Telecom news

• Enabling enterprises with digital BSS

  16-08-2021 16:36
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Selvam Ramamoorthy of Tecnotree looks at how BSS can help operators serve enterprise customers.
  Telecom operators have traditionally focused on consumer audiences, with performance ratings based on YoY or QoQ net additions of subscribers, as well as increases in the ARPU. However, with growing competition from OTTs and the increasing difficulty in adding new sub
  
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• United’s Wind buy creates new converged player in Greece

  16-08-2021 16:17
  
  United Group has agreed to buy Greek mobile operator Wind Hellas, a tie-up that will create a much stronger converged player in the country.
  The telecoms and media group, which has operations in multiple markets in South East Europe, owns Greek pay TV provider Nova. It has brokered a deal with Wind Hellas owner Crystal Almond Holdings to acquire the mobile operator for an undisclosed sum.
  What we do know is that, according to United Group, Wind has a customer base of 4.2 million and generates no
  
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• Google and Facebook get involved in another new APAC subsea cable

  16-08-2021 16:07
  
  A new subsea cable that will ensure Taiwan stays connected to the rest of the reason is being championed by US internet giants Google and Facebook.
  The cable system is called Apricot, for some reason, and when it comes online in 2024 it will link Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. It represents another US-funded APAC connectivity initiative that doesn’t include China, with the inclusion of Taiwan especially significant given China’s claims on the island.
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• Harlow Council lobbying for a London Underground extension

  16-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An extension of the London Underground’s Central line to reach the town of Harlow is being proposed by the local council, as part of a range of ideas to improve transport links to London as the town is planning to add some 19,000 new homes over the next decade.
  The difficulty would be who would pay for an extension of the London Underground. TfL has warned that while it’s open to new proposals, there’s no money for an extension.
  In a council meeting last week, a number of ideas
  
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• Merger of satellite connectivity providers creates a new market leader

  16-08-2021 15:39
  
  Ground Control merges with Wireless Innovation and Rock Seven to provide unparalleled choice in satellite M2M and IoT services Atascadero, CA-based Ground Control has merged with two UK-based companies, Wireless Innovation and Rock Seven, to provide satellite and cellular connectivity services for M2M and IoT applications around the world. With the combined product range including the best-in-breed RockAIR, RockSTAR and Toughsat devices, Ground Control offers their customers unrivalled choice an
  
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• Vodafone Idea blames Covid for Q1 weakness, still looking for investors

  16-08-2021 13:57
  
  Vodafone Idea has turned in another disappointing set of quarterly results but, despite once again expressing doubts about its ability to continue operations, has blamed the Covid-19 pandemic for its weak performance.
  The troubled Indian telco did its best to big up data volume growth in the three months to the end of June, which it insists shows strong consumer engagement, but the headlines were all about a hefty revenue slide – turnover was down 14% year-on-year to 91.5 billion rupees (U
  
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• Huawei accused of IP theft and installing a backdoor in public security project

  16-08-2021 13:08
  
  A US cloud software company is suing Chinese vendor Huawei, alleging it stole it intellectual property and installed a backdoor when they collaborated over a project in Pakistan.
  The lawsuit, which has been published by The Register, was brought by Business Efficiency Solutions, which describes itself as an ERP software company with a focus on the cloud. It claims in 2015 Huawei was pitching for a project with Lahore law enforcement agencies to modernise their IT, but lacked expertise in some ar
  
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• Go swimming in Hyde Park’s Serpentine lake

  16-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month there is to be a mass swimming event in the open chilly waters of Hyde Park’s Serpentine lake.
  Normally, swimming in the lake is only open to members of the local swimming club — who famously take a dip on Christmas Day — but on Saturday 18th September, the general public will be allowed in as well.
  Personally, a lake is something to decorously drift across in a boat while holding a gin and tonic and watching someone else do all the hard work, but I understand that t
  
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• Facebook and Google plan new subsea link to boost Asian connectivity

  16-08-2021 10:25
  Project comes as internet infrastructure becomes geopolitical flashpoint between US and China
  
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• London’s Alleys: Newport Place, WC2

  16-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A large plaza in the heart of London’s Chinatown that has undergone many changes in its long life.
  Today the plaza is pretty much the heart of Chinatown, although it has only been so since the 1950s when the combination of an influx of workers from Hong Kong and the migration of Chinese workers from Limehouse to this part of London formed the community that exists today.But to get to the current situation, we need to go back in time to when all was fields and starting to be developed.
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• United Group set to buy Greece's Wind Hellas

  16-08-2021 02:00
  Wind has a total of 4.2 million users and offers mobile, fixed, internet, and television services. It generates revenues in excess of EUR500 million annually. The transaction will enable United Group to combine Wind with its existing Greek pay-TV provider Nova to create a strong converged operator that will be the number two player in both broadband internet and television services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google and Facebook team up for Asian Apricot cable

  16-08-2021 02:00
  On Sunday, Google and Facebook jointly announced their participation in a new submarine cable project, seeking to boost connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region.The Apricot cable will span around 12,000km, connecting Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Indonesia. It will have an initial design capacity of 190Tbps and is set to be completed by 2024…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• China approaching chipset self-sufficiency in the battle for semiconductor innovation

  16-08-2021 02:00
  China now appears to be making the most rapid progress within the semiconductor industry, with favourable government investment policies leading to billions of dollars’ worth of market growth, despite the ever more pronounced tension with US in recent years.When asked about the state of the Chinese semiconductor market, Caroline Gabriel, research director at Analysys Mason, described it as “a lot closer to achieving self-sufficiency than we would have predicted a couple of years ago
  
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• BT’s Equinox pricing – a gift or a curse for UK broadband?

  16-08-2021 02:00
  At the start of July, Openreach announced a major change to the pricing of their gigabit-capable fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband products, reducing their cost for the UK’s ISPs and providing them with long-term price security.  The so-called Equinox pricing will offer significant discounts for ISPs to make use of the network, in some cases lowering monthly rental costs by up to a third. In return, the ISP customers must commit to using FTTP wherever possible. The mot
  
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