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• Making the AltNet numbers add up

  17-11-2021 18:00
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Sarah Mills, Managing Director of Wholesale and Smart Infrastructure at Neos Networks, looks at the way the chips might fall in the alternative network provider market and imagines the rise of the Super AltNet.
  Alternative Network Providers (aka AltNets) tend to rely on investor funding and the availability of government grants – such as the £5bn Pro
  
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• IHS Towers coughs up $413m for 5,700 MTN sites

  17-11-2021 17:49
  
  Telco tower assets are changing hands at a rapid rate; this week the action is taking place in South Africa.
  IHS Towers, which boasts more than 30,500 towers spreading from Peru to Kuwait via Sub-Saharan Africa, on Wednesday agreed a 6.4 billion rand ($413 million) buy and leaseback deal with MTN involving 5,709 sites. The deal will also see IHS provide power-as-a-service (PaaS) to 12,800 MTN towers, including those it has just acquired.
  “I am exceptionally proud to announce IHS’ cre
  
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• The Transformative Power of 5G, MEC & Location Technology

  17-11-2021 16:47
  
  5G is expected to transform more than just internet service. From improved personalized advertising and retail experiences to monitoring agriculture and its equipment to making commuter journeys safer and more efficient, 5G will change the way individuals and companies experience everyday life.
  In the post-pandemic era, businesses will accelerate efforts to automate, digitize and enhance their capability to operate remotely. Modern network technologies such as 5G & MEC (Multi-access Edge Com
  
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• Artificial Northern Lights to fill the skies over the City of London

  17-11-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A free display of an artificial ‘Borealis’ northern lights display will fill the night sky over the City of London’s Guildhall next month with tickets being released today.
  The installation, by artist Dan Acher, uses beams of light travelling through particle clouds to create the illusion, matching these visuals with a tranquil soundtrack.
  The art display will run between 11th-22nd December 5:30pm to 10pm, with tickets available in half an hour slots.
  A total of 20,000 free tic
  
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• Clash of the titans as Amazon declares war on Visa

  17-11-2021 15:37
  
  Amazon has written to some of its UK customers to say it will no longer be accepting Visa credit cards as payment from next year.
  The US ecommerce giant has yet to notify this customer, so maybe Amazon has only contact those who use Visa credit cards to settle their Amazon bills, but there’s little doubt this is official policy. The Mail has a screenshot of the email, which stresses the ban doesn’t apply to Visa debit cards. The report speculates that Visa is raising its transaction
  
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• Rajant’s 2nd Annual UNICEF Fundraiser to Offset Children’s Hunger Worldwide

  17-11-2021 15:21
  
  Virtual Event with Star-Powered Musicians Tomorrow, November 18th, 9 AM to 4 PM EST Malvern, PA – November 17, 2021: Rajant Corporation, the inventor of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, will host the second annual “World Music Benefit 2021” to bring awareness and donations for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children in 190+ countries worldwide. The virtual fundraiser
  
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• Rajant Features Rapid Deployment & Real-Time Communications at ISC East/NDEM

  17-11-2021 15:06
  
  Two-way First Responder Video/Voice/Data Demos in NYC November 17th/18th at Javits Center Malvern, PA – November 17, 2021: Rajant Corporation, the inventor of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and its technology partners will be attending ISC East and the co-located Natural Disaster Emergency Management (NDEM) shows in New York City at the Jacob Javits Center. The event runs from November 17th to 18th, with Rajant joining with partners in Booth 843 (ISC East) and Booth 353...Source: Rea
  
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• Rogers CEO Joe Natale shown the door as family feud concludes

  17-11-2021 15:04
  
  The billionaire’s boardroom battle at Rogers that descended into farce has carried out its coup de grâce.
  As expected, CEO Joe Natale been replaced by Tony Staffieri, who served as chief financial officer of Rogers until September, when he too was fired. His appointment is on an interim basis; however, Rogers said in a statement he is one of the candidates for the permanent role, which will be decided once the Canadian operator completes its C$26 billion acquisition of rival Shaw.
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• Emtelle awarded multi-million-pound contract with network provider Upp

  17-11-2021 14:06
  
  The collaboration will see Emtelle supply a full range of passive network infrastructure components to fulfil Upp’s ambitious network roll out plansHawick, Scotland, 17 November 2021 - Emtelle, the leading global manufacturer of pre-connectorised blown fibre, cabling and ducted solutions, has been awarded a major multi-million-pound contract as the main supplier of network infrastructure for broadband provider Upp, running until the end of March 2026. Emtelle will work closely with Upp to
  
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• Nokia unveils a new SaaSy software strategy

  17-11-2021 13:29
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia has decided it’s time telecoms software was delivered on an ‘as-a-service’ basis.
  SaaS (software as a service) has been around for years but has been mainly ignored by the telecoms sector. One reason for this is probably that a lot of it has been delivered as part of ‘closed’ systems from the likes of Nokia. With the advent of OpenRAN, however, the culture around telecoms tech is evolving rapidly and operators are expecting a lot more flexib
  
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• The world’s most expensive postage stamp goes on display in London

  17-11-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a few weeks, an entire exhibition has been given over to a tiny piece of red paper — the world’s most expensive postage stamp.
  On display is the “British Guiana 1c magenta”, a postage stamp issued in very small batches in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1856, and only one specimen is now known to exist. Put up for sale earlier this year, the stamp was bought by the British stamp dealer, Stanley Gibbons for an eyewatering £6.3 million.
  At that price for such a tin
  
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• FCC wraps up mid-band auction with bidding at $22bn

  17-11-2021 12:47
  
  After a whopping 151 rounds of bidding, the US Federal Communications Commission has brought the curtain down on its latest 5G spectrum sale.
  The total raised from the clock phase of Auction 110 is $21.89 billion. Not record-breaking, but a considerable chunk of change nonetheless, and comfortably more than the $14.77 billion reserve set by the FCC. This figure will rise a little during the upcoming assignment phase, when participants vie for the specific frequencies they want. Only once that is
  
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• WBA and TIP Collaborate to Bring Open AFC for Wi-Fi in the New 6 GHz Unlicensed Band

  17-11-2021 10:25
  
  Collaboration to Spur Global Adoption of 6 GHz Wi-Fi & Enable Better User Experience Indoors & Outdoors London, UK, November 17th 2021: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced an expansion of its relationship with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) that will further TIP’s Open AFC Software Group and help spur global adoption of Wi-Fi in the new 6 GHz unlicensed band. The partnership will maximize the full benefits of 6 GHz Wi-Fi – today...Source: RealWire
  
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• Hackney’s experimental cargo bike hire scheme

  17-11-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Some unusual looking bikes have come to Hackney and Shoreditch recently – offering an alternative to hiring a small van or car to move stuff around the area.
  These are cargo bikes, and they were deployed a couple of months back by e-bike firm, Beryl, with support from Hackney Council for a one-year trial, and far from the days of Granville on his ricketty bike inOpen All Hours, these are specially designed for carrying reasonably large loads around safely.Although cargo bikes have been aro
  
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• OneWeb’s space race: From bankrupt to billions

  17-11-2021 01:00
  UK satellite company OneWeb has seen a meteoric rise since initially filing for bankruptcy in March 2020. Since then, saved by an initial combined $1 billion investment from the UK government and India’s Bharti Global, OneWeb has gone on to attract over $2.7 billion from various investors, including Eutelsat, Hanwha, and SoftBank.Now, the company is targeting global coverage of its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, looking to increase the number of devices it has in orbit fro
  
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• Nokia takes the plunge into Software-as-a-Service market

  17-11-2021 01:00
  Offering SaaS for CSPs is a natural evolution of Everything-as-a-Service, a key element to Nokia’s overall strategy. It reflects a culmination of steps Nokia has taken in recent years to enhance CSP network operations, including re-architecting its software applications to make them fully cloud-native and deployable in any cloud environment, edge, public or private.To seize the 5G opportunity, CSPs need to shift away from the legacy practice of deploying customized software for analytics,
  
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• Natale out, Staffieri in: Rogers boardroom infighting continues

  17-11-2021 01:00
  Back in March, Canadian telco giant Rogers announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire rival Shaw for around $26 billion, a move that would shrink the number of mobile players in the market from four to three.The deal was met with uncertainty from onlookers, many of whom lamented that it would reduce customer choice and increase prices in an already dysfunctional mobile market. As a result, strict regulatory conditions are set to be attached to the deal, the extent of which are still
  
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• Latest US 5G auction raises $22bn

  17-11-2021 01:00
  Today marks the completion of the first phase of the US’s latest 5G spectrum auction, raising an enormous $22 billion. The winners of the auction will not be revealed until the next phase of the auction process, in which the various blocks of spectrum are directly assigned to the operators…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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