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• Trump issues order laying ground for Huawei ban

  15-05-2019 23:04
  US companies will be effectively prohibited from using telecoms equipment made by Chinese group
  
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• Telecoms groups ordered to inform users of better deals

  15-05-2019 17:30
  Ofcom moves to protect customers who pay ‘loyalty penalty’ after contract runs out
  
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• Q&A with Elisabetta Romano, CTO at TIM

  15-05-2019 17:13
  Elisabetta Romano is Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for TIM and is responsible for ensuring TIM’s technological innovation, the evolution of the networks, and for the Information Technology required to support TIM’s digitization process at Group level. The 5G World team interviewed Elisabetta ahead of the show to gain a sneak peek for what we can expect at our upcoming conference.
  TIM invested 2.39 billion euros on 5G spectrum in late 2018 for expansion of mobile networ
  
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• Streaming platforms are starting to become less attractive

  15-05-2019 16:41
  Netflix started as a platform where old-series could be relived, but now with rivals aiming to replicate the success of the streaming giant, the content world is becoming increasingly fragmented.
  The big question which remains is how big is the consumers appetite for content? How many streaming subscriptions are users willing to tolerate?
  The news which hit the headlines this morning concerned Hulu. Disney has come to an agreement to purchase Comcast’s stake in the streaming service, for a
  
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• An unexpected corridor in the V&A Museum

  15-05-2019 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  A long wood lined corridor that’s not on the map contains a rather charming gallery of actors and other artistic sorts.The exhibition is temporary, and was extended to Monday 27th May, so you don’t have much time to see it — and I would go and see it for two reasons.
  Mainly, it’s really rather nice — a long room with modest sized portraits on easels, without any real pretensions or grandeur. The super famous shown in rough hewn paint relaxed and softened by the dim
  
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• Operators are finally getting the message about 5G monetization

  15-05-2019 13:51
  Conversations at Digital Transformation World 2019 indicate operators may finally be getting the memo about monetizing 5G.
  The long and short of it is that revenue per bit of data is going down the toilet and we’re rapidly approaching the point when connectivity alone becomes a loss-making exercise. This is obviously a bit of a problem if your main business model depends on making a profit from providing connectivity and brings fresh urgency to the somewhat tired buzzword that is digital t
  
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• Trump’s hand is hovering over China executive order

  15-05-2019 13:22
  President Trump is reportedly on the verge of signing an executive order effectively banning Huawei, and other Chinese companies, from providing any products or services in the US market.
  According to Reuters, the signing of the order could happen as soon as this afternoon (Wednesday 15 May) although no companies will be named specifically. It is believed US companies will be banned from purchasing any telco equipment from vendors who are deemed a threat to national security.
  The vagueness of th
  
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• Take tours of London’s grand Livery Halls

  15-05-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dotted around the City of London are a number of very grand buildings, and while normally private, some are open to the public if you book a tour. These are the Livery Halls, built for the ancient city guilds, in part for guild business, but also as halls to hire out for functions.
  Today the Livery Halls are still operational, and if so minded, most of the Livery Companies that own a hall will hire it out to you for corporate events, weddings and the like
  However, the following companies also of
  
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• Loyalty penalties for broadband, mobile and TV finally tackled

  15-05-2019 12:56
  Ofcom has introduced rules which will aim to tackle ‘penalties’ imposed on renewing customers by broadband, mobile and content providers.
  As part of the new rules, providers will have to inform customers 10 to 40 days prior to the end of the customers contract, the period where financial penalties would be applied for changing providers. In the notification, customers will be told the end date of the contract, differences in contract pricing moving forward, termination conditions and
  
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• San Francisco puts the brakes on facial recognition surveillance

  15-05-2019 11:57
  The City of San Francisco has passed new rules which will significantly curb the abilities of public sector organisations to purchase and utilise facial recognition technologies.
  Opinions on newly emerging surveillance technologies have varied drastically, with some pointing to the benefits of safety and efficiency for intelligence and police forces, while others have bemoaned the crippling potential it could have on civil liberties and privacy.
  The new rules in San Francisco do not necessarily
  
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• Calnex Solutions acquires Luceo Technologies GmbH

  15-05-2019 09:56
  LINLITHGOW, SCOTLAND, 15th May 2019 – Calnex Solutions today announced the acquisition of Luceo Technologies GmbH headquartered in Berlin, Germany. This is the second acquisition Calnex has closed in the last 15 months. The acquisition, which is for an undisclosed amount, increases the Calnex product line to include Luceo’s range of High Speed Component testers complementing Calnex’s existing portfolio of Synchronisation testers and Network Emulators. Luceo Technologies supplie
  
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• London’s Public Art: Steel statues in Woolwich

  15-05-2019 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Next to the Thames in Woolwich are a cluster of steel men forever frozen in a meeting that is about to take place.This is “Assembly” by the sculptor Peter Burke, and is intended to represent a group of people coming together. They’re partial body moulds, and are all men — there’s enough of an anatomy to check that.
  The cast forms have been designed to be industrially produced and repeated to reflect the use of industrial production methods, and are bolted together u
  
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• Vodafone faces growth test after cut to dividend

  15-05-2019 05:00
  UK group is in the doldrums and 5G push looks unlikely to prove a panacea
  
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• Vodafone tightens its belt as it prepares to splash the cash in 2019

  15-05-2019 02:00
  Vodafone Group issued its full year financial report on Tuesday, with revenues falling by 6.2 per cent to €43.66 billion, leading to an operating loss for the year of €951 million.
  In the build up to the publication of the figures, many analysts speculated that Vodafone would be forced to cut its dividend pay-out. Sure enough, on Tuesday morning Vodafone announced that it would be cutting its dividend from 15.08 cents per share to 9 cents per share."We had weaker revenue growth progre
  
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• TIM CEO would welcome merger with Open Fiber

  15-05-2019 02:00
  Telecom Italia's chief executive officer, Luigi Gubitosi, has said he would welcome a proposed merger between his company and Italy's broadband infrastructure provider, Open Fiber…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom forces UK telcos and ISPs to stop ripping off their customers

  15-05-2019 02:00
  The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has set out new rules, which will force telecoms service providers to inform their customers when they reach the end of their contract and to inform them of better deals that are available.
  The new legislation will require UK internet service providers (ISPs)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T to make further job cuts in the US

  15-05-2019 02:00
  America's biggest telco by revenues, AT&T, has announced that it will make a number of technicians redundant in California.
  A report in The State newspaper said that AT&amp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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