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• Samsung ups ante with rivals by launching Galaxy S10

  20-02-2019 20:30 via ft.com
  Company unveils new foldable phone and raises prices in bid to get ahead of Apple and Huawei
  
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• Samsung ups ante with rivals by launching foldable phone

  20-02-2019 20:30 via ft.com
  Company unveils Galaxy S10 and raises prices in bid to get ahead of Apple and Huawei
  
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• Samsung takes on Apple and Huawei with Galaxy S10 launch

  20-02-2019 20:30 via ft.com
  Korean smartphone maker raises prices in the face of rising sales for Chinese rivals
  
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• Ericsson reckons it has finally got the hang of this partnership business

  20-02-2019 17:26
  Ericsson’s partnership with Juniper is actually producing results, which makes it a distinct improvement on previous efforts.
  The fact that it doesn’t have a fixed line offering has always been a strategic disadvantage for Ericsson. As a result it continually flirts with companies that specialise in that stuff in the hope of being able to offer that elusive end-to-end solution without going to all the hassle of buying one of them, as Nokia did with Alcatel-Lucent.
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• Think tank suggests UK is ‘naïve’ to trust Huawei

  20-02-2019 16:27
  A defence and security think tank has condemned the UK government, suggesting it at best naïve and at worst irresponsible for trusting Chinese vendor Huawei.
  With the UK seemingly rejecting the US’ aggressive stance against China and its internationally successful businesses, it looks like the isles will be a safe haven for Huawei. That said, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has undermined the position of the government and the National Cybersecurity Centre suggesting there is a
  
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• 4G is over-congested and 5G is the solution – Opensignal

  20-02-2019 14:11
  Network monitoring outfit Opensignal has published its latest global report, which concludes congestion is messing with the 4G user experience.
  In some countries the 4G download user speeds experienced by consumers can vary by 30 Mbps over the course of the day thanks to network congestion. European countries seems to be the best at dealing with this congestion, with the US in the middle and some Asian countries struggling. Globally, peak traffic speeds are around have the level of the quietest
  
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• We’re simpler, faster and cheaper – Huawei

  20-02-2019 13:43
  For years the Huawei message has been we’re better, but its MWC tag-line might have a slightly different look to it this year.
  With security concerns continuing to rage around the world, the vendor has to prove itself more than worthy to be considered in 5G plans. And it seems to be doing that quite effectively. As of today, Huawei claims to have shipped more than 40,000 5G base stations to customers around the world, and has signed 18 5G commercial contracts in Europe, nine in the Middle
  
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• Success of 5G depends upon operators’ monetization and pricing strategies

  20-02-2019 13:18
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Shay Assaraf, CMO of Optiva takes a look at how operators can make the most of the 5G opportunity.
  As headlines and advertisements increasingly tout the promise of 5G, it’s important that operators not fall for their own hype. While 5G certainly holds promise for creating new business models and service segments, realizing that promise depends, in large
  
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• Met Police’s Heritage Centre revamps for female police centenary

  20-02-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A little known heritage museum for the Metropolitan Police has had a revamp of its display to highlight 100 years of women in London’s police force.
  The Heritage Centre opened in 2009, and honestly, it’s been so quiet since then that I thought it had closed, but it’s still open, and still interesting.The new display focuses on the centenary of women police.
  The arrival of women in the police force started as with so many other changes at the time, thanks to the men folk being o
  
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• Vodafone claims first live 5G network connection to a smartphone

  20-02-2019 12:02
  Ahead of MWC 2019 Vodafone has been conducting live trials of commercial smartphone networks in Barcelona and Madrid.
  It reckons it’s the first in the world to do this and is timing this claim to perfection as that will give it something significant to bang on about at the show. The four week trials have been conducted with 5G phones that will be launched at some stage this year, maybe even next week. Vodafone also said it will be launching 5G in a bunch of European cities later this year.
  
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• Mobileum and Linxa form alliance to serve roaming and wholesale markets

  20-02-2019 11:00
  Mobileum, the leader in roaming and analytics solutions for telecom business transformation has entered into an alliance with leading wholesale telecoms platform provider Linxa to extend the market reach of their respective product portfolios. Mobileum provides roaming and data analytics solutions that generate revenue, reduce costs and accelerate digital transformation with particular focus on domains such as roaming, fraud and security.Linxa’s platform empowers service providers to grow
  
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• Veea to Launch VeeaHub Pro Series - Next Generation Edge Computing Platform at MWC Barcelona

  20-02-2019 10:16
  Mobile Operators and Enterprises Can Develop and Deploy Apps at the Edge on Today’s Networks Ahead of 5G LaunchesNew York, NY and Bath, UK 20th February 2019 – Veea, the company powering an intelligently connected world with a universal platform for IoT and smart edge solutions, will unveil the next generation of its Edge Computing Systems - the VeeaHub Pro Series at the forthcoming MWC2019 event in Barcelona. The Pro series offers a powerful intelligent...Source: RealWire
  
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• Almost one zettabyte of mobile data traffic in 2022 – Cisco

  20-02-2019 10:11
  Cisco forecasts that 5G connections will go from nothing in 2017 to 3.4% of the global total in 2022. Over the same period annual mobile data traffic will reach 930 exabytes, a seven-fold growth.
  The report provides plenty of valuable data points for the industry, both of records of recent history and predictions of the near future. For example, despite the expected fast growth of 5G, by 2022, 4G will continue to dominate both the number of connections and the data generated. 54% of total c
  
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• Security is a concern, especially as it can hit bank accounts now

  20-02-2019 10:07
  New research from EY suggests British businesses are more concerned than ever about security. Funny that, considering there’s now a whopping fine to worry about.
  Security is one of those areas which is constantly discussed but little is done to address. Irrelevant as to how many CEOs tell you its top of the agenda or how many statements start with the phrase ‘our customers security is our number one concern’, it’s an aspect of the technology world which has been swept asi
  
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• Derek Jarman gets a Blue Plaque

  20-02-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday, an anti-establishment film director known for the colour blue got his own Blue Plaque from the establishment.
  Derek Jarman (he used his middle name) was one of the leading artists of the 1970s and 1980s, and a fervent campaigner for gay rights at a time when it was still seen as a bit of a “loony left” issue.
  It’s to a degree how such controversial at the time issues are today not just mainstream but normalised that makes the awarding of a Blue Plaque to someone who
  
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• Anil Ambani guilty of contempt in Ericsson case

  20-02-2019 07:13 via ft.com
  Reliance Communications chief faces prison if $77m payment not made within 4 weeks
  
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• Vodafone launches the UK’s first 5G airport

  20-02-2019 01:00
  Vodafone has switched on 5G network services at Manchester Airport, with a host of other travel locations across the UK set to follow suit in the coming weeks. Vodafone has installed a series of 5G antennas at Manchester Airport&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange and NTT form R&D partnership to accelerate 5G, AI and IoT rollout

  20-02-2019 01:00
  Orange has joined forces with Japanese telecoms and technology giant NTT to undertake a new and research and development framework agreement that will see the pair collaborate on 5G, AI and IoT initiatives until 2022…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Du increases capex by 40% as it looks to fast track 5G in the UAE

  20-02-2019 01:00
  UAE based telco, Du, is to increase its spending on 5G by up to 40 per cent, according to reports in the Emirati press. Du will reportedly increase its 5G related capital expenditure from AED 1 billion ($273 million) to AED 1…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Cisco: Mobile industry must be ready for the zettabyte era

  20-02-2019 01:00
  Global mobile traffic volumes could approach a zettabyte (1,000 exabytes) within three years, according to a new report, published by Cisco. In its annual Global Mobile Traffic Forecast Update, Cisco claims that mobile traffic will have increased 113…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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