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• O2 to launch standalone 5G in Germany this summer

  10-05-2021 18:58
  
  Telefónica’s German operation has taken its first steps in carrier aggregation for 5G and expects hat to lead to the launch of standalone 5G this summer.
  O2 Deutschland currently offers 5G using 3.6 GHz frequencies, with around 1,000 antennas covering 30-plus cities, it announced a few weeks ago. Now it has upgraded one 5G facility at Helene-Mayer-Ring 10 in Munich using carrier aggregation to offer a faster service, provided customers have the appropriate device, of course; the tel
  
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• 90 year old tube poster reappearing on the London Underground

  10-05-2021 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It probably feels like its been decades since many of us have travelled on the tube, and that effect will be magnified when you do, as there will be a vintage poster from 1931 appearing in the stations
  The poster was first published in 1931 to advertise Tube travel into the West End following the opening of the new Piccadilly Circus Underground station. Depicting the vibrant glow of London’s iconic cityscape, the poster is titled ‘The West-End is awakening – and once again ther
  
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• Frontier: calling in a post-bankruptcy reinvention

  10-05-2021 16:54
  Challenge for the US telco is finding its place in the market
  
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• Dodgems coming to Somerset House

  10-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Due to happen in January, now happening in the summer, the courtyard of Somerset House is to be home to a dodgem ride.
  It’ll be the main event in a courtyard that’s being turned into an outdoor food and drink venue, with an “immersive courtyard installation” of some unknown at the moment design.
  Bookings are for tables of 2, 4 or 6 people, and include a ride on the dodgems.
  Candidly, it’s a modern funfair with one ride to go on, and more focus on the food and drink
  
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• Getting the IT right for the ‘IoT’ revolution

  10-05-2021 15:59
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Liran Weiss, CCO at mce Systems, looks at the technological foundations required to make a success of IoT.
  These days, we see an ever-increasing labeling of products as “smart this” or “smart that.” But where do these ill-defined, merchandisable monikers come from? The answer is IoT and its capacity to improve the network of applicat
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: chip drought, public cloud and Italy

  10-05-2021 15:47
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · Chip drought, public cloud and Italy
  
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• How telcos can create value with multi-faceted automation

  10-05-2021 15:46
  
  Telecom operators are striving for growth, which could materialise in growing top line as well as improving efficiency. Automation is at the centre of these efforts if they are to succeed. With the right data and the right tools, automation can go far beyond network operation to help shore up telco performance in multiple dimensions, including error prevention, data-based decision making, improved customer service and customer experience, and uncovering new business opportunities.
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• Ofcom tells UK telcos to pull their socks up on customer service

  10-05-2021 14:59
  
  UK telecoms operators need to buck up their ideas when it comes to customer service, Ofcom reckons.
  The regulator has cut the telcos some slack due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but is now (very gently) urging them to up their game.
  “Telecoms companies adapted quickly to meet soaring demand for their services last year – helping to keep the country connected,” said Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom’s Networks and Communications Group Director, in a statement accompanying the regulator&r
  
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• NYSE set to finally go through with Chinese telco ban

  10-05-2021 14:54
  
  After repeatedly changing its mind at the start of the year, the New York Stock Exchange appears ready to delist all three major Chinese MNOs.
  One of the last acts of the Trump presidency was to compel the NYSE to delist the shares of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. But even by the standards of that administration, those were chaotic times, and the next day the NYSE uncompelled itself, before recompelling itself the  day after.
  Sensibly, the people running the exchange decided
  
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• Construction starts of a railway footbridge at Brent Cross West station

  10-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A large footbridge that will, for the first time in 150 years link two sides of the wide Midland Main Line railway has started to be assembled on site at Brent Cross West station.
  Brent Cross West station is a new Thameslink station being built about halfway between Cricklewood and Hendon stations and is tied in with a large housing development taking place in the area.To link the roads on both sides of the railway a publicly accessible footbridge is being built, and when it opens, will eliminat
  
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• Telefónica hedges its bets on data centres

  10-05-2021 12:12
  
  Telefónica has brokered a deal that will see it offload four more data centres but pick up a stake in the company acquiring them.
  The Spain-based telco group is selling two data centres in its home market and two in Chile to investment firm Asterion Industrial Partners. In return it will take a 20% stake in Nabiax, the colocation and housing services business owned by Asterion, which already holds 11 data centres Telefónica sold two years ago.
  The firms did not put a valuation on t
  
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• Nokia picked to upgrade Swisscom’s optical transport network

  10-05-2021 11:47
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has been chosen by Swiss operator group Swisscom to bring the latest whizzy tech to its optical infrastructure.
  What’s more, Nokia is the sole supplier, which possibly isn’t such an unusual thing in the context of optical transport. As you would hope, a bit part of this modernization involves future-proofing the network to make further capacity and bandwidth upgrades easier. This involves injecting a fair bit more automation into the management of the network
  
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• London’s Alleys: Lamb’s Conduit Passage, WC1

  10-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a well-used passageway in Holborn leading to Red Lion Square that’s a lingering echo of a path through long lost fields.
  The fields were turned into fashionable housing in 1684 by Nicholas Barbon, with a much reduced private garden in the centre, and roads leading off following the old farm footpath alignments.
  It is claimed, somewhat dubiously, that the bodies of three men who signed King Charles I’s death warrant, Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton were buried
  
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• Telkomsel pumps $300m more into Gojek

  10-05-2021 02:00
  Today it has been announced that Telkomsel is preparing to invest $300 million in ride-hailing and payment firm Gojek. The move builds on a partnership which goes back a number of years. Since 2018, a deal has been in place between the two companies to subsidise the cost of mobile data for Gojek’s drivers, but the first formal investment from Telkomsel actually came just last year…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica swaps data centres for stake in Asterion’s hosting business

  10-05-2021 02:00
  Today, Telefonica has announced that it has offloaded four of its data centres – two in Chile, and two in Spain – in exchange for a 20% stake in Nabiax, the company acquiring them.The story here begins two years ago, when Telefonica sold Asterion Industrial Partners 11 data centres across seven countries for around €550 million…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei seeks amendments to Romania’s draft 5G laws

  10-05-2021 02:00
  Last month, the Romanian government signed off on a draft security law that would see Huawei banned from participating in the nation’s 5G networks. The move came as a result of prolonged political pressure from the US, despite Huawei attempting to challenge the draft law on legal grounds in the months leading up to the decision.  Now…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei seeks amendments to Romania’s draft 5G law

  10-05-2021 02:00
  Last month, the Romanian government signed off on a draft security law that would see Huawei banned from participating in the nation’s 5G networks. The move came as a result of prolonged political pressure from the US, despite Huawei attempting to challenge the draft law on legal grounds in the months leading up to the decision.  Now…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT preparing rural fibre acceleration

  10-05-2021 02:00
  According to reports, BT’s CEO Philip Jansen is set to announce a boost to the company’s fibre rollout programme, increasing coverage in remote and rural areas. The announcement is expected later this week, coinciding with the publication of the company’s full-year financial results…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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