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• Turns out AT&T’s 5G E is just LTE-A after all

  22-03-2019 17:43
  Network measurer OpenSignal has had a look at the performance subscribers are getting from AT&T’s whizzy new 5G Evolution service and it’s nothing special.
  “Analyzing Opensignal’s data shows that AT&T users with 5G E-capable smartphones receive a better experience than AT&T users with less capable smartphone models, for example those with an LTE Category below 16,” wrote OpenSignal Analyst Ian Fogg. “But AT&T users with a 5G E-capable smartphon
  
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• Heat from HS2 tunnels could provide energy to new homes

  22-03-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The heat from train tunnels at Old Oak Common could be used to heat water and power central heating of up to 500 new homes that are to be built near to the HS2 station.
  The scheme would see 5 air source heat pumps draw warm air from HS2’s railway’s tunnels, where the waste heat from trains is usually extracted by traditional ventilation systems and seeps into the ground surrounding the tunnels.
  The placement of the heat pumps would be in the large crossover box where trains will be a
  
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• Nokia admits to ‘compliance issues’ at Alcatel-Lucent business

  22-03-2019 13:24
  Finnish mobile equipment maker says it has reported it and is investigating
  
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• Chinese operators said to be cautious about 5G investment

  22-03-2019 13:11
  Analysts are predicting an underwhelming start to 5G from its biggest market, with China’s giant operators taking a cautious approach to investment.
  The Global Times reports that, between them, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom will invest around $5 billion on 5G networks this year. This is apparently in line with “their pragmatic and cautious strategies”. Apparently China Telecom is dropping 9 billion yuan on 5G this year and China Unicom around 7 billion, which by
  
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• Three Denmark pushes carrier billing as value add

  22-03-2019 13:05
  Cutting through the competitive chaos can be a difficult task, and while Three UK is focusing on convergence and broadband, Three Denmark is making a play to manage the consumers wallet.
  With mobile services becoming increasingly utilitised the telcos need to search for a new way to stay relevant and add value to the consumer. Some are diversifying into alternative connectivity services or content, but other are broadening their wings outside the traditional realms of telecommunications.
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• Shakespeare’s Globe theatre archives go online

  22-03-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A treasure trove of documents from the building of the modern Globe theatre to the plays put on since it opened have been put into an online archive.
  The archival materials offer insights into Sam Wanamaker’s reconstruction of the original 1599 Globe Theatre, as well as detailing the way in it was constructed as part of a radical theatrical experiment through which to examine the plays of William Shakespeare and others.
  Over 200 productions from 1997-2016 are documented through prompt book
  
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• Nokia admits there may still be some Alcatel Lucent skeletons in the closet

  22-03-2019 12:03
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has filed its annual report with the SEC and in it flagged up some legacy issues from Alcatel Lucent that may still be a problem.
  In the lengthy ‘risk factors’ section, Nokia indicates that, even years after it completed the acquisition of Alcatel Lucent, it’s still digging up stuff that may present some kind of threat to the company. Here’s the relevant passage in full.
  “During the course of the ongoing integration process, we have been mad
  
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• T-Mobile uses FWA and digital divide as latest Sprint merger justification

  22-03-2019 12:02
  T-Mobile US has announced the launch of an LTE Fixed Wireless Access service, which could address the connectivity needs of 50 million people, assuming the Sprint merger is approved of course.
  It hasn’t been billed as an Uncarrier move from T-Mobile, however it has the potential to be quite disruptive. The team has pointed to statistics which suggest 61% of rural customers either have no or only one home broadband services available to them, offering a significant opportunity for CEO John
  
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• Nokia-branded phones sent personal data from Norway to China (Updated)

  22-03-2019 11:04
  Update 14:00 Saturday 23 March 2019: HMD Global, through its PR agency, sent us an updated statement to clarify: if a Nokia phone is bought outside of China, “Your data is stored in Singapore. Singapore, as you may already know, follows very strict privacy laws.” If the device is bought from inside of China, “In order to comply with China Cyber Security law, we are obligated to store data originating from China in China. This means that only those devices that are sold in China
  
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• Nokia-branded phones sent personal data from Norway to China

  22-03-2019 11:04
  Norwegian media is reporting that private data of Nokia 7 Plus users may have been sent to a server in China for months. Finland’s data protection ombudsman will investigate and may escalate the case to the EU.
  Henrik Austad, a Nokia 7 Plus user in Norway, alerted the Norwegian public media group NRK in February when he noticed every time he powered on his phone it would ping a server in China and batches of data would be sent. The data included the phone’s IMEI numbers, SIM card num
  
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• TfL sells Crossrail trains to pay for Piccadilly line trains

  22-03-2019 10:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  TfL has signed a sale and lease-back deal to sell its fleet of Elizabeth line trains for nearly £1 billion to a consortium comprising Equitix Investment Management, NatWest and SMBC Leasing.
  In January 2018, TfL announced that it was looking at whether it could sell and lease back the Elizabeth line rolling stock, to support the delivery for new Piccadilly line trains. Following two rounds of bids throughout 2018, the transaction was approved by TfL’s Finance Committee last December.
  
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• US network operators splurge $861m at 5G mmWave auction

  22-03-2019 01:00
  US operators have spent $861 million after 17 rounds of bidding in the country's 24GHz 5G spectrum auction. The auction will grant 2,909 licences in the 24GHz band across the US…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Facebook scores another own goal on data security

  22-03-2019 01:00
  US social media giant, Facebook, has compromised the security of hundreds of millions of its users' data, in another embarrassing gaff for the company.
  Over 600 million users' passwords and login details were stored in plain text format…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China to lead the world on 5G by 2025

  22-03-2019 01:00
  China will become the biggest market for 5G by 2025, according to a new report published by the GSMA.
  The report suggests that China will see 460 million 5G connections by 2025…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT calls for open access to the UK's street furniture to speed up 5G deployment

  22-03-2019 01:00
  BT has appealed to local authorities across the UK to end exclusive concession agreements relating to council owned street furniture, as it looks to streamline its 5G rollout programme.
  Local authorities in the UK currently use a concessions model, which grants exclusive access to street furniture to one single mobile network operator…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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