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• Google continues to tap into the power of Maps

  08-08-2019 16:57
  Ask any Android user and you’ll hear a glowing reference for Google’s mapping features, and the power of investing in the future is on show once again.
  This is perhaps one of the most admirable aspects of Google Maps. This is a product which would have cost a lot of money and time to develop, at least to ensure it is the most useful of its kind, while there was little immediate return on investment. Now Google is reaping the commercial benefits of Maps, but it is still keeping an eye
  
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• Nokia gets 5G gig from new-look Vodafone New Zealand

  08-08-2019 16:40
  Just days after Vodafone flogged its New Zealand business, Nokia has been unveiled as its 5G network partner.
  Even though it has been sold, the company still has permission to keep the Vodafone brand and even has favourable roaming rates on other global Vodafone networks. So to all intents and purposes it’s the same setup, just with the returns ending up in someone else’s pockets.
  The decision to go with Nokia for the 5G network was presumably months in the making and represents the
  
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• China reportedly warns India not to ban Huawei from 5G

  08-08-2019 16:05
  China has told India not to exclude Huawei from its upcoming 5G trials, or Indian businesses will face retaliations, Reuters reports.
  Quoting its “sources privy to internal discussions in New Delhi”, the news agency Reuters reported that the warning shots of “reverse sanctions”, should India ban Huawei from its 5G business under pressure from the US, were fired when the Indian Ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry.
  India will start trialling 5G in the coming mon
  
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• See vintage films about the River Thames from the BFI archive

  08-08-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A collection of old films about the River Thames has been released from the BFI National Archive showing the Thames at trade, at war and at peace.
  The selection, London’s Bridges on Film represents over a century of life on the Thames, with the earliest film in the collection, Blackfriars Bridge from 1896.
  The tidal ebb and flow of the river and its bridges has been a draw for filmmakers since the earliest years of the moving image, when Victorian pioneer RW Paul set up his camera on Black
  
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• 5G: Enabling the future telco and beyond

  08-08-2019 15:53
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece, Ashu Singh, Lead- Solutions Engineering at Tata Communications Transformation Services discusses an effective guide to operationalising and commercialising 5G networks
  By 2025, 5G will account for 15% of the global mobile industry – GSMA Mobile Economy Report, Feb 2019
  5G is not breaking news anymore, and neither is it hype that you can afford to ignor
  
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• Samsung seeks to improve its productivity offering by cozying up to Microsoft

  08-08-2019 13:24
  One of the more interesting parts of the Galaxy Note 10 launch was the announcement of a productivity partnership with Microsoft.
  This seems to be more of a general increase in cooperation than anything substantively new. The aim of the move is to make it easier to switch between Samsung devices when using Microsoft stuff, such as the Office suite. Samsung does the full monty of devices that could be used for productivity, from laptops to smartphones, and reckons there’s untapped demand fo
  
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• Convergence may well pay off for Virgin Media

  08-08-2019 13:19
  It might not be setting the world on fire, but Virgin Media is proving the slow, steady approach to business is certainly worth paying attention to.
  On the financial side of the business, total revenues grew marginally by 0.4% to £1.279 billion for the second quarter. Broadband customer acquisitions bolstered the financials, though these gains were mainly offset by customer losses in TV and mobile. This doesn’t seem to be the most attractive of statements, though the management team
  
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• Box in a box to avoid Crossrail vibrations

  08-08-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Deep underground a box has been built inside a box with special protections against vibrations from Crossrail and Northern line tunnels.
  (c) Skanska
  A new entertainment venue, the Outernet is being built next to Tottenham Court Road, and while most of the publicity has been on the above-ground visual effects, the heart of the Outernet is a 2,000 people venue built underground.
  The Crossrail tunnels next to the venue were built with a floating track to reduce vibrations, but the venue’s loc
  
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• Skyworks financials reveal the cost of working with Huawei

  08-08-2019 12:25
  Mobile chip maker Skyworks solutions has released its financial results for the third quarter of 2019, with a $127 million hole in comparison to the same period of 2018.
  In most circumstances, a 16% drop in revenues for a three-month period would send the office into meltdown. Executives and shareholders will of course not be thrilled, but this downturn was expected by pretty much everyone involved; this is the cost of doing business with Huawei.
  As you can see from the table below, there are ce
  
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• Microsoft has also been a member of the eavesdropping gang – report

  08-08-2019 11:43
  Microsoft contractors have been listening to Skype and Cortana conversations without the full knowledge and consent of the apps’ users, claims a report.
  We were almost immediately proved wrong when we said Microsoft, in comparison with Apple, Google, and Amazon, “fortunately has not suffered high profile embarrassment” by its voice assistant Cortana. Motherboard, part of the media outlet Vice, reported that Microsoft contractors, some of them working from home, have been l
  
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• Emtelle multiplies supply length of pre-installed fibre solutions

  08-08-2019 10:27
  Hawick, Scotland, 08 August, 2019 – Emtelle, the leading manufacturer of blown fibre, cabling and ducted solutions, has today announced it has further developed its Pre-Installed Fibre Unit (PIFU) and Multifu Multiple Installed Fibre Unit (Multifu) solutions, allowing for the PIFU to be supplied in 4,000 metre lengths and the Multifu in 1,500 metre lengths.A development from its existing solutions, consumers can expect the same notable benefits that the PIFU and Multifu has always offered,
  
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• Restoration of the Aldgate water pump

  08-08-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A notorious water pump at Aldgate was once praised for its clean clear water yet killed hundreds of Londoners – is currently being restored.
  Not to its former murderous reputation, but to its glorious appearance, which is of late rather shabby and uncared for.This water pump looks old and has that look of something that has suffered the rigours of pollution and time, but even setting aside the damage from age, it was also once a much grander affair with a huge lantern on top.
  The lantern w
  
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• Virgin Media adds 130,000 fibre subs, as Project Lightning fuels strong Q2 financials

  08-08-2019 02:00
   Virgin Media added 130,000 new subscribers to its full fibre networks in the UK during the second quarter of 2019, bringing the total number of additions in its Project Lightning initiative to 1.8 million.Virgin Media now boasts a total of 14…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• US senators question Google over Huawei collaboration

  08-08-2019 02:00
  Republican senators in the US have accused Google of putting profits before national security, over the company’s historic collaboration with Huawei on the development of a potential home speaker service…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia wins 5G commercialisation deal with Vodafone New Zealand

  08-08-2019 02:00
  Nokia is to build a 5G network for Vodafone New Zealand, to be launched in four key cities across the country later this year. Vodafone New Zealand’s 5G networks will launch in Auckland…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China ramps up preparations for the world’s biggest 5G deployment in 2020

  08-08-2019 01:21
  China is to deploy over 10,000 5G base stations in Beijing alone before the end of 2019, as it intensifies its preparations for next year’s 5G network rollout.With a population of 1…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airtel to kill off its 3G networks in India by the middle of next year

  08-08-2019 01:21
  India’s third biggest telco, Bharti Airtel, has said that it intends to begin shutting down its 3G mobile networks across the country by the middle of next year.
  During the company’s earnings call, Bharti Airtel’s CEO Gopal Vittal…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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