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• US-China contest centres on race for 5G domination

  18-06-2019 23:00
  A report for the Pentagon warns the US is falling behind China in telecoms
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of a Royal Navy ship

  18-06-2019 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  This coming Saturday will give you a chance to go on board a Royal Navy ship moored in Docklands for a look around.HMS Enterprise is an Echo-class multi-role survey vessel – hydrographic oceanographic (SVHO). Multi-talented and adaptable, she’s equally at home mapping and surveying the ocean floor as she is acting as a floating base for minehunters.
  Over the past five years, she’s been involved in a diverse span of activities, from detecting mines in the Arabian Gulf to saving
  
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• Nokia UK CEO: Where are the bodies to build the networks coming from?

  18-06-2019 18:23
  Cormac Whelan, Nokia’s UK CEO raised an interesting point in a recent conversation with Telecoms.com. Where are the employees to implement ambitious rollout plans?
  As it currently stands, the UK is rapidly upgrading its nationwide broadband network. Virgin Media is expanding its fibre footprint by more than 100,000 premises a quarter, while Openreach is doing the same number each month. CityFibre has got approval to expand its fibre footprint to 70 cities across the UK, and various differe
  
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• US moves to protect Verizon from Huawei patent claim – report

  18-06-2019 18:14
  Apparently Huawei thinks Verizon owes it a billion bucks in unpaid patent licence fees, but a US Senator want to block its ability to sue.
  The Senator in question is Marco Rubio, who has form with Huawei as you can see from the tweet below. According to Reuters Rubio filed legislation yesterday designed to block Huawei from seeking damages in US patent courts. The move was an apparent reaction to Huawei getting in touch with Verizon to demand the US operator cough up for 230 of its patents that
  
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• LS telcom conducts Study on Terrestrial BB-PPDR Spectrum Options for Irish ComReg

  18-06-2019 17:31
  London, UK - Lichtenau / Baden, Germany, 18th June 2019 – LS telcom UK today announces that it conducted a study for the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) in Ireland on network deployment and spectrum options for Terrestrial Broadband Public Protection and Disaster Relief (BB-PPDR). ComReg published the final report of the study today. The research carried out by LS telcom was an input to ComReg’s proposed multi-band spectrum award consultation. The scope of the...Sou
  
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• Hotel plans for Strand office block by Charing Cross station

  18-06-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A fairly unremarkable 1980s office block that most people don’t even notice save the branch of Boots on the ground floor could be demolished and replaced with a hotel.What the plans also means is that the largish Boots on Strand will have to close down. The current building was designed by Abbott Howard Partnership and built by Midland Bank Pension Trust, in 1983, and is frankly, rather unremarkable.
  There had been plans to demolish the building a few years ago, and replacing it with a mix
  
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• Facebook leads corporate cryptocurrency initiative Libra

  18-06-2019 14:38
  Social media giant Facebook has announced the launch of Libra, a ‘stablecoin’ apparently designed to revolutionise the digital payments market.
  Such ambition would be highly questionable if it weren’t for the fact that Facebook has managed to get loads of other blue-chip companies involved, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Coinbase. This gives the project a sense of scale and legitimacy that it wouldn’t have if this was just another gimmick to help Facebook exploit
  
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• ProLabs’ Global Marketing Director wins Tech Marketing Leader of the Year for her role in the company’s transformational global re-brand

  18-06-2019 14:36
  Award confirms the company’s commitment to changing the market through a new tier of expertise, quality, value and more choice than ever beforeCirencester, UK, 18 June – ProLabs’ Global Marketing Director, Haley McPherson, has been presented with the 2019 Tech Marketing Leader of the Year award at the Computing Tech Marketing & Innovation Awards 2019.The prestigious award, recognises her commitment and driving force in the global re-brand of the company, delivering outstand
  
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• JCDecaux Propels Its Wi-Fi Connectivity and Provides Better User Experience with Aerohive’s® Cloud-Managed Networking Solution

  18-06-2019 14:12
  Milpitas, Calif. — June 18, 2019 — Aerohive Networks® (NYSE: HIVE), a leader in cloud-managed networking, today announced that JCDecaux, an innovative French company and the world leader in the Out-Of-Home communication market with over 1 million advertising panels spread across more than 80 countries, has adopted and expanded their cloud-managed network across 14 countries in Latin America using the newest version of HiveManager®, Aerohive’s cloud-based network managem
  
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• CityFibre puts forward the case against telecoms consolidation

  18-06-2019 13:43
  Whenever CityFibre CEO Greg Mesch takes the stage at an industry conference you can expect a combative presentation and once again he delivered.
  There was of course the customary pop at Openreach and the odd moan about the way fibre is advertised, but the crux of the talk at Connected Britain this morning focused on competition. No-one in the industry is brave enough to suggest competition is bad, but there are nuances to every argument. This nuance from Mesch effectively undermined the recurrin
  
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• UK steps up its consumer protection crusade

  18-06-2019 13:31
  The UK government has announced it wants to give some regulators the power to fine companies unilaterally without involving the courts.
  The main beneficiary of these proposed new powers will be the Competition & Markets Authority, which exists to regulate markets. The plan was unveiled by Business Secretary Greg Clark as outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May rushes through a bunch of commitments in an apparent bid to have something to show for her time in charge. Specifically this refers to cl
  
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• Major upgrade planned for Norwood Junction railway station

  18-06-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A somewhat shabby, and yet quite busy station in South London could get a major makeover if plans by Network Rail are approved.
  The proposals are part of the wider plan to clean up the mess of tracks around Croydon to boost the capacity of the lines through the area, but it is also a stand-alone project.
  If for some rather bizarre reason the Croydon tracks project is blocked, then the Norwood Junction upgrade could still go ahead anyway.The plans for Norwood Junction would see the tracks and pla
  
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• SK Telecom talks 6G with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung

  18-06-2019 12:09
  South Korean operator SK Telecom is hoping to take the lead in the development of 5G towards 6G in partnership with most of the big kit vendors.
  Specifically SKT has signed those memorandum of understanding things with each of Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung Electronics. The mutual understanding reached between SKT and the vendors is that they promise to cooperate with each other when it comes to research and development of 5G and 6G technologies.
  The 5G stuff is as expected: ultra-reliable and low-
  
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• Newtec collaborates with QinetiQ, marking move into space sector

  18-06-2019 10:31
  Newtec is taking the lead on two QinetiQ projects as it works towards full ESA certificationSINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 18 June 2019 – Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, today announced it is working with QinetiQ on two key projects as it enters the Belgian space market. QinetiQ – a leading science and engineering company operating primarily in the defense, security, space and air markets – has chosen Newtec&rsq
  
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• Informed planning is key to connecting Britain, says Gaist

  18-06-2019 10:20
  London, UK, 18 June 2019: The key to rapid nationwide fibre deployment happens before a fibre cable is even laid – and this early insight will be critical to the cost-effective roll-out of Fibre to the home (FTTH) and 5G mobile, Gaist CEO Steve Birdsall said today.Speaking on the opening day of Connected Britain, Birdsall highlighted that for network operators to successfully roll out ultra-fast and reliable broadband, a detailed knowledge of the type, condition,...Source: RealWire
  
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• ZTE and Orange show the advantages of 5G in advanced automotive, robotics and entertainment applications

  18-06-2019 10:04
  Madrid/Valencia, 18 June 2019 – Orange, the second largest mobile network operator in Spain and one of the leading telecoms in the world, and ZTE, telecommunication equipment maker and provider of network solutions and smartphones, are demoing a number of applications for the new 5G technology at the Global 5G Event and the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC).The first test, #ConnectedVehicleCampus5G, shows a remote-driving application based on 5G technology. In it,
  
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• Granada Tooting – A palace to the golden age of cinema

  18-06-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the 1930s, when Tooting was mostly farms, a grand cinema was built, and it’s still there today, and still open to the public.
  This the Granda Tooting, the only Grade I listed cinema from the 1930s in the UK, thanks in no small part to the grand exterior, but mainly the eye wateringly astonishing interior.Its origins lay in the London based businessman, Sidney Bernstein who inherited land from his father and started to develop the newly emerging cinemas. This was at a time when few owned
  
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• UK’s first 5G industrial trial suggests new technology could increase UK productivity by 2%

  18-06-2019 02:00
  5G could increase UK productivity by two per cent – the equivalent of overall growth over the last ten years, new results from the UK’s first 5G industrial trial have revealed.Run by Worcestershire 5G Consortium and bringing together operators, local authorities and equipment manufacturers, the Worcestershire 5G Testbed launched in February 2019. Marking the first step in Britain&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia: Competition is crucial for 5G – for vendors and consumers alike

  18-06-2019 02:00
  With the current security debate around 5G reaching fever pitch in the UK, as Huawei waits to find out whether it will be allowed to continue its involvement with the country’s 5G networks, the Chinese vendor received a vote of confidence from one of their main competitors in the UK.
  In an interview with Total Telecom last week, Nokia&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MLL Telecom: ASA’s ‘fake fibre’ ruling is still creating problems for new fibre players

  18-06-2019 02:00
  The Advertising Standards Authority’s decision to allow internet service providers to market their fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) services as ‘full fibre’ is sowing the seeds of confusion amongst consumers and creating a barrier for new entrants into Britain&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson: Britain must treat 5G as critical national infrastructure

  18-06-2019 02:00
  The UK government must think of 5G as a crucial, critical part of its national infrastructure, as it looks to safeguard its digital economy post-Brexit
  Speaking at the Connected Britain event in London, Ericsson’s president for Europe and Latin America, Arun Bansal, had a stark warning for the UK government.  “It’s a great pleasure to be here but for me it is a shame that the Connected Britain slogan seems to me to be tinged with irony &ndash…read more on Total
  
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• Connected Britain Awards 2019 celebrate innovation and ambition in the UK

  18-06-2019 02:00
  Total Telecom has revealed the winners of the Connected Britain Awards, at the end of the first day of the conference. Spread across 10 categories, the awards celebrated innovation and ambition across the UK's fixed line and mobile telecommunications sectors. This year saw a sharp increase in the number of entries received, with 74 companies making the final shortlist. "2019 could be a pivotal year for connectivity in the UK, with the country looking to rollout 5G mobile network servi
  
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• CityFibre: No one operator can deliver the UK’s fibre infrastructure

  18-06-2019 02:00
  The role of delivering fibre to whole of UK is too big for any one infrastructure provider – and operators must commit to working together if the UK’s full-fibre targets are to be achieved, CityFibre CEO Greg Mesch said today.Delivering the opening keynote at Connected Britain 2019, Mesch provided the packed auditorium with a potted history of the UK’s broadband market, starting with what he called the bad old days when BT was the national provider with market monopoly and &am
  
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• BT: Only smart network infrastructure can deliver the ubiquitous connectivity that consumers demand

  18-06-2019 02:00
  Consumers in the UK are now demanding ubiquitous, ultrafast connectivity and are not fussy about how they receive it, according to BT’s senior network architect, Neil McRae.Speaking at the Connected Britain event in London on Tuesday, McRae said that UK consumers were raising their expectations and operators must adapt to meet them…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deal of the art — Drahi brings hammer down on Sotheby’s buy

  18-06-2019 00:28
  ‘I am making this investment for my family,’ says telecom and media entrepreneur after spending $3.7bn
  
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• Deal of the art — Drahi brings hammer down on Sotheby’s

  18-06-2019 00:28
  ‘I am making this investment for my family,’ says telecom and media entrepreneur after spending $3.7bn
  
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