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Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Martin Morgan, VP of Marketing at Openet, explores the potential of mobility-as-platform services. Toyota and AWS recently announced they were partnering to expand Toyota’s Mobility Services Platform. As the announcement put it, the platform is an
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Cisco has offered the equivalent of US$730 million for cloud-based customer experience firm IMImobile, a figure that represents a hefty premium on its current share price. The US tech giant has reached agreement with IMImobile on a 595 pence-per-share offer that has been recommended by its board of directors and is slated to close in
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iPhone 11 users experiencing touchscreen issues can now get a free screen replacement from Apple. The company has acknowledged that a small number of iPhone 11 displays “may stop responding to touch due to an issue with the display module”. Apple notes that the iPhone 11 modules manufactured between November 2019 and May 2020 may
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CityFibre has signed up another four retail ISPs to its fibre network, more than doubling its wholesale customer base. The UK infrastructure builder named three companies in the south and east of England and one in Scotland, all of which will provide high-speed broadband services to “significant volumes of new customers.” Its wording there doesn’t
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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) latest telecom subscription report for September 2020 shows the top five wired and wireless broadband service providers, and as with previous months, BSNL led the wired broadband market with 7.80 million subscribers and Reliance Jio led the wireless segment with 404.13 million users. Notably, the wireless segment includes 4G
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Major telco groups Deutsche Telekom and Orange claim to have successfully tested a proof-of-concept (PoC) whereby blockchains are used to offer enhanced IPX services. More specifically, they have been able to demonstrate that operators can use a blockchain to facilitate the automatic exchange of end-to-end carrier network KPIs between two providers. It paves the way
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In a year that saw leaving the house become criminalised in much of the world, it comes as little surprise to see video conferencing service Zoom become top of the mobile pops. Both Apple and Google have un veiled their app ‘awards’, but since the criteria for these are opaque and presumably have a commercial
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This article is sponsored by Red Hat and Intel Operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) are being rewritten or refactored to cloud-native, microservices-based applications capable of running on hybrid cloud and multicloud computing and storage infrastructure. MATRIXX Software was created to take advantage of the inherent advantages of cloud-native software for 5G
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