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• How Huawei used the UK to become a global giant

  07-12-2018 23:47
  Chinese company’s focus on 5G development is worrying politicians and intelligence services
  
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• O2 offers credits and discounts for network failure

  07-12-2018 20:17
  Mobile phone operator tries to appease millions of customers
  
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• New tower to loom over Waterloo Station

  07-12-2018 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  A revised set of plans for the rather ugly 1960s office block next to Waterloo station have been shown off, featuring a taping set of buildings and roof gardens.This is the latest of several attempts to redevelop the much loathed office block which is one of the remaining large scale development sites in the Waterloo area.
  The most recent planning permission was granted, following a protracted dispute, back in 2014 for a set of towers which were accused of spoiling the view of the House of Parli
  
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• Huawei caves to UK security demands with empire under siege

  07-12-2018 16:54
  After a meeting with the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Huawei has agreed to address the serious security risks believed to exist within the firm’s equipment and software.
  Over the last 4-5 years Huawei has bitterly fought through the 4G era to crown itself king of connectivity, but the empire is starting to collapse. Banned from the US, Australia and New Zealand, with Japan reportedly considering the same, it missed out on the telco’s preferred suppliers list in S
  
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• Spy thriller echoes in Huawei power struggle

  07-12-2018 15:30
  Arrest of executive and warnings from western spymasters creates cold war atmosphere
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Cloud, Huawei, 5G phones and Orange

  07-12-2018 14:12
  Now with added video!
  
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• Nokia has a great week by simply not screwing anything up

  07-12-2018 13:29
  Christmas has come early for Finnish kit vendor Nokia, with its competitors bestowing it with presents of breath-taking generosity.
  Huawei was the first to smash through the secret Santa threshold, at least indirectly, when BT confirmed that Huawei would not be considered to contribute to its 5G core infrastructure and that it’s also being removed from legacy cores. This marked the first time a UK operator had directly addressed the matter of Huawei and 5G kit and would appear to be part o
  
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• O2 up and running but how much damage has been done to them and Ericsson?

  07-12-2018 12:55
  With O2’s UK network back up and running, the 32 million Brits who depend on it have been returned to the digital era, but you have to wonder how big the fallout from this disaster will be.
  With 3G data services restored late Thursday evening, and 4G getting the green-light early Friday morning, a stressful period comes to a close. Now the more difficult questions need to be asked to understand why this happened, why O2 is rumoured to have had to cancel its Christmas party last n
  
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• Huawei caves in to UK security demands

  07-12-2018 12:55
  The $2bn commitment by the Chinese telecoms group follows CFO’s arrest in Canada
  
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• USA declares war on Huawei, with a bit of help from ZTE

  07-12-2018 12:40
  The arrest of Huawei’s CFO was the culmination of years of investigation by the American government and judiciary, with an apparent helping hand from ZTE.
  When Ms. Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO, was arrested in Vancouver, facing extradition to the US, we remembered a file seized and published by the US Department of Commerce when it was investigating then punishing Huawei’s domestic competitor ZTE early in the year, which detailed some of the ways ZTE had gone about the activ
  
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• Huawei caves in to UK’s security demands

  07-12-2018 05:49
  Commitment by Chinese telecoms group follows arrest of its CFO in Canada
  
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• Huawei caves in to UK’s 5G security demands

  07-12-2018 05:49
  Commitment by Chinese telecoms group comes after arrest of CFO in Canada
  
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• O2 says 4G network service restored after outage

  07-12-2018 04:58
  Millions of UK customers were left without data access
  
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