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TIM has awarded the first tender for last-mile fibre-optic cabling for its new FiberCorp unit to a quintet of domestic suppliers. The Italian incumbent named Ecotel, Metallurgica Bresciana, Prysmian, Technikabel and Tratos as its first five suppliers, noting that each has committed to carrying out all parts of its contract at production and certification facilities
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Besieged Chinese telecoms giant Huawei grew its revenues by 9.9% in the first nine months of this year, much less than the 24% of the tear-ago period. Huawei is not a public company, so it’s not really obliged to publish any of its numbers, but it does so anyway, when it’s in the mood. This
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Mi Watch Revolve is the first smartwatch from Xiaomi to launch in India, and it looks as though the company has been doing its homework. The Mi Watch Revolve sports some interesting hardware which isn’t common in wearables at this price point. It runs proprietary software and is capable of tracking multiple exercises. To top
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Nokia has been tapped to upgrade the final drop on NetCologne’s FTTB network from VDSL2 to G.fast. It means that residents of the 30,000 premises currently served by NetCologne’s infrastructure will soon have – theoretically at least – access to 1-Gbps broadband. Under the contract, Nokia will supply its Lightspan SX G.fast distribution point. In
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Xiaomi is one of very few new brands in the laptop space, but its huge footprint across the Indian smartphone and TV markets means that it isn’t a new name. Brand recognition and trust are important when spending large amounts of money. Of course, the Chinese giant is best known for offering excellent value in
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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 Susan James, senior director of Telecommunications Strategy at Red Hat, explains why she things edge computing will enable CSPs to maximise their 5G capabilities, strike up partnerships with hyperscalers and flourish as cloud-native players. The edge conversation
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Verizon has teamed up with Nokia to support its mission to provide private 5G networks internationally. Tuesday’s announcement marked the formal launch of the US operator’s international private 5G platform for enterprises in Europe and the Asia-Pacific. Verizon’s self-contained enterprise 5G networks will use Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud and are geared towards large businesses with
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The largest smartphone maker you’ve never heard of is finally venturing to Europe as Vivo brings over a full range of devices. Vivo is consistently the sixth-biggest smartphone vendor by units shipped but, until recently, that was almost entirely down to Chinese consumers. Huawei made its international move a decade ago and then, more recently,
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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 Paul Miller, CTO at Wind River, looks at interdependency between edge cloud and vRAN as operators contemplate their 5G strategies. The promise of 5G is huge; from the expansion of IoT and smart cities, all the
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During a trial of OpenRAN technology in the Netherlands, Vodafone and NEC managed to make a voice call, using the disruptive new radio technology. NEC is a major player in OpenRAN, which seeks to disaggregate the various components in a cellular base station, such that operators can pick-and-choose their vendor for each bit. Its most
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