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• Google launches a bunch of hardware

  15-10-2019 18:30
  Internet giant Google has launched the latest version of its own smartphone, together with a bunch of other stuff, as it continues to expand its hardware offering.
  The tagline for the Pixel 4 smartphone is that it’s the most helpful version yet. On the surface this is a reference to Google Assistant, which has been beefed up with even more AI power to ensure it knows what you want before you do, thus sparing you the pain and indignity of having to do things like choose, decide, think, etc.
  
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• Exhibition: The revival of ceramics on building facades

  15-10-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a bit of a revival going on in building land at the moment — people are getting excited about covering buildings in ceramics.
  For a city that’s grown up with ceramic tiles, on the Underground and to bring daylight down into hidden backs of offices and hospitals, we seem to have fallen out of love with the ceramic building. But, a revival in underway as modern methods reduce costs and increase the design flexibility, and as building owners realise that ceramic cladding r
  
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• Ericsson promises enormous rewards for the right enterprise investments

  15-10-2019 14:08
  With consumer revenues in the mobile world flat-lining, many telcos are exploring the world of enterprise services to recoup 5G investments, and Ericsson thinks it’s a pretty large pot of gold.
  According to Ericsson’s ‘5G for business: a 2030 market compass’ report the question isn’t whether or not telcos are exploring how to work with enterprise customers in new and interesting ways, but more which are the ones to prioritise.
  “The combination of 5G and digita
  
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• Qualcomm claims 30 5G fixed wireless access deal wins

  15-10-2019 14:03
  5G has opened up a whole new channel for Qualcomm to flog its modems through and it seems to have got off to a decent start.
  The company has announced that its X55 5G Modem-RF System has been bought by over 30 global OEMs to form part of fixed wireless access customer premises gear that they’ll start flogging sometime next year. The bandwidth promised by 5G makes fireless a viable alternative to fixed broadband in certain scenarios and it looks like that market is picking up.
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• Book review: Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground

  15-10-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Released to tie in with an exhibition of the same name, this book is a picture rich journey through some of the disused and hidden spaces on the London Underground.It’s a large book, and has taken the choice of focusing on a series of types of disused London Underground stations, from the lift shafts, closed stations, their headquarters, and the famously never opened North End station.
  A chapter opens with details about one key station, which can seem a bit familiar if you’re a tube
  
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• Hyperoptic switches private equity owners

  15-10-2019 12:41
  UK independent fibre provider Hyperoptic has had the majority of its ownership switched from lot of investment companies to another.
  The new lot in control of the company is HKK, an investment company that seems to get involved in every industry in every part of the world. It acquired its stake in Hyperoptic from fellow investment companies Newlight and Mubadala. The terms of the deal weren’t revealed so we don’t know exactly how much of Hyperoptic owns or how much it cost, but this
  
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• ZTE showcases leading wireline products at BBWF 2019

  15-10-2019 11:51
  15 October 2019, Shenzhen, China: ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for Mobile Internet, is showcasing its latest achievements and practices in broadband access, home networking, optical transport, 5G transport and network automation at Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.As a No.2 global provider of fixed-network equipment, ZTE is committed to building high-quality wir
  
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• Italy readies itself for tax assault on Silicon Valley

  15-10-2019 11:44
  The Italian Government is preparing to join the UK and France in taking a tougher tax stance against Big Tech with the introduction of a 3% sales tax.
  Designed to target the elusive technology giants which have been slipping between the mountains of red-tape to take advantage of cheaper tax destinations, the levy will be based against revenues realised in the market as opposed to tax. While it might be possible to move profits to different markets in the bloc, it is much more difficult to disgui
  
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• Visit the subterranean London Silver Vaults

  15-10-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Deep under a central London office block can be found a warren of shops — all selling silverware in small rooms behind a bank vault of an entrance.
  This is the London Silver Vault, and like a certain brand of DIY product, it’s does exactly what it says on the tin — it’s a vault full of silver, for sale.
  With 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) thick walls lined with steel, the vaults have never been broken into, and even when a bomb hit the surface in WW2, the vaults were unaffected.
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• Vodafone puts Germany at heart of grand design to challenge rivals

  15-10-2019 05:00
  Unitymedia deal shifts UK group’s focus but pressure is on to make strategy work
  
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• Telefonica CTIO: We need a multi-vendor approach to Standalone 5G – particularly in the core

  15-10-2019 02:00
  Standalone 5G must be built with a relentless focus on resiliency, near 100% reliability and security, in order to drive the evolution of a truly connected society…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• KKR acquires controlling stake in UK fibre specialist Hyperoptic

  15-10-2019 02:00
  US investment fund KKR has acquired a majority stake in UK fibre to the home pioneer, Hyperoptic, in a deal reported to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.KKR bought the stake from Newlight Partners and Abu Dhabi based sovereign fund Mubadala…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• India’s telecoms minister promises pricing reforms on 5G spectrum

  15-10-2019 02:00
  India’s telecoms minister, Ravi Shankar, has promised price reforms ahead of the country’s forthcoming 5G spectrum auction.Speaking at the India Mobile Congress event, Shankar told journalists from the Telegraph of India that the government would look into the pricing structure for 5G spectrum…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei boss: European governments must deliver contiguous, cost-effective spectrum for 5G

  15-10-2019 02:00
  European governments and regulators must ensure that they provide operators with cost effective, contiguous spectrum, to ease the financial burden of 5G, according to Huawei’s deputy chairman, Ken Hu.During his welcome address at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum in Zurich on Tuesday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson: Digitalisation is worth $700 billion to the global economy to 2030

  15-10-2019 02:00
  The process of industrial digitalisation is a $700 billion opportunity for global commercial markets, according to a report by Swedish tech giant, Ericsson.As 5G rollouts across the world continue to gather momentum…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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