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• Does Matter really matter?

  10-01-2022 15:04
  
  Matter – the connectivity standard backed by tech’s heavy hitters – is designed to make the smart home concept more appealing and feasible, but will anyone outside the industry care?
  It might seem unlikely that a connectivity standard set up to reduce fragmentation across IoT device ecosystems would be one of buzziest things to come out of tech megashow CES, but it was.
  The collaborative project was launched in 2019 by Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung SmartThings and the Zigbee A
  
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• The rising significance of trust in the digital world

  10-01-2022 13:39
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Vinod Kumar, CEO and Managing Director of Subex, explores the concept of trust in a digital context.
  Over the centuries, if there has been one aspect that has propelled businesses to success, it is trust. As humans, we are quick to avoid uncertainties and subconsciously tend to gravitate towards entities that promise us predictable outcomes. Some of the world&rs
  
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• O2 exploits opportunity created by competitors’ new roaming charges

  10-01-2022 12:57
  
  Virgin Media O2 has confirmed it won’t be in traducing EU roaming charges, making it the only one of the four UK MNOs to do so.
  EE, Vodafone and Three all announced plans last year to charge their customers a daily flat fee to use their data and minutes in the EU, with O2 staying silent. Faced with the moment of truth, however, EE and Voda decided to delay, citing vague testing reasons. Could the real reason have been that they knew this VMO2 announcement was imminent and they wanted to gi
  
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• T-Mobile US hoovered up 5.5m postpaid customers in 2021

  10-01-2022 12:33
  
  US MNO T-Mobile is once again patting itself on the back by revealing 2021 was a record year for customer additions.
  Preliminary results published last week by the self-styled ‘un-carrier’ show that its postpaid base increased by a record 5.5 million last year, easily topping its guidance of 5.3 million. It added 1.8 million in the fourth quarter alone, also a new company record. The number of postpaid accounts was up by 2.1 million in 2021, and its prepaid customer base also increas
  
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• Free Mobile turns 10 but has yet to hit market share target

  10-01-2022 12:28
  
  Free Mobile is celebrating its tenth birthday, but while it has undoubtedly changed the face of the French mobile sector in the past decade, it has yet to hit its core market share target.
  Understandably, the telco is making a lot of noise about its achievements since it hit the market on 10 January 2012, disrupting a long-standing three-player set-up. Its low-cost, simple plans saw it rack up millions of subscribers in its first few months in operation, taking a 5.4% market share in six months
  
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• Borderlink gets £164 million fund for fibre rollout up north

  10-01-2022 12:10
  
  Specialist asset management company Gresham House has invested £165 million into broadband provider Borderlink to boost its broadband expansion in Scotland and the North of England.
  This follows an April £10.5m investment from Gresham House into Borderlink, which trades as GoFibre, as part of its ‘British Strategic Investment Fund’. Borderlink says the funds will enable it to connect up to 500,000 homes in the regions to gigabit-capable speeds over the next three years.
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• AccelerComm Joins Small Cell Forum to Help Improve Interoperability and Maximize Spectral Efficiency for Dense 5G Networks

  10-01-2022 11:41
  
  Southampton University Spin-Out Joins industry association developing the technical and commercial enablers to accelerate small cell adoption and drive wide-scale densification Southampton, UK – Monday 10th January 2022: AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with a complete physical layer solution which increases spectral efficiency and reduces latency, today announced that it has joined Small Cell Forum (SCF), the industry association developing the technical and commercial enablers t
  
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• Nuvias UC Fuels Its Growth In Europe Through Alliance Technologies GmbH Acquisition

  10-01-2022 11:00
  
  Cwmbran, UK – 10th January 2022. As part of its exciting and fast-paced growth, driven by increased demand from its customer base to provide best of breed solutions across Europe, Nuvias UC announces the acquisition of Alliance Technologies GmbH, a UC specialised, value added distributor founded in 2001. Headquartered in Germany, Alliance Technologies focuses on technology services and intelligent communications. The acquisition of Alliance Technologies enables Nuvias UC to address the gro
  
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• Ontix names Andy McKinnon as Chief Commercial Officer

  10-01-2022 10:07
  
  Wireless industry veteran joins next generation infrastructure-as-a-service provider to drive growth in emerging neutral host market London, UK Monday 10th January 2022 -- Ontix, the company delivering Next-Generation Wireless Infrastructure-as-a-Service, today announced the appointment of Andy McKinnon as Chief Commercial Officer, with overall responsibility for sales and marketing at the company. Mr. McKinnon has more than 30 years of global IT and telecommunications experience, most recently
  
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• Norlys expands wholesale business with new launch on Cerillion

  10-01-2022 09:30
  
  London, 10th January 2022 – Cerillion (AIM: CER) today announced a significant step in the successful deployment of its Enterprise BSS/OSS suite at Norlys in Denmark, enabling Norlys to expand its market reach through connectivity into the country’s open access wholesale platform. The Cerillion solution automates service fulfilment for new fibre services, enabling Norlys to seamlessly grow its addressable market as it invests in further network rollouts. As an infrastructure owner wi
  
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• Syria prepares to make way for third mobile player

  10-01-2022 01:00
  When it comes to the telecoms sector, Syria has been a duopoly for over 20 years. Now, however, it seems that the Syrian government is finally beginning to make way for a third mobile operator, with the national regular releasing statements confirming the draft licence for a new mobile player. The regulator said that the new operator must offer modern services in line with global standards, including launching with 4G technology and being prepared to launch 5G in the future…read mor
  
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• Borderlink bags £164m in funding for fibre in the North

  10-01-2022 01:00
  Today, UK altnet Borderlink has announced that it has received a further £164 million in order to accelerate and expand its FTTP rollout across Northern England and Southern Scotland. Founded in 2017, Borderlink was established to help provide broadband services to the areas surrounding the Scottish Borders…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BAI Communications and Mavenir team up for Sunderland smart city project

  10-01-2022 01:00
  Mavenir, the Network Software Provider building the future of networks with cloud-native software that runs on any cloud and transforms the way the world connects, today announced that BAI Communications (BAI), a global communications infrastructure provider, will be launching a Smart City project for Sunderland City Council in the north of England (UK), powered by Mavenir’s MAVedge solution.BAI Communications will build a new 5G centric network to accelerate adoption of transformative di
  
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• A three-horse race emerging for Orange CEO position

  10-01-2022 01:00
  In November 2021, long-serving Orange CEO Stephane Richard was charged with the misuse of public funds, leading to his immediate resignation from his leadership position at Orange.  The conviction came after the Paris Court of Appeal ruled against him in a legal scuffle that dates back to 2008, when Richard was serving as chief of staff to then French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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