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• The smart speaker revolution isn’t quite here yet

  17-06-2019 18:25
  A survey on voice assistant use in the US reveals the majority of consumers hardly ever use smart voice assistants and even when they do it’s on a smartphone.
  The survey was conducted by digital commerce strategy firm Sumo Heavy. It chatted to around a thousand US punters to find out what their voice assistant habits are. The first thing it found was that 46% have never used  voice assistant and that 19% do so rarely, which probably means they did it once out of curiosity and conclude
  
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• BoJo’s 2025 fibre promise has no basis in reality

  17-06-2019 18:22
  Being ambitious is all well and good, but most would hope the ambitious are living in the world of reality. Unfortunately, with Boris Johnson’s Fibre-to-the-Home objectives, he’s operating in dreamland.
  Perhaps this is a situation which we should have come to expect. Theresa May has one foot out the door and the jostling to inherit 10 Downing Street is starting to ramp up. This weekend saw the first televised debate, with one obvious omission, and soon enough the big promises to woo
  
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• Tickets Alert: One evening only bicycles allowed into Kew Gardens

  17-06-2019 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  For one evening this week, it will be possible to cycle around the massive Kew Gardens as part of a special evening event.
  Bicycles aren’t usually allowed in the Gardens so this is a unique opportunity for you to bring your bike and explore Kew Gardens from a new perspective.
  In fact, entry will not be allowed for anyone without a bike on the night.
  There’s no fixed route or plan, just turn up and amble gently around the gardens on your preferred form of two-wheeled transport.
  The ev
  
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• Help save the world’s last sea-going paddle steamer

  17-06-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many a summer evening along the Thames is enlivened by the sight of a steam powered paddle-steamer passing through Tower Bridge.
  But not this year.
  The paddle steamer Waverley, the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world, is currently unable to generate steam. Her boilers have given out, and will be unable to sail anywhere until they are replaced.
  That means no more summer excursions along the Thames either.Waverley’s planned 2019 season was cancelled in May, following the discovery of
  
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• Spyder Facilities Acquired by Digital Colony’s UK Digital Infrastructure Platform

  17-06-2019 15:00
  Adds More Than 5000 Wireless Site Locations to Rapidly Growing UK FootprintLONDON, UK – 17th June 2019 - Digital Colony, a global investment firm dedicated to strategic opportunities in digital infrastructure, today announced further growth of its UK platform through the acquisition of Spyder Facilities Limited, a leading UK wireless infrastructure company with over 5,000 locations available for wireless transmission technologies including the latest 5G rollout. Financial terms of the tran
  
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• Why encryption is still impacting mobile video quality of experience

  17-06-2019 14:34
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this article Santiago Bouzas, Director, Product Management at Openwave Mobility looks at some of the underlying issues surrounding video encryption.
  At a time when data breaches occur on an almost daily basis, undermining consumer confidence in enterprise IT’s ability to secure and protect private data, it might seem like the best solution is to increase efforts to encrypt
  
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• Tory leadership favourite makes 2025 FTTH commitment

  17-06-2019 14:25
  Former-Foreign Secretary and the favourite to be the UK’s next Prime Minister Boris Johnson has undercut DCMS and Ofcom commitment for full-fibre by eight-years.
  Writing an op-ed piece for The Daily Telegraph, Johnson (BoJo) has suggested his government would commit to delivering fibre-to-the-home (FTT) broadband connectivity to 100% of the UK population by 2025, beating out current commitments by eight years.
  “Think what we could achieve if the whole country had the same lightning a
  
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• Ofcom adds some colour to ‘fairness’ campaign

  17-06-2019 14:25
  It might sound like a political punchline, but the ‘Fairness Framework’ from Ofcom is starting to take shape, though whether it forces telco transparency remains to be seen.
  The Fairness Framework is effectively incremental progress to address what some would suggest is an unfair dynamic between buyer and seller in the wider communications industry. While there is a gluttony of comparison websites which bill themselves as a means to cut-through the white-noise generated by the telcos
  
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• Huawei CEO admits growth will decline for at least two years

  17-06-2019 14:24
  In one of his now familiar set-piece interview sessions, Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei admitted the current situation will cost it at least $30 billion in revenues for 2019 and 2020.
  For some reason Huawei decided to theme its latest bit of PR ‘A coffee with Ren’. This was an apparent attempt to demonstrate once more how open Huawei is and how willing it is to engage with the global community. “As you know Huawei’s culture is very open,” said Tian Wei, the host of the int
  
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• DLR station upgrade funding approved

  17-06-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Initial funding to improve a number of DLR stations in the Royal Docks area has been approved by the Mayor of London.
  A plan to see a lot more housing built in the area will also see a need for the local public transport to be upgraded, including six DLR stations – at Royal Albert, Royal Victoria, Beckton Park, Gallions Reach, Pontoon Dock, and Canning Town.
  There was already an “in principle” approval to spend £3.75 million for design work on the six stations in the Roya
  
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• Industry quietly lobbies against Trump’s anti-globalisation agenda

  17-06-2019 12:39
  Slowing down the progress made by Huawei on the global stage might be a win for the White House, but US firms are not seeing the benefits as some are reportedly lobbying against the infamous ban.
  In a televised interview this morning, Huawei Founder Ren Zhengfei suggested sales forecasts will be negatively hit by the firms debut onto the US ‘Entity List’, taking two years to get back onto the 2018 trajectory. For the White House, this might be vindication of its aggressive anti-Huawe
  
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• Ericsson soups up its 5G software

  17-06-2019 12:32
  Kit vendor Ericsson has released some new software designed to help operators with their move so standalone 5G NR when they eventually get around to it.
  The early 5G we’re getting now still relies on a 4G core and hence is known as ‘non-standalone (NSA)’. It’s largely a way for the industry to start banging on about 5G a year or two earlier than it would otherwise have been able to. Proper 5G, known as ‘standalone (SA)’, will come with release 16 of the 5G sta
  
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• Tickets Alert: Watch films in a restored chapel

  17-06-2019 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following a lengthy restoration, the Grade II listed Oxford House in Bethnal Green, London will be open to the public for a series of film screenings in its attic Chapel and Theatre.
  The 135 year old venue, with its beautiful gothic and Neo-Jacobean features, was the first “settlement house”, where students from Keble College Oxford could undertake residential volunteering and learn about crippling urban poverty.This fantastic building was at risk of being lost, but through work supp
  
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• Airtel Africa eyes £3.6bn valuation in London IPO

  17-06-2019 08:59 via ft.com
  Continent’s second biggest mobile operator sets price range at 80-100p
  
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• London’s Alleys: Panyer Alley, EC2

  17-06-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An alley that can be traced all the way back to Tudor London, with a famously enigmatic stone plaque on one wall.
  It doesn’t look like an ancient alley today, being very wide and modern, thanks to the deprivations of WW2, but until the bombs fell, this had been a narrow alley ever since it was laid out, surrounded by buildings.The name, Panyer Alley comes from the trade locally for boys to sell bread from baskets they carried. Pannier being a basket, bag, box, or similar container, carried
  
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• Fail better: what BT learnt from hitting a brick wall

  17-06-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Sometimes, as large projects unfold, they achieve a madcap momentum that can only be stopped by a crisis
  
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• Truespeed to launch 10Gbps broadband services to residential customers in the UK

  17-06-2019 02:00
  Internet service provider, Truespeed, is to launch 10Gbps fibre broadband services to residential customers in the UK.
  Truespeed's 10Gbps, full fibre package will provide a dedicated 10Gbps link to every customer…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson eyes stand-alone 5G market, with new kit launch

  17-06-2019 02:00
  Swedish telecoms giant, Ericsson, has launched a range of cutting edge, standalone 5G New Radio software, Massive MIMO hardware and a range of edge solutions for distributed cloud services.
  The release will allow Ericsson to begin marketing its stand…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Du set to launch 5G in the UAE with ZTE's Axon Pro handset

  17-06-2019 02:00
  Du will become the first Middle Eastern operator to launch commercial 5G services, when it launches next generation mobile services in the UAE later this month.Du has partnered with ZTE to launch their 5G tariffs with the Axon Pro 10 &ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Boris Johnson promises FTTH for all by 2025, but how is he going to achieve that?

  17-06-2019 02:00
  Boris Johnson has kicked off his bid to become the UK's next Prime Minister, by stressing the importance of consolidating the country's digital infrastructure.  In an editorial piece published in The Daily Telegraph…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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