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• Nanosatellites could be the answer to mobile not-spots

  07-03-2019 19:36
  Start-up UbiquitiLink reckons it’s cracked the challenge of affordable satellite connectivity to regular handsets through the use of nanosatellites.
  You can’t use traditional geostationary satellites to fill regular cellular coverage gaps because they’re too expensive and are positioned 35,000 km above the surface of the earth, which is way further than cellular signals are designed to go and introduces excessive lag to the signal. An obvious solution is to use satellites at a
  
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• US setback as Germany fails to ban Huawei over 5G

  07-03-2019 18:29
  New security criteria say telecoms operators must diversify their supply chains
  
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• Vodafone pips EE for 5G bragging rights

  07-03-2019 17:35
  Vodafone has added 12 new locations to the 5G rollcall, with the connectivity euphoria set to grow across 2019.
  Reading between the lines, it seems the launch will happen during mid-summer months, as CTO Scott Petty highlighted there are numerous factors to consider including the availability of handsets, 5G equipment and spectrum assets. That said, Vodafone is now boasting the highest number of 5G locations across the UK, with the additional 12 beating the benchmark of 16 set by EE.
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• The golden touch: INCA launches 2019 awards to honour leading UK altnets

  07-03-2019 14:06
  INCA Golds will recognise the best technical and commercial innovations, rural and urban impact and best community and public sector projects at annual ceremony London, UK, March 07, 2019 – The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) today opened its call for entries into this year’s INCA Golds, the annual awards which shine a spotlight on the UK’s leading independent network providers and highlight the most innovative digital infrastructure developments as part of
  
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• Huawei Completes the World’s First Commercial Verification of SuperBAND

  07-03-2019 14:06
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 24, 2019] Huawei has completed the first commercial verification of SuperBAND (phase 1) at its field in Asia Pacific. The result showed that the average download rate increased by more than 10% after this solution was enabled.The commercial verification on phase-1 vertical SuperBAND involved four LTE FDD carriers and four LTE TDD carriers. Before the verification, the network in question faced the problems that plague many multi-band networks across the world: Inter-f
  
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• Vodafone and Huawei Pioneer in Superior 5G Experience Based on a Live Network & 5G Devices

  07-03-2019 14:04
  Vodafone and Huawei have jointly built a superior 5G experience zone in Barcelona during MWC 2019. In this zone, Vodafone deployed 5G sites with commercial 5G spectrum to build a high-performance 5G network with Huawei’s E2E products and solutions. Riding on this network, various eMBB services were provided using Huawei 5G commercial smartphones and CPEs to deliver the ultimate 5G service experience.
  Co-Site & Co-Coverage with 4G, Gbps User experience
  The live networks were deployed in
  
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• Türk Telekom and Huawei’s collaborative work “5G Cloud Vertical Sector Application” is amongst the best in the World

  07-03-2019 14:01
  Turkey’s leading information and communication technologies company Türk Telekom, tested the remote access of AR and VR based educational content over a 5G could connection with Huawei, one of the world’s leading global information and communication technologies solution providers. This work, which is Turkey’s first 5G cloud application, was deemed one of the “Best 5G Cloud Vertical Sector Applications” amongst Huawei’s operating countries as part of the
  
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• Sunrise and Huawei Jointly Win GSMA Award for Sunrise’s 5G FWA Service

  07-03-2019 13:57
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 25, 2019] During the 2019 Mobile World Congress, Swiss operator Sunrise and Huawei jointly won the GSMA’s “Best Mobile Operator Service for Consumers” for Sunrise 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Service in recognition of the commercial and social value created by Sunrise and Huawei in Switzerland.Sunrise and Huawei, receiving the award
  Sunrise adheres to a philosophy of “serving customers, serving society” and has been committed to providi
  
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• Mobily Launches the Commercial Version of the Network of Information Transmission IP

  07-03-2019 13:54
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 25, 2019] Mobily, Etihad Etisalat Co. is excited to announce the commercial online of intelligence transport Core Network, a fully modernized IP core network and leading SDN with future evolution, under the bilateral strategic collaboration with Huawei, a global leader in information and communications technology domain.
  Modernizing the network has to cope with quality of performance and efficiency. However, Mobily is facing a challenge in network capacity limitation,
  
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• Mobily and Huawei Sign Cooperation Agreement for Network Development

  07-03-2019 13:49
  [Barcelona, Spain, February 25, 2019] Etihad Etisalat “Mobily” and Huawei signed a cooperation agreement between the two parties in the field of network and operational transformation in order to improve the quality of Mobily services, in addition to reducing the operational costs of networks. The signing ceremony was held on Monday 25 February 2019 between Eng Maziad Al-Harbi, Chief Technology Officer at Mobily and Zhang Dongliang, CEO of Huawei Tech Investment Saudi Arabia, at the
  
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• Security discussion needs to be bigger than Huawei – Vodafone UK CTO

  07-03-2019 13:39
  Huawei is an obvious risk when you are assessing the vendor landscape, but to ensure supply chain resilience and integrity, focusing too narrowly on one company poses a bigger risk, according to Vodafone.
  It might be easy to point the finger at China, but according to Vodafone UK CTO Scott Petty, this is a dangerous position to take. Despite a lack of evidence to suggest backdoors are being built into Huawei products, the world is determined to find one, but in reality, there isn’t a singl
  
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• Zuckerberg’s vision for Facebook: as privacy-focused as WhatsApp

  07-03-2019 13:38
  The Facebook founder laid out his plan for the next steps how Facebook will evolve with a focus on privacy and data security, and promised more open and transparency in the transition.
  In a long post published on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg first recognised that going forward, users may prefer more private communication than socialising publicly. He used the analogy of town squares vs. living rooms. To facilitate this, he aims to use the technologies of WhatsApp as the foundation to build the
  
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• Tickets Alert: Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens

  07-03-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reopened last year following restoration, but closed again for winter, Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens in April.Although very occasionally opened to the public in recent decades, the Pagoda was falling into the at-risk category of old buildings, and it was given to Historic Royal Palaces (who already maintain two buildings in the gardens) to under take a 6-year restoration project.
  The opening of the Pagoda also saw the legendary, and in some cases, controversial dragons restored to the
  
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• Huawei launches its counter-attack by suing the US government

  07-03-2019 12:56
  Another major front of Huawei’s counter-attack against the US government has been opened in the form of a lawsuit claiming the imposition unconstitutional sales restrictions.
  Compared to China at least, the US has an open system of governance and judiciary and Huawei seems to have decided it’s time to test whether that system applies equally to foreign companies. This is taking the form of a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization
  
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• Limelight to Take 100GE Port at JEDIX

  07-03-2019 09:30
  Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and the London Internet Exchange (LINX) have announced that Limelight has provided a Letter of Intent (loi) that they will take the first 100GE port at JEDIX. JEDIX, the KSA Internet Exchange powered by LINX, is situated in Jeddah. The agreement, which is subject to finalising a commercial agreement, will also see Limelight deploy its first KSA node in STC’s datacentre MG1 (MENA Gateway) as part of forming a new partnership...Source: RealWire
  
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• Find the Woodford Stones

  07-03-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the 1950s, a set of stone reliefs were added to a building so high up that hardly anyone could see them. But now anyone can see them.The southern towers of the original Lloyd’s Building (opened in 1957) carried a series of allegorical panels representing Air, Sea, Fire and Land, carved in relief by James Woodford.
  In 2008, they were relocated to the party wall of 52 – 54 Lime Street as part of the Willis Building planning conditions and mounted onto a steel frame at street level.
  
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• Zzoomm and ADTRAN to deploy 10Gbps broadband to UK homes and businesses

  07-03-2019 01:00
  Newly formed fibre to the home player, Zzoomm, has announced plans to offer speeds of 10Gbps on its fibre networks, in partnership with ADTRAN.ADTRAN will provide Zzoomm with its XGS-PON solution and equipment, which will enable users to access speeds of up to 10Gbps. ADTRAN will also provide engineering support for the design and testing of the new infrastructure…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone: Huawei ban would cost the UK its leadership role and delay 5G deployment by a year

  07-03-2019 01:00
  Any decision to ban Huawei from the UK's 5G mobile network deployment would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and significantly delay the rollout of 5G in the country, according to UK based operator, Vodafone. Speaking at a media briefing session in London on Thursday morning, Vodafone's chief technology officer, Scott Petty, said that banning the Chinese tech giant would cost the UK its position as a European leader on 5G rollout. "The impact [of a total UK ban] would be really sig
  
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• Orange sharpens its focus on boardroom diversity

  07-03-2019 01:00
  European telecoms giant, Orange, has launched its workplace equality policy, which aims to redress the gender imbalance in the telecoms sector.
  “Orange has made workplace gender equality a priority and a strategic focus for several years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Britain's best connected 4G cities revealed…

  07-03-2019 01:00
  Bristol has been revealed as the fastest city in the UK for average 4G download speeds, according to a new industry report. Opensignal ranked the UK's top 15 cities according to the average speeds of their 4G networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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