provide Utiliti
  
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• Altice Europe shares drop as promotions hit profits

  22-11-2018 14:08
  Cable group hurt in battle with Orange, Bouygues and Iliad
  
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• telent welcomes Shani Latif as Sales Director

  22-11-2018 12:06
  Warwick, 22 November 2018: telent Technology Services Ltd (telent), the UK’s leading mission-critical network solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Shani Latif, who will take on the role of sales director for the service provider and cybersecurity side of the business. Within this role, Latif – formerly of Daisy Group – will take on responsibility for developing telent’s business within service providers, delivering an integrated technology service underp
  
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• China’s social credit system set to kick off in Beijing in 2020

  22-11-2018 11:45
  The Chinese state wants to control its citizens via a system of social scoring that punishes behaviour it doesn’t approve of.
  This initiative has been widely reported, including an excellent piece from ABC Australia, but this marks one of the first times a specific timescale has been attributed to it. Bloomberg reports that Beijing, China’s capital city, plans to implement the social credit system by the end of 2020, which will affect 22 million citizens.
  The full plan has been publi
  
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• ADLV Expects Marked Growth For Online Checks By Local Authority Fleets - As DVLA Ends DLC Option

  22-11-2018 11:39
  The ADLV (Association For Driving Licence Verification) is expecting a marked increase in Local Authority fleet demand for its online licence services, once the DVLA’s DLC (Driver Licence Check) service ends in December. Currently, the DLC is used to verify the licences of local authority fleet drivers and also to check the licences of local Private Hire Vehicle (PVH) taxi drivers. By using the ADLV online service, which is based on longer 3 year ‘permissions’,...Source: RealWi
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER streamline passenger experience with launch of 5 Port railway roof top antenna

  22-11-2018 11:23
  The antenna, available now, is ideal for operators and rolling stock manufacturers looking to meet digital transformation needs Herisau, 22 November – Leading international manufacturer of components and system solutions for optical and electrical connectivity, HUBER+SUHNER, has announced the launch of its new railway roof top antenna to combat data bandwidth issues, the SENCITY® Rail MIMO 5 Port.With consumer needs for on-board connectivity changing the landscape of rail across the wo
  
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• Nokia loses its mobile network head Marc Rouanne

  22-11-2018 11:05
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has had an executive reshuffle that resulted in yet another head of its mobile networks business group calling it a day.
  Marc Rouanne is a Nokia lifer who inherited the mobile crown when Samih Elhage cleared off following the last episode of corporate musical chairs at Nokia, which saw his group diminished by the separation of its services arm into its own little silo. The move is effective immediately and Nokia has wasted little time erasing him from history, which does
  
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• Amplience helps DNA evolve their online customer experience

  22-11-2018 10:00
  DNA is a Finnish telecommunications company that offers the full range of telecommunications services and devices to both consumers and business customers. As Finland’s third largest telco, the company places customer satisfaction at the heart of its products and online services.Customer experience has emerged as a defining characteristic of business, especially online. In Europe’s competitive telco market, it has become a key differentiator among companies that often share similar o
  
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• ZTE and JT to launch 5G test network in Jersey

  22-11-2018 01:00
  Jersey Telecom has signed a partnership agreement with Chinese kit manufacturer, ZTE, to build a new 5G mobile network in the Channel Islands. Representatives from the two companies met in Shenzhen, China, earlier this week, to formalise the details of the agreement…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone Idea to extend 4G network to 1 billion users

  22-11-2018 01:00
  Vodafone Idea has revealed plans to extend its 4G mobile network in India to over 1 billion users, or 80 per cent of India's population, by the year 2020.
  Vodafone Idea is currently India's biggest telco, with over 422 million subscribers, but the firm has big plans for growth in the coming years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei: Telcos must be ready to lead on driverless cars

  22-11-2018 01:00
  Telcos must be prepared to take the lead and accelerate research and development into connected cars and other autonomous vehicles, according to senior executives at Huawei.
  Speaking at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum in London this week, Huawei's executive director of the board…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom plans LTE-M network rollout in 2019

  22-11-2018 01:00
  Deutsche Telekom has revealed that it plans to rollout its LTE-M network technology across Europe in mid-2019.Deutsche Telekom is running test networks in Austria, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands and will soon be ready to rollout its full scale LTE…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Could the Shetland Islands be the first in the UK to receive 5G?

  22-11-2018 01:00
  Faroese Telecom has offered to bring 5G mobile network coverage to the Shetland Isles and Outer Hebrides, according to reports in the Scottish press.
  The Shetland News newspaper reported that representatives from the Faroe Islands biggest connectivity provider…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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