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• Pompeo urges Britain to rethink Huawei 5G decision

  29-01-2020 20:04
  Meeting with Johnson today amid growing London-Washington tensions
  
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• Vodafone: eurovision

  29-01-2020 17:53
  Telecoms group to refocus on core European markets but they are also the most competitive
  
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• Saudi Telecom to pay $2.4bn for Vodafone Egypt stake

  29-01-2020 17:27
  Prospective deal comes as Riyadh-listed STC seeks to expand regionally
  
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• Approval for hotel covered in plants

  29-01-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The largest green wall in Europe has been approved for the City of London, with a new hotel to go where an old office block currently sits.The developer claims the wall – made up of a mix of plants – will generate seven tonnes of oxygen in a year and extract nine tonnes of C02 annually among other benefits, such as reducing noise by absorbing some of the road noise that would normally just bounce off a solid wall.
  Candidly, it would have been a surprise if the plans were rejected as
  
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• Huawei decision highlights dilemmas of surveillance age

  29-01-2020 15:17
  When it comes to tech building blocks, most roads lead to Beijing, while the west lags behind
  
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• “2020 is set to be the year of RCS,” says mGage

  29-01-2020 13:33
  London UK, 29 January 2020 – The interaction between organisations and consumers is set to become revolutionised with all-new Rich Communications Services (RCS), the latest development in the evolution of mobile messaging. The next generation of SMS is set to surge in 2020 – with predictions that it will create a market worth more than US $74 billion by next year, according to GSMA. Brands searching for innovative and new ways to engage their end-users...Source: RealWire
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Royal Victoria Gardens, E16

  29-01-2020 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This decent sized municipal park in east London was once owned by distant Westminster Abbey, if you go back far enough.Although gifted by King Edgar to a local nobleman, by 1086 East Ham, including the marshes of North Woolwich was known to be held by Westminster Abbey, as the abbey’s manor of ‘Hammarsh juxta Barking’.
  It remained in religious ownership right up to 1840 when the railway proprietor, George Parker bought the land so he could extend railways to the ferry — a
  
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• 93% of mobile transactions blocked as fraudulent in 2019 says new report on mobile ad fraud by Upstream

  29-01-2020 12:56
  
  98,000 malicious Android apps and 43 million infected devices in 20 countries 32% of most malicious apps still available on Google Play London, January 29th, 2020 - 93 percent of total mobile transactions in 20 countries were blocked as fraudulent in 2019 according to a report on the state of malware and mobile ad fraud released today by mobile technology company, Upstream. The “Invisible Digital Threat” data is based on deployments of Upstream’s Secure-D full-stack...Source: R
  
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• IoT Solutions World Congress, Barcelona, becomes a hotspot of global Wi-Fi experts

  29-01-2020 10:00
  
  WBA’s Wireless Global Congress will co-locate in 2020 Events gather world-leading Wi-Fi and IoT experts under one roof London, 29 January 2020: The importance of Wi-Fi technology to IoT deployments was emphasised today with the announcement that this year’s IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona (Spain) would also host the 2020 European edition of the Wireless Global Congress – the world’s leading gathering of Wi-Fi experts. Both technology events will be jointly held
  
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• Saudi Telecom to buy Vodafone stake in Egyptian group for $2.4bn

  29-01-2020 08:14
  Deals values biggest operator in north African country at $4.4bn
  
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• Huge archive of old military maps published

  29-01-2020 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over 3,000 military maps, views and prints collected by King George III have been digitised and published online free to visit by the Royal Collection.
  The culmination of ten years of research by Dr Yolande Hodson to catalogue one of George III’s most prized collections, the new website makes these important documents publicly available for the first time and allows them to be explored in minute detail.
  No just of considerable academic interest — but just stunning to browse and look
  
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• BT demands return of WiFi routers in e-waste clampdown

  29-01-2020 06:29
  Group threatens fines in push to keep as many as 1m units a year out of landfill
  
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• Internet of Things: Smart cities pick up the pace

  29-01-2020 06:15
  
  Early hype around adoption of IoT networks gives way to realities on the ground
  
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• EU draws up 5G plan to screen security risks

  29-01-2020 06:00
  Recommendations leave member states to make decisions over network suppliers
  
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• EU draws up 5G guidelines to screen security risks

  29-01-2020 06:00
  Plans leave member states to make decisions over network suppliers
  
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• Telenor Maritime to benefit from the Nordic Gateway at NJFX

  29-01-2020 01:00
  NJFX is a carrier-neutral campus that currently hosts four subsea cable networks, making it a major hub for East Coast connectivity.  Now, Telenor Maritime has announced that it will access the 7200 km Havfrue subsea cable system linking the US to Northern Europe via the NJFX campus…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Saudi Telecom in $2.4 bn acquisition of Vodafone Egypt

  29-01-2020 01:00
  Vodafone CEO Nick Read met with Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli on Tuesday to officially announce to the government that Vodafone had entered a non-binding agreement with Saudi Telecom (STC) for the sale of their 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt.  The agreement values Vodafone Egypt at $4…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• i3forum launches market data aggregation service with nine initial carriers

  29-01-2020 01:00
  Nine of i3forum’s 28 members will be the first to use its newly launched Insights service, the company announced today. The stated goal of Insights is to “bring together carriers from across the globe to create a not-for-profit, industry-controlled platform that supports the sustainability and optimisation of Voice businesses…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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