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• Tipping point for the telco sector

  19-05-2021 18:21
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Amir Khan, CEO of Alkira, argues that as the world of enterprise networking transitions to a new sort of connectivity, built for the needs of the cloud era, service providers must be careful not to get left behind.
  MPLS networking has been a staple feature of service provider inventory for over 20 years, and it’s a technology that remains widely in us
  
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• New images of Hackney Central station upgrade

  19-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With work on a new entrance due to start next month, new images of the expected finished building have been released.
  The improvements – being delivered by Arriva Rail London in partnership with Hackney Council, Transport for London and Network Rail and funded by the Department for Transport – include a new entrance on Graham Road, on land already owned by the council.
  The plans also include new cycle parking spaces and additional trees and greenery and an additional staircase w
  
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• Android 12 focuses on personalisation and privacy, again

  19-05-2021 15:45
  
  Google has previewed the next version of Android which, once more, claims to empower the user to adapt and secure their device experience.
  Just as smartphones haven’t significantly evolved in a decade, having hit their optimal form factor quickly, so trying to innovate their operating systems has proven tricky. Most users just want them to work and it’s definitely better to do nothing than impose some undesired new product or service. So it’s probably no bad thing that Android
  
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• Altice buys half a French MVNO

  19-05-2021 15:03
  
  Altice France plans to acquire Afone Participations, a provider of telecoms and electronic payments services that holds a 50% stake in a medium-sized MVNO.
  Altice announced the deal in a very short statement mostly devoid of detail, but it seems the transaction is mainly about the consumer MVNO business and its distribution network. The virtual operator in question is RegloMobile, which is currently a 50:50 joint venture between Afone and retail giant the Leclerc group.
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• O2 UK and Microsoft team up over private 5G networks

  19-05-2021 14:56
  
  The world’s second largest public cloud provider has shown it doesn’t think ‘private’ is a dirty word in its MEC collaboration with O2 UK.
  Microsoft and O2 are working on a proof-of-concept designed to explore the benefits of on-premise Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) within a Private 5G Network, focusing on security and low latency. A signature benefit of MEC is low-latency as it reduces the physical distance the signal has to travel. The security angle is simply a product o
  
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• US consumers happier with Samsung than Apple

  19-05-2021 14:05
  
  Customer satisfaction in the US mobile market hasn’t changed much in the past 12 months, the latest data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) shows, which, against the backdrop of a global pandemic, is clearly a good thing.
  But there are a couple of highlights worth noting: T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint has affected its rating, pushing it below major rivals AT&T and Verizon; and the iPhone has fallen off its perch as America’s most loved smartphone.
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• Nokia confirms it’s replacing the ‘incumbent vendor’ in Swedish 5G deal

  19-05-2021 13:30
  
  Nokia has announced that it will provide the equipment for some – it’s statement implies quite a lot – of Net4Mobility’s 5G rollout in Sweden.
  The Finnish vendor said it has brokered a five-year deal with the mobile operator, a joint venture between Telenor and Tele2, to deploy kit from its AirScale portfolio.
  The thing is, Nokia hasn’t really told us anything we didn’t already know. Net4Mobility announced when it won 3.5 GHz spectrum in Sweden in January that
  
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• Cheap tickets to the English National Opera

  19-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As it reopens, the English National Opera (ENO) is expanding its range of free and cheap tickets offers.
  They’ve previously offered free tickets to under-18s in their balcony on Fridays, Saturdays and opening nights — and this is now being extended to under-21s as well, and will be for seats throughout the auditorium.
  The ENO is also significantly increasing the availability of discounted tickets across the season and auditorium.
  There are four seating levels to choose from at the Lo
  
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• Partial first class upgrades on Avanti West Coast rail trips

  19-05-2021 11:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Avanti West Coast is introducing a new class, that sits halfway between standard tickets and first-class, although you can’t book the tickets in advance.
  The Standard Premium class will offer roomier seats, more space and a guaranteed table. Passengers can also have food and drink delivered directly to the table via the company’s app. New seats, with leather headrests, are being installed in Standard Premium and First as part of a refurbishment.
  The trains operate between London Eust
  
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• US telecoms decide focusing on pipes isn’t so dumb after all

  19-05-2021 11:00
  AT&T and Verizon unwind big bets on media content to concentrate on core businesses
  
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• A visit to St Columba’s Church of Scotland

  19-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On a side street not far from Harrods can be found a large but slightly dour-looking grey stone church.This is St Columba’s Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian church that owes its origins to the union of the English and Scottish crowns in the early 17th century. As the Scottish population in London increased, a church was opened in Covent Garden, but in 1884, a second was added, here in Knightsbridge.
  That church looked very different though, being what can be best described as a classic V
  
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• Reliance Jio backs pair of Indian subsea cable systems

  19-05-2021 02:00
  With data demand soaring worldwide, submarine cable infrastructure is becoming more and more vital. India, as a rapidly digitalising nation, is, no exception. As a result of this soaring demand, Reliance Jio Infocomm is partnering with SubCom and others to build two new submarine cable systems for the region…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Rakuten and NEC set to take Open RAN global

  19-05-2021 02:00
  In the last year and a half, Rakuten has launched its fully virtualised mobile network in Japan, launching 5G back in September 2020. Since then, the company has been hinting that it would be seeking to offer its Open RAN network platform to operators abroad.Now, it seems that progress is being made towards promoting the operator’s Open RAN Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Data centres in space? NTT plans satellite trials

  19-05-2021 02:00
  According to reports from Nikkei, NTT is set to explore the concept of satellite data centres in partnership with SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings, Japan’s first private satellite communications company.The project will see NTT equip each satellite with the computing power to process data, with the various satellites working in tandem with one another to function similarly to an orbital data centre…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Altice France acquires 50% of MVNO Reglo Mobile

  19-05-2021 02:00
  Altice France announced yesterday that it plans to acquire Afone Participations in a deal which seems centred primarily around Afone’s 50% ownership of the MVNO Reglo Mobile…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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