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• Nokia bags €250mn loans from NIB

  03-12-2018 18:14
  The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has agreed to write Nokia a €250 million cheque in the pursuit of 5G riches.
  The loan, which has an average maturity of approximately five years after disbursement, will be used to fuel the 5G ambitions of Nokia in Europe in 2018-2020, with a particular focus on new 5G-related end-to-end product offerings for different verticals.
  “The business opportunities of 5G are numerous, as it will be the first mobile generation designed from the beginning for ma
  
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• Samsung set to launch 5G phone with Verizon in early 2019

  03-12-2018 17:56
  Verizon and Samsung will unveil a prototype this week of a 5G phone they intend to commercially launch in 1H 2019.
  Qualcomm is having yet another 5G fest this week, moving the road-show from Hong Kong to Hawaii. It will take this opportunity to once more labour the point about its 5G modem leadership and this time has recruited Verizon and Samsung for further emphasis. The three of them are conspiring to bring a 5G phone to market in the US next year but the only date commitment they will make i
  
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• A 5G robot is coming to Helsinki airport

  03-12-2018 16:20
  Telia has launched a pre-commercial 5G network at Helsinki airport, and helped the airport authority to introduce a robot to test support for operation and customer service.
  Helsinki airport became Telia’s first 5G customer in Finland. The mobile operator paid more than €30 million for a 130 MHz band on the 3.5GHz frequency earlier this year for its upcoming 5G service, but this trial with the airport authority Finavia is being conducted on the 28GHz.
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• How to get your business VoIP-connected without stumbling and falling

  03-12-2018 14:54
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Nick Johnson, CEO of Evolving Networks, looks at some of the confusion over connectivity for VoIP and how to overcome it.
  Monopolies are seldom evil conspiracies but we all know where they lead – consumers end up with little or no choice and higher costs. Irrespective of industry or product, the monopoly dictates the suppliers, products, services or solution
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Diversification, consolidation and aggravation

  03-12-2018 14:52
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• Telcos are still misleading consumers in broadband ads – FTTH Council

  03-12-2018 13:45
  The FTTH Council Europe has written an open letter to various regulatory bodies bemoaning the care-free attitudes of telco marketers and PR ‘gurus’ when promoting their services.
  This is of course not a new issue being raised by the FTTH Council, but it is a persistent one. The wider story is the telco’s ‘creative’ relationship with the truth in advertising, though the problem seems to be greater in the world of fibre connectivity.
  “Misusing the word fibre in
  
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• Telcos are still misleading consumer in broadband ads – FTTH Council

  03-12-2018 13:45
  The FTTH Council Europe has written an open letter to various regulatory bodies bemoaning the care-free attitudes of telco marketers and PR ‘gurus’ when promoting their services.
  This is of course not a new issue being raised by the FTTH Council, but it is a persistent one. The wider story is the telco’s ‘creative’ relationship with the truth in advertising, though the problem seems to be greater in the world of fibre connectivity.
  “Misusing the word fibre in
  
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• Qualcomm-NXP deal could be back on

  03-12-2018 13:08
  The Chinese president would be open to approving the acquisition of NXP should Qualcomm propose again, according to the White House.
  The American and Chinese presidents met during the G20 event in Argentina to cover an array of thorny issues. The White House press secretary’s statement on 1 December included the key points. On trade, “President Trump has agreed that on January 1, 2019, he will leave the tariffs on $200 billion worth of product at the 10% rate, and not raise it to 25%
  
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• The UK needs to make a call on Huawei and 5G soon

  03-12-2018 13:04
  There is increasing speculation in the UK media about the likelihood of a government intervention over Huawei and 5G kit.
  When New Zealand became the latest Western country to move against the inclusion of Huawei kit in its 5G network, the BBC was moved to publish a story headlined: Huawei: Why has UK not blocked Chinese firm’s 5G kit? The piece noted that three of the five countries comprising the ‘Five Eyes’ anglophone intelligence alliance are now actively blocking the use o
  
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• Dell flies through Q3 with 15% revenue growth

  03-12-2018 13:01
  Dell Technologies has reported its financials for the third quarter of 2018, with few complaining about15% revenue growth to $22.5 billion.
  While the company still has a considerable bill to pay off following the $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016, the firm has boasted about paying off approximately $1.3 billion of core debt after three months of positive growth across the group.
  “The digital transformation of our world is underway, and we are in the early stages of a massive, technolo
  
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• Dinner with the Charles Dickens Museum

  03-12-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christmas means food, drink and dickens, so the Charles Dickens Museum has decked the halls and put out the (artificial) food in a celebration of a Dickensian Christmas.Whether feasting for the rich or scraping by for the poor, food was a massive cost for the household, far more than today, when a typical family would spend around a third of their income on the cost of buying food.
  So it’s no surprise really that food plays such an important role in Charles Dickens novels, and as someone b
  
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• Korea switches on 5G

  03-12-2018 12:15
  All three of Korea’s major mobile operators switched on 5G networks simultaneous at midnight on 1 December, offering business FWA based on 3GPP standards.
  The launches marked Korea as the first country to have more than one commercial 5G network. The largest operator SKT, launched the service in 13 cities, while LG U+ plans to expand its 5G coverage to 85 cities by the end of the year. KT, the second largest mobile operator and the leading fixed-line services provider, which recently suffe
  
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• Orange plans banking profitability by 2023

  03-12-2018 11:02
  With many commentators expressing doubt over Orange’s banking venture, it might come as somewhat of a surprise the team are planning to be profitable by 2023.
  After launching the financial business last year, the company is collecting customers increasingly quickly and is currently in the planning stages of its pan-European assault. Spain is next on the list, but it is the profitability and larger revenue growth contributions to the Orange Group business which are capturing attention.
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• The day German U-Boats passed under Tower Bridge

  03-12-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One hundred years ago, four German submarines slipped through Tower Bridge and into the Port of London, heart of the city’s cargo trade.They were fortunately not on an attack mission, as the war had ended the previous month, and these four submarines were now the spoils of war.
  As part of the Armistice agreement, German submarines had to surrender to the British, and by December over 120 submarines had surrendered at the agreed point, off the coast of Harwich.
  Several were then dispatched,
  
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• South Korea switches on 5G for enterprise users

  03-12-2018 01:00
  South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, LG UPlus and KT Corp turned on their 5G networks as of the 1st December, beginning the launch of commercial 5G services in the country.
  The services are currently limited to enterprise customers…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Samsung and Verizon to launch 5G smartphones in H1 2019

  03-12-2018 01:00
  US telco Verizon has revealed that it will begin launching Samsung's 5G handsets on its networks in the US in the first half of 2019. The new smartphone will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X50 5G NE chip set…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT appoints new cyber security boss

  03-12-2018 01:00
  BT Group has appointed Kevin Brown to the position of managing director of BT Security, as the company looks to ramp up its focus on physical and cyber security.
  Brown will oversee BT's 3,000 security experts spread across 180 countries across the globe…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T to slash $20 billion of debt in 2019

  03-12-2018 01:00
  US telecoms giant AT&T has committed to cutting between $18 billion and $20 billion of debt from its balance sheet in 2019, through a series of strategic asset sales.
  AT&T said it would look to divest a number of non…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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