Telecom news

• Why post-Covid DDoS gangs have their sights aimed on telecoms

  05-07-2021 16:11
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Ashley Stephenson, CTO, for Corero Network Security, looks at some of the exceptional security challenges accompanying the Covid pandemic.
  The world looked quite different just over a year ago. Not only has the world gone through an event unprecedented in its scale but it has fundamentally repositioned many aspects of the global economy, technology and our lives
  
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• Bricket Wood station’s disused ticket office to be restored

  05-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A scheme to revitalise a disused station building on the Abbey Line between Watford Junction and St Albans Abbey has been unveiled by London Northwestern Railway.
  The scheme, at Bricket Wood station in Hertfordshire, will be run by the local Heritage Trust and has been given the go-ahead thanks to a £250,000 grant from the rail operator.
  It will see the building, which has stood empty for decades, brought back into use, and when completed, it will operate as a community hub for passengers
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: MWC, public cloud and OpenRAN

  05-07-2021 15:54
  
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · MWC, public cloud and OpenRAN
  
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• Deutsche Telekom sounds out potential bidders for Dutch business

  05-07-2021 15:10
  
  The German incumbent has made no secret of its plan to offload T-Mobile Netherlands, and now it appears as if that process has begun in earnest.
  According to a Bloomberg report late last week, Deutsche Telekom has appointed Morgan Stanley to help it sound out potential suitors.
  Unnamed sources cited by the outlet claim that private equity firms Apax Partners, Apollo Global Management, BC Partners, Providence Equity Partners, and Warburg Pincus have all shown early interest in T-Mobile Netherland
  
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• Myanmar telcos reportedly pressured to install spyware

  05-07-2021 15:03
  
  The failed state of Myanmar, which is currently run by a military junta, is apparently preventing telecoms execs from leaving the country until they install wire taps.
  The news comes courtesy of Reuters, which stresses much of it comes from uncorroborated anonymous sources. The military conducted a coup earlier this year after the political party it supports was soundly beaten in a general election. The result is a civil war in which many separate militia conduct ad hoc attacks on army forces.
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• Tickets Alert: Cocktails in a garden square

  05-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There will be a series of outdoor cocktail drinks events in Bedford Square Gardens in central London in July and August.
  The events will feature a number of London bars having stalls around the garden squares, along with street food and music.
  Tickets are available for Friday 23rd – Saturday 24th July, and also Friday 20th – Saturday 21st August.
  Tickets cost £20 per person and that includes a welcome cocktail, live music and demonstrations.
  Tickets are available from here.
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• TPG lays claim to world’s first 5G SA network at 700 MHz

  05-07-2021 12:51
  
  Australian mobile operator TPG Telecom wants to offer reliable indoor 5G coverage and boost the overall range of its network.
  To that end, it has begun rolling out standalone 5G at 700 MHz, and claims to be the first operator in the world to do so. The network has gone live initially in select areas of Sydney.
  “TPG Telecom’s low band 5G will expand our 5G coverage, supporting our goal of reaching 85 percent of the population in Australia’s top six cities by the end of the year
  
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• US accuses Broadcom of abusing STB and broadband chip monopoly

  05-07-2021 12:47
  
  The Federal Trade Commission reckons Broadcom has a monopoly in certain types of chip and is abusing that position to impose exclusivity on its customers.
  Specifically we’re talking about three US SOC (system on chip) markets – Broadcast STB (set-top box) SOCs, DSL Broadband SOCs, and Fiber Broadband SOCs. According to the FTC complaint Broadcom has been requiring its customers to source components from it on an exclusive or near exclusive basis. This seems identical to a 2019 EU com
  
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• London’s Alleys: Lancashire Court, W1

  05-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a cluster of alleys just off Bond Street that all share the same name, but were once totally separate alleys entirely.
  This part of London is known as the Conduit Mead Estate, after an old water conduit that ran through the area, and although once owned by The Crown, in 1628/9, the lands were granted to the City of London who also bought the freehold. The sale allowed The Crown to pay back some of the debt King Charles I owed to the City’s Livery Companies at the time, while the Ci
  
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• Selling the family silver - Vi to sell fixed-line broadband subsidiary

  05-07-2021 02:00
  Debt laden Vodafone Idea (Vi) is planning to ease its financial woes by selling its fixed-line broadband subsidiary, optic fibre unit and data centres business.Vi hopes to raise about Rs 74…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT takes aim at Virgin Media as Home Essentials goes live

  05-07-2021 02:00
  BT have launched Home Essentials, a so called social tariff, aimed at connecting those on low income with affordable fibre broadband and calls. The plan which costs £15 per month goes head to head with VM's Essential broadband plan which costs the same …read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Broadcom pursued anti-competitive deals according to the FTC

  05-07-2021 02:00
  US television and internet service providers including Charter, Comcast and Verizon were prevented from purchasing chips from other vendors than Broadcom according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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