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• US officials say UK’s 5G approach imperils security

  18-03-2019 19:40
  Warning comes as Trump administration pressures allies to shun Huawei equipment
  
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• Openet exec gets red-pilled, joins Matrixx

  18-03-2019 17:25
  Marc Price, CTO for the Americas at BSS vendor Openet, has decided to find out how deep the rabbit-hole goes by defecting to competitor Matrixx Software.
  He will get to travel a bit more in his new role at Global CTO for Matrixx and he had been at Openet for 15 years, so it was probably time for a change. The move will also allow  Matrixx Founder Dave Labuda to step away from the techie side of things and focus his attention entirely on some serious chief execing.
  “Marc is a tremendou
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Billingsgate Roman House and Baths

  18-03-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hidden underneath a mundane office block can be found one of London’s largest Roman remains, and it’s open for tours from next month.The Bath House and associated town house would have been by the riverside – as it was in those times – and the layout is unusual with the bathhouse in the centre courtyard with the main building around it. It was possibly an inn or praetorium for traders and visitors to Londinium.
  Squatters and other occupants are thought to have lived in th
  
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• Iskratel and AVM achieve interoperability of their flagship GPON products

  18-03-2019 14:49
  Iskratel and AVM join forces to meet the increasing demand for high-speed broadband in Germany, with new product portfolioKranj, Slovenia and Berlin, Germany, 18 March 2019 – Iskratel, the leading European vendor of broadband solutions, and AVM, the leading manufacturer of broadband devices for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), cable, LTE and fibre optics in Germany and Europe, today announced they have successfully achieved interoperability of Iskratel’s Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) w
  
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• Mukesh Ambani helps brother Anil make $77m payment to avoid jail

  18-03-2019 14:45
  Fees from RCom to Ericsson for outsourced services settled before court deadline
  
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• RCom boss opts to pay Ericsson bill rather than go to prison

  18-03-2019 14:03
  Indian telco Reliance Communications owed kit vendor Ericsson millions of dollars but didn’t feel like paying up. The threat of jail time seems to have changed its mind.
  At the start of the year Ericsson requested RCom Chairman Anil Ambani be locked up unless his company settles its debts but a couple of months later it still hadn’t coughed up. The Indian court gave him until 19 March to find the cash and now, with one day to spare, it’s being widely reported that Ambani manage
  
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• Qualcomm lands roundhouse in Apple legal battle

  18-03-2019 13:51
  The on-going legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple has taken a twist as the US District Court for the Southern District of California has ruled in favour of Qualcomm.
  The court has decided Apple’s iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus and X infringe two Qualcomm patents, while the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X devices infringe on a third. As a result, the jury has awarded Qualcomm $31 million in damages.
  “Today’s unanimous jury verdict is the latest victory in our worldwide patent litigation
  
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• Admire these illustrations of London Underground tube stations

  18-03-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tube stations are so much a part of the everyday lives of London’s commuters that few bat an eyelid at the architecture they see on the way to and from work every day.
  But many of these stations were ahead of their time when they were built – from the art deco of Arnos Grove to the high-tech of Canary Wharf. And so many others have been added to the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
  Now the illustrator Luis Gomez Feliu has been commissioned by
  
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• OneWeb bags another $1.25 billion for global satellite mission

  18-03-2019 12:36
  London-based satellite company OneWeb has announced it has secured an additional $1.25 billion in new capital, taking the total funds raised to $3.4 billion.
  Having launched it first assets into the skies on February 27, the funds will be greatly welcomed considering the scale of ambitions here. In its mission to deliver high speed, low latency, seamless broadband access everywhere on Earth, from Q4 the team will begin monthly launches of 30 satellites to create an initial constellation of 650 s
  
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• Vivendi denounces TIM board

  18-03-2019 12:14
  The emotional level of the custody battle for TIM has reached a new pitch, with Vivendi starting to lose its composure.
  “Vivendi denounces the behaviour of the Elliott-nominated Telecom Italia (TIM) Board members who yesterday rejected by a majority vote the report issued by the company’s Board of Statutory Auditors, a totally independent body, citing serious irregularities related to the company’s governance and its Board,” opened Vivendi’s latest salvo, which clai
  
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• FCC casts an eye north of 95 GHz

  18-03-2019 11:51
  The FCC has unveiled plans to create a new regulatory framework for spectrum above 95 GHz.
  While these bands have largely been considered outside the realms of usable spectrum, progress in radio tech has made the prospects much more realistic. And, dare we say it, such a regulatory framework could begin to set the foundations for 6G…
  “Today, we take big steps towards making productive use of this spectrum,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. “We allocate a massive 21
  
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• G3 Comms Announces New Group Chief Technology Officer, David Blackburn

  18-03-2019 11:30
  London, 18th March 2019 - David Blackburn is to become Chief Technology Officer of the G3 Comms group. G3 Comms is a specialist solutions provider that builds and deploys enterprise-grade unified communications (UC) and contact centre solutions to optimise ways of working. Bringing together world-class technology, in-house software applications and a global ecosystem of leading vendors, G3 Comms helps organisations to increase efficiencies and accelerate business performance. David will lead the
  
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• Payments group Worldpay acquired in $43bn deal

  18-03-2019 08:22
  Financial services technology group FIS seeks scale with acquisition
  
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• London’s Alleys: Sussex Mews East, W2

  18-03-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is a sunken alley that sits on a site that was extensively redeveloped in the late 1930s and 1960s.
  The original mews was built in the early 19th century turning the empty fields of West London into the rows of posh houses that fill the space today.
  It ran between two rows of houses providing access to the stable/ coach house accommodation, and was fronted at the north end by a gated house. However, today the mews has been redeveloped to a degree that the gatehouse aside, little remains of
  
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• UK firm secures £25m investment to fast track multi cloud services for public sector

  18-03-2019 01:00
  UKCloud has secured a £25 million investment from Digital Alpha Advisors LLC, to facilitate the digital transformation of UK public services through the provision of multi cloud services.
  The investment will allow UKCloud to transform the digital infrastructure of resource…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ooredoo doubles down on blockchain as global spend set to hit $12bn by 2022

  18-03-2019 01:00
  Ooredoo Group has launched its global blockchain initiative as it looks to position itself as one of the industry's early movers on blockchain.
  A new report, published by IDC, claims that the global blockchain spend will increase exponentially over the next three years…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT says 'no thanks' to rural roaming in the UK

  18-03-2019 01:00
  Plans for a single rural network to cover hard-to-reach areas across the UK suffered a setback today, as the UK's incumbent operator said that it would not back the scheme. According to a report in The Times, BT has said that it will not support calls from Three…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Apple fined $31m, as court rules in Qualcomm's favour

  18-03-2019 01:00
  A Californian court has ruled that Apple's iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus and X models infringe a number of Qualcomm patents, awarding the US based chip maker $31m in damages.
  The damages awarded represent a premium of $1.41 per unit sold in the US since Qualcomm originally filed the lawsuit on the 6th July 2017…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ambani avoids jail as RCom pays $77m to Ericsson

  18-03-2019 01:00
  Reliance Communications' chairman Anil Ambani has avoided a custodial sentence as his company completed the payment of $77m to Swedish network equipment provider Ericsson. The money was due to have been paid by the end of 2018 and Ambani was given until the 20th March 2019 to make payment of the outstanding dues or face imprisonment for contempt of court…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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