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• How and when will O-RAN be mature?

  29-07-2021 19:03
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Xanthos Angelides, EXFO Product Line Manager, explores what it will take for OpenRAN to become a mainstream technology.
  Today’s 5G networks are dependent on virtualized, software-defined radio access networks (RAN) that are open and intelligent to ensure viable, scalable network services delivering high quality of experience for end-user customers. Th
  
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• Virgin Media O2 goes all-in on fibre and mulls broadband wholesale market

  29-07-2021 18:49
  
  Newly merged Virgin Media O2 has announced it plans to upgrade its entire fixed network to fibre. The operator is also assessing the prospect of becoming a fixed broadband wholesaler.
  Two months after it was created by the merger of Virgin Media and O2, the new integrated operator announced its fixed network upgrade plan for the next seven years. Virgin Media O2 said its fixed network in the UK will be upgraded to full fibre to the premises (FTTP) by 2028, which will be capable of delivering sym
  
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• Xiaomi takes second place from Apple in Q2 global smartphone market

  29-07-2021 16:47
  
  Samsung and Apple experienced an exceptional drop-off in smartphone sales volumes in the second quarter, allowing Chinese vendors to gain ground.
  Omdia was first out of the blocks among the smartphone market trackers this quarter, maybe for the first time, so we’ll use its data and canned quote. This means the year-on-year changes need to be taken with a pinch of salt as we’re comparing Omdia numbers from those of a different firm a year ago. All of them are essentially making educat
  
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• Railway art exhibition at Waterloo station until Monday

  29-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Network Rail has launched an exhibition showcasing work from art students that celebrates the return of rail travel.
  Earlier this year, Network Rail launched a competition titled Wish I was There, asking art students from across the UK to create work that reflected the places they had missed travelling to during the pandemic – whether it be a town, city or beach, a shopping street or even just a pub or a park – a place that meant something special to them.
  Laura Hurn – Glenfinn
  
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• Eurobites: Pain in Spain punches hole in Orange’s Q1

  29-07-2021 14:51
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional results-fest round-up: Telefónica’s Q2 boosted by Virgin Media O2 merger and Telxius deal; BT’s fiscal Q1 dented by corporate and public sector struggles; Cellnex puts in a towering performance in H1.
  Orange suffered pain in Spain during the second quarter, as the business environment there forced the group to “book a significant impairment” in the value of its assets, to the tune of €3.70 billion. Spanish troubles aside, re
  
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• Nokia reports a strong Q2 21 on the back of fixed-line infrastructure growth

  29-07-2021 13:38
  
  All the indicators are moving in the right direction for Finnish kit vendor Nokia, which saw its share price jump after announcing its Q2 2021 numbers.
  Sales were up 4% year-on-year, but once adjusted for adjustments that increase jumped to 9%. Gross margin was up nearly three percentage points and consequently Nokia’s profitability continued its dramatic recovery. The dominant contributor to all this financial exuberance was the fixed-line bit of the business, which finally seems to be up
  
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• Review – the Waddesdon Greenway e-bike hire scheme

  29-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you happen to be visiting Waddesdon Manor and arrive at Aylesbury Vale Parkway station, then there’s a local electric bike hire scheme to get you the rest of the way. So I tried it out.
  I had initially thought to bring my own folding bike, as while there’s now a nice Greenway paved route between station and mansion house, it’s still an hour’s walk each way. Then I noticed the e-bikes hire, which arrived earlier this year outside the railway station.I will admit to havi
  
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• neXat navigates new route to maritime prosperity for connectivity providers

  29-07-2021 11:55
  
  SatADSL now offers unique pre-paid vouchers for leisure market and access to high-end professional connectivity services for commercial shipping Brussels, Belgium, 29 July, 2021 – neXat – the satellite industry’s first connectivity capacity aggregator – is now available to the maritime sector, opening the door for maritime connectivity services providers to new markets and the monetization of payment and management services. neXat is a cloud-based, virtual OSS/BSS that al
  
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• Simpkins & Co Says Zylpha's 'PAY AS YOU GO' Bundling Software Is Now Tried, Tested and... Trusted

  29-07-2021 11:00
  
  Zylpha Earns Respect From Its Bundling Performance At Simpkins & Co Solicitors Simpkins & Co Solicitors has chosen Zylpha’s ‘Pay As You Go’ bundling software to produce legal document bundles in conjunction with the practice’s LEAP case management software. According to Zylpha’s research, time savings to produce secure bundles, since November 2020, will be running at approximately 80% over manual methods and significant efficiencies have been noted in the re
  
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• Telecoms industry adopts more confident outlook

  29-07-2021 10:54
  Nokia, Cellnex and Telefónica raise guidance but BT disappoints
  
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• Virgin Media O2 to upgrade entire UK network to full fibre

  29-07-2021 08:13
  Cable group plans latest upgrade to broadband infrastructure to take on BT and alt-nets
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Prince’s Gardens, SW7

  29-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a large garden square near South Kensington’s museums but hidden away behind rows of houses so only the locals know about it.
  Prince’s Gardens (the apostrophe varies) was laid out by the property developer, Sir Charles James Freake between 1858075, who was actually an untrained English architect and yet is also responsible for many famous 19th-century façades in London.
  He famously only allowed straight chimneys in his buildings after he learned about soot wart —
  
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• VMO2 planning major fibre upgrade by 2028

  29-07-2021 02:00
  Newly merged operator Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has today announced its quarterly financial results, highlighting the progress made in integrating the two companies and reaffirming their target of delivering synergies of £540 million by mid-2026.As part of this announcement, VMO2 has announced its intention to upgrade its entire fixed network to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), with completion expected during 2028. This upgrade would cover 14…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Inmarsat joins LEO space race with Orchestra satellite network

  29-07-2021 02:00
  Inmarsat has today announced that it will join the likes of SpaceX in launching its own light-weight,  LEO satellites to provide broadband connectivity. Currently, the UK-based satellite operator owns and operators 14 GEO satellites, which circle the globe around 35,786km above the Earth. Operating primarily in the L-band (1–2GHz) and Ka-band (26.5–40 GHz) ranges, these satellites offer global coverage and typically provide services to aviation…read more on TotalTel
  
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• 5G’s ‘Golden Band’: Exploring the use of 700 MHz spectrum

  29-07-2021 02:00
  In the past few years, we have seen 5G deployed around the world in many different forms, using many different bands of spectrum. Each of these bands has specific characteristics, from variable signal propagation to disparate data speeds, making them more or less suitable for certain types of deployment. As a result, based on the spectrum available to them, operators have adopted different strategies to achieve coverage for their customers.  Take the world’s three leading countr
  
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