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• Tickets Alert: Another chance to ride in the 1938 art deco tube train

  26-02-2019 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following the weekend’s trip by the 1938 tube train through central London, it will be out again next month in another part of the Underground.If you saw it at the weekend and wanted to be on board, sighing into the comfortable seating and lit by 1930s lighting shades, then…
  Two trips will take place on Sunday 17th March.
  Details are still being finalised but the plan is to operate the first trip from Northfields at around 10am, running non-stop to Upminster.
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• Will the folding phone catch on?

  26-02-2019 19:40
  The iPhone has for years defined the shape and style of a smartphone but with the ma…
  
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• Vodafone CEO bemoans Jio effect on India

  26-02-2019 19:31
  The Indian consumer might be surging into the digital economy at an unprecedented speed, but the telcos are certainly not reaping the rewards according to Vodafone CEO Nick Read.
  Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Read pointed towards consumers which are consuming more data every single day (12 GB a month on average), as well as unsustainable business models and regulations which favour no-one except the disruptive influence of Jio. It isn’t necessarily a picture which creates
  
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• RCS is here to stay and doing well

  26-02-2019 19:29
  RCS has been touted as a saviour when the SMS value has been destroyed by OTT messaging services, but without much success, but it may finally have find its moment.
  Mavenir, the software company, presented on day 1 of MWC 2019, promoting its rich communication solutions offered by Rakutan. The key benefits, or the main use cases that RCS can differentiate from OTT messaging actually are less to do with taking consumers back to texting each other, or P2P messaging, but rather the communication be
  
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• 5G future revealed as NGMN gathers leading global operators for briefing on industry use cases building on 5G

  26-02-2019 17:00
  Barcelona, Spain, 26 February 2019 – Earlier today, the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance successfully brought together key global operators to showcase unique 5G use cases beyond mobile broadband at its press and industry briefing at Mobile World Congress. Taking place on the Deutsche Telekom stand with more than 150 attendees, NGMN welcomed speakers from AT&T, China Mobile, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom itself. Covering 4G and 5G campus network solut
  
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• US court backs AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner

  26-02-2019 16:31
  Decision rejects justice department’s bid to overturn approval of $80bn deal
  
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• Magic Leap strikes distribution deal with SK Telecom

  26-02-2019 15:47
  Google and Alibaba-backed augmented reality start-up launched first headset last year
  
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• 5G reaches an anticlimax at MWC 2019

  26-02-2019 15:22
  After years of fooling around 5G finally arrived at this year’s big telecoms coming-together, but now a lot of people just feel disappointed and used, and are left asking “is that it?”
  The hype cycle for 5G seems to have been especially prolonged and intense, arguably exceeding even the utopian fervour of the build up to 3G, which left the operator industry so over-committed and under-rewarded. 4G was mainly about doing mobile broadband properly, but 5G was supposed to revoluti
  
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• Tech of tomorrow revealed: Virtusa's Trend Almanac identifies top digital investment trends for 2019

  26-02-2019 14:40
  Collaborative intelligence, finnovation for the developing world and crypto-coming-of-age among top ten trends to look out for in the year aheadLONDON, UK – (February 26, 2019) Virtusa xLabs, an innovation practice within Virtusa, has identified the 10 most influential technology trends that industry, business, and tech leaders need to know as they strategically plan their investments over the next 12 months. Virtusa xLabs collaborated with senior technologists and business leaders to iden
  
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• Are foldable phones more than a gimmick?

  26-02-2019 14:04
  Handset makers are yet to prove consumers will want design changes enough to upgrade
  
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• Evolving ETSI engulfs enterprise

  26-02-2019 13:42
  The connectivity landscape is evolving is quickly as the desire for telcos to diversify revenues, so it makes perfect sense the worlds’ standards authority does as well.
  Speaking to Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, or ETSI as its more commonly known, the mission statement is shifting. Traditionally, ETSI has focused on taking care of the telcos, but Romero is broadening his embrace to bring enterprise customers and technology leade
  
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• Inside the Church of St Anselm and St Cæcilia

  26-02-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This century old church in Holborn is a reminder of anti-catholic protests and a street widening programme to sweep away slumps.It’s quite an easy church to miss, being next to Holborn tube station and in the incredibly crowded street something you hurry past, but being a Catholic church, the doors are almost always open to pop in for a break, or to take a look.The church however is a successor to a much older building that used to be just down the road.
  We find ourselves heading back to t
  
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• Sterlite Tech unveils integrated Digital Reinvention portfolio for CSPs at #MWC2019

  26-02-2019 12:00
  With this portfolio of offerings, CSPs can accelerate their digital reinvention with DevOps-enabled flexible, agile and scalable solutionsPune, India and Barcelona, Spain – February 26, 2019: Sterlite Tech [BSE: 532374, NSE: STRTECH], a global data network solutions company, today unveiled its Digital Reinvention portfolio for fast forwarding Communication Service Providers’ (CSPs) digital reinvention at #MWC2019. This next-gen integrated portfolio encompasses best-in-class software
  
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• Octasic's New System-on-Chip DSPs are Optimized for Small Cells, Portable Base Stations and Specialized Handsets

  26-02-2019 11:46
  OCT3032 low power SoCs provide the highest processing capacity per watt for small cell designs with 2G to 5G flexibilityMONTREAL, Canada, 26 February, 2019 – Octasic, the leader in low power wireless and media processing solutions, today announced its latest high performance System-on-Chip (SoC). Incorporating Opus3, Octasic’s third-generation digital signal processor (DSP) core architecture, the OCT3032 SoC is optimized to provide the highest processing capacity per watt for 2G to 5
  
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• Artesyn MC1600 Series Extreme Edge Server Enables Baicells’ Fully Virtualized Small Cell Solutions

  26-02-2019 11:39
  The server platform brings powerful computing and scalability to Baicells M-RAN small cell installationsBarcelona, Spain. [February 26, 2019] – At Mobile World Congress (MWC19) today, Artesyn Embedded Technologies announced a collaboration with Baicells, a leading provider of innovative 4G/5G solutions, for the development of Baicells M-RAN virtual small cell solutions based on Artesyn’s MC1600 Series Extreme Edge Server.The MC1600 Series Extreme Edge Server platform will bring power
  
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• Iskratel joins BREKO, strengthening its position in enabling Germany’s gigabit society

  26-02-2019 11:19
  The move is part of Iskratel’s commitment to enabling operators across the globe to cost-effectively and efficiently upgrade their networks to gigabit speedsBonn, Germany and Kranj, Slovenia, 26 February 2019 – As demand for gigabit broadband access in Germany increases, Iskratel, the leading European provider of broadband access solutions, today announced it has become a member of one of Germany’s leading broadband associations – BREKO.The move comes as Iskratel looks to
  
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• SCF Progresses on specifying APIs to Drive Multivendor Capability for 5G Chips, Equipment and Networks

  26-02-2019 10:05
  Open RAN is a critical goal of 5G for many operators, and the Forum’s 5G FAPI will play a significant role in making that a realityMWC, Barcelona - Tuesday 26th February 2019 – Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization driving network densification worldwide, today announced that it has made significant progress developing APIs (application programming interfaces) to enable an open RAN and allow interoperability between 5G chips, software stacks, equipment and networks from d
  
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• Innovations from the left field of Mobile World Congress 2019

  26-02-2019 09:38
  Innovations demonstrated at a fringe event outside of the sound and fury of MWC showed promise to solve some real-life problems.
  MobileFocus, a long-running fringe event during the MWC week in Barcelona, brought about two dozen companies to showcase their innovations that may not hit the frontpage but are illuminating nonetheless. There were big companies, like Lenovo, which displayed a slew of its new PCs, but most exhibitors are single product small companies. Some of them promoted ideas as st
  
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• Telcos don’t understand the hacking community – Oracle

  26-02-2019 09:35
  Security is a challenge for the industry, we all know that, but the speed in which security threats are evolving is creating new headaches every single day for the telcos.
  Speaking to Travis Russell, Oracle’s Director for Cybersecurity, at Mobile World Congress, the issue for the telcos is a relatively simple one to identify, but heartachingly difficult to address.
  “Risk management and tolerance is the Achilles Heel for telcos,” said Russell. “The telcos are always lookin
  
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• Telefónica and Microsoft team-up to own connected ecosystem

  26-02-2019 09:33
  Every telco is attempting to figure out how to survive in the newly-defined digital world and Telefónica’s approach looks to be one of the most interesting attempts yet.
  Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Telefónica CEO Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete was joined on stage by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to preach the promise of its ‘fourth platform’ and the power of digital assistant ‘Aura’ as a play to capture the fortunes of tomorrow&rsquo
  
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• Mobile Video Index 2019: Operators Experiencing up to 100% Mobile Video Growth Year-on-Year

  26-02-2019 09:00
  Openwave Mobility reports on global RAN congestion, video QoE and watch times, as forecasts reveal that 90% of 5G traffic will be mobile video.REDWOOD CITY, California – February 26th 2019 – Research from Openwave Mobility, the market leader in mobile data traffic management solutions, has found that over the past five years, video on mobile networks has grown on average 50-60% year-on-year (YoY), while in many developing markets, the rate is more than twice this....Source: RealWire
  
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• Major Tier One US Operator selects TEOCO’s ASSET Radio as it prepares for 5G

  26-02-2019 09:00
  Fairfax, VA., USA – 26 February 2019. TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to more than 300 communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, has announced that a Major Tier One US service provider has selected TEOCO’s network planning tool, ASSET Radio, to help it launch 5G. The planning tool provides CSPs with full capabilities to plan state-of the-art 5G networks. This includes ensuring that multiple network technology layers (2G,
  
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• Pink Floyd re-release rare London Underground music video

  26-02-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1968, Pink Floyd took a trip on the London Underground, to film a video for their second album and they’ve just released the rarely seen video once more.“Let There Be More Light” is the opening track on Pink Floyd’s second album A Saucerful of Secrets, describes the imagined descent of a fantastical spacecraft at RAF Mildenhall, north-east of Roger Waters’ hometown of Cambridge. From 1950, RAF Mildenhall primarily supported US Air Force operations, including the
  
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• Are foldable phones more than just a gimmick?

  26-02-2019 05:00
  Handset makers yet to prove consumers will want design changes enough to upgrade devices
  
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• Smooth operators – MWC 2019 day two round-up

  26-02-2019 01:00
  If day one was dominated by announcements from the network equipment providers, day two definitely belonged to the network operators.5G was once again the first order of business on everyone’s agenda, with plenty of “world’s firsts” on show.Europe’s biggest telco by revenues, Deutsche Telekom, set the tone for the day at a packed press conference on the exhibition floor. DT’s board member for Technology and Innovation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange CEO: Telcos must sharpen focus on digitalisation, innovation and environmental legacy

  26-02-2019 01:00
  The telecoms industry must overcome a number of key challenges if it is to remain profitable in the run up to 5G rollout, according to Orange’s chief executive officer.
  During his opening address at MWC 2019 in Barcelona this week, Orange’s CEO, Stephane Richard, said that the industry faced three key challenges as it races to roll out next generation mobile networks across the globe.
  Richarde said that the telecoms industry stood at an &ldquo…read more on TotalTele.com &
  
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• Openet: BSS providers must evolve or die as 5G arrives on the scene

  26-02-2019 01:00
  Developing trends in the BSS market This coming year, we’ll really start to see a shift in how both operators and vendors approach BSS. The Ericsson news recently announcing that it was spending close to £600million to overhaul its BSS strategy demonstrates that the tide is changing in the industry. More operators are favouring the smaller, more flexible, nimble players that can integrate and work alongside their existing legacy stacks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei CEO: Security concerns only sharpen our resolve to deliver an exemplary 5G experience

  26-02-2019 01:00
  It’s been a turbulent few months for Huawei, as China’s biggest network equipment provider has been forced to defend itself against a series of allegations from the US about the security of its 5G network infrastructure. As the US tries to convince its allies in Europe to ban Huawei from their 5G rollout plans, the Chinese tech giant says that the allegations only serve to sharpen its resolve to provide the most ambitious and innovative 5G products and services in the industry. 
  
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• Former Gigaclear CEO launches new FTTH network in the UK

  26-02-2019 01:00
  The founder and former CEO of rural fibre to the home (FTTH) specialists, Gigaclear, has launched a new company that will bring FTTH services to towns and suburbs across the UK. Matthew Hare left Gigaclear in 2018 and has now set up Zzoomm…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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