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• The 5G-enabled B2B opportunity for MVNOs

  10-02-2022 17:57
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Stephen Randall, CTO, MDS Global talks about the 5G-enabled B2B opportunity for MVNOs.
  Think MVNO and you largely think of the consumer market. The sector is also characterised by innovative pricing and a nimble approach that traditional operators find difficult to match. However, as the mobile market evolves with the advent of 5G networks, could those same MVNO
  
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• Rajant and solution partners showcase reliable and secure smartfield connectivity at EGYPS

  10-02-2022 17:45
  
  Drones, Augmented Reality, and Personnel & Asset Tracking Features of Show Demos Morehead, KY – February 10, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and its technology partners will be attending EGYPS (Egypt Petroleum Show) in Cairo at the Egypt International Exhibition Center. The event runs February 14th to 16th, with Rajant joining partners in Hall 2, Space F56. Presenting the reliable and secure collaborative solution for energy market IIoT con
  
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• Vodafone rejects Iliad’s €11bn offer for its Italian business

  10-02-2022 16:14
  UK-listed telecoms group says bid does not represent ‘best interests of shareholders’
  
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• Vodafone rejects €11bn Iliad offer for its Italian business

  10-02-2022 16:14
  UK-listed telecoms group says bid does not represent ‘best interests of shareholders’
  
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• Vodafone/Iliad: Italian sale could presage broader break-up

  10-02-2022 16:07
  Plans by the FTSE 100 group to consolidate pan-European telecoms look increasingly shaky
  
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• Construction of HS2’s Colne Valley viaduct segments has started

  10-02-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work on the UK’s longest railway bridge ramped up earlier this week as HS2 began production of the first of 1,000 huge concrete segments that will eventually be used to form the deck of the Colne Valley railway viaduct. Stretching for 2.1 miles across a series of lakes and waterways just inside the M25, the bridge will be made up a number of shallow spans up to 80 metres long that leap across the lakes.
  Colne Valley Viaduct (c) HS2
  The huge deck segments – which weigh up to 140 tonne
  
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• Qualcomm invests in the European metaverse

  10-02-2022 15:26
  
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm reckons Europeans need a big dose of extended reality so it’s opening six new labs across the continent.
  Qualcomm has been trying to coin the term ‘XR’ for years, in an apparent attempt to conflate augmented reality, virtual reality and whichever other attempts to improve on mother nature the tech sector dreams up. The X signifies ‘extended’ and was presumably chosen because it’s a bit less dystopian than ‘optimised’ o
  
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• GSMA expects MWC 2022 to be half its pre-pandemic size

  10-02-2022 14:55
  
  Mobile trade body the GSMA, which runs the Mobile World Congress trade show, said it expects around 50,000 attendees at the event later this month.
  To put that into context, last year’s MWC attracted 20,000 brave masked-up souls, who risked quarantine and Bon Jovi to attend the Barcelona show in person. Apparently around 100,000 ‘unique virtual and daily viewers’ got involved remotely in some capacity.
  So things are recovering, as you’d expect, since by any measure Covid
  
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• UK’s consolidation merry-go-round takes another turn

  10-02-2022 13:29
  
  Comms regulator Ofcom set tongues wagging in the UK this week when it appeared to soften its stance on mobile network consolidation.
  Except it hasn’t. Not in any meaningful way, anyway.
  The reason for all the excitement is due to a discussion paper published on Wednesday, in which the telco regulator insisted it isn’t fussed about the actual number of MNOs in the UK:
  “The question of whether a particular merger is likely to result in a substantial lessening of competition will
  
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• Gainsborough’s Blue Boy returns to London

  10-02-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a couple of months, it’s possible to see a painting in London whose sale a century ago to an America caused an outcry to save it for the nation. Unsuccessfully.
  The painting, made in 1770, of a young man in a striking blue outfit in a style similar to Anthony van Dyck was painted by Gainsborough as a challenge to his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, who had declared that blue should be avoided in paintings in favour of the warmer colours.Although not initially appreciated by the public, by t
  
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• Brazil approves reduction in mobile players, with conditions

  10-02-2022 12:58
  
  Brazil’s antitrust body has given the green light to the proposed acquisition of mobile operator Oi by its three rivals, but has imposed a series of conditions on the deal in a bid to preserve competition.
  The conditions include requirements on the three buyers to provide wholesale and MVNO deals across all technologies, including 5G and IoT, as you might expect with a deal in which the number of market players is reduced. But most interestingly, the regulator wants the three remaining ope
  
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• Small Cell Forum appoints Simon Fletcher as Chief Strategy Officer to drive its support for neutral hosts, private network operators and Open RAN architectures

  10-02-2022 12:10
  
  10th February 2022, London, UK – Small Cell Forum (SCF) today announced it has appointed wireless veteran Simon Fletcher as its Chief Strategy Officer, drawing on 25 years direct industry experience and work as an advisor to governments, regulators and big business. SCF CEO Sue Monahan said: ‘We’re delighted to have someone with Simon’s knowledge and contacts in the CSO role. Simon’s brief is to continue to build and strengthen SCF’s technical and regulatory..
  
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• Ukrainian fibre rollout through Ukrainian-Slovenian partnership

  10-02-2022 12:09
  
  The two-year programme from Ukrtelecom and Iskratel is financed by Slovenian banks Kranj, Slovenia, and Kyiv, Ukraine, 10 February 2022 – The first €3 million financial investment as part of a €12 million national fibre rollout programme set to bridge the digital divide across Ukraine has been spent. Ukrtelecom’s partnership with Iskratel and Slovenian banks including state owned SID banka will help expand connectivity to more than 1.3 million people across Ukraine. The inv
  
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• Museum of London is to close for 3 years from this December

  10-02-2022 10:11 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Museum of London is set to close later this year, and will reopen as the renamed The London Museum in a new £337 million home at Smithfield in 2025.
  New museum site (c) Museum of London
  The museum, currently based in a 1970s building at London Wall has been working on redeveloping a cluster of former Smithfield market buildings close to Farringdon for the past few years, but there comes a point when all the historic artefacts need to move from one site to the other, and that process st
  
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• Infovista launches Smart CAPEX solution to deploy and scale 5G networks that deliver maximum ROI

  10-02-2022 10:00
  
  AI/ML-based network planning, optimization, and modelling solution to deliver mobile network with the highest revenue potential Paris, France – February 10th, 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced its innovative Smart CAPEX solution for operators and businesses designing, deploying and operating 5G networks. Smart CAPEX accelerates and increases the return on investment (ROI) from 5G network rollout, expansion and densification by
  
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• Legacies: London Transport’s Caribbean workforce

  10-02-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In the 1950s and 60s, London Transport, struggling to recruit staff locally, turned to the Caribbean, and in doing so changed not just London’s transport, but London itself.
  A new exhibition at the London Transport Museum looks at how public transport ran recruitment campaigns both in London and the Caribbean to fill a labour shortage that threatened to bring the Capital’s buses and trains to a shuddering halt.It’s a mix of an exhibition, ranging from the early recruitment camp
  
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• Startup Stories: delivering the benefits of Industry 4.0 without scrapping existing equipment

  10-02-2022 01:00
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  Osmium connects automated equipment of all makes and models - PLCs, variable-speed drives, sensors, monitors and HMIs - to users and to the cloud, enabling businesses to get the productivity benefits of Industry 4.0 while preserving their existing supply chain relationships and without having to invest in costly new internet…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Shaping the next generation of the subsea industry

  10-02-2022 01:00
  Although a relatively niche section of the wider telecom industry, the submarine cable market is one of the most important global industries. With an estimated 98% of global internet traffic travelling via subsea cables, the industry plays a crucial role in keeping the world connected. Pretty impressive, right? With that in mind, surely everyone should want to work in the submarine cable industry…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Joby and SK Telecom plan to introduce aerial ride-sharing in South Korea

  10-02-2022 01:00
  The agreement supports the Korean Urban Air Mobility Roadmap, introduced by the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in 2020, in which South Korea expects to establish fixed corridors for initial operations…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Growing pains - T-Mobile Netherlands focuses on customer satisfaction

  10-02-2022 01:00
  Netcracker Technology announced today that T-Mobile Netherlands, the largest mobile operator in the Netherlands, will upgrade to Netcracker Cloud BSS to accelerate time to market, lower total cost of ownership and provide a differentiated customer experience.Netcracker&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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