Telecom news

• Three historic documents go on show

  11-07-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Underneath the Guildhall art gallery is a small space that currently has three historic documents on display.
  The Liber Albus
  The Liber Albus, or White Book for obvious reasons when you see it is a collection of the City of London’s laws, customs and privileges compiled by John Carpenter, Town Clerk in the fifteenth century.
  It has been passed down through the centuries, right up to modern days, to the current Town Clerk, John Barradell.
  Hooke’s Diary
  Robert Hooke was the City o
  
  Read more

• DT and Software AG team up to launch IoT FTW

  11-07-2019 17:37
  Deutsche Telekom has partnered with fellow Germans Software AG in a bid to boost both company’s IoT offering.
  They’re even calling it ‘IoT made in Germany’ as it combines the Teutonic virtues of DT’s enterprise customer unit T-Systems and its Cloud of Things offering, with Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform. The resulting combined forces are expected to expand the empires of this business axis to the rest of Europe, the US and who knows where else.
  “W
  
  Read more

• Matrix themed virus infects 25 million smartphones

  11-07-2019 16:51
  A new variant of mobile malware, dubbed ‘Agent Smith’, which re-directs advertising funds to cybercriminals, has been identified and its infected 25 million smartphones already.
  Discovered by Check Point, this is a sneaky virus to deal with. Like ‘Agent Smith’ in the Matrix trilogy, the virus has the ability to consume a downloaded app and assume control.
  Right now, the user is not being exploited in a direct manner. The presence of the virus does present dangers in terms
  
  Read more

• Street lamps are being covered in plants

  11-07-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A number of lampposts in Belgravia have recently been fitted with plant columns running up their length. It’s a trial to see if the green columns can help reduce pollution along the streets.
  (c) Scotscape
  The Smart Pillar, which has been developed by Scotscape and Greenwich University, takes the concept of ‘vertical greening’, as seen on living walls, one step further.
  In addition to direct environmental benefits, there is mounting evidence that incorporating and enhancing gree
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• We need #4GForAll before we turn to 5G

  11-07-2019 13:44
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Mark Bridgeman, Deputy President of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), argues that we need to finish 4G before we get carried away with 5G.
  A quick browse of this website and one is immediately struck at how important 5G is. It is clear, even to an ‘outsider’, that this has the potential to revolutionise both the mobile industry and the u
  
  Read more

• UK ‘losing momentum’ in pursuit of digital utopia

  11-07-2019 13:25
  A scathing report from the House Committee on Science and Technology has suggesting the Government has lost its way on its quest to evolve the UK into a digital society.
  There are positive steps being made, though the Committee has pointed to several flaws, including a lack of leadership. The general message from the Committee of one of unstructured, inefficient progress and ineffective programmes. It doesn’t paint the prettiest of pictures for a country which so proudly (and regularly) pr
  
  Read more

• Smartphone spyware FinSpy is back and thriving

  11-07-2019 13:21
  Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky has reported that FinSpy, a piece of malware that allows private information to be stolen from smartphones, has made a reappearance.
  FinSpy spyware is apparently made by German company Gamma Group and sold by its UK sub-division Gamma International to governments and state agencies so that they can spy on their citizens. It has been around for a few years but seems to be experiencing a renaissance, with activity recorded in Myanmar last month.
  The recent appearance
  
  Read more

• US refarms 2.5 GHz band from education to 5G

  11-07-2019 12:56
  The US telecoms regulator has decided to redirect the 2.5 GHz band away from its current educational use to create more 5G spectrum.
  The Federal Communications Commission is positioning this as a move to modernize the outdated regulatory framework for the 2.5 GHz band, which is apparently the single largest band of contiguous spectrum below 3 GHz. The band had been set aside for educational TV use and the FCC move removes any restrictions on who can use it and how. It had previously been made av
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• France next on the list to be teased with Trump’s tariffs

  11-07-2019 12:53
  The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has opened an investigation into France’s digital sales tax, a move which could lead to the European nation facing trade tariffs.
  The digital sales tax in France has been viewed as a means to force internet companies to play fair. The creative accounting practices of these companies has ensured nominal tax has been paid to various European states, and France has had enough. The proposed tax has passed through the lower parliamentary house, the
  
  Read more

• Small Cell Forum Publishes Specification to Drive Unified 5G Open RAN

  11-07-2019 10:01
  5G FAPI Release provides common APIs to support interoperability between 5G small cell hardware components and software layers enabling interoperability and preventing fragmentationLondon, UK – 11th July 2019 Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization making mobile infrastructure solutions available to all, has today published the PHY API for 5G to stimulate a competitive ecosystem for vendors of 5G small cell hardware, software and equipment. The PHY API provides an open and intero
  
  Read more

• Blancco to Acquire Inhance Technology

  11-07-2019 08:15
  Full integration of mobile diagnostics solution to augment Blancco offering and create new opportunity in the device buyback, trade-in, insurance and warranty space AUSTIN and LONDON — July 11, 2019 — Blancco Technology Group (LON: BLTG), the industry standard in data erasure and mobile device diagnostics, today announced it has agreed to acquire mobile device diagnostics solution provider, YouGetItBack Limited, trading as Inhance Technology. The transaction will enable Blancco to st
  
  Read more

• See spies and spooks at the Science Museum

  11-07-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new exhibition that is less James Bond and more Q looks at the history of how British spies kept their secrets safe from enemies.
  It’s a story of governments trying to stop the wrong people reading things they shouldn’t — an issue that dates back to Elizabethan times and coded letters right up to the super computers of today.
  Some of the most exciting parts of the display are the WW2 and Cold War communications tools.
  In a modern world of computer software and smartphone apps
  
  Read more

• US Internet giants called to Congress

  11-07-2019 02:00
  Executives from US Web giants will appear at the US Capitol next week, as the government tries to ascertain just how powerful the likes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have become.Reuters reports that the antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hear testimony next Tuesday from Adam Cohen…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• Top Vodafone execs have their bonuses cut

  11-07-2019 02:00
  Vodafone CEO Nick Read and CFO Margherita Della Valle have requested a 20 percent cut in their annual share award bonuses to reflect the poor performance of the telco's share price.Vodafone's shares have fallen nearly 30 percent over the last 12 months…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• T-Mobile US blasts lawsuit, says plaintiffs are 'dwelling in the past'

  11-07-2019 02:00
  T-Mobile US has launched a withering attack on the group of states that have sued to block its $26 billion merger with Sprint.Last month, nine states Attorneys General, plus the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, sued to block the Sprint/T…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• MTN South Africa to resell insurance services

  11-07-2019 02:00
  MTN South Africa will begin reselling insurance from Sanlam, the continent's largest insurance company, on its various platforms.Local press reported this week that the initial portfolio of products ranges from life insurance and funeral cover…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• Magyar Telekom offloads T-Systems Hungary

  11-07-2019 02:00
  Magyar Telekom has struck a deal to sell T-Systems Hungary to local IT services firm 4iG, it emerged this week.The deal covers T-Systems' large enterprise and public sector operations; Magyar Telekom will retain the SME side of the business…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

• BT fibre plan could lead to dividend cut

  11-07-2019 02:00
  BT has warned that it may have to reduce its dividend to help it cover the cost of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) deployment.According to a Financial Times report, BT chairman Jan du Plessis made the disclosure at the company's AGM…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
  Read more

Follow @Telecom_UK_ on Twitter!