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• US lawmakers want to look at private emails from tech execs

  13-09-2019 18:50
  Scrutiny of the US tech giants has been taken up another level after members of the US House Judiciary Committee have demanded they expose their internal workings.
  The move has been widely reported in the US, including by the Washington Post. It seems there is already a congressional antitrust investigation underway into Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, which is presumably related to the actions taken against Google and Facebook earlier this week. They want to know whether the companies have
  
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• The private cloud is the fake cloud

  13-09-2019 15:17
  Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Danielle Royston, CEO of Optiva argues in favour of the public, as opposed to private cloud for telcos.
  Confusion reigns when it comes to cloud and telecoms. CTOs are looking to cloud architectures to increase their processing power, scalability and savings. Yet they are in the dark ages! For starters, there is confusion about private and public clouds and how they dif
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: Apple, network sharing and AT&T

  13-09-2019 15:02
  Now with added video!
  
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• GSMA lobbies for more and cheaper spectrum

  13-09-2019 14:38
  Ahead of WRC-19 mobile industry lobbying group the GSMA has lobbied on behalf of the mobile industry.
  The main concern of the GSMA, and thus we can assume the global mobile industry, is access to plenty of licensed spectrum at reasonable prices. The ITU’s 19th World Radiocommunication Conference will take place in November, but lobbying groups are getting organised well ahead of time. While the cost and availability of spectrum is a perennial issue, the advent of 5G makes it arguably more
  
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• AT&T signs content mega-deal with Bad Robot Productions

  13-09-2019 14:12
  US telecoms and media giant AT&T has doubled-down on its Time Warner acquisition by committing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more.
  The deal is with Bad Robot Productions, which is run by Hollywood figure JJ Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath. The total value of the deal hasn’t been revealed, but media speculation ranges between $250-$500 million. Bad Robot gets involved in movies, TV, games and digital platforms and it looks like it will devote itself entirely to AT&T sub
  
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• Silicon Valley drops the ball on censorship once more

  13-09-2019 12:51
  Yet another set of ill-considered censorship decisions by Silicon Valley has illustrated once more the impossible position they are in.
  Google has announced it will now ‘elevate original reporting in search’. On one level this is totally laudable. Modern journalism has been severely corrupted by the wholesale shift in advertising spend from print to journalism and thus put in the hands of the digital advertising platforms, of which the biggest is Google itself.
  The move to digital ha
  
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• IBC 2019: Newtec Reinforces Commitment to Developing Universal OTT Services with DVB Demo

  13-09-2019 10:00
  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, September 13, 2019 – Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacturing of equipment for satellite communications, has teamed up with DVB to showcase the future of universal Over The Top (OTT) television services at IBC 2019. Taking place at DVB’s booth 1.B71, the DVB demonstration – which will use Newtec’s MCX7000 Multi-Carrier Satellite Gateway as a receiver – will reveal the ‘single hybrid of
  
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• With the lowest maximum download speed in Europe, can the UK really consider itself a 5G leader?

  13-09-2019 02:00
  The UK has the slowest maximum download speeds of any of the 12 countries who have so far launched 5G services, clocking a maximum speed of just 599Mbps.
  The UK ranked below Spain…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Quintillion and AP Telecom partner up to connect the US and Asia

  13-09-2019 02:00
  Alaskan based telecommunications provider, Quintillion, has announced that it will collaborate with AP Telecom to lay a new subsea cable between Asia and North America.
  Quintillion plans to lay a 200Tbps subsea cable to connect the North America and Asia via the trans Pacific route…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• GSMA urges governments to focus on mmWave spectrum

  13-09-2019 02:00
  The GSMA has written to government ministers from nearly 170 countries across the world, asking them to redouble their focus on freeing up mmWave spectrum…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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