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• 100% of telcos are investigating the promise of OpenRAN – survey

  07-10-2019 18:50
  With monstrous investments on the horizon, it seems the telco community is keeping a close eye on the development of OpenRAN technologies.
  While you always have to take survey results with a pinch of salt, Mavenir and Senza Fili are claiming momentum is gathering behind the Telecom Infra Project’s (TIP) OpenRAN initiative. 100% of the respondents to the survey suggested they were investigating the application of OpenRAN for one scenario or another.
  What is worth noting, is that trialling a
  
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• telent among top 20 of Sunday Times Top Track 250

  07-10-2019 18:21
  Midlands-based company specialises in mission critical communications and counts Highways England, BT, Transport for London and Network Rail among its customersWarwick, UK, 7 October 2019: telent Technology Services Ltd (telent), leading UK technology and network services company, has been ranked at number 18 in the 15th annual Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table, which ranks Britain’s private mid-market growth companies with the biggest sales. To enter the table, telent
  
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• Openreach unveils rural fibre trials

  07-10-2019 17:24
  Openreach has provided some colour to the rural fibre plans, testing out new technologies and techniques, with the objective of connecting 50,000 homes by Christmas.
  13 rural locations around the country have been selected to trial the new technologies and techniques. Should the pilots prove successful, the hope is full fibre deployments can be accelerated, allowing the team to meet the demands of ambitious (and potentially misguided) politicians.
  “At Openreach, we’ll never just be a
  
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• Beatles themed manhole cover for Abbey Road

  07-10-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  To mark the 50th anniversary of that famous record cover, a manhole cover next to the zebra crossing has been revamped with an image of the event. The one-off design was created by manhole cover maker, Wrekin Products and installed by Thames Water.
  (c) Wrekin Products
  Although with motorists already seeing red with the numbers of people who stop in the middle of the road for “that” pose, putting the manhole cover also in the middle of the road might not help.
  There’s a webcam t
  
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• du brushes aside Huawei security concerns

  07-10-2019 13:54
  UAE telco du has confirmed it will continue to work with Huawei, ignoring the security complaints and warnings passing across the Atlantic from the White House.
  Speaking to Reuters this weekend, du CTO Saleem Albalooshi said the telco would continue to work with the under-fire vendor as 5G deployment plans gather pace.
  “Huawei is our partner in rolling out our 5G network,” said Albalooshi. “From a security perspective, we have our own labs in the UAE, and we visit their labs, w
  
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• Telefónica demos surgery with a bit of help from 5G

  07-10-2019 13:51
  Some surgeries were performed in Spain with real-time assistance from Japan thanks to the low latency of 5G.
  This is still far from the remote surgery that has for so long been used as an illustration of the utopian potential of 5G, but is nonetheless a dramatic illustration of the kind of things it could unlock. A surgeon performed some operations in Malaga and had real-time assistance from another doctor who was dialling in from Tokyo. That assistance would have been far less useful if there h
  
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• Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency coalition starts to crumble

  07-10-2019 12:43
  Internet financial services giant PayPal is the first member of the Libra coalition to jump ship and probably won’t be the last.
  When Facebook announced its audacious cryptocurrency ambitions earlier this year it derived a lot of its legitimacy from persuading a bunch of major financial services providers to formally back the project. Within days, however, regulatory authorities around the world expressed major concerns about the project and indicated they were unlikely to let it go ahead.
  
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• Vodafone searches for supply chain rejig through OpenRAN

  07-10-2019 12:31
  Vodafone has announced it will introduce OpenRAN technology in various parts of its UK network, as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mozambique.
  In what appears to be an effort to break down barriers to work with new vendors, Vodafone will seek to empower the ecosystem through the introduction of commoditised hardware. This is the first trial of the technology in a ‘developed’ market, leaning on trials which have taken place in Turkey and South Africa.
  “We are
  
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• Another petition appears to delay T-Mobile/Sprint merger

  07-10-2019 12:29
  Nine organizations have come together to petition the FCC to delay any permissions to approve the T-Mobile US and Sprint merger until a fraud investigation has been completed.
  The petition is focused on a Sprint probe, relating to alleged Lifeline fraud. The under-fire telco has been accused of collecting subsidies from the FCC even though many of the subscribers through the initiative were inactive and not using the service.
  “Specifically, the public interest, rural wireless, and labor or
  
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• ARGUS 260: intec presents first ARGUS broadband tester with touch-screen display at BBWF

  07-10-2019 12:20
  Lüdenscheid, Germany – intec Gesellschaft für Informationstechnik mbH, German innovation leader in the field of telecommunications measuring with more than 30 years of experience, will present its new high-quality multifunctional tester, the ARGUS 260, at the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in Amsterdam, Europe’s most important industry event for broadband internet and telecommunication. As the first ARGUS tester with touch-screen display, the ARGUS 260 enables intuitive navig
  
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• Iskratel and Athonet partner to bring award-winning private 5G and LTE solutions to operators worldwide

  07-10-2019 12:09
  Kranj and Moscow, 7 October 2019 – Iskratel, the leading European communications solutions provider, and Athonet, a recipient of a record four Global Mobile Awards, are pleased to announce their partnership ahead of one of the industry’s leading events – GSMA’s Mobile360 Eurasia in Moscow, Russia.As enterprises embrace the benefits of broadband video and digital automation, mobile operators have a new business opportunity to provide private 5G and LTE networks for low lat
  
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• Nuvias Group signs distribution partnership with Dropbox to bring smart workspace to the Channel

  07-10-2019 11:30
  07/10/2019: – Nuvias, the EMEA high-value distributor, is broadening its vendor portfolio to incorporate Dropbox, the smart workspace. Nuvias is the first independent distributor signed by Dropbox, covering key Northern European markets. With more than 500 million registered users across 180 countries, Dropbox helps people and teams focus on the work that matters. Complementing the communications and collaboration technology solutions from Nuvias Unified Communications (UC), Dropbox brings
  
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• Tickets Alert: David Parr House open days for 2020

  07-10-2019 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tickets to see inside a remarkable home that had been richly decorated in the gothic revival style, and little changed ever since have been released.
  David Parr House is an ordinary Victorian terraced house, but inside, the owner David Parr spent decades decorating, and when his granddaughter moved in, apart from modest changes for daily life, the house is as it was a century ago.It’s not just a chance to step back into a home of the past, but to surround yourself with two generations of a
  
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• London’s Alleys: Hand Court, WC1

  07-10-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is a modern looking alley that runs off Holborn, but like many of the area can date its origins to medieval London.At one time this area was all fields, but as the legal inns expanded, the area started to be developed, with buildings initially running along Holborn. There is an indication of an alley like space on the Morgan map of 1676, with buildings fronting Holborn, and fields to the back. As the area built up, it shows up on John Rocque’s map of 1746 as Hand Alley, and now comple
  
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• Zain launches 5G in Saudi Arabia

  07-10-2019 02:00
  Zain Group has launched 5G services in Saudi Arabia, going live with its networks in 20 towns and cities across the Kingdom.
  Zain's network comprises 2,000 towers across the country, with plans to scale up to 2…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone launches Open RAN trials in the UK and Africa

  07-10-2019 02:00
  Vodafone has stepped up research into open up access in the radio access network sector, launching OpenRAN trials in the UK.Vodafone says that the trial will greatly increase the number of vendors who can potentially contribute to the UK's 4G and 5G network mix…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Openreach explores new fibre toolkit as it looks to boost rural connectivity

  07-10-2019 02:00
  The UK's incumbent broadband network provider, Openreach, is to launch a series of trials to test a new range of tools and techniques that will help them revolutionise connectivity in Britain's rural communities.
  Openreach will experiment with a range of tools and tech as it works to upgrade connectivity in 13 UK rural communities…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• du backs Huawei for 5G in Dubai

  07-10-2019 02:00
  Emirati telco, du, has backed Chinese tech giant Huawei, as it looks to roll out 5G across the UAE, according to a report by Reuters.
  Speaking to Reuters on Sunday, du's chief technological officer…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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