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The Telecoms.com Podcast: Africa, Italia, UK and US

A globetrotting podcast this week features Ray from Light Reading as Scott’s only conversational partner, but since he equates to at least two regular pundits that’s fine. They discuss the recent AfricaCom event in Cape Town, before moving onto the latest corporate shenanigans at Telecom Italia, which unhelpfully took place between the recording and publication of this podcast. They conclude with a look at EE and Virgin Media getting in trouble with Ofcom and Oracle trying to buy its way back into telecoms.

• 19 Nov 2018

Ericsson gets multinational 5G core network win with Telenor

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has got a nice lot of fresh 5G work from Swedish operator group Telenor.

• 14 Nov 2018

Italians clearly aren’t that suspicious of Huawei

Despite governments around the world turning against Chinese vendors, Telecom Italia has agreed a new partnership with Huawei based on Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology.

• 12 Nov 2018

Nokia gets a bunch more cash from Chinese operators

Nokia is so keen for everyone to know how well it’s doing in China that is it makes an announcement every time it wins some business.

• 07 Nov 2018

What does cloud-native really mean for operators?

The term “cloud-native” is two-faceted. It entails both the technology used as well as the more strategic design aspect, signifying the direction many enterprises want to take with their applications.

• 05 Nov 2018

Challenges in the Virtualization (SDN/NFV) Market

Aricent on the SDN/NFV market and addressing its challenges with SD-vAS and uCPE solutions.

• 30 Oct 2018

Nokia launches some actual applications for SDN

All the hype surrounding software-defined networking is finally starting to yield some tangible results in the form of three apps from Nokia.

• 30 Oct 2018

IBM aims to boost its strategic imperatives with $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat

IBM has announced by far the largest acquisition in its history with the acquisition of cloud and open source software vendor Red Hat.

• 29 Oct 2018

US Senators hit out at India’s pro-privacy and localisation laws

Two US Senators have signed a letter addressed to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting new rules to tighten up data practices in the country could lead to a weakened trade relationship with the US.

• 15 Oct 2018

Virtualization and the deployment and operation of 5G networks

While 5G undoubtedly holds enormous potential, meeting its demands for increased speed, performance, scalability, and flexible service deployment is likely to result in untenable complexity and OpEx for service operators.

• 10 Oct 2018

Nokia plugs openness ahead of Broadband World Forum

Open is one of 2018’s buzzwords and Nokia is cashing in on the bonanza ahead of Broadband World Forum in a couple of weeks.

• 10 Oct 2018

Microsoft looks to take Xbox experience onto mobile

Microsoft has announced the launch of Project xCloud to take the world of Xbox gaming onto mobile.

• 09 Oct 2018

Samsung looks to reverse mid-year dip with Q3 numbers

Q2 wasn’t exactly a party for Samsung, though it seems ready to correct the dip at the first possible opportunity.

• 05 Oct 2018

Amazon, Supermicro and Apple call BS on Chinese spying sting – someone is lying

Amazon, Supermicro and Apple have released statements denying they have ever found any malicious microchips on their hardware calling into questions the validity of Chinese espionage claims.

• 05 Oct 2018

Banning us could hand China victory in the 5G race – Huawei

Reading between the lines, Huawei is asking the US a new question; banning us will make deployment slower and more expensive, so how will that help in the 5G race against China?

• 03 Oct 2018

Security could make telcos more than a utility in the smart home

With the smart home becoming more of a reality, new research from Open-Xchange suggests the largely ignored security market could be a money-spinner for the telco industry.

• 28 Sep 2018

AT&T launches online advertising marketplace Xandr

Two multi-billion dollar acquisitions and a funny name later, the AT&T content business vision starts to become a bit clearer.

• 26 Sep 2018

Vodafone pulls out a genuinely good 5G demo – get ready for holograms!

While many 5G demos show technical progress, few wow an audience in the same way Vodafone did at its Future Ready press conference, unveiling the UK’s first live holographic call.

• 21 Sep 2018

Vodafone announces 2019 5G commercial launch and 1,000 sites by 2020

Vodafone has confirmed it will be ready to hit the 5G on-switch as soon as devices are available on the market, though only in Manchester in the first instance.

• 21 Sep 2018

Edge Computing vs Fog Computing

Computing at the network perimeter, including edge computing and fog computing, will play a crucial role in content delivery and workload management.

• 21 Sep 2018