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• G20: Japan and the World

  27-06-2019 22:32
  As the Osaka summit convenes, we analyse the key risks to global economic growth, US-China trade war and currency conflict, the Fukushima effect on Japan’s climate policy, Asia’s need to lead more on the world stage, how robots cannot alone solve the problems of ageing, and other themes
  
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• New technologies stir the debate on ethics

  27-06-2019 22:31
  Governments seek to assess implications of AI, 5G and other fast developing phenomena
  
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• Second entrance at Putney Station moves a step closer

  27-06-2019 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long running campaign for a second entrance at Putney Station too a step forward when it was revealed that Network Rail is carrying out a feasibility study into the town hall’s proposals.
  Wandsworth council has long argued for a new entrance to the station – via a footbridge leading directly onto the platforms from Oxford Road.At the moment, passengers on the nearby East Putney tube station have to walk past Oxford Road to the far end of the platforms to get into Putney station (and
  
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• KPN CEO resignation definitely had nothing to do with recent network crash

  27-06-2019 17:09
  Maximo Ibarra resigned at CEO of Dutch telco KP the day after a major network failure, but the company insists the two events are unrelated.
  Ibarra had led KPN for just a year and a half, having moved over from Italy where he was a Wind lifer and CEO for five years. If we take the KPN announcement at face value Ibarra and his family never took to Rotterdam and have decided to move back to Italy. Luckily for them Sky Italia had a vacancy and has appointed Ibarra as its new CEO once he’s ser
  
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• Huawei to charge patent fees from more US companies

  27-06-2019 16:24
  Chinese telecoms company defends demands as ‘common’ business practice
  
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• Dynamic Spectrum Alliance unites industry leaders to explore spectrum sharing technologies

  27-06-2019 14:00
  The momentum of dynamic spectrum sharing is showing no signs of slowing down with alternative technologies being readied for large-scale deployment Washington D.C., USA, 27 June 2019: Demonstrations over the first two days of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance’s (DSA’s) Global Summit have highlighted how alternative technologies are key to connecting the four billion people who still do not have access to the internet. Today, on its final day, the Global Summit will explore an extensive..
  
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• Huawei stresses how much it respects intellectual property

  27-06-2019 13:14
  Embattled telecoms vendor Huawei feels so passionately about the sanctity of intellectual property that it’s published a great big white paper on the matter.
  Titled ‘Respecting and Protecting Intellectual Property: The Foundation of Innovation’, the paper goes on at great length about how important innovation is and how it can only happen if people don’t go around ripping off each other’s inventions. There’s even a whole five-page section stressing how much Hu
  
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• Bidders invited for new railway tunnel to Heathrow

  27-06-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Network Rail is to host a meeting for construction firms interested in a £900 million contract to build a new railway tunnel to Heathrow Airport.
  The Western Rail Link to Heathrow (WRLtH) project has been developing options to provide a rail link for trains coming from Reading to the airport – using the already built, but so far unused railway platforms at Terminal 5.
  At the moment, a railway passenger would either switch to a shuttle bus service at Reading, or head into Paddington t
  
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• Virgin Media to take a mmWave approach to ‘full-fibre’

  27-06-2019 12:26
  Virgin Media has unveiled the results of a new trial using wireless to deliver fibre broadband to customers in remote locations.
  In a small village in the English countryside, Virgin Media has been exploring possibilities of delivering backhaul traffic over the airways. Although this is something which Virgin Media has been doing for years, the difference here seems to be the team is toying around with mmWave as opposed to microwave.
  “As we invest to expand our ultrafast network we’r
  
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• Nokia trumpets 5G wins in Saudi Arabia and China

  27-06-2019 12:25
  Kit vendor Nokia has announced Zain KSA is all-in with Nokia’s 5G portfolio, while China Mobile is using its new massive MIMO gear.
  Zain Saudi Arabia seems pretty keen on 5G, having announced its first 5G call back in May. It didn’t say anything about where it was getting its kit from at the time, but now seems to have given Nokia the green light to shout its deal win from the rooftops. Specifically the two companies have signed a three year deal, involving Nokia’s full 5G port
  
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• China Mobile Zhejiang, China Mobile Research Institute, and Huawei Jointly Release World-leading Intent-driven 5G Transport Network

  27-06-2019 12:04
  [Shanghai, China, June 27, 2019] At MWC Shanghai 2019, China Mobile Zhejiang and China Mobile Research Institute announced the intent-driven 5G transport network constructed with Huawei has been put into commercial use. The commercial use of this intent-driven 5G transport network, built based on the Slicing Packet Network (SPN) technology proposed by China Mobile, paves the way for China Mobile Zhejiang’s overall 5G commercial deployment and signifies China Mobile Zhejiang’s global
  
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• The threat of Amazon is forcing supermarkets into drastic changes

  27-06-2019 11:52
  UK supermarket giant Tesco is undergoing trials with Israeli AI surveillance business Trigo Vision to trial the concept of cashier-less stores, supposedly due to pressure from Amazon.
  When Amazon first emerged, few could have imagined the revolution which would have been thrust upon the retailing industry. Even now, more than two decades after Amazon was founded, there are businesses which are still struggling to adapt to life in the digital epoch. The writing has been on the wall for a long-tim
  
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• MWC Shanghai 2019: Huawei Empowers Global Operators to Lead in the 5G Era

  27-06-2019 11:19
  [Shanghai, China, June 26, 2019] Huawei’s theme at MWC 19 Shanghai is “Building a Fully Connected, Intelligent World”. At the exhibitions, forums, and summits during this event, Huawei will share its best solutions and case studies in 5G network deployment, optimization, and service provisioning with global operators and partners. Huawei’s sharing will cover multiple topics, including 5G full coverage, simplified 5G sites, 5G service development, industry applications, an
  
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• ZTE launches its UniSeer service solution at MWC Shanghai 2019

  27-06-2019 10:15
  27 June 2019, Shanghai, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a leading provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, has today announced its UniSeer service solution, a must-have solution for network operators undergoing a digital transformation. The solution is aimed at the 5G network and predicts possible faults in advance, takes proactive action for corrective maintenance and improves the network experience. Under multipl
  
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• SatADSL launches flagship Platform-as-a-Service offering in Asia

  27-06-2019 10:00
  New Point of Presence (PoP) will allow operators in the region to connect to local teleports, removing additional latency Brussels, Belgium, and Singapore, June 27, 2019 – SatADSL, a provider of professional VSAT services via satellite, today announced it has successfully launched a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Singapore as it continues to expand its global footprint. The additional PoP will replicate SatADSL’s European and African model, giving operators access to SatADSL’s
  
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• HomeSecure & iKydz Announce a European First - A Partnership to Protect Families at Home and Online

  27-06-2019 09:00
  Pioneering partnership will see HomeSecure enable parents to protect their children both physically and onlineHomeSecure customers will be able to observe and manage their children’s time online from June 2019HomeSecure to make iKydz service available to their customers from June 2019Parents can add this home internet service to their HomeSecure service for €5 per month from June 26th 2019, saving the usual €99 one off paymentA further mobile service, enabling parents to manage a
  
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• Enterprises highlight multi-trillion-dollar global sales opportunity for CSPs - but doubt their ability to deliver

  27-06-2019 09:00
  New BearingPoint//Beyond study: 97% of global enterprises are willing to purchase ICT services from Communication Service Providers, but immediate action is needed on investment priorities, innovation and partner ecosystemsAmsterdam / London, June 27, 2019 – BearingPoint today launched new research conducted by BearingPoint//Beyond, its digital platform solution unit, that validates the multi-trillion-dollar enterprise ICT sales opportunity facing Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Th
  
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• The magnificently restored Roman Catholic Church of St Monica

  27-06-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A old Roman Catholic church was undergoing restoration when they uncovered something remarkable, and now the restoration is astonishing.The church, one of the first permanent foundations of Augustinian friars in England since the Reformation was built in 1864/5 and its wooden altar with the hidden frescoes was added about a decade later. A Lady Chapel was added in 1860.
  The completed church was opened on St Monica’s Day 1866.
  Hoxton Square was laid out in the seventeenth century as a fashi
  
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• ZTE eyes Indian expansion, as operators prepare for 5G push

  27-06-2019 02:00
  India’s mobile telecoms sector is a key target for ZTE, as the Chinese tech firm looks to grow its international business portfolio, according to a senior company representative.Speaking to journalists at the Mobile World Congress event in Shanghai this week, ZTE’s president for Global Sales, Xiao Ming, said that the Indian market had “huge potential” for his firm.
  “India is one of our key markets. It is the second largest telecoms market in the world [after ZTE&am
  
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• Virgin Media explores fixed wireless options to deliver rural connectivity in the UK

  27-06-2019 02:00
  Virgin Media has begun a fixed wireless access trial to deliver gigabit broadband services to rural customers in the UK.
  The trial used Ericsson’s radio technology to broadcast millimetre wave spectrum between two “trunk&rdquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KPN’s CEO quits, following Dutch telephone blackout

  27-06-2019 02:00
  The chief executive of KPN has quit his position at the Dutch telco, just 24 hours after a network blackout caused the country’s emergency services line to be unavailable for 4 hours…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China Telecom and Ericsson log world’s first stand-alone 5G call over 3.5GHz spectrum

  27-06-2019 02:00
  China Telecom has completed its first stand-alone 5G call, as the company showcases its 5G portfolio at Mobile World Congress in Shanghai.China Telecom made the call using Ericsson&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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