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• Currys says its boom time for refurbished tech

  14-02-2023 17:15
  Tech retail chain Currys says that 80% of its refurbished devices sell out within the first week of going on sale, as it expands its online store to include even cheaper/more knackered items.
  Having started trialling the sale of cut price pre-owned mobiles and laptops in November, Currys says sales have ‘boomed’, with 80% of the refurbished product lines selling out within the first week of sales.
  Refurbished laptops are apparently in particularly high demand, and now the retailer is
  
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• EU probes in-flight connectivity impact of Viasat Inmarsat acquisition

  14-02-2023 13:50
  The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Inmarsat by Viasat, fearing it might harm competition in the in-flight connectivity market.
  Viasat unveiled its $7 billion swoop all the way back 2001 and must be frustrated by the fact that it has taken the EC over a year to look into the deal and come to the conclusion that it needs to look into it a bit more. Even by EC standards this feels like glacial progress and it’s very difficult to imagi
  
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• Nokia and Kyndryl renew their business vows

  14-02-2023 12:16
  Kit vendor Nokia and IT infrastructure firm Kyndryl have signed a new three-year agreement which will see collaboration on LTE and 5G private wireless services, Industry 4.0 offerings, and a new partner innovation lab.
  The two firms intend upon an ‘expansion’ of their partnership, which would appear to mean working together even more so on industry 4.0 tech projects, and they will open a partner innovation lab in Raleigh, North Carolina, which will be focussed on developing wireless
  
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• LightCounting: Backbone and Metro Networks to Be Upgraded to 400G, and 100G/200G to Be Widely Deployed on Metro Access Networks

  14-02-2023 11:49
  LightCounting, a market research institute in the optical communications industry, recently released its latest report: Priorities of Service Providers for DWDM Networks of the Future. After conducting more than 20 interviews with leading telecom operators and cloud computing companies in Europe, Japan, North America and China over the past six months, LightCounting believes that WDM networks will trend towards higher data transmission rates, wider spectrums, and more flexibility and automation.
  
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