Wi-Fi to be critical enabler of 5G smart cities, sensors and safety use cases

Tiago Rodrigues is the general manager of the Wireless Broadband Alliance. Here he tells VanillaPlus the Wi-Fi is playing an increasingly important role in the development of 5G and will,

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Dept of Defense halts sales of Chinese-made phones on US army bases as technology block deepens

The Pentagon today widened the ongoing ban on government use of communications technology supplied by two of China’s leading comms equipment providers, Huawei and ZTE.

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Are network blind-spots derailing your digital transformation train?

When dealing with digital transformation initiatives, having visibility into IT infrastructure shouldn’t be a choice, it should be a requirement, writes Nadeem Zahid, the senior director of strategy and cloud

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The internet of broken things? 10 key facts about IoT – part 2

Ian Kilpatrick, the enteprise vice president of cyber security at Nuvias Group, continues his article detailing the 10 key facts about IoT that organisations need to take into account to

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Will CSPs start paying the bills?

As the PSD2 (Revised Payment Service Directive) takes effect in the EU, banks that previously had a monopoly on consumer account details will now be obligated to safely disclose that

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Signalling network presents next area of operator weakness as grey routes get locked down

Recent research from Mobilesquared reveals that operators’ failure to secure SS7 networks is costing them messaging revenue today and could see them lose share of the two factor authentication market

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Why the password should never be the last word in data security

The recent cyber-attack on Deloitte was yet another example of the lax security measures being deployed by some of the world’s biggest corporations. Deloitte isn’t alone; Equifax as well as

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A week in Telco IT: Tough gig, but someone has to do it!

So there I was, discussing subscriber fraud last week in the steamy heat of Miami Beach with WeDo Technologies’ North America VP, Thomas Steagall, says Jeremy Cowan. Outside, it was

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An inconvenient truth about IoT security

The current political events in Barcelona provide us with a barely-needed reminder that we live in changing times, writes Rob Dyke, the field applications engineering manager at Trustonic. I was

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Low ARPUs, fraud and client culture clashes are backdrop as TeleSign acquisition accelerates BICS transformation

Carriers and even carriers’ carriers need to stimulate growth and reduce their dependency on declining voice revenues. All of which comes as news to no-one, says Jeremy Cowan. But how

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