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• Samsung doubles down on the smart home with a dedicated tablet

  05-01-2022 18:41
  
  Korean tech giant Samsung unveiled its Home Hub tablet device at CES, which seems designed to be the lynchpin of a smart home ecosystem called the SmartThings Hub.
  SmartThings Hub technology already exists and is designed to link various smart home devices – TVs, appliances, etc – together in one ecosystem.
  “Historically, consumers relied on dedicated hubs to connect each of their devices,” said Mark Benson, Head of Product and Engineering at Samsung SmartThings. “B
  
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• Q&A with Steve Bailey of Standard Bank on becoming an MVNO

  05-01-2022 18:35
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Ian Ginn, Founder and Director at IFG Consulting spoke with Steve Bailey to discuss Standard Bank’s approach to leveraging its MVNO capability as a traditional bank.
  By operating an MVNO, a bank becomes able to directly package connectivity for the use of its digital services, providing easier and faster access and simultaneously offering its customers mob
  
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• Qualcomm and Microsoft augment their meta relationship

  05-01-2022 14:59
  
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has gone big on the buzzwords at this year’s CES tech show, claiming its new AR collaboration with Microsoft has something to do with the metaverse.
  ‘Qualcomm Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Expand and Accelerate AR to Usher in New Gateways to the Metaverse,’ heralded the press release. New gateways eh? Sounds intriguing. Both companies are ‘believers in the metaverse’, were told, thus positioning it as some kind of mystical p
  
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• Connected cars drive the agenda at CES 2022

  05-01-2022 14:28
  
  Car manufacturers and tech firms rolled out new smart motors and integrated connectivity software at the CES tech show, showing ever more convergence between the two industries.
  One of the more ambitious concepts unveiled came in the form of LG’s Omnipod (pictured) – which the south Korean firm described as ‘a future mobility concept cabin that can reconstruct the customer’s space for purpose.’
  It’s a concept for some sort of mega-advanced caravan essentially.
  
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• OpenRAN takes centre stage as Rakuten orchestrates Symphony spin-off

  05-01-2022 13:40
  
  Rakuten Mobile’s OpenRAN effort is going up-tempo, thanks to its most recent corporate rejig.
  The Japanese operator group has spun off its Symphony unit into a separate, wholly-owned subsidiary, giving it free rein to pitch its portfolio of 4G and 5G infrastructure and platforms to a global audience.
  This is not the sort of spin-off that will culminate in a sale. Symphony only has a nominal number of shares – 2,000 to be precise – and they are all owned by Rakuten. Rather, this
  
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• China Mobile: one of the safer calls among local companies

  05-01-2022 13:30
  State-owned group benefits from growing demand for 5G, backed by Beijing’s encouragement to spread the technology
  
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• New UK national security law has implications for telecoms M&A

  05-01-2022 13:13
  
  The new national security law that could enable the UK government to block mergers and acquisitions moves it doesn’t fancy has come into force.
  Westminster is doing its best to maintain a pro-trade environment by insisting that the majority of deals will be unaffected. Nonetheless, it’s pretty clear that there could be big implications for the telecoms sector, particularly given the timing of the move.
  The National Security and Investment (NSI) Act was conceived in the wake of the Hu
  
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• AWS Joins Board of prpl Foundation to Standardize Orchestration of CPE Software with the Cloud

  05-01-2022 10:00
  
  Framingham, Massachusetts, 05 January 2021: prpl Foundation today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined its board. The announcement aims to help standardize cloud-based application orchestration to manage the life cycles of containerized software components for next-generation customer-premises equipment (CPE) software stacks. This will enable service providers to more easily scale operations through the containerization of apps and services, moving away from monolithic firmware up
  
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• Startup Stories: Ethucal data trading and securing digital lives

  05-01-2022 01:00
  Tell us about Praeferre We help people and businesses to address concerns around data privacy and data sharing through enabling businesses to create informed consent management and offer incentives for the sharing of customer data. Through our one-of-a-kind SaaS platform, PRAEFERRE allows business to bring transparency in customer data management and helps individuals to take control of their data. Our ethical data trading framework help individuals to manage their digital life’
  
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• Startup Stories: Ethical data trading and securing digital lives

  05-01-2022 01:00
  Tell us about Praeferre We help people and businesses to address concerns around data privacy and data sharing through enabling businesses to create informed consent management and offer incentives for the sharing of customer data. Through our one-of-a-kind SaaS platform, PRAEFERRE allows business to bring transparency in customer data management and helps individuals to take control of their data. Our ethical data trading framework help individuals to manage their digital life’
  
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• EXA Infrastructure and IslaLink announce agreement for IONIAN cable system

  05-01-2022 01:00
  EXA Infrastructure, the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platform connecting Europe and North America, and Islalink, a neutral fibre infrastructure operator specialising in submarine cables, today announced a partnership whereby EXA will become the key landing and terrestrial services partner in Italy and anchor tenant in IONIAN.Islalink is building IONIAN, a 24 fibre pair ultra-low-loss fibre optic cable across the Ionian Sea from Crotone in southern Italy to Preveza in Greece, offerin
  
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• Bharti Airtel not restructuring after all, forms satellite JV

  05-01-2022 01:00
  Back in April last year, Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced that it was preparing a major reshuffle that would see its telecom business separated from its own units. As part of the move, the company’s digital and infrastructure assets would remain under the parent business, while the telecoms unit itself would move to the newly created Airtel Ltd.  At the time, the separation made a lot of sense…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Axione Fibre’s £300m UK fibre rollout may begin in St. Andrews

  05-01-2022 01:00
  With ambitious fibre targets for 2025 set by the government, investment in the UK’s fixed broadband sector has been booming in the past couple of years, with numerous new players emerging to fight for their share of the spoils.  In August last year, one such emerging player was Axione Fibre, a new subsidiary of French operator Axione, who announced that they had received &pound…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airtel Africa closes $176m Tanzanian tower sale

  05-01-2022 01:00
  Airtel Africa have today announced the first closing of a deal that will see them offload roughly 1,400 mobile sites across Tanzania for $176 million. The buyer in this case is a joint venture between SBA Communications Corp and Paradigm Infrastructure Ltd., in which SBA is the majority owner…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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