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• The FCC unanimously concludes China Mobile can’t be trusted

  09-05-2019 18:54
  The Federal Communications Commission was never going to let China Mobile set up in the US market and now it’s official.
  Last month FCC Chairman Ajit Pai made it clear he was against China Mobile USA’s application to provide telecommunications services between the United States and other countries and that he hoped his fellow commissioners agreed. Often there is dissent among the five commissioners, usually along partisan political lines, but this time nobody dared stick up for China
  
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• Tube maps in other languages

  09-05-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not highlighted that well, but the TfL website has a range of tube maps in languages other than English.
  Not many, and not updated that often, but in a city that has so many tourists visiting, it makes sense to offer some level of multi-lingual service.There’s 15 of them in total, and the language changes are limited to the explanatory text on the maps. Cockfosters is not translated into its Chinese equivalent, so sadly they miss out on its silly name.Oddly, while the tube line
  
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• US drives solid Deutsche Telekom numbers but German 5G auction is a drag

  09-05-2019 14:40
  German operator group Deutsche Telekom has reported solid Q1 revenue growth, driven largely by T-Mobile US.
  As you can see from the table below, revenues and EBITDA all grew nicely in Q1 2019. Profits, however, went in the opposite direction, apparently due to one-off things like the cost of trying to get the merger between TMUS and Sprint approved. Speaking of the US the second table shows just how much of the revenue growth is attributable to TMUS.
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• BT reports flat full year numbers but feels bullish about fibre

  09-05-2019 13:31
  UK telecoms group BT revealed flat revenue growth on its full year 2018 report, but its new CEO said all the right things about investment.
  Revenues were down a percent, but earnings per share were still up 6 percent. Of the business units only the biggest – consumer – showed any growth, with all the B2B units showing small declines. BT expects the 2019 financial year to deliver more of the same, because reasons. It said it has raised its capex guidance to £3.8 billion, but it
  
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• Tickets Alert: Hard hat tours of new hotel and cinema in Leicester Square

  09-05-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A large hotel with large cinema some 6 storeys below ground is currently under construction, and there will be tours of the building site next month.
  Set to open in 2020, the 5-star hotel will offer 350 rooms and 35 suites, multiple restaurants and lounges, a rooftop bar, underground spa with swimming pool, Odeon cinema and a 1,000-capacity ballroom.
  At 30m deep and with six levels below ground, this will be the deepest habitable-grade commercial building basement in London, and among the deepes
  
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• When FWA starts to make sense

  09-05-2019 10:38
  Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) attracts a huge range of opinions, but at Light Reading’s Big 5G Event, Starry put forward an interesting case.
  Starry Internet is a fixed wireless broadband Internet service provider, founded in January 2016, operating across a small number of US cities. What makes Starry different from many of the other cable providers is an exclusive focus on FWA.
  As a technology, FWA has certainly split opinion. Some see it as a 5G usecase which could justify the vast expend
  
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• The edge takes centre stage (again)

  09-05-2019 10:37
  At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the edge was one of the most prominent topics and the same can be said in Denver at Light Reading’s Big 5G Event.
  The edge itself is a relatively easy concept to understand, but in reality, the deployment and evolution are much more complicated facets. It is usually the case that the biggest potential or most promising developments are the most difficult to achieve, but it does seem there is resistance continued resistance to change.
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• London’s cable car has lost its cables

  09-05-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is an amusing oddity, but the Google satellite views of the dangleway in Greenwich has removed the cables from the cable car.Initially I thought maybe a very old series of images, but no, there’s the brand new blocks of flats going up next to the cable car, so the images are recent.
  Maybe the cables are missing simply because the image resolution isn’t high enough? Well, maybe, but then we should have the curious sight of the red cable cars floating in mid-air.
  But they are miss
  
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• Private equity duo secure $14.3bn deal to buy fibre giant Zayo

  09-05-2019 02:00
  A pair of US based private equity firms have secured a deal to take control of one of the world's biggest fibre network owners, Zayo Group.
  The deal would see Digital Colony Partners and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund assume 100 per cent control of Zayo Group…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• GSMA: Greedy governments could jeopardise 5G before it has even begun

  09-05-2019 02:00
  The GSMA has warned that government's must resist the urge to use their 5G spectrum auction's as cash cows, or risk dramatically impacting the rollout of next generation mobile network services. The GSMA states that by artificially inflating the cost of spectrum for short term financial gain…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT's new CEO sets out his vision for next-gen connectivity in 2019

  09-05-2019 02:00
  BT's new chief exec, Philip Jansen, has set out his desire to reinstate BT as a "national champion" in an earnings call with journalists on Thursday morning.Jansen said that BT would continue to invest heavily in 5G and full fibre fixed broadband services, as the company looks to continue leading from the front in both fields. The BT premier reiterated his company's desire to focus on providing its customers with an expanding portfolio of converged products and services, built on the bedrock of
  
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• Achieving a true gigabit society requires a broad FTTX toolkit

  09-05-2019 02:00
  As consumers around the world demand hyperfast, ubiquitous connectivity, network operators must be prepared to use the full spectrum of FTTX solutions, according to Nokia.
  During an industry webinar…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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