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• ‘We can never get rid of the history’: Ericsson chief on Isis payments

  18-02-2022 23:00
  Revelation by Borje Ekholm an unwelcome reminder of 2019 bribery scandal at telecoms group
  
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• Discount tickets to see The Mousetrap

  18-02-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Famously the world’s longest consistently running play – pandemic excepted – Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap has now been running for 68 years, and is one of those plays that everyone is presumed to see once in their lives.
  The murder-mystery storyline is set at “the present”, which presumably means England as it was around the time when the play came out in 1952, including the postwar continuation of World War II rationing.The play is based on a short story but C
  
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• Virgin Media O2 chief warns BT had ‘better watch out’ in broadband fight

  18-02-2022 15:55
  Lutz Schüler singles out incumbent as telecoms groups race to roll out faster fibre networks
  
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• Liberty Global, Telefonica and VMO2 confirm new joint network plans

  18-02-2022 14:29
  
  Virgin Media O2 and owners Liberty Global and Telefonica have confirmed they are in discussions with a number of potential financial partners regarding a new fibre joint venture.
  The new entity is apparently tasked with building out a full fibre network of up to 7 million premises in new greenfield areas by the end of 2027, with VMO2 acting as an ‘anchor tenant’ of the new network.
  This follows reports last month in which some sources claimed the companies were looking to raise as mu
  
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• Qualcomm and HPE collaborate over OpenRAN kit

  18-02-2022 13:07
  
  US tech players Qualcomm and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are teaming up to make OpenRAN-optimised 5G virtualized distributed units.
  There doesn’t seem to be any new technology involved in the collaboration, rather the bundling together of their relevant kit to make a complete vDU offering. Specifically Qualcomm is throwing its 5G DU X100 Accelerator Card (pictured) into the mix, together with HPE’s ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus Telco Server. The resulting thing is designed to make it easi
  
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• One third off Railcards with Trainline this month

  18-02-2022 11:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Rail tickets seller Trainline is offering a one-third discount on its railcards this month, which in turn gets you savings on rail journeys for the rest of the year.
  Basically, you buy an annual railcard, and then when you buy tickets from Trainline, you get discounts on train fares each time you use it. For most people who make more than just a couple of trips each year, you will find the discounts more than cover the cost of the railcard.
  The annual railcards usually cost £30, but are cu
  
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• Telcos not ready to make money from 5G – Nokia

  18-02-2022 10:30
  
  Telcos are woefully underprepared to make money from 5G, according to new research from Finnish kit vendor Nokia.
  The company surveyed 100 CSPs worldwide and discovered that most do not have sufficient BSS systems in place to enable them to monetise 5G effectively. You could be forgiven for scrolling on past this headline finding, given that Nokia has a vested interest in persuading telecoms operators they need to buy more kit for 5G. But a closer look at the vendor’s survey results shows
  
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• Deutsche Telekom talks up power grid partnerships

  18-02-2022 10:00
  
  German incumbent Deutsche Telekom has established partnerships with power company Hitachi Energy and security services provider Securitas to develop an overarching approach to protecting the grid.
  Power grids represent a juicy opportunity for hackers to cause maximum disruption, and correspondingly, securing them could prove lucrative for telcos. Deutsche Telekom, which has a dedicated cybersecurity division called Telekom Security, wants to specifically address the energy supply sector.
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• VMO2 confirms fibre JV talks with investors

  18-02-2022 01:00
  Last week, rumours were emerging suggesting that the owners of VMO2 – Liberty Global and Telefonica – had entered into discussions with investors for the creation of a new JV to help accelerate the rollout of FTTP in the UK.At the time, sources were suggesting that VMO2 would be looking to raise as much as £1 billion to help launch the new business…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefónica implements Eco Rating to identify sustainable mobile phones

  18-02-2022 01:00
  Telefónica implements Eco Rating, a labelling system that identifies the most sustainable mobile phones, in all its markets by extending it to its operations in Latin America where the operator is present: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, with the exception of Venezuela, as it does not market devices there. The operator had already implemented it in Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil.This announcement paves the way for Eco Rating to become a global standardi
  
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• OneWeb partners Clarus Networks in new distribution deal

  18-02-2022 01:00
  OneWeb, the low earth orbit satellite communications company, announced today a new UK-based distribution partner, The Clarus Networks Group, to deliver OneWeb's high-speed, low-latency communications services across the U.K. and Northern Europe. Supported by a global network of gateways and user terminals, OneWeb's global connectivity platform will provide high…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T chasing green goals with new solar power purchase

  18-02-2022 01:00
  AT&T has announced two new virtual power purchase agreements with Dutch energy and commodities trader Vitol, buying 155MW of capacity at two upcoming solar plants. According to the operator, 80MW of capacity will come from the Bluegrass project in Maryland, while the other 75MW will come from the Swiftwater project in Pennsylvania…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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