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• Nokia bags 5G RAN deal in Denmark

  17-06-2021 19:34
  
  Nokia will be the sole supplier of 5G radio equipment for the Danish network joint venture between Telia and Telenor, which recently picked up new spectrum to enable it to forge ahead with 5G rollout.
  Nokia was always going to be the vendor of choice for the JV, known in English as TT-Network. It has worked with Telia and Telenor since they first joined their Danish networks almost a decade ago, and has carried out 5G trials with them, including last year’s Multi-Operator Core Network (MOC
  
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• MTN to roll out OpenRAN in Africa this year

  17-06-2021 18:36
  
  MTN this week became the latest major telco to commit to deploying OpenRAN technology, which it claims will be a “game-changer” in emerging markets.
  The South African company, which has operations in around 20 markets in Africa and the Middle East, said it is working with vendor partners Altiostar, Mavenir, Parallel Wireless, Tech Mahindra and Voyage to roll out OpenRAN before the end of the year. However, the wording of its announcement suggests that a commercial launch could be fur
  
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• Borough Market to start opening on Sundays

  17-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Normally closed on Sundays, Borough Market is going to be open for a few hours each week, for the first time in modern times.
  Sunday trading, which will run from 10am – 2pm, will give customers the opportunity to stock up on ingredients from more than 30 of their produce shops and stalls.
  Borough Market was traditionally a wholesale market, but the rise of supermarkets caused it to reinvent itself as a consumer market and street food outlet in 1998. It has remained closed on Sundays ever s
  
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• EXFO bigs up UK deal as owner refuses takeover bid

  17-06-2021 15:07
  
  Test and measurement firm EXFO is excited about its latest UK deal but the real story is happening behind closed doors, as shareholders and directors grapple with an ownership struggle.
  EXFO will provide its testing solutions to UK altnet Hyperoptic, which is building out full fibre broadband in various towns and cities in the UK, it revealed, taking the opportunity to remind us that this contract win comes six months after it brokered a similar deal with incumbent operator Openreach.
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• Harry Potter exhibition opens in London next month

  17-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An exhibition of photographs from the filming of the Harry Potter film series will open in Covent Garden next month.
  Housed in the London Film Museum, which is just behind the London Transport Museum, the exhibiton will show off hundreds of previously unseen photos from the making of the films. Not just the main films, but also the 2-part play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the spin-off film, Fantastic Beasts, which is itself an exhibition at the Natural History Museum.
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• AWS takes Vodafone to the edge

  17-06-2021 12:54
  
  The trend of operators outsourcing as much of their infrastructure as possible to public cloud giants continued with the launch of Vodafone’s first European multi-access Edge computing services.
  The heavy lifting is being done by AWS (Amazon Web Services) Wavelength, which has been available since 2019. Since Vodafone was one of the first companies to reveal an interest in Wavelength, it’s interesting to note how long it took to convert that into real-world applications but here were
  
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• American Tower flogs more of its European business

  17-06-2021 12:35
  
  The latest deal in the action-packed telecoms towers sector sees asset manager Allianz Capital Partners taking a half-billion-euro stake in American Tower’s European division.
  Both companies are pitching it as a partnership, but it’s hard to ignore the financial side of the transaction. Subject to regulatory approvals, Allianz Capital Partners will purchase a 10% stake in ATC Europe for €530 million, valuing the business as a whole at €8.8 billion.
  Allianz will join Caisse
  
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• Vodafone drops WiFi coverage from the London Underground

  17-06-2021 11:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Customers on the Vodafone network are no longer able to use Wi-Fi in London Underground stations after the mobile network operator decided to stop offering the service.
  Wi-Fi coverage is provided by Virgin Media, who started installing it in 2012, and they in turn then resell the Wi-Fi coverage to the mobile networks. If you’re a Virgin Media, EE, O2 or Three customer, then you can use the Wi-Fi service for free as part of your plan.
  But not if you’re on Vodafone.
  Although Vodafone w
  
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• A day trip from London – Chevening House gardens

  17-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just inside the M25 and close to Sevenoaks is a large government mansion house, and it’s open to the general public on one day of the year.
  The estate, Chevening House, was built around 400 years ago as the home of the Earls Stanhope, but the last of the line, the 7th Earl gifted the house and estate to the Nation in 1959, to be of use to government ministers (and others). A trust fund was created to cover the cost of maintaining the estate, so it operates at no cost to the taxpayer.
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• AT&T: back to basics after four decades of botched dealmaking

  17-06-2021 06:00
  The humiliating decision to turn its back on Hollywood has forced a return to its ‘bellhead’ roots in telecoms
  
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• London cements position as hub for telecoms patent disputes

  17-06-2021 05:30
  
  Landmark Huawei ruling reinforces UK capital as preferred location to enforce Standard Essential Patents
  
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• SK Telecom lines up $5bn spending spree

  17-06-2021 02:00
  Last week, SK Telecom’s board made the decision to split the company in two, with the traditional mobile and telco business as one unit, while the second, named SKT Investment Co., would focus on investment, growth and initial public offerings (IPOs).Now, it is revealed that the newly formed SKT Investment Co…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• MTN latest operator to name Open RAN vendor partners

  17-06-2021 02:00
  Earlier this week, Vodafone announced partnerships with six Open RAN vendors, including Dell, NEC, and Samsung, with which it will begin rolling out the interoperable technology in England and Wales. As part of the announcement, Vodafone said that they would soon look to extend their Open RAN rollout to more of Europe and to their markets in Africa…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• DISH and Dell to build the US's first Open RAN 5G Edge infrastructure

  17-06-2021 02:00
  Dell Technologies and DISH Network Corporation have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement to support DISH’s launch of the United States’ first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. The companies are reimagining how 5G RAN networks are built and deployed with an ecosystem of partners, technologies and Dell’s open infrastructure foundation. DISH is developing its open, cloud-native 5G network from the ground up. Dell Technologies will provide DISH’s edge netw
  
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• DISH and Dell to build the USA's first Open RAN 5G Edge infrastructure

  17-06-2021 02:00
  Dell Technologies and DISH Network Corporation have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement to support DISH’s launch of the United States’ first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. The companies are reimagining how 5G RAN networks are built and deployed with an ecosystem of partners, technologies and Dell’s open infrastructure foundation. DISH is developing its open, cloud-native 5G network from the ground up. Dell Technologies will provide DISH’s edge netw
  
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• DISH and Dell to build the USA's first Open RAN 5G Edge infrastructure

  17-06-2021 02:00
  Dell Technologies and DISH Network Corporation have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement to support DISH’s launch of the United States’ first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. The companies are reimagining how 5G RAN networks are built and deployed with an ecosystem of partners, technologies and Dell’s open infrastructure foundation. DISH is developing its open, cloud-native 5G network from the ground up. Dell Technologies will provide DISH’s edge netw
  
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• Consumers are confused by mobile phone finance

  17-06-2021 02:00
  A new study by Cambridge based Trustonic reveals that more than a third of respondents believed they were on a contract for their device and tariff suggesting many are unaware that a contract is in fact a finance agreement. A third said they would have purchased a higher specification device (more expensive) if financing was available…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Building new IoT revenue streams in the 5G era

  17-06-2021 02:00
  It is well accepted that the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing at an astonishing rate. Just this week, Ericsson’s latest Mobility Report predicted that massive IoT technology (NB-IoT and Cat-M) connections are set to increase by almost 80 percent during 2021, reaching almost 330 million connections. In fact, by 2026, these technologies are forecast to comprise 46 percent of all cellular IoT connections…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 5G blows in for the West Midlands

  17-06-2021 02:00
  A real world demonstration of the benefits of 5G has seen Birmingham-based Fine Energy showcase how it’s helping to cut carbon emissions by adapting the technology to control wind turbines hundreds of miles away.Fine Energy demonstrated a service called Osmium which is part of WM5G&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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