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• Qualcomm upgrades its 5G modem

  19-02-2019 19:33
  Mobile chip maker Qualcomm has unveiled its big MWC news early, in the form of the X55 5G modem, which is five better than its predecessor.
  The new modem supports both flavours of 5G as well as all the older Gs and all the spectrum bands you could possibly want. It’s manufactured on a 7nm process and promises download speeds of 7 Gbps and 3 Gbps uploads speeds. The previous X50 modem only managed a mere 4 Gbps. Even the Cat 22 LTE part manages 2.5 Gbps download.
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• Elizabeth line roundel spotting

  19-02-2019 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The opening date of the Elizabeth line may have been pushed back to “whenever”, but signs to the new tube line are popping up across the network.Usually covered up with tape, occasionally one slips out into the wild to tease us with its presence.You can find this particular Elizabeth line roundel in the wild on the Westbound platform of the Central line at Liverpool Street.
  At least, you could when I was taking the photo. It might be swiftly covered up now.Happy hunting!
  
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• German chancellor Angela Merkel at the Digitising Europe Summit: “5G roll-out is important, but must also be physically feasible”

  19-02-2019 16:49
  German chancellor Angela Merkel has promoted a rapid but realistic expansion of fast Internet infrastructure. At the Digitising Europe Summit organised by the Vodafone Institute, she said: "In the 5G discussion, everyone is saying that this is a good time to put all kinds of things into it, especially in parliament. But everything must also be physically feasible." Merkel continued: "When it comes to telecommunications, you always have to think first about the customer and...Source: RealWire
  
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• Three UK shows off its new Nokia cloud core

  19-02-2019 14:19
  Mobile operator Three UK has upgraded its network with a fully cloud-based 5G-ready core and has started internal trials of the service. It plans to launch 5G later this year.
  Three announced that it is testing the world’s first fully cloud-based core network, delivered by Nokia. The software-based core network is 5G ready and is already carrying the ongoing trial for Three’s own staff. The trial is on the 3.4-3.8GHz spectrum Three bought with over £164 million in the auction c
  
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• No surprises as Ericsson goes all-in on 5G for MWC 2019

  19-02-2019 13:29
  Ericsson had its traditional pre-MWC media and analyst fest yesterday, at which it focused on improvements being made to its 5G Platform.
  Given that this is the year we finally start to see 5G in the wild, and that Ericsson’s business is largely devoted to mobile networks, the utter inevitability of this set of announcements can be forgiven. As can the relative lack of eye-catching launches at a time when every part of the 5G ecosystem is focused more on making sure its stuff works properl
  
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• Vodafone reports IoT is going A-OK

  19-02-2019 13:25
  Vodafone has released its sixth annual Internet of Things Barometer report to give a temperature check on IoT progress, and its all looking pretty rosy.
  Looking at adoption trends across various segments including automotive, healthcare and financial services, the team suggests the IoT world is creeping slowly towards mass market adoption. While this will certainly be encouraging for huge swathes of the telco world, as a telco which is arguably one of the leaders, Vodafone will be buoyed by such
  
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• Hollywood movie posters as you’ve never seen them before

  19-02-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An exhibition has opened of movie posters, of familiar films, but unlike any movie posters you seen before.
  Movie makers are notorious for controlling how their films are promoted, but what happens when a local market produces its own unique movie posters?Painted on canvas for the local market in Ghana, this exhibition is a collection of over one hundred posters painted by hand onto canvas and collected in the late 1990s.
  There are names of films here that are instantly recognisable, once blockb
  
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• AttoCore Supports Expansion Of Broadband In Chalke Valley

  19-02-2019 11:47
  Enhanced Packet Core (EPC) Supports Delivery of Mobile And FWA Services Using 4GCambridge, UK, 19th February 2019 – AttoCore, the developer of ultra-mobile core network software technology today announced its participation in the expansion of fixed and mobile broadband services in the UK’s Chalke Valley.The Chalke Valley lies at the heart of the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) on the southern border of Wiltshire. The deep winding valley with its rural locati
  
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• “No way US can crush us” – Huawei founder hits back

  19-02-2019 11:40
  The usually publicity-shy Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has hit back at what he perceives as a politically motivated attack, declaring if “the lights go out in the West, the East will shine”.
  Although the US government has sustained the anti-China rhetoric over the last couple of months, with Huawei being the focal point of any aggression, the firm is holding strong. That is the message from Zhengfei, a usually media-adverse individual who is currently being carted around Europe in a s
  
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• MYCOM OSI Announces World's First Carrier-Grade Service Assurance SaaS

  19-02-2019 11:39
  MYCOM OSI Assurance Cloud™ deployed at Tier 1 CSPsLONDON, UK – 19th February 2019 – MYCOM OSI, the Assurance Cloud Company™ and leading independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced the launch of its Assurance Cloud™, the telecom industry’s first carrier-grade service assurance SaaS (Software as a Service) offering.Service assurance is critical to CSPs
  
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• AttoCore supplies LTE Enhanced Packet Core software to UK’s Emergency Services

  19-02-2019 11:39
  Delivered as part of Network In A Box component in Excelerate Technology Solution Cambridge, UK, 19th February 2019 – AttoCore today announced that its flagship AttoEPC product is being used by Excelerate Technology as part of its mission critical communications solution for Emergency Services.Excelerate is the global market leader in the end to end supply and integration of resilient communications solutions, designed by Excelerate to perform in the most challenging environments, where fa
  
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• Within Reach appoints Bertrand Pourcelot as Head of International Sales & Marketing

  19-02-2019 10:03
  Fast-growing European UC champion further develops activities at group levelAlmere/ Dortmund/ Sophia Antipolis, February 19 2019 – Within Reach has strengthened its international management team by appointing Centile Managing Director Bertrand Pourcelot as Head of International Sales and Marketing. Bertrand is responsible for rolling out Within Reach’s international sales and marketing strategy based on the group-wide portfolio as well as for further developing the existing internati
  
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• Earliest human skull ever mudlarked from the Thames to go on display

  19-02-2019 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Around 5,600 years ago a man died next to a wide meandering river, and over the millennia, the river changed, the landscape changed, but the remains of that man waited.
  Until he was discovered by a modern day Mudlarker along the south bank of the Thames foreshore.
  Dating from 3600BC this skull belongs to one of the earliest people discovered in the Thames. Only a small part of the skull has been recovered, just the frontal bone, but that has allowed researchers to determine that they were male,
  
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• Taking a look at the Elizabeth line’s new Old Oak Common depot

  19-02-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of London’s oldest train depots has recently become home to its newest fleet of trains — for the Elizabeth line — and I’ve been given a look around the huge site.
  At it’s simplest, a train depot is a place to store and maintain trains, but that simple description belies the huge amount of thinking that has to go into designing a train depot that works reliably.
  Although the Old Oak Common site has been stabling and maintenance for trains for over a century, a br
  
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• The long courtship between Sprint and T-Mobile

  19-02-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Sprint and T-Mobile have a long on-again, off-again history.
  
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• Ericsson chief warns on Europe’s 5G delay

  19-02-2019 05:51 via ft.com
  Focus on Huawei, regulation and high costs risk region falling further behind, says Börje Ekholm
  
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• Huawei founder says US will not ‘crush’ company

  19-02-2019 03:59 via ft.com
  Ren Zhengfei says arrest of group’s CFO and daughter is ‘politically motivated’
  
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• Vodafone: 72% of enterprise customers say digital transformation would be impossible without IoT

  19-02-2019 01:00
  The continued rollout of IoT applications across LTE and 5G networks will be one of the main disruptive forces in the enterprise telecoms sector, according to a new report by UK telecoms giant, Vodafone. In the latest edition of its Internet of Things Barometer report, Vodafone claims that 60 per cent of businesses that use IoT agreed that it had either completely disrupted their industry or would do so in the next five years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Three UK begins testing of world's first cloud based 5G network core

  19-02-2019 01:00
  UK mobile network operator, Three, has begun testing of the world's first fully cloud based 5G network core, in collaboration with Nokia.  The fully virtualised, cloud-based network core is 5G ready and Three is currently using it to power a trial network for its employees…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NEC wins key subsea contract in Japan

  19-02-2019 01:00
  NEC has won a contract to design, engineer, supply, install, test and implement a new subsea cable from Japanese telco, Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei: There's no way the US can crush us

  19-02-2019 01:00
  Huawei's founding father has said that the current onslaught of allegations against his company by the US will only serve to make it stronger and more competitive. In an interview with the BBC, Ren Zhengfei described the US' allegations over the security of his company's mobile network equipment…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Europe lagging on 5G? Don't be so sure, says Ericsson

  19-02-2019 01:00
  European government's and operators are looking to fast track their 5G rollout programmes, dispelling the myth that Europe will be 'late to the 5G party', according to an industry expert.Speaking exclusively to Total Telecom, Ericsson's senior vice president and head of market area for Europe and Latin America…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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  19-02-2019 00:54 via ft.com
  Ren Zhengfei says there ‘is no way the US can crush’ Chinese telecoms group
  
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