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• Silicon Valley doesn’t know where to look in the 2020 Presidential race

  21-03-2019 18:32
  Traditionally Silicon Valley has supported Democrat Presidential candidates but, with the resident internet giants increasingly becoming a political punching bag, this might change very quickly.
  More specifically, Silicon Valley tends to lean towards ‘progressive’ Democrats. Many of those who would want to be included in this list have been running events in California recently to woo voters and potential donors alike, but these are candidates which have not been friendly to the inte
  
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• BT Group/Openreach: let there be light

  21-03-2019 17:31
  Infrastructure business is right to surrender in a political battle it cannot win
  
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• London Underground’s Northern line extension – a construction update

  21-03-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Building works continue on the Northern line extension to Battersea, and their latest updates give an overview of works carried out since the start of the year.
  At Battersea Power Station Station, the temporary works access and support decks have been removed from the western core, and the eastern head house has been built up to roof level.
  Fit out works comprise blockwork to create the rooms within the station; cladding, painting and screeding, which involves adding the finishing architectural
  
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• Ericsson gets some commercial 5G work from KT

  21-03-2019 13:37
  Korean operator KT is buying a bunch of 5G NR kit and software to help it launch 5G commercially in a few weeks’ time.
  It has been a decent week for Ericsson’s 5G sales team, with TDC in Denmark also signing on the dotted line. This latest win is the first commercial deal resulting from Ericsson being chosen as a 5G supplier late last year. They’ve presumably been working on this for a while, since the launch is so imminent, but KT only just gave Ericsson the green light to go
  
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• BT pleads for open access to street furniture

  21-03-2019 13:27
  BT is attempting to rally the industry in an attempt to convince local authorities to ditch the current exclusive concessions model in UK cities in favour of an ‘Open Access Model’.
  As it stands, many local authorities operate a concessions model which grant a single player exclusive access to council-owned street furniture, such as lamp posts, to place mobile network equipment. This might seem attractive to the councils from a revenue perspective, but BT is arguing this will be to t
  
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• Huawei Win Awards In Multiple Domains At MWC19

  21-03-2019 13:25
  Mobile World Congress 2019 may be over for this year, but innovation never stops.
  In recognition of our contribution to the ICT industry, GSMA ranked Huawei best-in-class in six categories of the GLOMO (Global Mobile) awards at MWC19.
  Involving a range of partnerships and tech innovations from the handheld to the city-wide, let’s take a closer look at the tech behind the wins.
  The Solutions 5G Uplink and Downlink Decoupling
  5G Fixed Wireless Access
  C-V2X (Cellular Vehicle to Everythin
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Stationers’ Hall

  21-03-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long hidden behind other buildings, Stationers’ Hall is one of the largest and most opulent of City livery halls, and they now hold regular public tours.
  The tours started just last year, as part of an agreement to open up the hall to the public more often, and start in the next door church, with it’s own private door into the Stationers’ garden.That original hall was destroyed, as so many were, during the Great Fire of London, so what stands here today is a “mere”
  
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• Openreach dares to contemplate retiring its copper network

  21-03-2019 12:52
  UK fixed-line wholesaler Openreach has launched an industry consultation into the switch to ‘full fibre’, which would involve retiring the legacy copper one.
  There’s not a lot of point shelling out for a fibre network covering the whole country if a bunch of people don’t use it. Furthermore the cost of maintaining two parallel networks would be prohibitive, so Openreach seems to be saying full fibre will only happen if everyone is fully committed to it. The purpose of thi
  
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• Three UK readies assault on broadband market

  21-03-2019 12:24
  While its latest financials might not look mind-blowing, Three UK is steading the ship as it casts its eye towards the promised land of convergence and 5G.
  Convergence is not really much of a buzzword anymore, such is the accepted nature of the model across the telco industry, though Three is seemingly readying itself for a broader push into broadband segment. The first job is to rebrand Relish, which will happen next month, and the next box to tick will be 5G.
  “We are well set up for some
  
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• TfL outlines its budget for 2020 – focusing on more cost cutting

  21-03-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Transport for London (TfL) has published its draft budget for the next financial year 2019/20 which continues the organisation’s progress towards breaking even on the cost of day-to-day operations by 2022/23.
  The organisation needs to cut costs in the face of a shrinking central government grant, declining passenger numbers on buses and the fares freeze imposed by the current Mayor of London.
  The budget covers the first year of TfL’s Business Plan and shows how TfL will continue to i
  
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• Openreach prepares to retire copper network

  21-03-2019 05:00
  Group behind UK’s telecoms infrastructure to spend billions on fibre upgrade
  
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• We need to talk about copper – Openreach begins gigabit consultation with UK telcos

  21-03-2019 01:00
  Openreach has launched a consultation period with the UK's leading telcos, to help it upgrade customers and businesses to gigabit speed broadband connections.Openreach will consult with its wholesale Communications Provider (CP) customers, such as TalkTalk, Sky and BT, on how best to upgrade their retail customers to next generation, gigabit capable broadband services. The consultation will centre around strategies for migrating customers off of copper…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Three UK sees steady growth as it readies itself for big push on 5G

  21-03-2019 01:00
  Three UK saw revenues edge up by 1 per cent to close out the financial year at £2.4 billion.
  Three UK enjoyed a successful and steady 2018/2019, surpassing 11.3 million subscribers, 84 per cent of whom were using the company's 4G networks.
  In late 2018, Three UK added 20MHz of 5G spectrum in the 3…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Profits slow at China Mobile, despite adding 63m 4G subscribers in 2018

  21-03-2019 01:00
  China Mobile saw revenues slip by 0.5 per cent in 2018 to $110 billion (CNY737 billion), as declining revenues from its mobile network business weighed heavy on the company's profitability in 2018.
  Net profits stood at $17.7 billion (CNY118 billion) in 2018…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Hong Kong regulator names recipients of 26GHz-28GHz spectrum

  21-03-2019 01:00
  Hong Kong's Office of Communications Authority (OFCA) has confirmed that three companies will participate in the city's forthcoming 26…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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