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• Huawei under fire

  10-12-2018 19:43
  World’s biggest telecoms equipment maker under sharp scrutiny after CFO’s arrest
  
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• Crossrail might not open until 2020 and costs are up by £2 billion

  10-12-2018 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  A lot more money, a lot more time, and a lot more heated arguments have been released to get Crossrail working.
  It’s a joke that good news refers to the Elizabeth line and bad news to Crossrail, so two statements from TfL and the Mayor of London both refer a lot to Crossrail and hardly at all to the Elizabeth line.More money
  In summary, the likely capital cost impact of the delay to the project announced in August could be in the region of between £1.6bn and £2bn. That includes
  
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• Vodafone searches the sewers for missing connectivity

  10-12-2018 17:50
  Vodafone UK has announced a new initiative to embed small antennas below street level in a bid to meet data demands in the country’s busiest streets.
  With today’s users demanding increased connectivity but refusing to allow MNOs to place more antennas due to aesthetics, an interesting conundrum has been created. One solution to this challenge is to place mobile equipment in street furniture such as manhole covers, lamp-posts and phone boxes.
  “We are committed to providing custo
  
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• China issues injunctions against most Apple iPhone models – that was quick

  10-12-2018 17:49
  The week after the US arranged the arrest of a Huawei exec China has granted Qualcomm an injunction prohibiting the sales of most Apple smartphones in the country. Coincidence?
  Qualcomm and Apple have been at war for months over what the former charges the latter to use its technology in its devices. Apple wants to pay less and Qualcomm would rather it didn’t. A proxy war has ensued in which various regulators suddenly got hold of a bunch of dirt on Qualcomm and Apple has found itself accu
  
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• Aussies question whether Google and Facebook are overstepping boundaries

  10-12-2018 16:54
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is shining the light of concern on Google and Facebook, seemingly one of the first steps towards regulatory overhaul.
  Of course, there is no question the internet giants should be under greater regulatory scrutiny, though creating the red-tape maze does take time. The Digital Platforms Inquiry Preliminary Report released by the ACCC is just the first bureaucratic step in the dance which will take place over the coming months. Google and F
  
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• telent becomes trusted gold partner of Mitel

  10-12-2018 14:12
  Warwick, 10th December: telent Technology Services Ltd (telent), the UK’s leading mission-critical network solutions provider, today announced it has become a Mitel gold partner after demonstrating its commitment to delivering industry-leading solutions and services. The new partner status with the unified communications solutions provider recognises telent’s ability to professionally and effectively deliver Mitel solutions. The opportunity also demonstrates that telent is now truste
  
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• Digital transformation: are we there yet?

  10-12-2018 14:00
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Martin Morgan, VP Marketing at Openet, reflects on what a recent survey tells us about the telecoms industry’s progress towards digital transformation.
  Digital transformation is throwing a spanner in the works for telecoms service providers. There has never been more pressure on operators to change and evolve into agile, flexible, providers that can meet inc
  
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• Vodafone to install 4G and 5G kit under manhole covers

  10-12-2018 13:57
  Telecoms group eyes connection speed boost as demand for mobile data surges
  
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• Huawei CFO charged with hiding connection to Skycom, which worked with Iran

  10-12-2018 13:20
  The bail hearing for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has revealed she is charged with concealing ties between her company and another that violated US trade sanctions.
  Meng was arrested last week in Canada and had her bail hearing at the end of the week. In it, according to multiple reports, she committed fraud when she told US banks in 2013 that Huawei had no connection to Hong Kong firm Skycom, which was apparently doing business with Iranian telecoms companies. The suggestion is that Skycom was used
  
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• Ericsson facing £100 million damages bill for network outage – report

  10-12-2018 13:18
  With smartphones around the world being reduced to doorstops thanks to Ericsson’s software issues, the vendor is potentially facing a damages bill in excess of £100 million.
  The full extent of the impact is a bit hazy for the moment, though it is rumoured to be much more than is officially known. What we do know is the O2 network was down for almost all of Thursday, Softbank’s customers were plunged back to the paper days and there are ‘several’ other customers who
  
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• Tomb of a Roman girl at The Gherkin

  10-12-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just behind the Gherkin skyscraper lies a modern grave, of a Roman girl who was reburied on the site just a decade ago.The girl’s skeleton was discovered in 1995 when 30 St Mary Axe, better known as the gherkin, was being built. For the next 12 years the body was housed at the Museum of London, after its discovery during the excavation. The skeleton was that of a young person of around 13-17 years of age, probably a young woman, and although some fragments of human skull were found nearby
  
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• Facebook hit with Italian fine as share buy-back ramps up

  10-12-2018 11:57
  The Italian watchdog is the latest to slap a fine on Facebook for misleading and abusing consumer confidence.
  The Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) has imposed a €10 million fine on Facebook after a lengthy investigation which begin in April. The watchdog has come to the conclusion the social media giant has violated articles 21 and 22 of the Consumer Code, misleading the consumer on how data would be collected, what information would be sourced and the commerci
  
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• Going under the hood of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855: plenty to like

  10-12-2018 11:17
  More details of Qualcomm’s first 5G chipset have been released, bringing all-round improvements, and a 5G chipset for PCs was also announced.
  On the first day of its annual Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm announced its 5G chipset for mobile devices, the Snapdragon 855, but released limited specs. On the following two days more details were disclosed. An SoC for 5G-connected PCs, the Snapdragon 8cx was also unveiled.
  In addition to the X50 modem for 5G connectivity (on both mmWave an
  
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• Credo selects Moortec’s In-Chip Monitoring IP to optimise performance and reliability in their latest generation of SerDes chips

  10-12-2018 11:04
  Plymouth, UK, 10th December 2018 - Moortec, provider of complete In-Chip Monitoring PVT Subsystems announced today that Credo has utilised Moortec’s Temperature Sensor and Voltage Monitor IP to optimise performance and increase reliability in their latest generation of SerDes chips.Credo offers high-performance, mixed-signal semiconductor solutions including advanced serializer-deserializer (SerDes) IP and interconnect solutions. The company’s products are used to scale bandwidth and
  
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• SoftBank to raise $23.5bn in Japan’s biggest listing

  10-12-2018 10:51
  Company sticks to single indicative price for mobile unit IPO despite last week’s turmoil
  
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• London’s Alleys: French Ordinary Court, EC3

  10-12-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An exceptionally atmospheric alley that burrows its way through history and deep under modern London.
  French Ordinary Court is a curious, and fairly modern name for a route that has existed since at least Tudor times when much of this part of London was still gardens.Opposite the modern entrance to the alley was the main gate entrance to the monastery of the Crutched Friars, so the path as it was would have enabled visitors to go to the monastery from the main Fenchurch Street to the north.
  The
  
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• US export ban could throw a spoke in Huawei’s 5G ambitions

  10-12-2018 02:05
  Chinese telecoms company less vulnerable than ZTE but would be slowed down
  
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• Huawei’s 5G ambitions threatened by US export ban

  10-12-2018 02:05
  Chinese telecoms company less vulnerable than ZTE but would be slowed down
  
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• Vodafone to use underground antennas to boost 4G and 5G coverage in the UK

  10-12-2018 01:00
  Vodafone is embarking upon a subterranean network upgrade project to improve 4G connectivity across the UK and to lay the ground work for its 5G offering, expected to launch in Q4 2019. The network upgrade project will see Vodafone installing a series of manhole cover antennas across the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile and Huawei launch pre-commercial 5G network in Poland

  10-12-2018 01:00
  Deutsche Telekom's Polish subsidiary T-Mobile Polska has launched the country's first fully functioning 5G network in Warsaw. The network was inaugurated by T-Mobile CEO Andreas Maierhofer…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia launches greener base stations to reduce CO2 emissions

  10-12-2018 01:00
  Nokia has commercially deployed the first of its next generation, liquid cooled base stations in Finland, in a move to boost its green credentials and lessen the environmental impact of its network architecture…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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