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• Four more States stand in the way of Sprint/T-Mobile merger

  24-06-2019 17:41
  With each week that passes, it seems to be getting more and more difficult for Sprint and T-Mobile US. Now, four State Attorney Generals have attempted to block the move.
  Officially, the 180-day stop-clock which the FCC gives itself to approve any industry transactions has hit 202, and that doesn’t include the ‘pause’ it gave itself. And while the FCC might be taking things at a leisurely pace, it seems the Attorney General Offices around the US are building up a head-of-steam.
  
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• A memorial to the Kindertransport at Liverpool Street

  24-06-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Next to the tube station entrance inside Liverpool Street station can be found a bronze statue of two refugees from the Nazi pogroms.This is Fur Das Kind – Displaced, commemorating the greatness of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
  It’s a Kindertransport memorial, and equivalents also stand in Hlavni Nadrazi station, Prague, and Westbannhof Station in Vienna — two departure points for the Kindertransport to London.
  Liverpool Street station was the main place of arrival an
  
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• 5G New Radio Poster

  24-06-2019 15:29
  As the 5G standards continue to be finalized, network equipment manufacturers, service providers, and their ecosystems must keep track of complex requirements and specifications. VIAVI Solutions is pleased to provide this detailed yet elegant poster in our series of 5G industry references.
  To receive a hard copy of this poster please complete the short form below and a copy will be mailed to you.
  Areas covered include:5G NR bandwidth transmissions (5 MHz to 400 MHz)
  Frequency allocations (450 MH
  
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• 5G New Radio

  24-06-2019 15:29
  As the 5G standards continue to be finalized, network equipment manufacturers, service providers, and their ecosystems must keep track of complex requirements and specifications. VIAVI Solutions is pleased to provide this detailed yet elegant poster in our series of 5G industry references.
  To receive a hard copy of this poster please complete the short form below and a copy will be mailed to you.
  Areas covered include:5G NR bandwidth transmissions (5 MHz to 400 MHz)
  Frequency allocations (450 MH
  
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• EE feels the sharp-end of the opt-in stick

  24-06-2019 15:23
  EE is the latest firm to feel the rising wrath of the Information Commissioner’s Office as it is forced to cough up £100,000 for opt-in violations during 2018.
  The messages, which were sent back in early 2018, encouraged customers to use a new feature but also to suggest device upgrades. EE claimed the communications were sent as ‘service messages’, but due to the presence of directing marketing, fell afoul of the guidance on electronic marketing put forward by the ICO.
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• Using machine learning as a stethoscope for 5G

  24-06-2019 14:05
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this article Yuval Stein, AVP Technologies at TEOCO looks at the use of machine learning to optimise the roll out of 5G
  The invention of the stethoscope was thanks to shyness rather than a spark of genius. In 1816, French doctor René Laennec, felt that listening to a young woman’s heart by pressing his ear to her chest wasn’t appropriate. Instead, he rolled up
  
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• tyntec and Ooredoo Announce Global A2P SMS Partnership

  24-06-2019 14:00
  First Phase of the Roll Out will Designate tyntec as Exclusive Provider of International A2P SMS Services for Telecom’s Indonesian MarketMUNICH and DOHA – June 24, 2019 – tyntec, a global cloud communications provider, today announced it has entered into an exclusive partnership with Ooredoo Global Services, the wholesale arm of Ooredoo, one of the world’s fastest-growing telecommunications companies. Under the agreement, tyntec will provide A2P SMS services for a number
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Nokia, Orange and US politics

  24-06-2019 13:42
  Now with added video!
  
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• China’s race to 5G hampered by Huawei ban

  24-06-2019 13:21
  Beijing hopes to be mobile internet superpower after issuing commercial licences
  
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• Trial pedestrianisation of Camden High Street

  24-06-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the next couple of years, Camden High Street could be blocked to road traffic on a trial basis. The blockage will run from Camden Town underground station to Hawley Crescent and will be implemented during the festive and summer periods as well as National Clean Air Day and National Car Free Day.The council said that creating a temporary new pedestrianised area will offer a more pleasant and safer environment. The decision follows the award of £500,000 to create a new Low Emission Neig
  
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• China set to start adding companies to its own ‘unreliable entities’ list

  24-06-2019 12:57
  Fed Ex refused to deliver a Huawei smartphone between the UK and US, now it seems likely to be put on a Chinese list of undesirable companies.
  The issue was flagged up by PC magazine in a story headlined Are Huawei Phones Now Banned From the Mail? One of its UK writers attempted to send a Huawei P30 phone to the magazine’s US office via the Parcelforce and Fed Ex courier services, but got sent back as per the tweet below.This is totally ridiculous. Our UK writer tried to send us his @Huawe
  
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• O2 looks to the stars to fuel CAV connectivity

  24-06-2019 12:50
  O2 has launched a new project with the European Space Agency to address the notable strain which will be placed on networks with the introduction of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs).
  While there has been a nod to the potential pitfalls of providing connectivity for CAVs, it hasn’t received a significant amount of attention to date. O2 claims it has done research on the segment, and wide-scale adoption of CAVs could generate up to 4 TB of data an hour. This would certainly place a s
  
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• US reportedly thinking of banning any 5G gear even made in China

  24-06-2019 11:41
  It’s not enough just to ban Chinese vendors its seems, with the US now apparently considering banning domestic use of 5G gear that has been manufactured in China.
  The rumour comes from the Wall Street Journal, which has been talking to those handy people in the know again. They reckon the US government is contemplating whether to insist any gear that will be used in the American 5G network not even have set foot in China.
  This latest bright idea to protect the US from Chinese foul play is
  
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• US Senators want public disclosures on the value of personal data

  24-06-2019 11:26
  Two US Senators have suggested an interesting, if currently very currently ill-defined, idea for companies in the digital economy: list the value of data on the financial spread sheets during earning season.
  Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley are reportedly readying themselves to introduce the Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data Act, or DASHBOARD for short. This bill will attempt to force companies into disclosing the financial value of the da
  
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• ZTE ranked global top 3 with over 1,424 families of 5G declared Standard-Essential Patents to ETSI

  24-06-2019 10:38
  24 June 2019, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a leading provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, has declared 1,424 families of 5G Standard-Essential Patents (SEP) and patent applications to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), by June 15, 2019, thereby being included global top 3, according to IPlytics, a market intelligence tool to analyze technology trends, market developments an
  
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• ZTE supports NetCologne to launch the World’s first commercial Gigabit Network over G.fast@212MHz

  24-06-2019 10:20
  24 June 2019, Shanghai, China - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile Internet, has today supported German fiber network operator NetCologne to launch the world’s first commercial Gigabit network over G.fast@212MHz profile solution. It enables NetCologne’s residential customers to subscribe to high-speed data internet connectivity up to 1 Gigabit.NetCologne is committed
  
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• ECOC Exhibition close to sell out as Market Focus call for speakers enters final week

  24-06-2019 10:00
  Last few exhibition spaces remain with confirmed exhibitors including leading names as Infinera and ECOC 2019 home nation representatives, IBM Research Ireland Dublin, Ireland, 24 June 2019: European Conference on Optical Communications Exhibition (ECOC), one of the largest optical communications exhibitions in Europe, has confirmed that IBM Research Ireland and Infinera will join some of the best recognized names in technology at this year’s event, which will take place in Ireland. Taking
  
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• London’s Alleys: Fairchild Place, EC2

  24-06-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A short side street next to a disused railway in Shoreditch has a complicated history.
  It’s an area that has changed an awful lot over the centuries. Once farms on the edge of London, by the time of the 1700s the area was built up and what is today one alley may well be the remnants of two alleys.The north-south stretch was once known as George Street (picture above), while a grimmer east-west length at the far end of this alley would have been known as Three Cup Alley.
  When the railway to
  
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• UK approach to Huawei flawed, warns Ericsson chief

  24-06-2019 05:00
  Niklas Heuveldop says it makes no sense to shut Chinese group out of parts of 5G network
  
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• The Philippines’ long awaited third telco to be granted licences and spectrum in July

  24-06-2019 02:00
  The Philippines’ long awaited third telco, Mislatel, is set to receive the necessary licencing it requires in order to begin operations on the 8th July, according to reports in the Filipino press.The country&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• O2 and The European Space Agency launch 5G and satellite R&D scheme for connected vehicles

  24-06-2019 02:00
  O2 has teamed up with the European Space Agency to launch Project Darwin – a four year initiative that will explore the potential of connected and autonomous vehicles using 5G and satellite technology. The project will be based at the Hawell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, and will see collaboration between the universities of Oxford and Glasgow…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Is education the key to making Britain buildings smarter?

  24-06-2019 02:00
  With the Smart Office Market expected to be worth $46.11 Billion by 2023, property owners have a huge opportunity available to them. But bringing Britain’s buildings up to scratch also brings significant challenges – for both the property industry and service providers.
   The ultimate goal
  To answer this question, it is first necessary to look at what defines a smart building – and this is exactly where a panel on Smart Building Connectivity at Connected Britain 2019 began
  
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