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• US competition inquiries: high hurdles

  22-05-2019 19:23
  Qualcomm, Sprint and T-Mobile run into multi-layered regulatory system
  
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• Arm suspension strikes at Huawei’s core

  22-05-2019 18:46
  Qualcomm — the San Diego strangler, Trainline’s 20-year IPO journey, banks’ IPO trio
  
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• Vodafone cancels UK 5G launch event at the last minute

  22-05-2019 18:16
  Vodafone UK was scheduled to match EE’s 5G launch event with one of its own the next day but suddenly cancelled it.
  Pretty much every other event in the telecoms world these days exists in the shadow of the rapidly escalating Huawei crisis, but that didn’t stop UK MNO EE from going ahead with its launch event today. Huawei was conspicuously absent from its initial list of 5G smartphone vendors, and parent company BT is clearly trying to distance itself from it across the board, but a
  
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• Huawei honors its pledge to the smartphone mid-market

  22-05-2019 16:57
  Despite all the pressures facing Huawei, it has still managed to pay attention to the often-overlooked mid-price smartphone market with the launch of the Honor 20 Series.
  Launched in London, the Honor 20 Series promises much for half the price many consumers would expect to pay. €599 for the Honor 20 Pro, 8GB RAM and 256GB Storage, and €499 for the lesser Honor 20, 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, the series is swimming against the tides of market trends; as everyone else shuns the mid
  
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• Huawei US ban metastasizes to Arm – where next?

  22-05-2019 14:59
  The BBC is reporting that mobile chip designer Arm is the latest tech company to suspend its business with Huawei.
  An Arm internal memo leaked to the Beeb instructed all employees to cease “all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei and made it clear that this was as a direct result of the recent US decisions to put Huawei on a list of companies US companies aren’t allowed to do business with.
  Arm is based in the UK but is now a subsidi
  
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• Pyrotechnics and filming at Tower Bridge

  22-05-2019 14:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  A heads up that a couple of evenings next week could see bang bangs and boom booms next to Tower Bridge.
  According to a river traffic warning, on Tues 28th May and Wed 29th May 2019 filming operations and a pyrotechnic display will take place in the Upper Pool.
  Operations will be undertaken between 9pm and 10pm, so around Sunset between London Bridge City Pier and Hermitage Community Moorings, so pretty much a hundred yards either side of Tower Bridge itself.
  There’s two days booked, proba
  
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• Qualcomm’s share price nosedives after FTC antirust loss

  22-05-2019 14:14
  Qualcomm might have some of the most battle-hardened legal experts in the technology world, but it can’t win every fight.
  In a ruling coming out of the District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Lucy Koh has ruled the chipset giant had violated the Federal Trade Commission Act. The judgment could have a significant impact on the Qualcomm business model, with Judge Koh suggesting it used its dominant position to impose excessive licensing fees.
  While this certainly won&rs
  
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• Huawei’s in-house mobile OS is a very long shot

  22-05-2019 14:07
  This story includes additional reporting from Jamie Davies.
  In response to the threat of an imminent Android ban Huawei has started banging on about its own mobile OS, but who would want to use it?
  Huawei’s mobile business boss Richard Yu was reported by the South China Morning Post as saying “The Huawei OS is likely to hit the market as soon as this fall, and no later than spring next year.” From the report this seems more like a fork of the open source Android core OS, with n
  
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• EE 5G hits the ground running

  22-05-2019 13:18
  Sneaking in-front of Vodafone to debut on May 30, EE’s 5G proposition will be launched across six cities in the UK with a range of different devices and interesting bundling options.
  While the launch of the network was announced last week, BT Consumer CEO Marc Allera gave much needed colour to the deployment plans at a media event in London and to be fair to BT and EE, it does look pretty impressive.
  From today, customers will be able to pre-order bundles from EE as well as choose from mul
  
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• Seasoned Silicon Valley Executive Joins Mobileum

  22-05-2019 13:00
  Sebastiano Tevarotto joins as Chief Commercial Officer22nd May 2019, Cupertino, California: World-leading mobile roaming company, Mobileum Inc today announced the appointment of Sebastiano Tevarotto as its new Chief Commercial Officer. With a 35-year track record of success within technology companies, Tevarotto brings a wealth of experience of driving and sustaining high-growth and profitability for both large and small businesses.After a 25-year career with Hewlett Packard, including leading t
  
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• Photos of 1980s-90s London theatre go on display

  22-05-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Towards the end of the Cold War, a Czech photographer came to London, and his photos are now on display in the V&A museum.Ivan Kyncl was the son of the Czech dissident journalist, Karel Kyncl and studied photography after being prevented to enter higher education because of his father’s political background.
  While living in Prague, Kyncl photographed politically sensitive plays performed in the secret ‘living room theatre’ of blacklisted actress Vlasta Chramostová. H
  
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• EE and Vodafone pull Huawei phones from UK 5G launch

  22-05-2019 12:20
  Japan’s SoftBank and KDDI are also excluding Chinese group’s handsets
  
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• The reality of mobile SD-WAN – the missing link for enterprise 5G?

  22-05-2019 11:50
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. This is the second of a two piece series in which Simon Pamplin, EMEA Technical Sales Director for Silver Peak, looks at some of the enterprise benefits of the latest generations of wireless networking technology.
  This is the second of a two-part article series that explores SD-WAN and the future of networking in the 5G era. The first looked at how established 4G LTE connectivity, p
  
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• TfL unveils South Kensington tube station rebuilding plans

  22-05-2019 11:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Native Land and Transport for London (TfL) have unveiled their proposals for the redevelopment of South Kensington tube station.
  The proposals include the development delivering around 40 additional homes, a new range of shops, restaurants and workspaces, and step-free station access to the ticket hall and District and Circle line platforms via a new entrance on Thurloe Street.
  The biggest change will be the curved “bullnose” building at the front of the station. The original concept
  
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• Telensa to Provide Smart Outdoor Lighting Solution to One of the UK's Major Ports

  22-05-2019 10:00
  Wireless solution will reduce energy and maintenance costs by connecting and managing LED outdoor lights while providing a low-cost platform for other smart sensorsCambridge, UK Wednesday 22nd May 2019 Telensa – one of the world’s leading providers of connected lighting and smart city data applications – based in Cambridge UK, has announced that its smart lighting controls are being deployed as part of the Port of Tyne’s LED lighting upgrade project.The Port of Tyne, in..
  
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• HYLA Mobile President and CEO Biju Nair Named Finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year 2019 Southwest Division

  22-05-2019 10:00
  HYLA Mobile’s continued contribution to the circular economy results in award win22nd May 2019 – HYLA Mobile, the world’s leading provider of software technology and services for mobile device trade-in and reuse solutions, announces that its President and CEO, Biju Nair, has been named as a finalist for 2019 EY Entrepreneur of The Year Southwest Division awards. This award recognizes the important role Biju has played in developing HYLA into a successful company driving the...S
  
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• The Pilgrim’s Progress remembered in Holborn

  22-05-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A hotel in Holborn also contains a most unexpected statue — of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress.Unsurprisingly, the hotel is a new occupant of an older building — the headquarters of the Baptist Society. Baptist Christ House was the first building to be constructed on the newly widened Southampton Row, between 1901 and 1903.
  It was designed by Arthur Keen, a pupil of Norman Shaw, for the Baptist Union in what was known as Edwardian Free Baroque style, but Keen prod
  
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• UK govt launches £200m fibre scheme to dramatically boost connectivity in rural Britain

  22-05-2019 02:00
  The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a £200 million programme to deliver fibre to the home (FTTH) connectivity to some of the UK's hardest to reach rural communities. The Rural Gigabit Connectivity (RGC) scheme is intended to bring next generation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson: Spectrum sharing will be key to scaling up 5G in Europe

  22-05-2019 02:00
  European operators must be prepared to utilise spectrum sharing technology in order to scale up their 5G network coverage, or risk having their network growth stunted as they wait for new bands to be auctioned.
  Governments across Europe have been accused of artificially elevating the price of 5G spectrum boost their own revenues…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EE will launch 5G in the UK next week, as Britain ushers in the mobile gigabit era

  22-05-2019 02:00
  EE has confirmed that it will become the first mobile network operator to launch commercial 5G services in the UK, when it switches on its 5G networks on the 30th May 2019.
  EE will launch in 6 cities, with 10 more to be added before the end of the year.
  Speaking at a press conference in London on Wednesday, EE’s CEO, Marc Allera, said that initially EE&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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