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• Huawei says it needs up to 5 years to satisfy UK demands

  06-02-2019 17:49
  Chinese telecoms supplier offers robust defence of practices in letter to MPs
  
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• Europe set to impose upload filters on nearly all websites

  06-02-2019 17:32
  After a brief interruption it’s business as usual for the EU Copyright Directive, with Article 13 set to go ahead and oblige websites to adopt burdensome content filters.
  Last month we reported that Article 13 of the directive, which seeks to block the upload of any content that could possibly infringe copyright, was being held up by disagreement among some members of one of the many layers of eurocracy required to rubber-stamp new trans-continental laws.
  Well as is so often the case in Br
  
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• If you thought your January was tough, Vodafone Idea just lost 35mn subs

  06-02-2019 17:30
  Most people consider January one of the worst months of the year, but Vodafone Idea could potentially trump your misery after reporting a year-on-year decline of 35 million subscriptions.
  As is now commonplace with any CEO of a major business, Balesh Sharma was all a twirl spinning off the tough times of the quarter as positives, and in fairness there are some valid points. From a financial perspective, total revenues decreased 2% year-on-year to roughly £1.27 billion, while total subscrip
  
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• Huawei answers UK parliament’s security questions

  06-02-2019 15:18
  In its latest bid to get US allies to chill out Huawei wrote to the UK parliament to address a bunch of concerns it had expressed about security.
  On 15 January Norman Lamb, the Chair of parliament’s Science and Technology Committee, sent Ryan Ding, President of Huawei’s carrier business group, a letter entitled ‘Security of the UK’s communications infrastructure’. In it he noted the oversight board of the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) had said in i
  
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• What’s the point of Virgin Media’s latest broadband speed claim?

  06-02-2019 13:40
  Virgin Media has claimed it can now deliver 8 Gbps broadband, but you have to ask whether there is any point aside from satisfying executive’s egos as the ‘faster than you’ mentality undermines the industry.
  To be clear, Virgin Media is not the only telco that destabilises customer confidence and makes claims which are often twisted and contorted by their spin doctors, resulting in the miseducation trends of recent years, but they are the ones doing it today.
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• Plans to pedestrianise Bank junction in the City of London

  06-02-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following a trial restriction on road traffic through Bank junction, the City of London has approved the intent to pedestrianise the junction over the next few years.
  A safety experiment which saw road restrictions applied so only buses and cycles were allowed though was a success and was made permanent in September 2018, however that was always intended to be just a temporary measure ahead of a revamping of the junction.
  Elected members have now voted to proceed with the next stage of the long-
  
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• Red Hat gives thanks for Turkcell virtualization win

  06-02-2019 12:55
  Turkish operator Turkcell has launched a virtualization platform called Unified Telco Cloud that’s based on Red Hat’s OpenStack Platform.
  As the name implies this new platform is all about centralising all its services onto a single virtualized infrastructure. This NFVi then allows east selection and implementation of virtual network functions, or so the story goes. Examples of operators going all-in on this stuff are still sufficiently rare for this to be noteworthy.
  As a consequenc
  
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• MWC 2019: Zyxel unveils industry’s first high-end LTE Cat. 18 routers and In-Building Repeater Hub Solution

  06-02-2019 10:50
  Hsinchu Taiwan, 6 February 2019–Zyxel Communications announced today the expansion of its Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and In-Building Solutions, including the industry’s first indoor and outdoor LTE Cat. 18 routers that deliver gigabit LTE speeds; and a simple yet innovative Repeater Hub solution that eliminates in-building mobile coverage dead zones. The solutions will be on full display at Mobile World Congress 2019. Blistering gigabit LTE speeds with the industry’s first LTE
  
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• US Senate bill reintroduced to bring heat back on ZTE

  06-02-2019 10:05
  US senators from both parties have re-introduced a bill to hold ZTE accountable in spite of the deal reached with the US government last summer.
  On Tuesday (5 February), seven senators from the Republican and Democratic parties re-introduced the ZTE Enforcement Review and Oversight (ZERO) Act . The same bill was first introduced in September last year, following the deal between the Chinese telecom equipment maker and the US government, but expired when the last Congressional session ended with
  
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• Newtec Partners With Paradigm to Host New High-Throughput Modem Board

  06-02-2019 10:00
  The SMB3310 embeds into terminal controller Paradigm Interface Module (PIM®) to provide tailored services to Government, Defense, Broadcast and Mobility markets SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 6 February 2019 – Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, today announced it has partnered with satellite communications solution provider Paradigm, which has become the first company to host its Newtec Dialog® SMB3310 high-throughput
  
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• Exhibition goes under the skin to reveal the secrets of the human body

  06-02-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a few weeks, there’s an exhibition about what lies beneath the skin of the average human being.
  As a species we are fascinated by the contents of our complex and fragile bodies, and physicians, scientists, surgeons, artists and printers have developed tools and techniques, from ancient woodcuts to contemporary three-dimensional imaging, in order to identify and understand what is hidden inside the human form.The results, while aimed at improving heathcare, are also often quite beautifu
  
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• Vodafone Idea loses 35m subscribers as revenues dip in last quarter of 2018

  06-02-2019 01:00
  Vodafone Idea posted a 50.05 billion rupees ($700 million) loss for the third quarter of its 2018/19 financial year – its second consecutive quarterly loss since its high-profile merger in August 2018…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Turkcell defends Huawei against 'uncorroborated' security allegations

  06-02-2019 01:00
  The CEO of Turkish telco Turkcell, Kaan Terzioglu, has issued a strongly worded statement, backing Huawei in its bid to be involved in Europe's 5G rollout.
  Terzioglu said that network security was a concern across the board – and that it was unfair to force Huawei to defend itself against &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica Deutschland looks to stall Germany's 5G auction

  06-02-2019 01:00
  Telefonica Deutschland has filed a motion with the German courts, which seeks to halt the progress of Germany's much maligned spectrum auction.
  Now that Telefonica Deutschland has filed its motion…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CityFibre and MLL Telecom expand gigabit services in the UK

  06-02-2019 01:00
  Gigabit broadband specialists CityFibre and MLL Telecom have joined forces in the UK to launch a dark fibre spine network in the English county of Suffolk.The pair will build, operate and own a 114km dark fibre spine network that will cover 10 towns and cities in Suffolk. The network will also connect over 300 key public sector sites…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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