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• Silicon Valley-busting Euro Commissioner gets additional digital role

  10-09-2019 18:29
  Not content with continually fining US tech companies in her role as European Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager is now in charge of all things digital too.
  The extra responsibility was bestowed upon her by new EC President Ursula von der Leyen, who was given the role to allow her predecessor Jean-Claude Juncker to devote himself entirely to Oenology. Von der Leyen had had an early cabinet reshuffle in which she gave her favourite EVPs some extra work on top of their day jobs.
  So Frans
  
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• Smartphone market finally expected to grow again in 2020

  10-09-2019 17:23
  After years of misery, decline and shrinking profits, IDC is estimating the smartphone market might actually grow in 2020 thanks to 5G.
  The 4G era produced a boom in technology adoption few would have predicted, though the years which followed were slightly less profitable. Since 2017, worldwide shipments of smartphones have been in decline, though it does seem the 5G buzz is living up to its reputation in at least one area.
  Shipments are forecast to decline slightly over the remainder of 2019,
  
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• Exhibition about Islington’s lost Music Halls

  10-09-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a rather fun exhibition on at the moment about the pre-television era of mass entertainment, the music halls and the people who they turned into later television stars.
  It’s mainly a collection of display boards focusing on each of the area’s famous music halls, and some glass cases with leaflets and signs promoting the events.From the very earliest days of entertainment in a pub, the music hall was to expand massively to venues that could often hold as much as 3,000 pe
  
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• oneM2M to highlight importance of standards in enabling India's digital future at upcoming Industry Day

  10-09-2019 13:11
  IoT standards body’s sixth industry day will feature talks and panel discussions from top minds and key players in the IoT sphereHyderabad, India, 10 September, 2019: As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues its ascent as a multi-billion-dollar market in India, oneM2M, the global IoT standards initiative, will host its sixth Industry Day in one of the country’s foremost centres for technical innovation and output. Government representatives, industry leaders and IoT innovators will
  
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• Find the Blackwall tunnel plaque

  10-09-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were so minded to pass by and peer over the edge, you might notice that there’s an old plaque on the wall in the modern approach roads to the Blackwall Tunnel.It marks the opening of the original tunnel, which was marked by two great gatehouses at either end. The southern gatehouse still exists, but it’s northern counterpart was demolished in 1959 to make way for the highway that now rips though this part of East London.
  While the gatehouse has gone, the plaque was kept in sto
  
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• O2 starts making progress in the enterprise services world

  10-09-2019 12:55
  O2 might be an ‘also ran’ in the enterprise services world to date, but in being named a supplier on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) new Network Services 2 framework, it is taking a step in the right direction.
  As the Government agency tasked with improving government commercial and procurement activity, gaining recognition from the CCS is a notable win for O2. The Network Services 2 framework is effectively the list of suppliers public sector bodies and organizations can
  
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• US gives Huawei back some gear it nicked two years ago

  10-09-2019 12:33
  In September 2017 US authorities confiscated a bunch of Huawei kit on its way from California to China and has only just returned it.
  The only account we have of this is from Huawei, but that’s at least in part because the US has been very reticent about explaining many of its actions regarding Huawei. The servers and networking gear had been in a California lab to undergo commercial testing and certification. When it was in the process of being returned the US Commerce Department seized i
  
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• 50 US Attorney Generals sign-up to Google antitrust investigation

  10-09-2019 11:53
  Usually, when you put 50 lawyers in a room together, it’s a bloodbath, but Google has seemingly done the impossible; united them all behind a single cause.
  Led by Ken Paxton, the Attorney General representing the State of Texas, the coalition brings all except two State Attorney General’s on board, California and Alabama, as well as the legal minds representing Washington DC and Puerto Rico.
  “Now, more than ever, information is power, and the most important source of informatio
  
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• China Telecom and China Unicom jointly build and share 5G RAN

  10-09-2019 11:50
  China Telecom and China Unicom, two of China’s three leading telecom operators, and two of its four 5G licensees, will jointly cover parts of the country with one shared 5G radio access network.
  The two companies, both listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, signed the “Framework Agreement on Co-building and Co-sharing 5G Networks” on Monday. According to the Agreement, the two operators, by sharing the radio spectrums to their names, will “build together” and &ldqu
  
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• Casablanca Online successfully enables live broadcasts of Copa America with SES and Newtec Dialog®

  10-09-2019 10:30
  MORUMBI STADIUM, SÂO PAULO, Brazil, and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 10 September 2019 – Casablanca Online, a leading Brazilian SNG and service provider, provided IP connectivity to broadcasters’ outdoor production teams during the 2019 Copa America football event this summer.Broadcasters are often faced with unstable connectivity whilst covering live events. In order to ensure a stable service, Casablanca Online sought a reliable and cost-effective solution. Based on Newtec Dialog&r
  
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• Fenchurch Street station destined for a makeover

  10-09-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A plan to revamp Fenchurch Street railway station has been submitted to the City of London, to upgrade the internal layout and improve the overall appearance externally.
  The classic frontage wont change, as it’s listed and protected, but they will be taking away the utilitarian floodlights and replacing them with more decorative lighting designed to highlight the brickwork and wooden canopy.
  They also plan to strip away the gloomy interior and open up the row of blocked off windows on the
  
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• US States launch antitrust probe against Google

  10-09-2019 02:00
  A group of 48 US States has launched an antitrust probe against Google, over concerns that it is increasing costs for advertisers and manipulating its search results.
  Texas' attorney general…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Nokia: 5G is in a state of flux and will be until 2021

  10-09-2019 02:00
  With operators across the world rushing to deploy their fledgling 5G network offerings, consumers could be in for some underwhelming experiences as media hype overtakes network performance, according to a senior industry expert.Speaking exclusively to Total Telecom on Tuesday, Nokia's chief technology officer, Marcus Weldon said that the 5G market was in a state of flux and would remain so until the end of 2020 or the beginning of 2021."I'm often asked when I expect to see the big deployment of
  
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• India to hold 5G auction by the end of November

  10-09-2019 02:00
  India plans to complete its 5G spectrum auction by the end of November, according to reports in the Indian press.Industry sources told Business Insider that pricing for the auction was expected to be in line with those recommended by the Telecoms Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei drops US lawsuit, after government returns telecoms kit

  10-09-2019 02:00
  Chinese tech giant, Hauwei has dropped its law suit in the US, after the government returned a selection of telecoms equipment it seized in 2017.
  Huawei originally filed the lawsuit in June 2019, over what it called the &quot…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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