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• Why China’s Huawei should be kept out of UK’s 5G

  05-12-2018 21:35
  Huawei should be kept out of UK’s 5G to protect national security
  
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• China’s Huawei should be kept out of UK’s 5G

  05-12-2018 21:35
  Huawei should be kept out of UK’s 5G to protect national security
  
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• Buy a bit of an old Jubilee line tube train

  05-12-2018 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Jubilee line trains are being refurbished at the moment, and some bits of the old trains are coming up for sale.
  First up is a collection of door buttons — the one’s you never pushed to open the doors but were added anyway as people get weirded out about being inside trains with doors that don’t have buttons.OK, even for a transport nerd, it’s a bit odd and you’ll probably need to explain what it is if buying one as a gift, but it’s a talking point to have
  
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• EU passed new telecom rules to promote 5G

  05-12-2018 17:48
  The telecom ministers gave final approval to the new European Electronic Communications Code to encourage competition, promote new technologies, as well as protect consumer interests.
  It has been a busy couple of weeks in Brussels. The telecom configuration of the Council of the European Union, composed of the government ministers whose portfolios cover telecom, gave the final seal of approval to the European Electronic Communications Code. This came after the European Parliament (composed of el
  
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• Ericsson and Telia hit go button on Sweden’s first 5G network

  05-12-2018 17:46
  Telia and Ericsson jointly switched on the first 5G network at KTH the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, with plans for a commercial launch across Sweden in 2020.
  The partnership between the pair will see 5G applications tested at the university campus, creating a new innovation centre for the country. Interestingly enough, the pair claim network at KTH is permanent and constitutes the first building block in Sweden’s future 5G network.
  “To have access to Sweden’s fir
  
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• Cellwize Announces Investment from DTCP to Fuel Global Growth

  05-12-2018 14:00
  Singapore – December 5, 2018 — Cellwize, a global leader in mobile network automation and orchestration, today announced an equity funding investment from DTCP (Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), an investment management group with c. $1.6 billion assets under management and advisory from Deutsche Telekom and other institutional investors. The investment will support Cellwize’s evolution toward enabling the immense growth of the industry with the advent of 5G. As mobile networ
  
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• BT to cut Huawei out of the mobile mix

  05-12-2018 13:57
  BT has confirmed it will be stripping Huawei equipment from its core 4G network, while it will also face a ban from any DWDM optical transport network and mobile edge compute rollout.
  With the UK spending so much time and money creating a department in GCHQ to specifically monitor the business, making sure there are no nefarious activities, it might have thought it was safe on the isle. This assumption can no longer be held.
  Reports initially emerged in the FT, though these have now been confirm
  
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• Bose joins the connected craze

  05-12-2018 13:57
  Premium audio brand Bose has become the latest business to attempt to cash in on the promised, but yet to be realised, riches of the augmented and virtual reality world.
  The new product, Frames, is claimed to have the ‘protection and style of premium sunglasses’, and ‘the functionality and performance of wireless headphones’, with the team positioning the product as the world’s first audio augmented reality platform.
  “Bose Frames are both revolutionary and pra
  
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• London’s Alleys: Bartholomew Place, EC1

  05-12-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This little courtyard set back from the street has an obscure history, but is thought to have a late medieval origin.Bartholomew Place seems to start appearing on maps of the area from the 15th century, although as maps weren’t that accurate, some doubt does exist about that.
  It certainly appears on a parish map of 1720 with what appear to be three separate section. Horwood’s map of 1799 also shows it, but as Parker’s Yard. The current name, Bartholomew Place turns up in the mi
  
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• Qualcomm pumps Snapdragon 855 in Hawaii

  05-12-2018 12:26
  The chipset company Qualcomm just unveiled the newest Snapdragon SoC product to power 5G mobile devices.
  On the first day of its annual “Snapdragon Tech Summit” in Hawaii, Qualcomm introduced its first commercial 5G chipset, branded as Snapdragon 855. The system is compatible with Qualcomm’s X50 modem with antennae supporting 5G on both sub-6GHz and mmWave frequency bands. On a 7-nm silicon will also be its 4th-generation multi-core on-device AI engine (said to deliver 3X
  
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• France and Germany give OTTs early Xmas gift in digital tax saga

  05-12-2018 12:23
  Europe ambitious plans to hold the internet giants accountable to fair and reasonable taxation have been temporarily scuppered after resistance from several nations, most notably France and Germany.
  While Silicon Valley is still not in the clear, the internet giants will be breathing a deep sigh of relief as their hard-working lobbyists are given another couple of months to influence the plans. France and Germany seem to be the main opponents of the aggressive tax assault, drawing up their own s
  
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• Internal Culture Key to Transformation: Huawei GTS

  05-12-2018 11:58
  Internal culture is the most important factor in digital transformation, according to Bill Tang, president of Huawei’s Global Technical Services (GTS) business unit.
  Tang told the Huawei Operational Transformation Forum (OTF) that this was the lesson he drew from the digital transformation experience of his own team.
  That’s because the transformation process shakes up traditional roles and hierarchies and the way staff work with each other and their customers.
  It’s essential to
  
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• SCF Calls for Industry to Adopt Open RAN Interfaces to Prevent 5G Fragmentation

  05-12-2018 10:00
  Cellular industry must avoid pitfalls of proprietary solutions as it seeks to define the open RANLondon, UK & Santa Clara, CA - 5th December 2018 Small Cell Forum (SCF) has today called for the cellular industry to adopt open air interface and networking standards to avoid fragmentation and ensure interoperability of equipment from different vendors. In particular, the Technology & 5G Working Group of SCF (led by Chair Prabhakar Chitrapu of AT&T – USA, with...Source: RealWire
  
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• The game may be over for Xbox and PlayStation 

  05-12-2018 06:00
  Hardware makers must adapt to a world where superfast broadband can stream blockbuster games without the need for a box
  
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• Technology: is it game over for consoles?

  05-12-2018 06:00
  Hardware makers must adapt to a world where superfast broadband can stream blockbuster games without the need for a box
  
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• Does cloud computing mean game over for Xbox and PlayStation?

  05-12-2018 06:00
  Hardware makers must adapt to a world where superfast broadband can stream blockbuster games without the need for a box
  
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• BT to strip Huawei equipment from its core 4G network

  05-12-2018 05:00
  Chinese supplier’s kit was used to build EE’s 3G and 4G networks
  
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• Swansea to get the Full Fibre treatment from Openreach

  05-12-2018 01:00
  Openreach has revealed Swansea as the latest city to be added to its Fibre First programme, in a move that will revolutionise connectivity in Wales' second city. Openreach will make fibre to the home (FTTH) services available to tens of thousands of people in Swansea…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Red Hat: Industry 4.0 use cases will drive 5G rollout

  05-12-2018 01:00
  Telcos must be ready to capitalise on the huge number of potentially profitable niches that will emerge in the industrial sector when 5G networks begin to be rolled out in 2019, according to Red Hat.Speaking exclusively to Total Telecom at The Great Telco Debate last week, Red Hat's worldwide VP of communications service providers, Darrell Jordan-Smith, said that telcos could miss out on revenues by over focussing on consumer applications for 5G.
  "From our perspective…read more on TotalT
  
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• Nokia: IoT is the next frontier for cyber crime

  05-12-2018 01:00
  IoT botnet activity accounted for 78 per cent of malware detection events in communication service provider (CSP) networks in 2018, according to an industry report published by Nokia.The figure represents a sharp increase from 33 per cent last year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Hutch and Etisalat complete Sri Lanka merger

  05-12-2018 01:00
  UAE based telco Etisalat has completed the sale of its Sri Lankan business unit, Etisalat Lanka, to CK Hutchison, according to reports in the press."Further to our announcement on 26 April 2018…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei vows to fight on as BT considers UK 5G ban

  05-12-2018 01:00
  The UK's former incumbent telecoms operator BT is considering stripping Huawei equipment from its 4G network core and banning the Chinese kit manufacturer from participating in the country's 5G rollout next year. A report in the Financial Times said that the UK operator was preparing to line up behind the US…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CBNL: 5G will open the flood-gates for smart city initiatives

  05-12-2018 01:00
  What are the main trends that you are noticing developing in the industry at the moment? We are seeing a surge of interest in the use of mmWave spectrum to deliver powerful solutions for a number of market sectors, smart cities being one of the most significant. CBNL was one of the early pioneers of 5G mmWave spectrum using 26GHz for deployment in Rzeszów, Poland, even before the current focus on these bands. CBNL has long since understood the benefits of building connectivity platf
  
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• BT set to remove Huawei kit from its 4G network core

  05-12-2018 01:00
  The UK's former incumbent telecoms operator BT is considering stripping Huawei equipment from its 4G network core according to reports in the British press. A report in the Financial Times said that the UK operator was preparing to line up behind the US, New Zealand and Australia in announcing a ban on Huawei's products in its network core…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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