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• Protected: Charging Systems for Standalone 5G — A new paradigm for monetization

  29-09-2023 21:57
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• Charging Systems for Standalone 5G — A new paradigm for monetization

  29-09-2023 21:57
  5G provides a huge leap ahead in how charging provides a more collective capability (for 3G, 4G, 5G, fixed line etc.). This is unlike phased transformation of monetization in the past. CSPs now need a more flexible charging system that is integral to rapidly evolving services.
  5G provides a huge leap ahead in how charging provides a more collective capability (for 3G, 4G, 5G, fixed line etc.). This is unlike phased transformation of monetization in the past. CSPs now need a more flexible chargin
  
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• The opportunity in generative AI for Telecom

  29-09-2023 21:40
  As technology paves the way for ground-breaking advancements, generative artificial intelligence (AI) captures attention and interest across the telecom industry. Learn about the opportunities for generative AI in telecom and discover which use cases have been already implemented by leading telcos.
  In the ever-evolving telecommunications industry landscape, continuous innovation is imperative to meet the demands of a digitally-driven world. As technology paves the way for ground-breaking advance
  
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• Fiber Development Index Analysis: 2023

  29-09-2023 18:13
  The Fiber Development Index (FDI) tracks and benchmarks fiber development across 93 countries and territories. Fiber investment is vital to the quality delivery of all data services and, therefore, it merits thorough contextual analysis. Unlike other fiber benchmarks that largely track household coverage and/or penetration, the FDI includes a wider set of fiber investment metrics.
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• Fliggs Mobile launches as an ‘all-digital Web 3 MVNO’

  29-09-2023 17:51
  In collaboration with T-Mobile, Fliggs Mobile is pitching itself as the first all-digital Web 3 MVNO, and is apparently all about ‘putting the mobile service provider at the heart of enabling Web 3 mass adoption.’
  Fliggs mobile has an integrated a non-custodial wallet in its mobile app, claims to be the first MVNO to provide a decentralized ID, and enables universal access to Web3 and FinTech services, including cryptocurrency payments.
  It’s built on Moflix, which the release s
  
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• Altnets’ Path to Survival and Success in a Competitive Market

  29-09-2023 13:49
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Steve Kingdom, Chief Technology Officer at Xantaro, analyses the UK altnet sector.
  The UK has witnessed an upsurge in alternative broadband networks (altnets), that are rising to the challenge of filling the connectivity gap in under-connected areas across the country. A report from UK independent broadband provider trade body, the Independent Networks Cooperati
  
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• Stonepeak snaps up 49% of Cellnex’s subsidiaries in Sweden and Denmark

  29-09-2023 13:14
  Investment firm Stonepeak has reached am agreement with towerco Cellnex to acquire a 49% interest in Cellnex Sweden and Cellnex Denmark for €730 million.
  Cellnex will continue to manage the day-to-day business of Cellnex Nordics, we’re told. Cellnex Nordics, which the operations in Sweeden and Denmark are conglomerated as, operates 4,557 sites, and holds commitments and options to build around 2,500 more in the region.
  The deal will have to go through regulatory approvals next, but is
  
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• RMT tube strike to cause severe disruption to the London Underground next week

  29-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will likely be severe disruption to the London Underground for much of next week if two tube strikes by RMT members go ahead.Transport for London (TfL) is warning that the strike will cause disruption across the Tube network throughout 4th and 6th October and in the mornings of 5th and 7th October if it goes ahead. Also, the Night Tube is not expected to operate on Friday 6th October.
  The strike only affects station and revenue staff, not train drivers, so while trains will be able to run
  
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• Qualcomm drops a couple of XR/AR/MR flavoured chipsets

  29-09-2023 12:08
  Chip maker Qualcomm has announced two new ‘spatial computing platforms’ – the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 and the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 which are designed to serve various VR, MR, AR functions.
  The Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 Platform has an emphasis on power efficiency since it’s designed for VR helmets and glasses, features 2.5x better GPU performance than the previous version, and is apparently optimised for up to 3K resolution per eye.
  It comes loaded with higher fidelity positional
  
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• A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits

  29-09-2023 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hello,
  I’ve been contacted a few times recently about the sharp decline in descriptive images on the events listings. A picture really helps to show what an event will be like, and people are asking why there’s been a decline in them — however, a problem has arisen over the past year.
  Copyright trolls.
  I’ve been walloped recently by a cluster of start-up companies that scan websites looking for photo infringements.
  If I’ve made the mistake myself, then I put my hand
  
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• For a few weeks only: British Museum displays a fragile 1,500 year old Chinese scroll

  29-09-2023 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large but also very fragile document that can only be seen for a few weeks each year will be displayed next week at the British Museum.The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies is a Chinese scroll thought to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, such document in the world, and it is around 1,500 years old. The one in the museum is probably a copy of an earlier scroll, and they think it was composed to reprimand Empress Jia and provide advice to the women in the imperial court.
  
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• Sky suffers mobile outages in push to strip Huawei from UK 5G networks

  29-09-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  Industry executives have warned for years about disruption for consumers
  
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