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• Manx Telecom set to go private with cash offer

  13-03-2019 18:34
  One of UK’s few remaining listed telecoms groups bought by infrastructure fund
  
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• UK Government mulls new digital competition laws

  13-03-2019 18:18
  An independent panel has submitted a new report to HM Treasury which recommends the formation of a new department to tackle anti-competition and the revamp of rules.
  Led by former Chief Economist to President Obama, Professor Jason Furman, the lengthy report comes to a conclusion many are already aware of; today’s rules are not fit for purpose to effectively manage and govern the digital economy.
  “The United Kingdom has an opportunity to seize the full potential of the digital sector
  
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• GSMA blasts EC over connected car tech choice

  13-03-2019 17:35
  The battle for the soul of the European connected car industry has come down to G5 vs 5G and the European Commission has just picked a winner.
  Today the EC adopted new rules around connected an automated mobility on EU roads that amounted to an endorsement of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). On the surface this would appear to be quite a generic thing, but it seems to refer specifically to a set of technologies supported by ETSI, which include the ITS-G5 short-range wireless co
  
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• Is ‘superfast’ enough to pry an extra tenner from our wallets for 5G?

  13-03-2019 16:59
  The US market is one which has suffered in the ‘race to the bottom’ but a $10 add-on for 5G connectivity from Verizon is certainly an interesting way to get ARPU heading the other direction.
  With 5G networks officially ‘running’ in various markets around the world, one of the big questions which remained is how much the telcos would actually charge for the superfast bonanza. Verizon has been one of the first to twitch off the starting line with a new offer which will use
  
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• Construction starts on new theatre above Crossrail site

  13-03-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Construction of Soho’s first major theatre building in over 50 years has started, next to the demolished Astoria on Tottenham Court Road.Soho Place is a mixed-use scheme above the new Tottenham Court Road Crossrail Station. It will comprise of two separate buildings, one being a 10-storey building with retail and office space directly on top of the tube station entrance.
  Next to it will be the nine storey building split into three office floors above a 600 seat theatre. One of the more int
  
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• Spotify accuses Apple of discriminating against it in the App Store

  13-03-2019 13:52
  Music streaming service Spotify has declared war on Apple over alleged discriminatory treatment of its app and commercial terms.
  In a blog post CEO Daniel Ek announced Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission. He claims “Apple has introduced rules to the App Store that purposely limit choice and stifle innovation at the expense of the user experience – essentially acting as both a player and referee to deliberately disadvantage other app developers.&rd
  
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• Proxy advisor comes out against Vivendi’s Telecom Italia proposals

  13-03-2019 13:47
  Frontis Governance cites ‘serious concerns’ over Vivendi’s board moves
  
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• The country's most detailed map of roads and footways unveiled for FTTH installers across the UK

  13-03-2019 13:46
  Telecoms operators see huge savings on FTTH installationsAmsterdam, The Netherlands, and Skipton, UK, March 13, 2019 – UK based mobile mapping, asset gathering and condition assessment specialist Gaist today unveiled its unique infrastructure digital twin which already covers over 200,000 kilometres of the country’s roads and pathways, using more than a billion high definition images to map the highway scape of every classified road in England.The company is able to produce highly de
  
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• European Parliament expresses ‘deep concerns’ about Chinese 5G kit threat

  13-03-2019 13:20
  The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for the European Commission to do something about China.
  The resolution cropped up as the Parliament was also adopting the EU Cybersecurity Act, which will create the first EU-wide cybersecurity certification scheme once is has finished its meandering journey though the EU’s byzantine bureaucracy. It seems to be some kind of ‘kite mark’ that will certify a piece of kit has met the EU’s cybersecurity standards, and s
  
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• London’s Public Art: Weaving Identities

  13-03-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A tall metal sculpture stands in a public park, holding up a couple of CCTVs that keep an eye on the area. It’s by the artist, Peter Dunn and was completed in autumn 2003 at a cost a total of £70,000.The artwork is Weaving Identities and was installed following a commission from Tower Hamlets council to produce a work of art. To be fair to the council, there already was a tall pole on the location with CCTV at the top, so while the art replaced that pole, it can be metaphorically sai
  
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• EE takes step towards content aggregator model

  13-03-2019 12:09
  Content is a tricky topic to discuss around EE and BT, such is the scale of the disaster over the last few years, but a tie up with Amazon Prime and MTV Play is a step in the right direction.
  The new content offer will see EE customers receive six-month memberships to both Amazon’s Prime Video service and MTV Play. The news starts to make a more comprehensive content platform for the MNO, with customers already able to access Apple Music and BT Sport, all of which is covered under the EE V
  
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• US mulls bill for minimum IoT security requirements

  13-03-2019 12:08
  A cross-party delegation of US politicians have introduced a bill which will aim to create minimum security standards for any IoT devices used by government agencies and departments.
  Led by Democratic Congresswoman Robin Kelly and Republican Congressman Will Hurd, the bill has gained notable support already. While this is a perfectly logical step forward to ensure the integrity and resilience of government systems, the fact the politicians seem to be taking an impartial approach, not targeting a
  
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• Spectrum Assignment Policies

  13-03-2019 12:00
  Telecoms.com periodically publishes expert third-party insights on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece, the 5G World team invited Analyst Gerardo Mantilla to share his knowledge and experience on spectrum management around the challenges and new market opportunities for 5G.
  Since the telecommunications opening in America, which began around the year 2000, the spectrum allocation policy has been evolving. In many Telecommunications Laws several methods were established. The s
  
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• Iskratel drives software-enabled broadband access with new ONF collaboration

  13-03-2019 10:35
  Kranj, Slovenia, 13 March 2019 – As part of its ongoing work to enable seamless network upgrades to virtualised, cloud-based and Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter® (CORD®)-compatible infrastructures, Iskratel today announced it has joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), an operator led consortium spearheading disruptive network transformation, as an ONF Collaborator.As one of Europe’s leading providers of communications solutions for the digital transformati
  
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• Sterlite Tech launches FTTx MANTRA™ – a fully-integrated, ready-to-implement FTTx solution

  13-03-2019 09:30
  FTTx MANTRA™ converges the best of software-defined networks, optical communication products and hyper-scale rollout practices, enabling faster time-to-market and future scalability Amsterdam, The Netherlands – March 13, 2019: Sterlite Tech [BSE: 532374, NSE: STRTECH], a global data network solutions company, today announced the launch of its Fibre To The x (FTTx) solution – FTTx MANTRA™ – at the FTTH Conference 2019 (#FTTH19) in Amsterdam. Built as an end-to-end so
  
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• New railway station for East London gets formal approval

  13-03-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, the necessary final paperwork was signed for a large housing development, that will also include a new railway station on the c2c line out of Fenchurch Street.
  The site is to be known as Beam Park, and is the former Ford manufacturing plant in Dagenham, now owned by the GLA, and has received the final consents for a 3,000 home development by L&Q and Countryside, with around half classed as “affordable”. The formal consent was granted last week, following the signing of
  
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• Verizon to rollout 5G in 2 US cities next month

  13-03-2019 01:00
  US telco, Verizon, has announced that it will launch 5G mobile network services next month in the northern cities of Chicago and Minneapolis.Existing Verizon customers in the two US cities will be able to upgrade to 5G services by paying a $10 per month premium on top of their current subscription plans…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Verizon to launch 5G in 2 US cities next month

  13-03-2019 01:00
   US telco, Verizon, has announced that it will launch 5G mobile network services next month in the northern cities of Chicago and Minneapolis.Existing Verizon customers in the two US cities will be able to upgrade to 5G services by paying a $10 per month premium on top of their current subscription plans…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telia and Telxius sign multi terabit network sharing deal

  13-03-2019 01:00
  Wholesale heavyweights Telia Carrier and Telxius have announced plans to combine their respective networks, massively increasing their combined capacity offering.
  As part of the agreement, the pair will combine transatlantic capacity from Telxius' new 6…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• RingCentral and Ericsson to offer new VoLTE cloud solution for enterprise customers

  13-03-2019 01:00
  RingCentral has joined teamed up with Ericsson to launch its new pre-verified and pre-integrated communications solution, enabling service providers to bring Voice over LTE (VoLTE) cloud communications solutions to global enterprises…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NetComm wins interoperability certification for its GFast 212MHz solutions

  13-03-2019 01:00
  Next generation network technology specialists, NetComm, have announced that two of their key GFast 212MHz Fibre-to-the-Distribution-Point (FTTdp) products have been awarded interoperability certification by the Broadband Forum's (BFF) ID337i2 Gfast/212MHz interoperability test plan.Testing was conducted at the University of New Hampshire's Interoperability Lab…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Manx Telecom to accept £256m take over bid

  13-03-2019 01:00
  The board of directors of Manx Telecom has announced that it has received a takeover offer from Basalt Infrastructure Partners LLP, valuing the company at £255.9m. The board has subsequently written to its shareholders, advising that they accept the offer. "Since its IPO in 2014…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China start-up undercuts Samsung, Huawei foldables

  13-03-2019 00:00
  Questions over quality may limit Royole’s $1,300 FlexPai
  
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