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• Salt to share investment in Swisscom’s FTTH network

  29-04-2021 18:58
  
  Swisscom and Salt are playing their cards close to their chests when it comes to the financial details of their new FTTH partnership, but it looks to be a good move.
  The pair unveiled a partnership deal that will effectively see Salt invest in the build-out of Swisscom’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, but without actually taking any ownership stake in it. Building on an existing fibre agreement between them, Salt is essentially buying a long-term right to use Swisscom’s fibre. It
  
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• Vodafone and Qualcomm partner to make an OpenRAN reference design

  29-04-2021 18:51
  
  Mobile chip giant Qualcomm is enlisting the help of OpenRAN cheerleader Vodafone to help it bring its smartphone methodology to the new radio paradigm.
  For decades Qualcomm has produced reference designs, which are pre-commercial devices housing its latest smartphone chips, made available to the rest of the smartphone ecosystem to muck about with in preparation for going live. They’re effectively a technological sandbox in which people can try stuff out and fine tune their own contribution
  
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• Florence Nightingale Museum to partially reopen from June

  29-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Threatened with permanent closure, the Florence Nightingale Museum has secured enough support to be able to reopen, but only once a month
  While it will not re-open fully for the foreseeable future, the Museum will return soon for a series of special monthly open days. The Museum’s Open Weekends will begin on Saturday 5 June 2021 and run on the first full weekend of each month for the rest of 2021.
  The exhibition, Nightingale in 200 Objects, People & Places, which opened just days befor
  
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• BT is right to call time on sports and prepare for trench warfare

  29-04-2021 15:30
  Broadcasting has been no disaster for the telecoms company but football rights bidding wars belong to another era
  
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• China Mobile gives true picture of 5G uptake, rivals do not

  29-04-2021 14:14
  
  Judging by the first-quarter figures shared by China’s big three telcos over the past few days, there are probably already more than 400 million 5G customers in China.
  The trouble is, only about half of them are actually using 5G services; the rest are simply taking advantage of attractive 5G tariff plans.
  The operators together had 391.8 million 5G package customers – that is, those on 5G plans – at the end of March. With joint monthly net adds coming in at 30.8 million, we ca
  
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• Nokia revenues grow 9% as network infrastructure bet finally starts to pay off

  29-04-2021 13:18
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia started 2021 with a bang, driven by a 28% increase in revenues from its network infrastructure business.
  Mobile networks did alright, which is something considering how well Ericsson is performing in that area. Cloud and network services remains a work in progress, as the equivalent group is for Ericsson, and the intellectual property operation experienced stead growth. But the real story was the fixed line bit, which was what the Alcatel Lucent acquisition was all about
  
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• More progress on Luton Airport’s DART railway

  29-04-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Luton Airport is currently building a new light rail link, and they’ve released an updated flythrough of the construction so far, also showing the trains in their maintenance area. At the moment, the link between the airport and the nearest railway station, Luton Airport Parkway is by a shuttle bus, but a new rail link with cable hauled trains will link them next year.
  When it opens, journey times will be cut to just 4 minutes.Most of the construction work is now completed and they are in
  
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• Full time for BT’s sports business, but it is the right time?

  29-04-2021 12:49
  
  BT is in talks that could lead to the sale of its sports business, it admitted on Thursday, a move that could help pay some of the upcoming bills at its core telco operation.
  “Further to media reports, BT can confirm that early discussions are being held with a number of select strategic partners, to explore ways to generate investment, strengthen our sports business, and help take it to the next stage in its growth,” the UK incumbent said, in a statement.
  It added the usual caveat t
  
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• Centralized product catalogs will be key to differentiation in the 5G era

  29-04-2021 11:39
  
  5G will mandate extensive product catalog capabilities for supporting new business models, use of network resources and for engaging with external ecosystems and third party partners, in order to effectively monetize new opportunities.
  Read this white paper to understand:Disparate product catalogs hold back innovation
  5G will accelerate the evolution of CSP business models
  An agile and futureproof product catalog will be key to effectively embracing 5G-enabled opportunities.Please fill in the sh
  
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• BSS migration to the cloud – Amdocs and AWS case study

  29-04-2021 11:09
  
  Considering migrating BSS to the cloud?
  Read how a pioneering telecom and media conglomerate in Southeast Asia that serves 20 million, undertook one of the world’s first major BSS migrations to the public cloud, with Amdocs and AWS, as part of a broad digital transformation program.
  Download this case study to learn more about the completed projects during the early days of Covid-19 including:Savings of millions of dollars in capex
  10% reduction in opex
  Improved user experience, increased
  
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• Empirix launches monitoring and assurance platform for 5G Standalone

  29-04-2021 10:00
  
  New version of KLERITY automates, correlates and contextualizes network and service data to enable accelerated roll-outs of carrier-grade public and private 5G networks Billerica, MA: 29 April 2021 – Empirix, an Infovista company and global leader in network and service testing, performance monitoring, assurance and analytics powering innovative carrier-grade, cloud-native network lifecycle automation, today launched a new version of KLERITY (2.1) for 5G Standalone (5G SA). The platform en
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: All Hallows Church, EC2

  29-04-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a narrow stony pocket park with raised beds of flowers that sits on an old church graveyard overlooking London Wall.The church, originally known as Allhallows on the Wall, sat right alongside the old Roman wall, the medieval upper portion of which you can see running behind the garden. The London Wall road used to curve around the church, with graveyards in front where this garden is, and behind where buildings are today.
  For a couple of centuries though the front garden area was built o
  
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• Less sport more fibre? BT mulls sale of broadcasting business

  29-04-2021 02:00
  BT’s push into sports broadcasting early in the 2013 was, at the time, a major shakeup for the media market. BT initially offered BT Sport free to its broadband customers, but soon moved to a paid model as the value of sports broadcasting rights skyrocketed in the following years.  In 2015, BT and Sky paid a record £5.136 billion for the live TV rights for Premier League football…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Is TIM preparing to drop Huawei for 5G?

  29-04-2021 02:00
  According to sources, Italy’s largest mobile operator TIM has sent Huawei a letter cancelling their contract for 5G equipment. The move reportedly comes following a review of TIM’s supply policy, including a cost and benefit analysis, suggested one of the sources.According to reports from last year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• G.Network launches training programme to address engineering skills shortage

  29-04-2021 02:00
  The shortage of qualified telecom engineers is a pressing issue in the UK, especially for network builders who are striving to meet their ambitious rollout targets. Full fibre broadband provider G.Network has announced a new recruitment and training programme…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Apple to increase US spending to $430bn over next five years

  29-04-2021 02:00
  Apple is demonstrating its commitment to its home market this week with an announcement that it will increase its previous spending plans by $80 billion over the next five years, aiming to create jobs and boost the US technology market. Previously, the US tech giant had announced plans to spend $350 billion between the 2018&ndash…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Allwyn partners with Vodafone UK for National Lottery bid

  29-04-2021 02:00
  The UKNL was first established in 1994 and since that time has been controlled by Camelot Group, with the Group winning the licence from the Gambling Commission three times in a row, most recently in 2009. This licence, however, expires in 2023, and there appears to be growing competition for the next iteration…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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