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June 24, 2019
16:52
Kenyan MPs renew bid for mobile money separation
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Mobile operators in Kenya would be forced to spin-out business lines outside of their core telecommunications businesses if a bill set to be presented to the country’s parliament is passed into law, Business Daily reported. The Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill 2019, which is set to be debated by politicians, includes rules which would force the country’s operators to legally separate all business units acting outside of the communications sector. It would also require new licences to be obtained for services falling outside of the remit of the country's communications regulator. If approved, the regulations would apply to the country’s thriving mobile money ecosystem and any additional industries providers are active in. Companies would have six months to apply any required changes. Legislation covers all of the country’s providers, but would likely hit dominant player Safaricom the hardest with its CEO Bob Collymore recently forecasting [1] its mobile money service would provide more than half of the company’s revenue within four years. Outside of mobile money, Safaricom is also rumoured to be trialing a messaging platform for the Kenyan market. Previous moves to force Safaricom to separate its burgeoning mobile money unit [2] from its core telecommunications business fell flat in 2017 after they were savagely dismissed by Kenyan ministers [3] and experts linked to Safaricom [4]. In March, efforts to divide Safaricom were renewed by a section of MPs [5] in the country. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:] [4] [https:] [5] [https:]
16:52
Kenyan MPs renew bid for mobile money separation
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Mobile operators in Kenya would be forced to spin-out business lines outside of their core telecommunications businesses if a bill set to be presented to the country’s parliament is passed into law, Business Daily reported. The Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill 2019, which is set to be debated by politicians, includes rules which would force the country’s operators to legally separate all business units acting outside of the communications sector. It would also require new licences to be obtained for services falling outside of the remit of the country's communications regulator. If approved, the regulations would apply to the country’s thriving mobile money ecosystem and any additional industries providers are active in. Companies would have six months to apply any required changes. Legislation covers all of the country’s providers, but would likely hit dominant player Safaricom the hardest with its CEO Bob Collymore recently forecasting [1] its mobile money service would provide more than half of the company’s revenue within four years. Outside of mobile money, Safaricom is also rumoured to be trialing a messaging platform for the Kenyan market. Previous moves to force Safaricom to separate its burgeoning mobile money unit [2] from its core telecommunications business fell flat in 2017 after they were savagely dismissed by Kenyan ministers [3] and experts linked to Safaricom [4]. In March, efforts to divide Safaricom were renewed by a section of MPs [5] in the country. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:] [4] [https:] [5] [https:]
12:59
LG brushes off domestic 5G flagship delay
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LG Electronics played down the impact of a postponed domestic launch [1] of its V50 ThinQ 5G device, stating it sold four-times more units in the first week than its previous flagship smartphone once available. The vendor stated the model’s launch was “delayed for a few days” to enable South Korean operators to “work out some early network jitters”. With the operators staking a claim to being the first in the world to deploy consumer 5G services [2] in April, LG said such issues are “to be expected for such new tech”. Once available, it sold 100,000 units in its first week, LG said, noting this was “quadruple the sales” of its V40 ThinQ. For context, South Korea’s government revealed 260,000 subscribers signed up [3] to 5G services in the country in the first weeks of availability. LG stated most Korean consumers were interested in the greater speeds 5G brings, but inevitably noted design features of the V50 ThinQ 5G, including a smooth glass backing and improved cooling as factors influencing their choice. It is relying on the device to help kick-start its ailing mobile device business, which recorded a higher net loss [4] and a 29 per cent year-on-year drop in sales in the opening quarter. LG racked up wins for the V50 ThinQ in South Korea with all three operators, along with the UK (via EE [5]), US (Sprint [6] and, reportedly, Verizon) and Australia (Telstra). LG however faces stiff competition from rival Samsung, which has also racked up wins for its Galaxy S10 both at home and overseas. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:] [4] [https:] [5] [https:] [6] [https:]
12:59
LG brushes off domestic 5G flagship delay
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LG Electronics played down the impact of a postponed domestic launch [1] of its V50 ThinQ 5G device, stating it sold four-times more units in the first week than its previous flagship smartphone once available. The vendor stated the model’s launch was “delayed for a few days” to enable South Korean operators to “work out some early network jitters”. With the operators staking a claim to being the first in the world to deploy consumer 5G services [2] in April, LG said such issues are “to be expected for such new tech”. Once available, it sold 100,000 units in its first week, LG said, noting this was “quadruple the sales” of its V40 ThinQ. For context, South Korea’s government revealed 260,000 subscribers signed up [3] to 5G services in the country in the first weeks of availability. LG stated most Korean consumers were interested in the greater speeds 5G brings, but inevitably noted design features of the V50 ThinQ 5G, including a smooth glass backing and improved cooling as factors influencing their choice. It is relying on the device to help kick-start its ailing mobile device business, which recorded a higher net loss [4] and a 29 per cent year-on-year drop in sales in the opening quarter. LG racked up wins for the V50 ThinQ in South Korea with all three operators, along with the UK (via EE [5]), US (Sprint [6] and, reportedly, Verizon) and Australia (Telstra). LG however faces stiff competition from rival Samsung, which has also racked up wins for its Galaxy S10 both at home and overseas. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:] [4] [https:] [5] [https:] [6] [https:]
12:54
Xiaomi touts youth-oriented line
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Xiaomi announced another new smartphone series, CC, which it said is aimed at the global young generation with its “trendy design and camera features”. In a statement, it said that in addition to representing “camera+camera”, which reflects its use of dual cameras, CC “also referrers to a variety of meanings including chic, cool, colourful and creative”. Products are created by one of the youngest product teams within the company, of which half are “art majors” dedicated to creating designs for younger customers. The company did not, however, reveal any details of its first CC device. Xiaomi said CC is “designed to be a flagship for photography and selfies”, with the smartphone using an algorithm from the newly-formed Xiaomi x Meitu AI Beauty Lab. This was created following an agreement between Xiaomi and Meitu [1], which brought its own device making unit to a close having struggled to generate scale. The partnership, which is said to be mainly focused on technology, is expected to “further expand and diversify” the Xiaomi user base. Apparently Meitu is a popular brand among female smartphone users. The company said the new moniker will further consolidate the products which come under its Mi brand. Its numbered Mi and Mi Mix lines represent its “most innovative and trendy” smartphones, while RedMi, which became an independent brand earlier this year [2], is focused on “the best cost performance”. It also has another device business, Poco [3]. Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, said: “Being simple, splendid, sincere and straightforward, I believe Mi CC will be a good choice for all young people.” [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
12:54
Xiaomi touts youth-oriented line
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Xiaomi announced another new smartphone series, CC, which it said is aimed at the global young generation with its “trendy design and camera features”. In a statement, it said that in addition to representing “camera+camera”, which reflects its use of dual cameras, CC “also referrers to a variety of meanings including chic, cool, colourful and creative”. Products are created by one of the youngest product teams within the company, of which half are “art majors” dedicated to creating designs for younger customers. The company did not, however, reveal any details of its first CC device. Xiaomi said CC is “designed to be a flagship for photography and selfies”, with the smartphone using an algorithm from the newly-formed Xiaomi x Meitu AI Beauty Lab. This was created following an agreement between Xiaomi and Meitu [1], which brought its own device making unit to a close having struggled to generate scale. The partnership, which is said to be mainly focused on technology, is expected to “further expand and diversify” the Xiaomi user base. Apparently Meitu is a popular brand among female smartphone users. The company said the new moniker will further consolidate the products which come under its Mi brand. Its numbered Mi and Mi Mix lines represent its “most innovative and trendy” smartphones, while RedMi, which became an independent brand earlier this year [2], is focused on “the best cost performance”. It also has another device business, Poco [3]. Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, said: “Being simple, splendid, sincere and straightforward, I believe Mi CC will be a good choice for all young people.” [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
12:45
O2 throws support behind autonomous car project
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UK operator O2 will team with the European and UK space agencies to support a project designed to develop connectivity solutions for autonomous cars using 5G and satellite technology. In a statement, O2 and the two space agencies said they would help test new technology developed as part of a four-year trial programme dubbed “Project Darwin”, a scheme part-funded by the UK government. Project Darwin aims to develop new technology and connectivity solutions using 5G and satellite systems, with a major aim to ensure autonomous and connected vehicles can operate without a strong mobile signal The project brings together the universities of Oxford and Glasgow, Spanish satellite operator Hispasat and start-ups specialised in self driving mobility solutions. Also involved is terrestrial and satellite communications specialist Darwin Innovation Group Oxford. From next month, a design and definition phase is set to commence at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, exploring connected vehicle and vehicle to SIM platforms, as well as AI neural network integration. First proof of concepts are set to be showcased from 2020. COO at O2 UK, Derek McManus, said Project Darwin was “an important piece of the connected and autonomous vehicle puzzle”. “The research taking place at Harwell during the next four years could be vital in the creation of new transport ecosystems for the UK public and the companies that will offer these services.” According to O2's research, connected and autonomous vehicles are expected to generate unprecedented levels of data of 4TB per hour. Earlier this year, the operator also announced an autonomous vehicle testing project using its trial 5G network in Bedfordshire.
12:45
O2 throws support behind autonomous car project
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UK operator O2 will team with the European and UK space agencies to support a project designed to develop connectivity solutions for autonomous cars using 5G and satellite technology. In a statement, O2 and the two space agencies said they would help test new technology developed as part of a four-year trial programme dubbed “Project Darwin”, a scheme part-funded by the UK government. Project Darwin aims to develop new technology and connectivity solutions using 5G and satellite systems, with a major aim to ensure autonomous and connected vehicles can operate without a strong mobile signal The project brings together the universities of Oxford and Glasgow, Spanish satellite operator Hispasat and start-ups specialised in self driving mobility solutions. Also involved is terrestrial and satellite communications specialist Darwin Innovation Group Oxford. From next month, a design and definition phase is set to commence at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, exploring connected vehicle and vehicle to SIM platforms, as well as AI neural network integration. First proof of concepts are set to be showcased from 2020. COO at O2 UK, Derek McManus, said Project Darwin was “an important piece of the connected and autonomous vehicle puzzle”. “The research taking place at Harwell during the next four years could be vital in the creation of new transport ecosystems for the UK public and the companies that will offer these services.” According to O2's research, connected and autonomous vehicles are expected to generate unprecedented levels of data of 4TB per hour. Earlier this year, the operator also announced an autonomous vehicle testing project using its trial 5G network in Bedfordshire.
12:45
US mulls ban on 5G kit from China
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Suppliers of equipment used in 5G networks in the US could be forced to manufacture it outside of China, The Wall Street Journal reported, the latest sign of ramping trade tensions between the two countries. The news comes as US president Donald Trump and president of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet at the G20 summit this week to discuss the ongoing trade dispute. Days before the slated discussions, reports emerged US officials were considering slapping tighter restrictions on the importation of telecommunications network equipment manufactured in China. The mooted law would require all equipment related to domestic 5G networks including routers, switches and technology in towers to be made outside of China. In addition to the direct impact on companies based in China, several of which are already banned, the likes of Nokia and Ericsson also have facilities in the country and would be forced to ensure anything destined for the US was produced elsewhere. The move would be a result of a review of the country’s telecommunications supply chain taking place following an executive order from the White House. Last week, the US also added more China-based companies to its list of businesses unable to receive a range of goods from suppliers in the US. Crunch talks Ahead of the meeting of two leaders at the G20 Summit in Osaka, South China Morning Post reported comments from China’s vice-minister of commerce Wang Shouwen, urging compromise between both sides. Wang said the two sides needed to “meet halfway” by making concessions to reach an agreement on trade. He also called for the latest round of restrictions on China's companies to be removed.
12:45
US mulls ban on 5G kit from China
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Suppliers of equipment used in 5G networks in the US could be forced to manufacture it outside of China, The Wall Street Journal reported, the latest sign of ramping trade tensions between the two countries. The news comes as US president Donald Trump and president of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet at the G20 summit this week to discuss the ongoing trade dispute. Days before the slated discussions, reports emerged US officials were considering slapping tighter restrictions on the importation of telecommunications network equipment manufactured in China. The mooted law would require all equipment related to domestic 5G networks including routers, switches and technology in towers to be made outside of China. In addition to the direct impact on companies based in China, several of which are already banned, the likes of Nokia and Ericsson also have facilities in the country and would be forced to ensure anything destined for the US was produced elsewhere. The move would be a result of a review of the country’s telecommunications supply chain taking place following an executive order from the White House. Last week, the US also added more China-based companies to its list of businesses unable to receive a range of goods from suppliers in the US. Crunch talks Ahead of the meeting of two leaders at the G20 Summit in Osaka, South China Morning Post reported comments from China’s vice-minister of commerce Wang Shouwen, urging compromise between both sides. Wang said the two sides needed to “meet halfway” by making concessions to reach an agreement on trade. He also called for the latest round of restrictions on China's companies to be removed.
2:00
One Person, One Car, One Terminal, ZTE WNG Automatic Drive Test Solution Dramatically Improves O&M Efficiency
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With the rapid development of wireless networks, more requirements are brought on network quality. Drive Test is an necessary and important means for network construction and optimization, but it also takes up a great proportion of the network O&M cost. Traditional DT execution requires multiple professionals with multiple expensive technical instruments, and the data obtained requires a large amount of manpower for centralized analysis. The whole test requires high-skilled professionals, high-cost technical instruments and long test period. To make DT more efficient and accurate, while in the meantime reduce OPEX and manpower input, ZTE proposed the WNG (Wireless Network Guardian) automatic DT solution, the DT tasks can be performed by only one person, one car and one terminal. This solution realizes simple test and smart O&M, greatly improves DT efficiency, reduces professional manpower input, and makes useful improvements over traditional solutions in comprehensiveness of test scenarios, voice navigation and historical data analysis. WNG is an innovative automatic DT solution based on APP+ cloud architecture. It realizes automatic test log collection and analysis report output. The solution releases test task through the cloud management server, and a DT engineer only needs an Android terminal pre-installed with the WNG APP to conduct an automatic test and upload test log to the cloud analysis server. Compared with traditional DT scheme, WNG is simple to carry, easy to operate, applicable to various scenarios, and its test and analysis process is highly automatic. WNG solution only requires ordinary commercial terminals to perform DT test, CQT test and voice quality test. Generally, the cloud server releases test task to specified WNG terminal which automatically executes the test task. With simple training, a non-professional personnel is capable of conducting field test tasks, therefore the solution rids of dependence on professional instruments and personnel, each DT task can be completed by one person, one car and one terminal. The WNG test terminal can also provide voice navigation for test route of the corresponding DT task, and automatically identify CQT location to ensure accuracy of the test result. During a test, the test log collected by terminals is uploaded to the cloud server in real time, the server automatically analyzes the data, and outputs test report after the test is completed. With traditional solution, after collecting DT data, professional engineers need to manually analyze a large amount of data and output reports, the process requires a large amount of manpower and time, while errors may occur in manual statistics. WNG, which automatically analyzes data, outputs reports, completely changes the current method, it also supports customized reports, enables customers to focus on key KPIs, makes DT simple and efficient, and serves effectively for network optimization and quality improvement. With the development of network optimization, network data collection needs to be more accurate and comprehensive. However, in some special scenarios, such as high-speed railways, high-rise buildings, and certain residential areas, traditional DTs are difficult to obtain network data due to the large size and complexity of test instruments. WNG, with the advantage of portability and automation, is able to help operators scan the network in an all-round way. In addition, WNG can use taxis to perform blind network test, so the operators can draw a complete and accurate "portrait" for the network at a very low cost. In network construction and optimization, WNG is playing an increasingly important role. For example, in single-site verification, cluster optimization, FAC and PAC acceptance of a network construction phase, WNG has obvious advantages: Within one week, the acceptance test of more than 800 sites can be completed, and more than 1600 copies of DT/CQT reports can be finished. WNG, compared to traditional drive test, manpower can be reduced by 68%, and efficiency is improved by 65%. The solution can help operators achieve faster network acceptance and commercialization process. With the arrival of 5G, ZTE's WNG automatic DT solution will continue to help operators achieve high-efficiency operation and maintenance goals, enable operators to take the lead in 5G era and win trust!
2:00
One Person, One Car, One Terminal, ZTE WNG Automatic Drive Test Solution Dramatically Improves O&M Efficiency
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With the rapid development of wireless networks, more requirements are brought on network quality. Drive Test is an necessary and important means for network construction and optimization, but it also takes up a great proportion of the network O&M cost. Traditional DT execution requires multiple professionals with multiple expensive technical instruments, and the data obtained requires a large amount of manpower for centralized analysis. The whole test requires high-skilled professionals, high-cost technical instruments and long test period. To make DT more efficient and accurate, while in the meantime reduce OPEX and manpower input, ZTE proposed the WNG (Wireless Network Guardian) automatic DT solution, the DT tasks can be performed by only one person, one car and one terminal. This solution realizes simple test and smart O&M, greatly improves DT efficiency, reduces professional manpower input, and makes useful improvements over traditional solutions in comprehensiveness of test scenarios, voice navigation and historical data analysis. WNG is an innovative automatic DT solution based on APP+ cloud architecture. It realizes automatic test log collection and analysis report output. The solution releases test task through the cloud management server, and a DT engineer only needs an Android terminal pre-installed with the WNG APP to conduct an automatic test and upload test log to the cloud analysis server. Compared with traditional DT scheme, WNG is simple to carry, easy to operate, applicable to various scenarios, and its test and analysis process is highly automatic. WNG solution only requires ordinary commercial terminals to perform DT test, CQT test and voice quality test. Generally, the cloud server releases test task to specified WNG terminal which automatically executes the test task. With simple training, a non-professional personnel is capable of conducting field test tasks, therefore the solution rids of dependence on professional instruments and personnel, each DT task can be completed by one person, one car and one terminal. The WNG test terminal can also provide voice navigation for test route of the corresponding DT task, and automatically identify CQT location to ensure accuracy of the test result. During a test, the test log collected by terminals is uploaded to the cloud server in real time, the server automatically analyzes the data, and outputs test report after the test is completed. With traditional solution, after collecting DT data, professional engineers need to manually analyze a large amount of data and output reports, the process requires a large amount of manpower and time, while errors may occur in manual statistics. WNG, which automatically analyzes data, outputs reports, completely changes the current method, it also supports customized reports, enables customers to focus on key KPIs, makes DT simple and efficient, and serves effectively for network optimization and quality improvement. With the development of network optimization, network data collection needs to be more accurate and comprehensive. However, in some special scenarios, such as high-speed railways, high-rise buildings, and certain residential areas, traditional DTs are difficult to obtain network data due to the large size and complexity of test instruments. WNG, with the advantage of portability and automation, is able to help operators scan the network in an all-round way. In addition, WNG can use taxis to perform blind network test, so the operators can draw a complete and accurate "portrait" for the network at a very low cost. In network construction and optimization, WNG is playing an increasingly important role. For example, in single-site verification, cluster optimization, FAC and PAC acceptance of a network construction phase, WNG has obvious advantages: Within one week, the acceptance test of more than 800 sites can be completed, and more than 1600 copies of DT/CQT reports can be finished. WNG, compared to traditional drive test, manpower can be reduced by 68%, and efficiency is improved by 65%. The solution can help operators achieve faster network acceptance and commercialization process. With the arrival of 5G, ZTE's WNG automatic DT solution will continue to help operators achieve high-efficiency operation and maintenance goals, enable operators to take the lead in 5G era and win trust!
June 22, 2019
12:14
States pile on Sprint, T-Mobile merger opposition
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Four states joined a lawsuit to block a proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile US, as a judge set a tentative trial date for October. Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Nevada signed on to a complaint filed earlier this month [1] by legal officials from nine other states and the District of Columbia, which alleges the deal would harm competition and consumers. Maura Healey, Massachusetts attorney general, said in a statement the decision followed a year-long investigation which concluded the tie up would “give the new company the power to raise prices, significantly reduce competition for customers, lower quality, and cost thousands of retail workers their jobs”. Filings with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) show attorneys general in at least seven other states have taken up investigations into whether the deal would violate any laws, but have not joined the lawsuit to stop the deal. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in a speech blasted the states’ attempt to block the deal as “misguided”, arguing the move would prevent rural consumers from gaining access to fast mobile broadband. Pai came out in favour of the merger [2] in May. Trial arguments are tentatively scheduled to begin on 7 October. However, in a hearing, a judge noted action by the Department of Justice (which has yet to issue a decision on the deal) could affect the proceeding. [1] [https:] [2] [https:]
12:14
States pile on Sprint, T-Mobile merger opposition
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Four states joined a lawsuit to block a proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile US, as a judge set a tentative trial date for October. Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Nevada signed on to a complaint filed earlier this month [1] by legal officials from nine other states and the District of Columbia, which alleges the deal would harm competition and consumers. Maura Healey, Massachusetts attorney general, said in a statement the decision followed a year-long investigation which concluded the tie up would “give the new company the power to raise prices, significantly reduce competition for customers, lower quality, and cost thousands of retail workers their jobs”. Filings with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) show attorneys general in at least seven other states have taken up investigations into whether the deal would violate any laws, but have not joined the lawsuit to stop the deal. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in a speech blasted the states’ attempt to block the deal as “misguided”, arguing the move would prevent rural consumers from gaining access to fast mobile broadband. Pai came out in favour of the merger [2] in May. Trial arguments are tentatively scheduled to begin on 7 October. However, in a hearing, a judge noted action by the Department of Justice (which has yet to issue a decision on the deal) could affect the proceeding. [1] [https:] [2] [https:]
June 21, 2019
18:23
Facebook considers Messenger restrictions
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Facebook revealed it may impose message forwarding limits in its Messenger app to curb the spread of content which can incite violence, duplicating a move it made with WhatsApp earlier in the year. The company said in a blog post the change would prevent users from sharing duplicate messages beyond a certain number of chat threads. It added it tested the feature in Sri Lanka, but did not say when or where a broader rollout might occur. VentureBeat reported the Sri Lanka implementation limited forwarding to five threads at a time, but allowed for an unspecified higher number of total forwards. Facebook said the primary goal of the move is to thwart content which encourages conflict. But it noted the change would also address feedback from users that they don’t want to receive chain messages. In January, Facebook imposed similar limits on message forwarding in WhatsApp [1] as part of a broader crackdown on misinformation [2]. The company also highlighted its use of AI to remove hate speech from its platforms and added it is exploring new ways to discourage borderline content, which it defined as material that approaches the boundaries of what is allowed under its policies. It said such content is frequently “sensationalist” and has the potential to provoke “serious consequences” in regions already experiencing conflict. [1] [https:] [2] [https:]
18:23
Facebook considers Messenger restrictions
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Facebook revealed it may impose message forwarding limits in its Messenger app to curb the spread of content which can incite violence, duplicating a move it made with WhatsApp earlier in the year. The company said in a blog post the change would prevent users from sharing duplicate messages beyond a certain number of chat threads. It added it tested the feature in Sri Lanka, but did not say when or where a broader rollout might occur. VentureBeat reported the Sri Lanka implementation limited forwarding to five threads at a time, but allowed for an unspecified higher number of total forwards. Facebook said the primary goal of the move is to thwart content which encourages conflict. But it noted the change would also address feedback from users that they don’t want to receive chain messages. In January, Facebook imposed similar limits on message forwarding in WhatsApp [1] as part of a broader crackdown on misinformation [2]. The company also highlighted its use of AI to remove hate speech from its platforms and added it is exploring new ways to discourage borderline content, which it defined as material that approaches the boundaries of what is allowed under its policies. It said such content is frequently “sensationalist” and has the potential to provoke “serious consequences” in regions already experiencing conflict. [1] [https:] [2] [https:]
15:58
Orange poised for West Africa bank launch
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Orange Money paved the way for wider financial services in its African markets, the operator’s MEA CEO Alioune Ndiaye (pictured) explained, with the company prepared to launch fully-fledged banking in several locations as soon as regulators give the nod. The operator is currently awaiting the green light from West African Economic and Monetary Union regulators after submitting the application for a licence in 2018. Approval would allow it to provide a wide range of financial services in any of the authority's member states. These include Senegal, Ivory Coast and Mali. Speaking at Orange’s Middle East and Africa update [1] event in London, Ndiaye said the licence would allow the provision of credit, savings and other microfinance products. This is in addition to standard money transfer and payment services already offered through Orange Money. “As soon that licence is granted we will launch the fully-fledged bank in Africa,” he confirmed, adding the company ultimately plans to bring the service to its entire footprint in the region. The provision of advanced banking products is one of its key strategies for its unit in Africa, where it also expects to continue increasing the penetration rate of its standard Orange Money service. Ndiaye noted there was "huge potential" in the 17 markets where it offers the service, adding the company aimed to replicate uptake reported by Safaricom in Kenya, where 80 per cent of the operator's mobile customers also use its m-Pesa mobile money platform. [1] [https:]
15:58
Orange poised for West Africa bank launch
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Orange Money paved the way for wider financial services in its African markets, the operator’s MEA CEO Alioune Ndiaye (pictured) explained, with the company prepared to launch fully-fledged banking in several locations as soon as regulators give the nod. The operator is currently awaiting the green light from West African Economic and Monetary Union regulators after submitting the application for a licence in 2018. Approval would allow it to provide a wide range of financial services in any of the authority's member states. These include Senegal, Ivory Coast and Mali. Speaking at Orange’s Middle East and Africa update [1] event in London, Ndiaye said the licence would allow the provision of credit, savings and other microfinance products. This is in addition to standard money transfer and payment services already offered through Orange Money. “As soon that licence is granted we will launch the fully-fledged bank in Africa,” he confirmed, adding the company ultimately plans to bring the service to its entire footprint in the region. The provision of advanced banking products is one of its key strategies for its unit in Africa, where it also expects to continue increasing the penetration rate of its standard Orange Money service. Ndiaye noted there was "huge potential" in the 17 markets where it offers the service, adding the company aimed to replicate uptake reported by Safaricom in Kenya, where 80 per cent of the operator's mobile customers also use its m-Pesa mobile money platform. [1] [https:]
14:22
Orange eyes huge revenue boost in MEA
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Orange deputy CEO Ramon Fernandez (pictured, left) backed its Middle East and Africa unit to become a major source of revenue growth as it focuses on increasing data usage, widening the scope of mobile financial services and further expansion into B2B. During an Orange MEA analyst event, Fernandez and Orange Middle East and Africa CEO Alioune Ndiaye (pictured, right) outlined the operator’s plan to step-up efforts to grow the unit, given the untapped potential and predicted economic growth in the region. Fernandez said its strategy would focus on improvements in existing markets rather than an acquisition spree, however he did not completely dismiss entering new markets deemed to have potential. “It is not the priority,” he added. “But that does not mean we will exclude any footprint extension when it is going to be value creative.” Fernandez pointed specifically to a potential opportunity in Ethiopia [1], where authorities look likely to open the telecommunications market to outside investors. Both Ndiaye and group CEO Stephane Richard have attended meetings in the country over the last few months, he confirmed. Focus Throughout the event, Ndiaye talked-up his division’s position, noting unlike MTN, Etisalat and Airtel Africa, none of its markets provide more than 17 per cent of regional revenue or EBITDA. As a result, the company has avoided “crises” in specific countries. Looking ahead, among new services the operation is mulling are additions to its mobile money operation, including loans and business products aimed at enterprise customers. These include cloud infrastructure, data centre services and security products. In terms of data consumption, the company believes this will be fuelled by growth in smartphone usage, partly due to the increased availability of cheaper handsets, including the $20 Sanza handset [2]. Ndiaye said ultimately the company aimed to be the number one provider of data in all of its markets in the region. Orange reports it is currently the largest or second-largest operator in all of its MEA markets. Fernandez added: “There is an emerging middle class, economic growth and there is an underpenetrated market for the services we can offer. The digital tools, the mobile phones and, tomorrow, the smartphones are going to become a fantastic accelerator”. [1] [https:] [2] [https:]
14:22
Orange eyes huge revenue boost in MEA
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Orange deputy CEO Ramon Fernandez (pictured, left) backed its Middle East and Africa unit to become a major source of revenue growth as it focuses on increasing data usage, widening the scope of mobile financial services and further expansion into B2B. During an Orange MEA analyst event, Fernandez and Orange Middle East and Africa CEO Alioune Ndiaye (pictured, right) outlined the operator’s plan to step-up efforts to grow the unit, given the untapped potential and predicted economic growth in the region. Fernandez said its strategy would focus on improvements in existing markets rather than an acquisition spree, however he did not completely dismiss entering new markets deemed to have potential. “It is not the priority,” he added. “But that does not mean we will exclude any footprint extension when it is going to be value creative.” Fernandez pointed specifically to a potential opportunity in Ethiopia [1], where authorities look likely to open the telecommunications market to outside investors. Both Ndiaye and group CEO Stephane Richard have attended meetings in the country over the last few months, he confirmed. Focus Throughout the event, Ndiaye talked-up his division’s position, noting unlike MTN, Etisalat and Airtel Africa, none of its markets provide more than 17 per cent of regional revenue or EBITDA. As a result, the company has avoided “crises” in specific countries. Looking ahead, among new services the operation is mulling are additions to its mobile money operation, including loans and business products aimed at enterprise customers. These include cloud infrastructure, data centre services and security products. In terms of data consumption, the company believes this will be fuelled by growth in smartphone usage, partly due to the increased availability of cheaper handsets, including the $20 Sanza handset [2]. Ndiaye said ultimately the company aimed to be the number one provider of data in all of its markets in the region. Orange reports it is currently the largest or second-largest operator in all of its MEA markets. Fernandez added: “There is an emerging middle class, economic growth and there is an underpenetrated market for the services we can offer. The digital tools, the mobile phones and, tomorrow, the smartphones are going to become a fantastic accelerator”. [1] [https:] [2] [https:]
13:22
Mobile Mix: Valencia, Vodafone and visuals
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Kavit is in Valencia this week as the 5G hype hits Spain, with Chinese vendor ZTE showing-off futuristic use cases of the tech including holograms, robots and cars. Operators in the UK were also busy, as BT and Vodafone both held events and Orange wraps up a bumper edition with an update on Africa and the Middle East.
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Mobile Mix: Valencia, Vodafone and visuals
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Kavit is in Valencia this week as the 5G hype hits Spain, with Chinese vendor ZTE showing-off futuristic use cases of the tech including holograms, robots and cars. Operators in the UK were also busy, as BT and Vodafone both held events and Orange wraps up a bumper edition with an update on Africa and the Middle East.
13:06
Vodacom offloads enterprise operations in 5 markets
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Vodacom struck deals to sell its enterprise businesses in five markets, as part of a strategic repositioning of its African business operations. In separate statements, the operator announced three moves. The first involves selling its Vodacom Business Africa operations in Nigeria, Zambia and Ivory Coast to Synergy Communications. It also said it had entered an agreement with Internet Technologies Angola to sell its operations and assets in that country, while the third deal involves a similar deal covering the sale of its business in Ghana to Vodafone Ghana. Vodacom said it would strike partner agreements with the three companies to maintain a presence with customers in the markets. Financial terms for all three deals have been kept confidential. Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said the company will work with the respective partners to grow in the five markets. “Crucially, Vodacom is not exiting any of the territories related to this transaction and remains focused on continuing to deliver exceptional service to our global and multinational clients in these markets through long-term commercial agreements,” he said. The company added it went through “a robust and lengthy process” to find a buyer and partner, as part of its decision to reposition its enterprise business. Synergy and ITA were selected as successful bidders “for their wealth of pan-African experience”, it added.
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Vodacom offloads enterprise operations in 5 markets
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Vodacom struck deals to sell its enterprise businesses in five markets, as part of a strategic repositioning of its African business operations. In separate statements, the operator announced three moves. The first involves selling its Vodacom Business Africa operations in Nigeria, Zambia and Ivory Coast to Synergy Communications. It also said it had entered an agreement with Internet Technologies Angola to sell its operations and assets in that country, while the third deal involves a similar deal covering the sale of its business in Ghana to Vodafone Ghana. Vodacom said it would strike partner agreements with the three companies to maintain a presence with customers in the markets. Financial terms for all three deals have been kept confidential. Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said the company will work with the respective partners to grow in the five markets. “Crucially, Vodacom is not exiting any of the territories related to this transaction and remains focused on continuing to deliver exceptional service to our global and multinational clients in these markets through long-term commercial agreements,” he said. The company added it went through “a robust and lengthy process” to find a buyer and partner, as part of its decision to reposition its enterprise business. Synergy and ITA were selected as successful bidders “for their wealth of pan-African experience”, it added.
12:44
Intelligence Brief: What does 2020 hold for 5G security?
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Following the GSMA’s recent Mobile 360 Security for 5G [1] event in The Hague, we have updated our 5G Security Predictions with inputs from our distinguished security panel: Jamie Collier (Digital Shadows), Philip Celestini (Syniverse), Pieter Veenstra (NetNumber), and William Dixon (World Economic Forum). Thanks to the insights provided by this expert panel we have been able to upgrade and share with you the following 5G Security predictions for 2020. Accelerating a massive expansion of the attack surface IoT devices are already driving significant growth in the breadth of the threat landscape. Now 5G’s slicing and softwarisation of the network is set to increase its complexity as well. Breaches will only get worse, and this time we will see advanced use of adversarial AI and DIY hacking kits available from the Dark Web enabling amateurs and hacking-as-a-service. First exploits targeting vulnerabilities in software supply chain The complexity of integrating SDN, NFV, cloud and open source in the 5G software supply chain requires proper planning and AI automation, without which it will become difficult to manage and easy to misconfigure. Furthermore, a multitude of third parties providing network functions to a highly ‘laminated’ 5G stack can fragment the security environment, damaging the trust model which governs solutions, systems and networks. If the trust model is not upgraded to meet 5G’s network security topology, authentication of these third parties could become a new attack vector. Public acknowledgement of cyber intelligence and attribution weaknesses Effective cyber intelligence contributes to successful attribution and investigation of cybercrime and improves cybersecurity. But the attribution rate is still too low (currently estimated at 0.05 per cent of exploits in the USA, for example) and is predicted to worsen in the coming year. Poor relationships between public and private cyber intelligence communities will also get worse in 2020 before they get better. When it does, we will see improved partnering and communications, better predictive security engineering, and the indexing of the Darkweb resulting in a growing number of takedowns. Data exposure could reach a critical level on the Darknet Poor mainstream digital literacy will continue to expose peoples’ and organisations’ data to breaches. This will be exacerbated by gaps in encryption of non-standalone 5G networks, accelerating the number and size of breaches exposing our data. The quantity and richness of sensitive data sinking into the Darknet will increasingly be exploited by adversarial AI capable of optimising and productising this data for financial, industrial and geo-political gain. A major attack on Industrial IoT impacting critical infrastructure 5G connectivity will enable a huge increase in the use of IoT devices and industrial control systems for DDoS attacks, phishing, ransomware, and crypto mining. But 2020 will also see emerging exploits which use data corruption through sensors to misinform organisational decision making. Unfortunately cybersecurity basics capable of mitigating these exploits, such as faster patching and improvements in OTA updates, are not expected anytime soon. New vulnerabilities attributed to a lag in 5G security In the race to 5G deployment there is a risk security-by-design gets left behind: integrating legacy networks with 5G could create interworking vulnerabilities and gaps in encryption; IP-based signalling security threatens to be insecure and complicated to monitor. Hasty deployments could lead to inaccurate provisioning to 5G standards; and availability of cybersecurity skills will also fall behind in 2020, further exacerbating the security lag for 5G networks. Early adopters get serious about tools to protect their personal economy As risk awareness grows, early adopting consumers will invest in privacy and security tools which defend their personal economy, protecting their net wealth from personalisation that over-exploits their spending; defending their knowledge from fakery; and managing their positive reputation and influence. These consumers start to seek out and choose companies which will champion their privacy and data, as well as respect and protect their interests. Enterprises will seek 5G security in operator SLAs Complexity and the sheer number of vendors have the potential to fragment the 5G service chain causing gaps and leaks resulting in unknown new threats which attract rogue elements. Enterprises recognising the existence of such threats and the critical importance of network slicing for future business transformation will be looking for security assurances baked in to operator SLAs. - Mark Little - senior manager, GSMA Intelligence The editorial views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and will not necessarily reflect the views of the GSMA, its Members or Associate Members. [1] [https:]
12:44
Intelligence Brief: What does 2020 hold for 5G security?
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Following the GSMA’s recent Mobile 360 Security for 5G [1] event in The Hague, we have updated our 5G Security Predictions with inputs from our distinguished security panel: Jamie Collier (Digital Shadows), Philip Celestini (Syniverse), Pieter Veenstra (NetNumber), and William Dixon (World Economic Forum). Thanks to the insights provided by this expert panel we have been able to upgrade and share with you the following 5G Security predictions for 2020. Accelerating a massive expansion of the attack surface IoT devices are already driving significant growth in the breadth of the threat landscape. Now 5G’s slicing and softwarisation of the network is set to increase its complexity as well. Breaches will only get worse, and this time we will see advanced use of adversarial AI and DIY hacking kits available from the Dark Web enabling amateurs and hacking-as-a-service. First exploits targeting vulnerabilities in software supply chain The complexity of integrating SDN, NFV, cloud and open source in the 5G software supply chain requires proper planning and AI automation, without which it will become difficult to manage and easy to misconfigure. Furthermore, a multitude of third parties providing network functions to a highly ‘laminated’ 5G stack can fragment the security environment, damaging the trust model which governs solutions, systems and networks. If the trust model is not upgraded to meet 5G’s network security topology, authentication of these third parties could become a new attack vector. Public acknowledgement of cyber intelligence and attribution weaknesses Effective cyber intelligence contributes to successful attribution and investigation of cybercrime and improves cybersecurity. But the attribution rate is still too low (currently estimated at 0.05 per cent of exploits in the USA, for example) and is predicted to worsen in the coming year. Poor relationships between public and private cyber intelligence communities will also get worse in 2020 before they get better. When it does, we will see improved partnering and communications, better predictive security engineering, and the indexing of the Darkweb resulting in a growing number of takedowns. Data exposure could reach a critical level on the Darknet Poor mainstream digital literacy will continue to expose peoples’ and organisations’ data to breaches. This will be exacerbated by gaps in encryption of non-standalone 5G networks, accelerating the number and size of breaches exposing our data. The quantity and richness of sensitive data sinking into the Darknet will increasingly be exploited by adversarial AI capable of optimising and productising this data for financial, industrial and geo-political gain. A major attack on Industrial IoT impacting critical infrastructure 5G connectivity will enable a huge increase in the use of IoT devices and industrial control systems for DDoS attacks, phishing, ransomware, and crypto mining. But 2020 will also see emerging exploits which use data corruption through sensors to misinform organisational decision making. Unfortunately cybersecurity basics capable of mitigating these exploits, such as faster patching and improvements in OTA updates, are not expected anytime soon. New vulnerabilities attributed to a lag in 5G security In the race to 5G deployment there is a risk security-by-design gets left behind: integrating legacy networks with 5G could create interworking vulnerabilities and gaps in encryption; IP-based signalling security threatens to be insecure and complicated to monitor. Hasty deployments could lead to inaccurate provisioning to 5G standards; and availability of cybersecurity skills will also fall behind in 2020, further exacerbating the security lag for 5G networks. Early adopters get serious about tools to protect their personal economy As risk awareness grows, early adopting consumers will invest in privacy and security tools which defend their personal economy, protecting their net wealth from personalisation that over-exploits their spending; defending their knowledge from fakery; and managing their positive reputation and influence. These consumers start to seek out and choose companies which will champion their privacy and data, as well as respect and protect their interests. Enterprises will seek 5G security in operator SLAs Complexity and the sheer number of vendors have the potential to fragment the 5G service chain causing gaps and leaks resulting in unknown new threats which attract rogue elements. Enterprises recognising the existence of such threats and the critical importance of network slicing for future business transformation will be looking for security assurances baked in to operator SLAs. - Mark Little - senior manager, GSMA Intelligence The editorial views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and will not necessarily reflect the views of the GSMA, its Members or Associate Members. [1] [https:]
11:59
Google calls time on tablet hardware
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Google ended development of its own-brand tablets, stating its computer hardware activities will be “solely focused on building laptops moving forward”. Rick Osterloh, SVP of Devices and Services, took to Twitter to clarify that its “Android and Chrome OS teams are 100 per cent committed for the long run on working with our partners on tablets for all segments of the market (consumer, enterprise, education)”. ComputerWorld stated Google had two tablet devices in the pipeline, but these were dropped to focus on laptops. Apparently, disappointing results during quality assurance led to the demise of the tablets. Google’s last foray into the tablet sphere, Pixel Slate [1], was announced in late 2018 and the company said it will continue to support this Chrome OS-powered device. It has previously offered Android tablets as well. The global tablet market is not an easy place to do business: the segment itself is not growing and Apple is taking out a big chunk with its lucrative iPad line. Behind this, top-tier hardware vendors including Samsung, Huawei and Lenovo, plus retail giant Amazon, provide fierce competition for other players unable to reach scale. In addition, growth of the two-in-one segment, laptop computers with detachable keyboards which can function as tablets, is providing another form of competition at the high-end. With this in mind, it is perhaps unsurprising Google is opting to focus its own hardware activities elsewhere, while supporting Android and Chrome OS partners which already have a stronger position in the tablet market. The hardware moves do not affect Google’s Pixel smartphone line or its Google Home/Nest units. [1] [https:]
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Google calls time on tablet hardware
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Google ended development of its own-brand tablets, stating its computer hardware activities will be “solely focused on building laptops moving forward”. Rick Osterloh, SVP of Devices and Services, took to Twitter to clarify that its “Android and Chrome OS teams are 100 per cent committed for the long run on working with our partners on tablets for all segments of the market (consumer, enterprise, education)”. ComputerWorld stated Google had two tablet devices in the pipeline, but these were dropped to focus on laptops. Apparently, disappointing results during quality assurance led to the demise of the tablets. Google’s last foray into the tablet sphere, Pixel Slate [1], was announced in late 2018 and the company said it will continue to support this Chrome OS-powered device. It has previously offered Android tablets as well. The global tablet market is not an easy place to do business: the segment itself is not growing and Apple is taking out a big chunk with its lucrative iPad line. Behind this, top-tier hardware vendors including Samsung, Huawei and Lenovo, plus retail giant Amazon, provide fierce competition for other players unable to reach scale. In addition, growth of the two-in-one segment, laptop computers with detachable keyboards which can function as tablets, is providing another form of competition at the high-end. With this in mind, it is perhaps unsurprising Google is opting to focus its own hardware activities elsewhere, while supporting Android and Chrome OS partners which already have a stronger position in the tablet market. The hardware moves do not affect Google’s Pixel smartphone line or its Google Home/Nest units. [1] [https:]
10:36
Apple urges US to reconsider import tariffs
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Apple warned US officials tariffs on its products would reduce the company’s contributions to the domestic economy and harm its ability to compete with Chinese rivals. In a letter, Apple urged the government to reconsider a proposed 25 per cent tariff on goods imported from China, which it said would impact all of its major products including iPhones, iPads and AppleTV. It argued the move would “tilt the playing field in favour of our global competitors” since Chinese and other non-US vendors would not be impacted by the tariffs. Apple, which claimed to be the largest corporate taxpayer in the country, also said the tariffs would cut into its domestic economic contributions. The company previously pledged to invest more than $350 billion [1] in the US over the course of five years. The letter comes as part of Apple’s campaign to avoid being caught up in the country’s ongoing trade battle with China and follows a meeting between CEO Tim Cook (pictured) and President Donald Trump last week. In 2018, Apple successfully persuaded the US to exclude smartwatches and earphones [2] from a list of goods subject to an initial round of tariffs. However, the company appears to be preparing in case its latest effort is unsuccessful, reportedly making plans with suppliers to shift production out of China [3] into South East Asia. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
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Apple urges US to reconsider import tariffs
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Apple warned US officials tariffs on its products would reduce the company’s contributions to the domestic economy and harm its ability to compete with Chinese rivals. In a letter, Apple urged the government to reconsider a proposed 25 per cent tariff on goods imported from China, which it said would impact all of its major products including iPhones, iPads and AppleTV. It argued the move would “tilt the playing field in favour of our global competitors” since Chinese and other non-US vendors would not be impacted by the tariffs. Apple, which claimed to be the largest corporate taxpayer in the country, also said the tariffs would cut into its domestic economic contributions. The company previously pledged to invest more than $350 billion [1] in the US over the course of five years. The letter comes as part of Apple’s campaign to avoid being caught up in the country’s ongoing trade battle with China and follows a meeting between CEO Tim Cook (pictured) and President Donald Trump last week. In 2018, Apple successfully persuaded the US to exclude smartwatches and earphones [2] from a list of goods subject to an initial round of tariffs. However, the company appears to be preparing in case its latest effort is unsuccessful, reportedly making plans with suppliers to shift production out of China [3] into South East Asia. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
10:31
ZTE’s video algorithm wins the 2019 DAVIS Semi-supervised Challenge championship at IEEE CVPR 2019
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PRESS RELEASE: ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that it has won the DAVIS Semi-supervised Challenge championship at the IEEE CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) in Long Beach of California, the U.S., ranking first in technical indicators. Moreover, ZTE ranked second in the decoding speed and top 10 in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR) in the Challenge on Learned Image Compression. The achievements indicate that ZTE’s video processing technology has been in the first class of the industry. ZTE participated in the competition by means of two key leading technologies, video coding and video segmentation, which are the basic technologies of 5G big video services. Used on cloud, edge and devices, video coding is a key technology of 5G + MEC industry applications. For strong interaction scenarios, the video coding technology can customize low-delay coding algorithms. Moreover, video coding can support the development of new industry services, such as remote control in heavy industry enterprises and ports, video sorting in smart factories, and drone patrolling. Over 80% scenarios of ZTE's 5G industrial application solutions provide video backhaul. With current 5G + MEC providing shunting, video coding will fully leverage the low latency capability of end-to-end 5G networks. As a basic technology of AR, video segmentation can track motions and replace background by retrieving objects from videos. Video segmentation is a key technology for target recognition and intelligent video analysis. It has been put into commercial use in ZTE's Blade series smartphones and video conferencing products. In the future, video segmentation will be applied in 5G + AR video services in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, Internet of Vehicles and health care.
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ZTE’s video algorithm wins the 2019 DAVIS Semi-supervised Challenge championship at IEEE CVPR 2019
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PRESS RELEASE: ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that it has won the DAVIS Semi-supervised Challenge championship at the IEEE CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) in Long Beach of California, the U.S., ranking first in technical indicators. Moreover, ZTE ranked second in the decoding speed and top 10 in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR) in the Challenge on Learned Image Compression. The achievements indicate that ZTE’s video processing technology has been in the first class of the industry. ZTE participated in the competition by means of two key leading technologies, video coding and video segmentation, which are the basic technologies of 5G big video services. Used on cloud, edge and devices, video coding is a key technology of 5G + MEC industry applications. For strong interaction scenarios, the video coding technology can customize low-delay coding algorithms. Moreover, video coding can support the development of new industry services, such as remote control in heavy industry enterprises and ports, video sorting in smart factories, and drone patrolling. Over 80% scenarios of ZTE's 5G industrial application solutions provide video backhaul. With current 5G + MEC providing shunting, video coding will fully leverage the low latency capability of end-to-end 5G networks. As a basic technology of AR, video segmentation can track motions and replace background by retrieving objects from videos. Video segmentation is a key technology for target recognition and intelligent video analysis. It has been put into commercial use in ZTE's Blade series smartphones and video conferencing products. In the future, video segmentation will be applied in 5G + AR video services in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, Internet of Vehicles and health care.
10:08
APT raises funds for 5G bid
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Asia Pacific Telecom (APT), the smallest mobile operator in Taiwan, laid any doubts about its 5G intentions to rest after commencing moves to raise capital to fund spectrum acquisition and infrastructure deployment. The operator has already secured a TWD7 billion ($224 million) syndicated loan and is in the process of arranging another, Taipei Times reported. APT chairman Lu Fang-ming revealed the moves during its AGM earlier in the week, adding it also plans to issue new shares to cover the 5G rollout. Lu didn't specify the expected total cost of the spectrum and network rollout, but noted it will likely look for a 50MHz block in the 3.5GHz band, the newspaper wrote. The regulator set a 100MHz cap for the band. As the smallest of five operators in the country and with a weaker financial situation than its rivals, APT's participation in a 5G spectrum auction planned for December was far from certain. It also faced potential opposition from market leaders: with just 270MHz available in the 3.5GHz band, Far EasTone Telecommunications recently urged the regulator to allow only the three major players (Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile and Far EasTone) to bid for the spectrum to avoid a bidding war and ensure a sufficient allocation, Taipei Times said. Industry analysts recommend an operator hold at least 100MHz of contiguous spectrum in the mid- and high-band frequencies to optimise network performance. APT narrowed its losses to TWD3.29 billion ($106 million) in 2018 from TWD4.07 billion in 2017. Its 2 million subscribers gave it 7 per cent market share at end-March.
10:08
APT raises funds for 5G bid
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Asia Pacific Telecom (APT), the smallest mobile operator in Taiwan, laid any doubts about its 5G intentions to rest after commencing moves to raise capital to fund spectrum acquisition and infrastructure deployment. The operator has already secured a TWD7 billion ($224 million) syndicated loan and is in the process of arranging another, Taipei Times reported. APT chairman Lu Fang-ming revealed the moves during its AGM earlier in the week, adding it also plans to issue new shares to cover the 5G rollout. Lu didn't specify the expected total cost of the spectrum and network rollout, but noted it will likely look for a 50MHz block in the 3.5GHz band, the newspaper wrote. The regulator set a 100MHz cap for the band. As the smallest of five operators in the country and with a weaker financial situation than its rivals, APT's participation in a 5G spectrum auction planned for December was far from certain. It also faced potential opposition from market leaders: with just 270MHz available in the 3.5GHz band, Far EasTone Telecommunications recently urged the regulator to allow only the three major players (Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile and Far EasTone) to bid for the spectrum to avoid a bidding war and ensure a sufficient allocation, Taipei Times said. Industry analysts recommend an operator hold at least 100MHz of contiguous spectrum in the mid- and high-band frequencies to optimise network performance. APT narrowed its losses to TWD3.29 billion ($106 million) in 2018 from TWD4.07 billion in 2017. Its 2 million subscribers gave it 7 per cent market share at end-March.
9:45
Smartphones, IoT fuel soaring US mobile data use
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Data consumption in the US nearly doubled in 2018, increasing from 15.7 trillion MB to more than 28.5 trillion MB, research by industry group CTIA found. On average, each smartphone user in the country consumed 6.6GB of data per month, up from 5GB in 2017. In a report, CTIA noted the jump in data consumption was also driven by a proliferation of data-only devices including connected cars, smartwatches and health monitors. It found the total number of these devices grew 10 per cent year-on-year to 139.4 million. Time spent on voice calls also increased 9.6 per cent to 2.4 trillion minutes, while SMS numbers rose 15.8 per cent to 2 trillion. CTIA CEO Meredith Attwell Baker said in a statement the research “underscores the need to continue to free up spectrum to keep up with demand, and provide the much needed capacity for next-generation 5G networks”. Work to expand mobile infrastructure is already underway: CTIA found the number of sites in operation grew 8 per cent year-on-year to 349,344, which it noted is the largest annual increase since 2011, when operators were beginning 4G deployments.
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Smartphones, IoT fuel soaring US mobile data use
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Data consumption in the US nearly doubled in 2018, increasing from 15.7 trillion MB to more than 28.5 trillion MB, research by industry group CTIA found. On average, each smartphone user in the country consumed 6.6GB of data per month, up from 5GB in 2017. In a report, CTIA noted the jump in data consumption was also driven by a proliferation of data-only devices including connected cars, smartwatches and health monitors. It found the total number of these devices grew 10 per cent year-on-year to 139.4 million. Time spent on voice calls also increased 9.6 per cent to 2.4 trillion minutes, while SMS numbers rose 15.8 per cent to 2 trillion. CTIA CEO Meredith Attwell Baker said in a statement the research “underscores the need to continue to free up spectrum to keep up with demand, and provide the much needed capacity for next-generation 5G networks”. Work to expand mobile infrastructure is already underway: CTIA found the number of sites in operation grew 8 per cent year-on-year to 349,344, which it noted is the largest annual increase since 2011, when operators were beginning 4G deployments.
9:14
Globe Telecom readies FWA 5G service
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Globe Telecom boldly proclaimed its customers would be the first in Southeast Asia to experience commercial 5G, as it unveiled plans to launch a fixed wireless access service next month. The largest mobile operator in the Philippines plans to deploy the service to post-paid customers in selected areas of three provinces, using 5G equipment from embattled vendor Huawei. In a statement, president and CEO Ernest Cu (pictured) said Home Air Fiber 5G will enable it to connect more Filipinos at home given the external challenges of deploying fibre cables in the country. “The arrival of 5G has caused excitement in the global world of telecommunications. Today, we made a crucial step in fulfilling our goal of connecting more Filipino homes, and our vision of bringing first-world internet to the Philippines.” Long-term partner Cu said earlier in the month Globe Telecom would continue to work with Huawei, not just using its 5G gear but also offering its handsets, despite security warnings from the US. “We've had an extremely great relationship with Huawei for the last ten years,” BusinessWorld quoted Cu as saying. The new service, delivering speeds up to 100Mb/s with 2 terabytes of data, will be initially offered in select areas in Pasig, Cavite and Bulacan provinces. Monthly plans range from PHP1,899 ($36.87) for peak speeds of 20Mb/s to PHP2,899 for 100Mb/s. Cu said the service will speed its efforts to connect 2 million homes by 2020. Its home broadband subscriber base increased by 600,000 over the past three years to 1.7 million at end-March. Despite download speeds nearly doubling to 15.1Mb/s in the three years to end-May, tests by Ookla ranked the Philippines 107th globally in mobile broadband rate.
9:14
Globe Telecom readies FWA 5G service
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Globe Telecom boldly proclaimed its customers would be the first in Southeast Asia to experience commercial 5G, as it unveiled plans to launch a fixed wireless access service next month. The largest mobile operator in the Philippines plans to deploy the service to post-paid customers in selected areas of three provinces, using 5G equipment from embattled vendor Huawei. In a statement, president and CEO Ernest Cu (pictured) said Home Air Fiber 5G will enable it to connect more Filipinos at home given the external challenges of deploying fibre cables in the country. “The arrival of 5G has caused excitement in the global world of telecommunications. Today, we made a crucial step in fulfilling our goal of connecting more Filipino homes, and our vision of bringing first-world internet to the Philippines.” Long-term partner Cu said earlier in the month Globe Telecom would continue to work with Huawei, not just using its 5G gear but also offering its handsets, despite security warnings from the US. “We've had an extremely great relationship with Huawei for the last ten years,” BusinessWorld quoted Cu as saying. The new service, delivering speeds up to 100Mb/s with 2 terabytes of data, will be initially offered in select areas in Pasig, Cavite and Bulacan provinces. Monthly plans range from PHP1,899 ($36.87) for peak speeds of 20Mb/s to PHP2,899 for 100Mb/s. Cu said the service will speed its efforts to connect 2 million homes by 2020. Its home broadband subscriber base increased by 600,000 over the past three years to 1.7 million at end-March. Despite download speeds nearly doubling to 15.1Mb/s in the three years to end-May, tests by Ookla ranked the Philippines 107th globally in mobile broadband rate.
8:46
Verizon CTO talks mobile 5G progress
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Verizon CTO Kyle Malady provided an update on the operator’s mobile 5G progress two and a half months after launch [1], noting it is using only about half of its available mmWave capacity in its initial markets. Speaking at an investor conference, Malady said Verizon deployed 400MHz of mmWave spectrum thus far in Chicago and Minneapolis. He noted those assets are already yielding “crazy speeds” of over 2Gb/s, but added the operator is working to double the channel to 800MHz. Since launch, Malady said Verizon has continuously tweaked its 5G network, “grinding out new features and fixes” through software updates “literally every other day”. In addition to adding more spectrum, the operator is focused on nailing “seven or eight critical technical elements,” including beamforming and increasing the reach of its mmWave spectrum. While Malady said he would welcome the addition of C-Band [2] (3.7GHz-4.2GHz) spectrum to Verizon’s portfolio, he noted the operator’s contingency plan is to reallocate its existing low- and mid-band assets over time to create broad 5G coverage layers. It is unclear what Verizon’s timeline for doing so would be, however, given it is currently in the process of recycling its CDMA spectrum for LTE [3]. Energy innovation Malady also revealed Verizon is currently trialling power-related innovations which could accelerate equipment installations as it deploys small cells in its quest to expand 5G coverage to 30 cities by the year end. It teamed with electricity providers to develop a system delivering DC power over fibre rather than AC over dedicated lines. “So when we’re running small cells up the street, we don’t have to connect power to each and every one of them", Malady noted. "We think that could speed up our deployment time.” [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
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Verizon CTO talks mobile 5G progress
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Verizon CTO Kyle Malady provided an update on the operator’s mobile 5G progress two and a half months after launch [1], noting it is using only about half of its available mmWave capacity in its initial markets. Speaking at an investor conference, Malady said Verizon deployed 400MHz of mmWave spectrum thus far in Chicago and Minneapolis. He noted those assets are already yielding “crazy speeds” of over 2Gb/s, but added the operator is working to double the channel to 800MHz. Since launch, Malady said Verizon has continuously tweaked its 5G network, “grinding out new features and fixes” through software updates “literally every other day”. In addition to adding more spectrum, the operator is focused on nailing “seven or eight critical technical elements,” including beamforming and increasing the reach of its mmWave spectrum. While Malady said he would welcome the addition of C-Band [2] (3.7GHz-4.2GHz) spectrum to Verizon’s portfolio, he noted the operator’s contingency plan is to reallocate its existing low- and mid-band assets over time to create broad 5G coverage layers. It is unclear what Verizon’s timeline for doing so would be, however, given it is currently in the process of recycling its CDMA spectrum for LTE [3]. Energy innovation Malady also revealed Verizon is currently trialling power-related innovations which could accelerate equipment installations as it deploys small cells in its quest to expand 5G coverage to 30 cities by the year end. It teamed with electricity providers to develop a system delivering DC power over fibre rather than AC over dedicated lines. “So when we’re running small cells up the street, we don’t have to connect power to each and every one of them", Malady noted. "We think that could speed up our deployment time.” [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
June 20, 2019
18:22
Play Store winning war on suspect apps
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App marketplace 9Game.com replaced Google's Play Store as the biggest host of suspect content in the opening quarter, cybersecurity company RiskIQ reported. Some 17,059 apps on 9Game.com were blacklisted by the company during Q1, out of a total of 43,049 suspect services discovered during the period. It said the latter figure accounted for nearly 2 per cent of all mobile apps. While it didn't specify the number of Google Play apps on the list, RiskIQ said the store continued a downward trend in malicious content begun in mid-2018. RiskIQ defines blacklisted apps as those flagged as suspicious by at least one registry such as VirusTotal, which inspects files and web pages for common threats. While the Play Store consistently ranks [1] at the upper end of in RiskIQ's threat analysis, it conceded suspect apps represent a small percentage of its total: around 6 per cent of all Play Store apps, compared with 96 per cent for 9Game.com and 15 per cent from Chinese app store Tencent. Apple notably had almost no blacklisted offerings in its App Store. Attractive target RiskIQ researcher Jordan Herman told Mobile World Live Apple keeps a much tighter grip on what gets added to its App Store, noting Google’s option is “much more open and accessible to developers, good and bad”. Herman added the prevalence of Android devices and its “complex ecosystem” of different manufacturers, operators and operating systems create an environment which is much more attractive to developers of malicious apps. “This isn’t to say malicious apps never make it into Apple's store or that iPhones never get exploited, but as long as there are more vulnerable Androids out there we’re going to see more focus on exploiting them.” [1] [https:]
18:22
Play Store winning war on suspect apps
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App marketplace 9Game.com replaced Google's Play Store as the biggest host of suspect content in the opening quarter, cybersecurity company RiskIQ reported. Some 17,059 apps on 9Game.com were blacklisted by the company during Q1, out of a total of 43,049 suspect services discovered during the period. It said the latter figure accounted for nearly 2 per cent of all mobile apps. While it didn't specify the number of Google Play apps on the list, RiskIQ said the store continued a downward trend in malicious content begun in mid-2018. RiskIQ defines blacklisted apps as those flagged as suspicious by at least one registry such as VirusTotal, which inspects files and web pages for common threats. While the Play Store consistently ranks [1] at the upper end of in RiskIQ's threat analysis, it conceded suspect apps represent a small percentage of its total: around 6 per cent of all Play Store apps, compared with 96 per cent for 9Game.com and 15 per cent from Chinese app store Tencent. Apple notably had almost no blacklisted offerings in its App Store. Attractive target RiskIQ researcher Jordan Herman told Mobile World Live Apple keeps a much tighter grip on what gets added to its App Store, noting Google’s option is “much more open and accessible to developers, good and bad”. Herman added the prevalence of Android devices and its “complex ecosystem” of different manufacturers, operators and operating systems create an environment which is much more attractive to developers of malicious apps. “This isn’t to say malicious apps never make it into Apple's store or that iPhones never get exploited, but as long as there are more vulnerable Androids out there we’re going to see more focus on exploiting them.” [1] [https:]
14:03
BT cautions operators over 5G role at healthcare demo
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BT 5G expert Fotis Karonis warned the technology brings with it great responsibility for operators in terms of ensuring robust security, and delivering on the promised reliability and efficiency. While 5G is expected to form the core of future enterprise and society, Karonis, BT's 5G executive adviser and CTIO of its Enterprise division (pictured, centre), told Mobile World Live security was a vital part of the equation, noting IoT and massive connectivity brought “challenges and pressures from multiple areas of the network”. “5G comes with a sense of responsibility for reliability, efficiency and security,” he added, stating BT still needed to define its wider role and address some of the challenges brought by the new network technology. “There are questions we need to address as BT: does our model evolve and what is our role in society? I think collaboration will play a key role with 5G.” Healthy prospects The executive was speaking at a showcase of 5G healthcare technology at the UK’s University Hospitals Birmingham. Among the demonstrations at the event was a mocked-up ambulance able to transmit instant footage of an ultrasound directly to experts at the hospital. Clinicians are then able to remotely assess the patient and control a haptic glove worn by paramedics on the road. These types of use cases, experts at BT and the hospital argue, will ensure faster diagnosis of patients and ensure people are able to be seen by the correct professionals on arrival at the hospital. University Hospitals Birmingham CIO Tim Jones said: “We are immensely excited about the potential of 5G to support transformation in healthcare.” “Our clinicians will in the future be able to deliver holistic specialist advice in real time, potentially forming virtual multi-disciplinary teams to provide the best patient care using intelligent IT links. Information would be accessible at the point of need, ensuring informed decision-making leading to improved patient safety, quality of care and patient-clinician experience.” Demonstrations and test cases for connected healthcare technology are part of the UK’s West Midlands’ 5G test bed, run by organisation WM5G.
14:03
BT cautions operators over 5G role at healthcare demo
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BT 5G expert Fotis Karonis warned the technology brings with it great responsibility for operators in terms of ensuring robust security, and delivering on the promised reliability and efficiency. While 5G is expected to form the core of future enterprise and society, Karonis, BT's 5G executive adviser and CTIO of its Enterprise division (pictured, centre), told Mobile World Live security was a vital part of the equation, noting IoT and massive connectivity brought “challenges and pressures from multiple areas of the network”. “5G comes with a sense of responsibility for reliability, efficiency and security,” he added, stating BT still needed to define its wider role and address some of the challenges brought by the new network technology. “There are questions we need to address as BT: does our model evolve and what is our role in society? I think collaboration will play a key role with 5G.” Healthy prospects The executive was speaking at a showcase of 5G healthcare technology at the UK’s University Hospitals Birmingham. Among the demonstrations at the event was a mocked-up ambulance able to transmit instant footage of an ultrasound directly to experts at the hospital. Clinicians are then able to remotely assess the patient and control a haptic glove worn by paramedics on the road. These types of use cases, experts at BT and the hospital argue, will ensure faster diagnosis of patients and ensure people are able to be seen by the correct professionals on arrival at the hospital. University Hospitals Birmingham CIO Tim Jones said: “We are immensely excited about the potential of 5G to support transformation in healthcare.” “Our clinicians will in the future be able to deliver holistic specialist advice in real time, potentially forming virtual multi-disciplinary teams to provide the best patient care using intelligent IT links. Information would be accessible at the point of need, ensuring informed decision-making leading to improved patient safety, quality of care and patient-clinician experience.” Demonstrations and test cases for connected healthcare technology are part of the UK’s West Midlands’ 5G test bed, run by organisation WM5G.
12:56
Telenor mulls options in competition lawsuit
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Telenor pledged to meticulously review a decision by Norway's Competition Complaint Board to uphold an earlier verdict stating the operator had restricted competition in the country. The Norwegian Competition Authority slapped a NOK788 million ($92.1 million) fine on Telenor [1] in June 2018, arguing the pricing model used in a wholesale agreement with Network Norway restricted competition in the market from 2010 to 2014. In a statement today (20 June), Telenor said it believes the "agreement between Telenor and Network Norway neither limited competition nor the development of a third network, and the price model was legal”. “Telenor maintains that the agreement resulted in significant price reductions for Network Norway, was better adapted to the end-user market with packages that included data offerings, and resulted in better offers to customers and increased competition in the mobile market.” The issue concerns the fees paid to Telenor by new entrant Network Norway, including whether the deal was structured in such a way as to disincentivise the latter from developing its own operations. Telenor noted the Competition Complaint Board's decision was not unanimous, with one of the three members agreeing with its view. Petter-Borre Furberg, CEO of Telenor Norway, said: “Telenor has three months to issue writ of summons before the Gulating Court of Appeal. We will now thoroughly review the Competition Complaint Board’s decision.” [1] [https:]
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Telenor mulls options in competition lawsuit
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Telenor pledged to meticulously review a decision by Norway's Competition Complaint Board to uphold an earlier verdict stating the operator had restricted competition in the country. The Norwegian Competition Authority slapped a NOK788 million ($92.1 million) fine on Telenor [1] in June 2018, arguing the pricing model used in a wholesale agreement with Network Norway restricted competition in the market from 2010 to 2014. In a statement today (20 June), Telenor said it believes the "agreement between Telenor and Network Norway neither limited competition nor the development of a third network, and the price model was legal”. “Telenor maintains that the agreement resulted in significant price reductions for Network Norway, was better adapted to the end-user market with packages that included data offerings, and resulted in better offers to customers and increased competition in the mobile market.” The issue concerns the fees paid to Telenor by new entrant Network Norway, including whether the deal was structured in such a way as to disincentivise the latter from developing its own operations. Telenor noted the Competition Complaint Board's decision was not unanimous, with one of the three members agreeing with its view. Petter-Borre Furberg, CEO of Telenor Norway, said: “Telenor has three months to issue writ of summons before the Gulating Court of Appeal. We will now thoroughly review the Competition Complaint Board’s decision.” [1] [https:]
12:35
Vodafone hails UK 5G promise at digital hub launch
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Executives from Vodafone UK and ecosystem partners touted the potential for 5G as a transformational technology, as the operator officially opened its Digital Innovation Hub in MediaCityUK, Salford. [1]Speaking at the event yesterday (19 June), Anne Sheehan, business director at Vodafone UK (pictured, left), said: “We want people to start using the technology: using it in your business, using it to drive innovation and really challenge the limitations of today. Via the hub, we want to give access to 5G, but also access to technology such as IoT, high speed fibre and NB-IoT, and to really get companies from start-ups to more mature organisations working together and co-creating to get a really great sense of the power of 5G.” In a statement, Vodafone said there are more than 100 start-up companies in MediaCityUK alone, alongside established players BBC North; Endemol Shine North; Ericsson; and ITV. Jon Corner, CEO of The Landing, the facility hosting Vodafone’s hub, said: “MediaCityUK itself is a smart city, a living lab for 5G innovation. That is truly unique in the UK: it’s not just here in a bench test, not across a couple of floors, you can deploy in a real urban environment.” It is open to companies beyond the media sector: “We’ve got an open door policy. They can come here if they are in retail or in finance or health, this is the place to come to work out if you can be 5G ready and what 5G can do for your business.” Opportunities In a panel session, Vodafone UK CTO Scott Petty (pictured below, right), said 5G is about “efficiency and reliability”. [2]“Efficiency, meaning we can support thousands more customers in a really dense location than we can today, like a train station, where capacity is really difficult to manage. 5G makes that much, much easier to do." On reliability, "5G is actually for the first time a properly intelligent network. It’s virtualised, it’s controllable in the way we deliver those services”. “So we go from a world where mobile communications is pretty reliable to...where it is super reliable, and I think that will enable a really broad set of applications that nobody has thought about in healthcare, in autonomous vehicles, in enabling services that you quite frankly wouldn’t trust to run over the mobile network”. Shafi Ahmed, chief medical officer and co-founder of Medical Realities (pictured above, left), highlighted the potential for 5G to make healthcare more affordable and accessible, democratising access to medical services. “Healthcare is at the moment unaffordable. What’s consistent is that no government is spending more money. So we have to reimagine healthcare in a different way, making existing resources go much further. So for example, the doctor-patient relationship, the first point of contact in the next two-to-five years will not be a human being, it will be an AI chatbot, a deep machine learning algorithm, it will be a hologram, it will be an avatar.” Availability of high speed, high quality connectivity, alongside other technology innovations around blockchain, electronic health records and AI will also change the way consultations take place and enable training to be streamlined and more accessible. “Education will change, because we can now scale-up education by using virtual reality and augmented reality, et cetera,” he said. Tracey McGarrigan, CEO of communications agency Ansible and coordinator of the Women In Gaming event at the London Games Festival (pictured above, second right), also heralded the technology as revolutionary. “Certainly in the gaming industry, it’s where we are able to deliver that promise of real engagement with our customers. It’s a terrible truth that gamers get very, very bored of waiting for things to download. 5G is going to allow us to have instant play, instant access to games, and I think that is going to change the business.” This also comes as major players including Google, Microsoft and Apple begin looking at streaming games propositions, alongside newcomers such as Hatch. “That is going to change not just how we deliver games to consumers but how we design games. I think certainly the business of streaming over the last ten years has been a little bit broken, it’s very, very expensive and it just doesn’t scale. What 5G is going to be able to do is allow us to make our devices part of the cloud,” McGarrigan said. Mischa Dohler, professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London (pictured above, second left), pointed out the significance of low latency in mobile networks. “The human vortex is geared towards 10 milliseconds engagement. So the moment I get the optical signal in and I process that within 10 milliseconds, I know that you are here. All the social fabric is built on these 10 milliseconds. And 5G is the first time we are able to actually come down in latency so, even though we are not physically together, we are giving this feeling of immediacy and togetherness which before we didn’t have.” He highlighted how the evolution of network infrastructure is changing skill set requirements. “We are transiting from a world that was very purpose hardware and box driven, meaning if Vodafone wanted a new feature, they called up the vendors and ten years later they would come with a new box, to a world where everything is in software." With the UK "very good" at computer science, this leaves the country well placed, he argued. Rural options Petty (pictured, below) also flagged the importance of 5G in serving rural communities with services incluing remote health and education. [3]While the operator’s initial launch focus is on large cities, he noted pilots are also underway in remote areas, enabling the operator to "validate that it really does make a difference to the local economy, and hopefully create a demand-led model where other rural communities throughout the UK start saying ‘hey, I really want 5G in my village’. Rural is a really important part of the 5G ecosystem”. Of course, serving rural communities, which have low population density and infrastructure deployment difficulties, will continue to provide a challenge for operators. But Petty said all four UK operators are working together to try to address such issues, developing a concept with the government for single rural networks. “We’re trying to put a proposal together to say there’s a part of the country from 88 per cent geographic coverage to 95 per cent where there is nobody there, so it doesn’t make any sense to build base stations. We’ve come up with a way to build one mast that we share four ways, and if that happens then I think the 5G deployment will be even quicker.” [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
12:35
Vodafone hails UK 5G promise at digital hub launch
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Executives from Vodafone UK and ecosystem partners touted the potential for 5G as a transformational technology, as the operator officially opened its Digital Innovation Hub in MediaCityUK, Salford. [1]Speaking at the event yesterday (19 June), Anne Sheehan, business director at Vodafone UK (pictured, left), said: “We want people to start using the technology: using it in your business, using it to drive innovation and really challenge the limitations of today. Via the hub, we want to give access to 5G, but also access to technology such as IoT, high speed fibre and NB-IoT, and to really get companies from start-ups to more mature organisations working together and co-creating to get a really great sense of the power of 5G.” In a statement, Vodafone said there are more than 100 start-up companies in MediaCityUK alone, alongside established players BBC North; Endemol Shine North; Ericsson; and ITV. Jon Corner, CEO of The Landing, the facility hosting Vodafone’s hub, said: “MediaCityUK itself is a smart city, a living lab for 5G innovation. That is truly unique in the UK: it’s not just here in a bench test, not across a couple of floors, you can deploy in a real urban environment.” It is open to companies beyond the media sector: “We’ve got an open door policy. They can come here if they are in retail or in finance or health, this is the place to come to work out if you can be 5G ready and what 5G can do for your business.” Opportunities In a panel session, Vodafone UK CTO Scott Petty (pictured below, right), said 5G is about “efficiency and reliability”. [2]“Efficiency, meaning we can support thousands more customers in a really dense location than we can today, like a train station, where capacity is really difficult to manage. 5G makes that much, much easier to do." On reliability, "5G is actually for the first time a properly intelligent network. It’s virtualised, it’s controllable in the way we deliver those services”. “So we go from a world where mobile communications is pretty reliable to...where it is super reliable, and I think that will enable a really broad set of applications that nobody has thought about in healthcare, in autonomous vehicles, in enabling services that you quite frankly wouldn’t trust to run over the mobile network”. Shafi Ahmed, chief medical officer and co-founder of Medical Realities (pictured above, left), highlighted the potential for 5G to make healthcare more affordable and accessible, democratising access to medical services. “Healthcare is at the moment unaffordable. What’s consistent is that no government is spending more money. So we have to reimagine healthcare in a different way, making existing resources go much further. So for example, the doctor-patient relationship, the first point of contact in the next two-to-five years will not be a human being, it will be an AI chatbot, a deep machine learning algorithm, it will be a hologram, it will be an avatar.” Availability of high speed, high quality connectivity, alongside other technology innovations around blockchain, electronic health records and AI will also change the way consultations take place and enable training to be streamlined and more accessible. “Education will change, because we can now scale-up education by using virtual reality and augmented reality, et cetera,” he said. Tracey McGarrigan, CEO of communications agency Ansible and coordinator of the Women In Gaming event at the London Games Festival (pictured above, second right), also heralded the technology as revolutionary. “Certainly in the gaming industry, it’s where we are able to deliver that promise of real engagement with our customers. It’s a terrible truth that gamers get very, very bored of waiting for things to download. 5G is going to allow us to have instant play, instant access to games, and I think that is going to change the business.” This also comes as major players including Google, Microsoft and Apple begin looking at streaming games propositions, alongside newcomers such as Hatch. “That is going to change not just how we deliver games to consumers but how we design games. I think certainly the business of streaming over the last ten years has been a little bit broken, it’s very, very expensive and it just doesn’t scale. What 5G is going to be able to do is allow us to make our devices part of the cloud,” McGarrigan said. Mischa Dohler, professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London (pictured above, second left), pointed out the significance of low latency in mobile networks. “The human vortex is geared towards 10 milliseconds engagement. So the moment I get the optical signal in and I process that within 10 milliseconds, I know that you are here. All the social fabric is built on these 10 milliseconds. And 5G is the first time we are able to actually come down in latency so, even though we are not physically together, we are giving this feeling of immediacy and togetherness which before we didn’t have.” He highlighted how the evolution of network infrastructure is changing skill set requirements. “We are transiting from a world that was very purpose hardware and box driven, meaning if Vodafone wanted a new feature, they called up the vendors and ten years later they would come with a new box, to a world where everything is in software." With the UK "very good" at computer science, this leaves the country well placed, he argued. Rural options Petty (pictured, below) also flagged the importance of 5G in serving rural communities with services incluing remote health and education. [3]While the operator’s initial launch focus is on large cities, he noted pilots are also underway in remote areas, enabling the operator to "validate that it really does make a difference to the local economy, and hopefully create a demand-led model where other rural communities throughout the UK start saying ‘hey, I really want 5G in my village’. Rural is a really important part of the 5G ecosystem”. Of course, serving rural communities, which have low population density and infrastructure deployment difficulties, will continue to provide a challenge for operators. But Petty said all four UK operators are working together to try to address such issues, developing a concept with the government for single rural networks. “We’re trying to put a proposal together to say there’s a part of the country from 88 per cent geographic coverage to 95 per cent where there is nobody there, so it doesn’t make any sense to build base stations. We’ve come up with a way to build one mast that we share four ways, and if that happens then I think the 5G deployment will be even quicker.” [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
10:48
Google weighs dedicated child content app
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Search giant Google could shift all children’s content off its main YouTube platform and into a standalone app, as part of an effort to protect the service’s youngest users, The Wall Street Journal reported. The proposal comes as YouTube battles predatory behaviour targeting children and is reportedly just one of several under consideration by company executives. Another suggestion would see the company switch off an autoplay feature on children’s programming, which can inadvertently surface inappropriate content after the originally-selected video stops playing. The news came the same day The Washington Post reported the US Federal Trade Commission is looking into allegations YouTube violated protections [1] against collecting and sharing child data. In a statement to media, a YouTube representative said the company considers many ideas for improving the platform. While some are developed and implemented, others “remain just that – ideas.” [1] [https:]
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Google weighs dedicated child content app
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Search giant Google could shift all children’s content off its main YouTube platform and into a standalone app, as part of an effort to protect the service’s youngest users, The Wall Street Journal reported. The proposal comes as YouTube battles predatory behaviour targeting children and is reportedly just one of several under consideration by company executives. Another suggestion would see the company switch off an autoplay feature on children’s programming, which can inadvertently surface inappropriate content after the originally-selected video stops playing. The news came the same day The Washington Post reported the US Federal Trade Commission is looking into allegations YouTube violated protections [1] against collecting and sharing child data. In a statement to media, a YouTube representative said the company considers many ideas for improving the platform. While some are developed and implemented, others “remain just that – ideas.” [1] [https:]
10:17
FCC moots mid-band 5G move
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US operators appeared set to get an infusion of much-needed mid-band spectrum, as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai teed up a vote on a plan to auction unused portions of the 2.5GHz band. If approved at the FCC’s next regular meeting on 10 July, the stage would be set for an auction in 2020. Pai’s proposal would rewrite existing rules to allow commercial 5G deployments and other flexible uses in a 140MHz portion of the band, which was previously allocated for educational broadband services. Unused spectrum in the band would be offered first to tribal nations before being put up for auction. Senior FCC officials told journalists fallow portions of the band cover approximately half of the geographic US, particularly in rural areas west of the Mississippi River. Licences would be offered in 100MHz and 16.5MHz blocks. Existing licensees would be granted more flexibility, but FCC officials said the move would not directly impact lease arrangements, for example those held by Sprint. In a blog post, Pai noted previously envisioned uses for the band largely failed to materialise, adding an auction offers a “prime opportunity” to bring mid-band spectrum to market. The move could mark the FCC’s first auction of mid-band spectrum for 5G, if other efforts to bring 3.5GHz [1] and C-Band spectrum [2] to the block are delayed. Mid-band spectrum delivers slower speeds than the mmWave spectrum hitherto favoured by the FCC, but offers broader coverage and better in-building penetration. Operators in the country flagged it as a key part of their plans for widespread 5G coverage, but warned [3] a lack of available airwaves could hamper their efforts. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
10:17
FCC moots mid-band 5G move
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US operators appeared set to get an infusion of much-needed mid-band spectrum, as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai teed up a vote on a plan to auction unused portions of the 2.5GHz band. If approved at the FCC’s next regular meeting on 10 July, the stage would be set for an auction in 2020. Pai’s proposal would rewrite existing rules to allow commercial 5G deployments and other flexible uses in a 140MHz portion of the band, which was previously allocated for educational broadband services. Unused spectrum in the band would be offered first to tribal nations before being put up for auction. Senior FCC officials told journalists fallow portions of the band cover approximately half of the geographic US, particularly in rural areas west of the Mississippi River. Licences would be offered in 100MHz and 16.5MHz blocks. Existing licensees would be granted more flexibility, but FCC officials said the move would not directly impact lease arrangements, for example those held by Sprint. In a blog post, Pai noted previously envisioned uses for the band largely failed to materialise, adding an auction offers a “prime opportunity” to bring mid-band spectrum to market. The move could mark the FCC’s first auction of mid-band spectrum for 5G, if other efforts to bring 3.5GHz [1] and C-Band spectrum [2] to the block are delayed. Mid-band spectrum delivers slower speeds than the mmWave spectrum hitherto favoured by the FCC, but offers broader coverage and better in-building penetration. Operators in the country flagged it as a key part of their plans for widespread 5G coverage, but warned [3] a lack of available airwaves could hamper their efforts. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
10:10
Telus weighing impact of Huawei ban
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INTERVIEW: Telus will decide on the future of its relationship with Huawei after concluding an assessment on the long-term impact of the Chinese vendor’s US export ban, CSO Carey Frey (pictured) told Mobile World Live. In an interview at the Mobile 360 Security for 5G event, Frey said the Canadian operator was obtaining information from all of its suppliers “who are potentially affected” by the vendor being placed on a US blacklist [1]. Frey explained Telus had partnered with Huawei for more than a decade, during which the operator had implemented a number of steps to mitigate any security risks. “We have worked with the federal government in Canada on an overall cybersecurity programme to protect the Telus wireless infrastructure from cyber attack. Using that programme we have Huawei in our radio access network infrastructure, along with many other vendors that comprise the entire system." "Our belief is that we have to deal with all threats and vulnerabilities that put our network at risk, and so we have built a security operation and a cyber defence programme for that infrastructure over the past decade, and as a result, we have not had any security incidents of any significance during that period.” Frey lauded Canada’s approach to ensuring the security of networks, stating it should serve as a benchmark for other nations. “In Canada, Telus and the rest of the other carriers in the industry and the government have worked successfully to define a model that we believe is correct going forward and we would like to see more adoption of around the world,” he said. Click here [2] to watch. [1] [https:] [2] [https:]
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Telus weighing impact of Huawei ban
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INTERVIEW: Telus will decide on the future of its relationship with Huawei after concluding an assessment on the long-term impact of the Chinese vendor’s US export ban, CSO Carey Frey (pictured) told Mobile World Live. In an interview at the Mobile 360 Security for 5G event, Frey said the Canadian operator was obtaining information from all of its suppliers “who are potentially affected” by the vendor being placed on a US blacklist [1]. Frey explained Telus had partnered with Huawei for more than a decade, during which the operator had implemented a number of steps to mitigate any security risks. “We have worked with the federal government in Canada on an overall cybersecurity programme to protect the Telus wireless infrastructure from cyber attack. Using that programme we have Huawei in our radio access network infrastructure, along with many other vendors that comprise the entire system." "Our belief is that we have to deal with all threats and vulnerabilities that put our network at risk, and so we have built a security operation and a cyber defence programme for that infrastructure over the past decade, and as a result, we have not had any security incidents of any significance during that period.” Frey lauded Canada’s approach to ensuring the security of networks, stating it should serve as a benchmark for other nations. “In Canada, Telus and the rest of the other carriers in the industry and the government have worked successfully to define a model that we believe is correct going forward and we would like to see more adoption of around the world,” he said. Click here [2] to watch. [1] [https:] [2] [https:]
10:02
GCI, Ericsson take 5G into the wild
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Ericsson publicised details of its 22nd 5G contract, a deal with regional US operator GCI which marks the first deployment of the technology in Alaska. In a statement, the vendor said it will begin constructing a network in Anchorage, the state's largest city, in the coming months. Ericsson's 5G New Radio hardware and software will be deployed at 82 GCI macro sites, with the operator's existing metro fibre network being used for backhaul. The 5G network is due to be lit in the first half of 2020 and will use GCI's existing low- and mid-band spectrum assets, including 600MHz; 700MHz; 850MHz; PCS; and AWS airwaves. All told, the deployment will cover an area larger than the US state of Rhode Island, which is approximately 1,200 square miles. GCI CEO Ron Duncan said the move will increase mobile network capacity tenfold and enable smart city initiatives in Anchorage. Ericsson chief Borje Ekholm explained that in addition to benefitting consumers, the upgraded network will accelerate the creation of new applications for the oil and gas, mining and healthcare industries across Alaska.
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GCI, Ericsson take 5G into the wild
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Ericsson publicised details of its 22nd 5G contract, a deal with regional US operator GCI which marks the first deployment of the technology in Alaska. In a statement, the vendor said it will begin constructing a network in Anchorage, the state's largest city, in the coming months. Ericsson's 5G New Radio hardware and software will be deployed at 82 GCI macro sites, with the operator's existing metro fibre network being used for backhaul. The 5G network is due to be lit in the first half of 2020 and will use GCI's existing low- and mid-band spectrum assets, including 600MHz; 700MHz; 850MHz; PCS; and AWS airwaves. All told, the deployment will cover an area larger than the US state of Rhode Island, which is approximately 1,200 square miles. GCI CEO Ron Duncan said the move will increase mobile network capacity tenfold and enable smart city initiatives in Anchorage. Ericsson chief Borje Ekholm explained that in addition to benefitting consumers, the upgraded network will accelerate the creation of new applications for the oil and gas, mining and healthcare industries across Alaska.
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Xiaomi braces for more aggressive Huawei play
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Xiaomi earmarked an additional CNY5 billion ($724 million) to broaden its retail reach across China over the next three years as rival Huawei turns its focus to the domestic market in the face of ongoing international woes, Bloomberg reported. Lei Jun, chairman and CEO, said the increased investment will be used to widen distribution channels and expand reward programmes for partners and sales staff, a source told Bloomberg. The fourth-largest smartphone vendor in China, Xiaomi's shipments in Q1 dropped 13 per cent [1] year-on-year to 10.5 million units, with its share declining to 11.9 per cent from 13.3 per cent, Canalys data showed. It has long set its sights on regaining the number one position in China. The company ran into strong headwinds in 2016, when it lost market share in China and globally, after remarkable growth in its first few years. The Hong Kong-listed company was briefly the third-largest smartphone maker in the world, with its market share almost doubling year-on-year to 5.6 per cent in Q3 2014. The same year it was the top-selling smartphone maker in China from April to July, with its share peaking at 31.6 per cent. Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei earlier this week confirmed international smartphone sales fell 40 per cent [2] since a US ban was announced and could cut full year shipments by 40 million to 60 million units. However, he noted performance in China remains strong. With international opportunities narrowing, Huawei is likely to increase efforts in China, where it is the smartphone leader. It was the only vendor in the top five to grow shipments in Q1, increasing its market share by more than 10 per cent to 34 per cent share. The company this week also hailed a record-high sales performance [3] for its Honor 20 flagship, with 1 million units sold in China in a fortnight. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
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Xiaomi earmarked an additional CNY5 billion ($724 million) to broaden its retail reach across China over the next three years as rival Huawei turns its focus to the domestic market in the face of ongoing international woes, Bloomberg reported. Lei Jun, chairman and CEO, said the increased investment will be used to widen distribution channels and expand reward programmes for partners and sales staff, a source told Bloomberg. The fourth-largest smartphone vendor in China, Xiaomi's shipments in Q1 dropped 13 per cent [1] year-on-year to 10.5 million units, with its share declining to 11.9 per cent from 13.3 per cent, Canalys data showed. It has long set its sights on regaining the number one position in China. The company ran into strong headwinds in 2016, when it lost market share in China and globally, after remarkable growth in its first few years. The Hong Kong-listed company was briefly the third-largest smartphone maker in the world, with its market share almost doubling year-on-year to 5.6 per cent in Q3 2014. The same year it was the top-selling smartphone maker in China from April to July, with its share peaking at 31.6 per cent. Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei earlier this week confirmed international smartphone sales fell 40 per cent [2] since a US ban was announced and could cut full year shipments by 40 million to 60 million units. However, he noted performance in China remains strong. With international opportunities narrowing, Huawei is likely to increase efforts in China, where it is the smartphone leader. It was the only vendor in the top five to grow shipments in Q1, increasing its market share by more than 10 per cent to 34 per cent share. The company this week also hailed a record-high sales performance [3] for its Honor 20 flagship, with 1 million units sold in China in a fortnight. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
June 19, 2019
18:22
Feuding Telecom Italia shareholders tipped for treaty
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Elliott Management is set to compromise with Vivendi on board representation to end a long-running battle for control of Telecom Italia and thrash out a common strategy for the operator, Bloomberg reported. The treaty would be the final chapter in a vicious row for control of the Italian operator after more than a year [1] of sporadic fighting. Details on the compromise are vague, but board changes are apparently scheduled for discussion by the operator’s directors later this month. Vivendi is reportedly “urging caution” on the issue. Telecom Italia’s board is currently led by a slate of directors nominated by Elliott Management, which wrestled control from the operator’s previous Vivendi-led executive team in May 2018. Vivendi was on the war path against the Italian incumbent’s executive team as recently as the eve of the operator's shareholder meeting in March. There it had prepared a motion to remove several board members before abandoning the move on the morning of the event [2]. Subsequently Vivendi was accused at its own AGM of “losing its war in Italy [3]”, a claim dismissed by company chairman Arnaud de Puyfontaine. Since then the French media giant has been muted on criticism of Elliott Management and Telecom Italia. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
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Elliott Management is set to compromise with Vivendi on board representation to end a long-running battle for control of Telecom Italia and thrash out a common strategy for the operator, Bloomberg reported. The treaty would be the final chapter in a vicious row for control of the Italian operator after more than a year [1] of sporadic fighting. Details on the compromise are vague, but board changes are apparently scheduled for discussion by the operator’s directors later this month. Vivendi is reportedly “urging caution” on the issue. Telecom Italia’s board is currently led by a slate of directors nominated by Elliott Management, which wrestled control from the operator’s previous Vivendi-led executive team in May 2018. Vivendi was on the war path against the Italian incumbent’s executive team as recently as the eve of the operator's shareholder meeting in March. There it had prepared a motion to remove several board members before abandoning the move on the morning of the event [2]. Subsequently Vivendi was accused at its own AGM of “losing its war in Italy [3]”, a claim dismissed by company chairman Arnaud de Puyfontaine. Since then the French media giant has been muted on criticism of Elliott Management and Telecom Italia. [1] [https:] [2] [https:] [3] [https:]
June 07, 2019
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Mobile 360 Latin America: Event highlights
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Mobile World Live's Chris Donkin reports from GSMA's Mobile 360 Latin America event in Mexico City, where some of the biggest names in the region's mobile sector discussed over-regulation, ethical use of customer data and the sector's role in wider society.
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Mobile World Live's Chris Donkin reports from GSMA's Mobile 360 Latin America event in Mexico City, where some of the biggest names in the region's mobile sector discussed over-regulation, ethical use of customer data and the sector's role in wider society.
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Mobile World Live's Chris Donkin reports from GSMA's Mobile 360 Latin America event in Mexico City, where some of the biggest names in the region's mobile sector discussed over-regulation, ethical use of customer data and the sector's role in wider society.
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Mobile World Live's Chris Donkin reports from GSMA's Mobile 360 Latin America event in Mexico City, where some of the biggest names in the region's mobile sector discussed over-regulation, ethical use of customer data and the sector's role in wider society.
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Mobile World Live's Chris Donkin reports from GSMA's Mobile 360 Latin America event in Mexico City, where some of the biggest names in the region's mobile sector discussed over-regulation, ethical use of customer data and the sector's role in wider society.
15:23
Les spéculations vont bon train sur la production des smartphones Huawei
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Le constructeur chinois Huawei dément les informations selon lesquelles il aurait stoppé plusieurs lignes de fabrication de smartphones alors que l’impact de l’embargo américain sur les ventes reste incertain. Selon le South China Morning Post, le fabricant Foxconn aurait cessé de produire certains appareils pour Huawei, qui aurait réduit ses commandes. Mais les modèles concernés ne sont pas précisés, ce qui signifie qu’il pourrait s’agir d’une décision normale liée à l’arrêt de fabrication d’anciens smartphones. Huawei assure pour sa part que les volumes de production sont « normaux, sans ajustements dans un sens ou dans l’autre ».
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Les spéculations vont bon train sur la production des smartphones Huawei
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Le constructeur chinois Huawei dément les informations selon lesquelles il aurait stoppé plusieurs lignes de fabrication de smartphones alors que l’impact de l’embargo américain sur les ventes reste incertain. Selon le South China Morning Post, le fabricant Foxconn aurait cessé de produire certains appareils pour Huawei, qui aurait réduit ses commandes. Mais les modèles concernés ne sont pas précisés, ce qui signifie qu’il pourrait s’agir d’une décision normale liée à l’arrêt de fabrication d’anciens smartphones. Huawei assure pour sa part que les volumes de production sont « normaux, sans ajustements dans un sens ou dans l’autre ».
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Les spéculations vont bon train sur la production des smartphones Huawei
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Le constructeur chinois Huawei dément les informations selon lesquelles il aurait stoppé plusieurs lignes de fabrication de smartphones alors que l’impact de l’embargo américain sur les ventes reste incertain. Selon le South China Morning Post, le fabricant Foxconn aurait cessé de produire certains appareils pour Huawei, qui aurait réduit ses commandes. Mais les modèles concernés ne sont pas précisés, ce qui signifie qu’il pourrait s’agir d’une décision normale liée à l’arrêt de fabrication d’anciens smartphones. Huawei assure pour sa part que les volumes de production sont « normaux, sans ajustements dans un sens ou dans l’autre ».
15:23
Les spéculations vont bon train sur la production des smartphones Huawei
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Le constructeur chinois Huawei dément les informations selon lesquelles il aurait stoppé plusieurs lignes de fabrication de smartphones alors que l’impact de l’embargo américain sur les ventes reste incertain. Selon le South China Morning Post, le fabricant Foxconn aurait cessé de produire certains appareils pour Huawei, qui aurait réduit ses commandes. Mais les modèles concernés ne sont pas précisés, ce qui signifie qu’il pourrait s’agir d’une décision normale liée à l’arrêt de fabrication d’anciens smartphones. Huawei assure pour sa part que les volumes de production sont « normaux, sans ajustements dans un sens ou dans l’autre ».
15:23
Les spéculations vont bon train sur la production des smartphones Huawei
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Le constructeur chinois Huawei dément les informations selon lesquelles il aurait stoppé plusieurs lignes de fabrication de smartphones alors que l’impact de l’embargo américain sur les ventes reste incertain. Selon le South China Morning Post, le fabricant Foxconn aurait cessé de produire certains appareils pour Huawei, qui aurait réduit ses commandes. Mais les modèles concernés ne sont pas précisés, ce qui signifie qu’il pourrait s’agir d’une décision normale liée à l’arrêt de fabrication d’anciens smartphones. Huawei assure pour sa part que les volumes de production sont « normaux, sans ajustements dans un sens ou dans l’autre ».
15:22
Google et Facebook font face différemment à la tempête Huawei
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Facebook vient de rejoindre la liste des entreprises américaines qui ont choisi de prendre leur distance avec Huawei, alors que Google préfère mettre en garde contre les risques de sécurité impliqués par la poursuite des restrictions d’exportation décidées par Washington à l’encontre du fabricant chinois. Selon Reuters, Facebook aurait cessé de préinstaller son app sur les smartphones Huawei. La mesure touche également les apps WhatsApp et Instagram. Les propriétaires actuels de smartphones Huawei bénéficieront toujours des mises à jour et il restera toujours possible d’installer les apps après achat d’un appareil – à condition toutefois d’avoir accès à l’app store Google Play. Selon Reuters, tous les modèles Huawei actuellement en vente et en production auront accès au catalogue Google, mais pas les futurs produits. Huawei travaille à sa propre plate-forme, conçue pour fonctionner sans passer par les produits et services de Google. Cette plate-forme intègre une app store alternative, bien qu’il n’y ait aucune garantie que Facebook y donne accès à ses propres logiciels. Les projets relatifs à l’OS développé par le fabricant chinois font partie des arguments qui justifient selon Google une exemption des restrictions d’exportation, rapporte le Financial Times. Google affirme en effet qu’une version d’Android modifiée par Huawei faciliterait le hacking. En résulterait un écosystème Android coupé en deux, où la version complète signée Google serait moins vulnérable aux attaques, « y compris venues de Chine ». Arrières pensées Bien entendu, l’attitude de Google dans cette affaire est pragmatique. Huawei est le 2e fabricant mondial de smartphone sous Android et il avait jusqu’à présent le vent en poupe, multipliant les ventes au détriment de Samsung, le numéro un en difficulté. Si Huawei parvient à lancer un Android alternatif avec succès, bon nombre d’utilisateurs ne pourront plus faire appel aux services de Google. Le Financial Times note que Google n’est pas la seul entreprise à défendre ses relations commerciales avec Huawei : Qualcomm serait également inquiet de l’impact de l’embargo sur ses activités.
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Google et Facebook font face différemment à la tempête Huawei
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Facebook vient de rejoindre la liste des entreprises américaines qui ont choisi de prendre leur distance avec Huawei, alors que Google préfère mettre en garde contre les risques de sécurité impliqués par la poursuite des restrictions d’exportation décidées par Washington à l’encontre du fabricant chinois. Selon Reuters, Facebook aurait cessé de préinstaller son app sur les smartphones Huawei. La mesure touche également les apps WhatsApp et Instagram. Les propriétaires actuels de smartphones Huawei bénéficieront toujours des mises à jour et il restera toujours possible d’installer les apps après achat d’un appareil – à condition toutefois d’avoir accès à l’app store Google Play. Selon Reuters, tous les modèles Huawei actuellement en vente et en production auront accès au catalogue Google, mais pas les futurs produits. Huawei travaille à sa propre plate-forme, conçue pour fonctionner sans passer par les produits et services de Google. Cette plate-forme intègre une app store alternative, bien qu’il n’y ait aucune garantie que Facebook y donne accès à ses propres logiciels. Les projets relatifs à l’OS développé par le fabricant chinois font partie des arguments qui justifient selon Google une exemption des restrictions d’exportation, rapporte le Financial Times. Google affirme en effet qu’une version d’Android modifiée par Huawei faciliterait le hacking. En résulterait un écosystème Android coupé en deux, où la version complète signée Google serait moins vulnérable aux attaques, « y compris venues de Chine ». Arrières pensées Bien entendu, l’attitude de Google dans cette affaire est pragmatique. Huawei est le 2e fabricant mondial de smartphone sous Android et il avait jusqu’à présent le vent en poupe, multipliant les ventes au détriment de Samsung, le numéro un en difficulté. Si Huawei parvient à lancer un Android alternatif avec succès, bon nombre d’utilisateurs ne pourront plus faire appel aux services de Google. Le Financial Times note que Google n’est pas la seul entreprise à défendre ses relations commerciales avec Huawei : Qualcomm serait également inquiet de l’impact de l’embargo sur ses activités.
15:22
Google et Facebook font face différemment à la tempête Huawei
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Facebook vient de rejoindre la liste des entreprises américaines qui ont choisi de prendre leur distance avec Huawei, alors que Google préfère mettre en garde contre les risques de sécurité impliqués par la poursuite des restrictions d’exportation décidées par Washington à l’encontre du fabricant chinois. Selon Reuters, Facebook aurait cessé de préinstaller son app sur les smartphones Huawei. La mesure touche également les apps WhatsApp et Instagram. Les propriétaires actuels de smartphones Huawei bénéficieront toujours des mises à jour et il restera toujours possible d’installer les apps après achat d’un appareil – à condition toutefois d’avoir accès à l’app store Google Play. Selon Reuters, tous les modèles Huawei actuellement en vente et en production auront accès au catalogue Google, mais pas les futurs produits. Huawei travaille à sa propre plate-forme, conçue pour fonctionner sans passer par les produits et services de Google. Cette plate-forme intègre une app store alternative, bien qu’il n’y ait aucune garantie que Facebook y donne accès à ses propres logiciels. Les projets relatifs à l’OS développé par le fabricant chinois font partie des arguments qui justifient selon Google une exemption des restrictions d’exportation, rapporte le Financial Times. Google affirme en effet qu’une version d’Android modifiée par Huawei faciliterait le hacking. En résulterait un écosystème Android coupé en deux, où la version complète signée Google serait moins vulnérable aux attaques, « y compris venues de Chine ». Arrières pensées Bien entendu, l’attitude de Google dans cette affaire est pragmatique. Huawei est le 2e fabricant mondial de smartphone sous Android et il avait jusqu’à présent le vent en poupe, multipliant les ventes au détriment de Samsung, le numéro un en difficulté. Si Huawei parvient à lancer un Android alternatif avec succès, bon nombre d’utilisateurs ne pourront plus faire appel aux services de Google. Le Financial Times note que Google n’est pas la seul entreprise à défendre ses relations commerciales avec Huawei : Qualcomm serait également inquiet de l’impact de l’embargo sur ses activités.
15:22
Google et Facebook font face différemment à la tempête Huawei
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Facebook vient de rejoindre la liste des entreprises américaines qui ont choisi de prendre leur distance avec Huawei, alors que Google préfère mettre en garde contre les risques de sécurité impliqués par la poursuite des restrictions d’exportation décidées par Washington à l’encontre du fabricant chinois. Selon Reuters, Facebook aurait cessé de préinstaller son app sur les smartphones Huawei. La mesure touche également les apps WhatsApp et Instagram. Les propriétaires actuels de smartphones Huawei bénéficieront toujours des mises à jour et il restera toujours possible d’installer les apps après achat d’un appareil – à condition toutefois d’avoir accès à l’app store Google Play. Selon Reuters, tous les modèles Huawei actuellement en vente et en production auront accès au catalogue Google, mais pas les futurs produits. Huawei travaille à sa propre plate-forme, conçue pour fonctionner sans passer par les produits et services de Google. Cette plate-forme intègre une app store alternative, bien qu’il n’y ait aucune garantie que Facebook y donne accès à ses propres logiciels. Les projets relatifs à l’OS développé par le fabricant chinois font partie des arguments qui justifient selon Google une exemption des restrictions d’exportation, rapporte le Financial Times. Google affirme en effet qu’une version d’Android modifiée par Huawei faciliterait le hacking. En résulterait un écosystème Android coupé en deux, où la version complète signée Google serait moins vulnérable aux attaques, « y compris venues de Chine ». Arrières pensées Bien entendu, l’attitude de Google dans cette affaire est pragmatique. Huawei est le 2e fabricant mondial de smartphone sous Android et il avait jusqu’à présent le vent en poupe, multipliant les ventes au détriment de Samsung, le numéro un en difficulté. Si Huawei parvient à lancer un Android alternatif avec succès, bon nombre d’utilisateurs ne pourront plus faire appel aux services de Google. Le Financial Times note que Google n’est pas la seul entreprise à défendre ses relations commerciales avec Huawei : Qualcomm serait également inquiet de l’impact de l’embargo sur ses activités.
15:22
Google et Facebook font face différemment à la tempête Huawei
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Facebook vient de rejoindre la liste des entreprises américaines qui ont choisi de prendre leur distance avec Huawei, alors que Google préfère mettre en garde contre les risques de sécurité impliqués par la poursuite des restrictions d’exportation décidées par Washington à l’encontre du fabricant chinois. Selon Reuters, Facebook aurait cessé de préinstaller son app sur les smartphones Huawei. La mesure touche également les apps WhatsApp et Instagram. Les propriétaires actuels de smartphones Huawei bénéficieront toujours des mises à jour et il restera toujours possible d’installer les apps après achat d’un appareil – à condition toutefois d’avoir accès à l’app store Google Play. Selon Reuters, tous les modèles Huawei actuellement en vente et en production auront accès au catalogue Google, mais pas les futurs produits. Huawei travaille à sa propre plate-forme, conçue pour fonctionner sans passer par les produits et services de Google. Cette plate-forme intègre une app store alternative, bien qu’il n’y ait aucune garantie que Facebook y donne accès à ses propres logiciels. Les projets relatifs à l’OS développé par le fabricant chinois font partie des arguments qui justifient selon Google une exemption des restrictions d’exportation, rapporte le Financial Times. Google affirme en effet qu’une version d’Android modifiée par Huawei faciliterait le hacking. En résulterait un écosystème Android coupé en deux, où la version complète signée Google serait moins vulnérable aux attaques, « y compris venues de Chine ». Arrières pensées Bien entendu, l’attitude de Google dans cette affaire est pragmatique. Huawei est le 2e fabricant mondial de smartphone sous Android et il avait jusqu’à présent le vent en poupe, multipliant les ventes au détriment de Samsung, le numéro un en difficulté. Si Huawei parvient à lancer un Android alternatif avec succès, bon nombre d’utilisateurs ne pourront plus faire appel aux services de Google. Le Financial Times note que Google n’est pas la seul entreprise à défendre ses relations commerciales avec Huawei : Qualcomm serait également inquiet de l’impact de l’embargo sur ses activités.

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