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18 April, 2019
(WEEK IN TELCO IT) — Orange is already exploring future uses of 5G, but it really needs to know what clients want. Meanwhile, as Jeremy Cowan reports, it looks like Apple has chosen the least worst outcome of four unpalatable scenarios.
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25 January, 2019
As carriers worldwide continue the race to 5G, Matrixx Software recently connected with more than 4,000 mobile users across the United States and the United Kingdom to find out just how much value they place on the next-generation network.
13 December, 2018
The SIM card is a technology that most of us are familiar with, present in mobile phones since the early nineties. A SIM card is a piece of hardware which contains data that authenticates us with our mobile operator, enabling us to connect to a network and receive a mobile connection. (more…)
23 November, 2018
Q1- What was your first job?
I played professional soccer for a couple years right out of college but my first job in telecom was as an outside sales rep for McCaw Cellular in their East Side office of Portland, Oregon. This was the early days of 1990, so wireless penetration in the US was very low, about 2 to 3%. (more…)
20 November, 2018
Users of Apple Mac devices can now get their hands on a lightweight Surfshark privacy protection app which its developers say offers “seamless connectivity”. Besides forward-thinking encryption, the app comes with a CleanWeb feature to secure Mac devices from phishing attacks, malware, block trackers, and ads. (more…)
19 November, 2018
After months of speculation on the name, the colour, the features and the price, Apple’s September event finally revealed its latest line-up of handsets. Since then, there’s one feature in particular that has continued to generate further chatter in the telecoms industry: the eSIM. (more…)
11 October, 2018
Virtual network functions (VNFs) are based on the principle of running a network function using software that is decoupled from the underlying hardware, and is a key component of network functions virtualisation (NFV). However, the process of onboarding virtual network functions (VNFs) has become complex and time-intensive, and is in contradiction to the promised benefits of NFV. Oren Marmur, a vice president and head of NFV at Amdocs, believes that communication service providers (CSPs), industry organisations and vendors should support the standardisation of VNF onboarding, in order for the telecoms industry to realise the benefits of NFV.
14 September, 2018
Apple’s new iPhone is to use an eSIM. The Cupertino-based company confirmed that there is an eSIM solution for the S 2018 iPhones refresh. (more…)
27 August, 2018
FAANG. Yes, FAANG. Why start here? Because Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google have helped to re-define how many, many industries do business. Incumbent TMT (Telecoms, Media and Technology) companies know the pressure to diversify (more…)
14 August, 2018
The secondary smartphone market is a huge success story. Mobile operators, device manufacturers and retailers that have implemented buyback processes for pre-owned devices at the point of new device upgrades have enjoyed a wide variety of compelling benefits. Unquestionably the biggest of these benefits is the ability to stimulate new revenue, writes Biju Nair, the president and chief executive of HYLA Mobile.
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