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20 June, 2022

WBA OpenRoaming enables Dublin’s smart city vision with secure, high-performance Wi-Fi

London, United Kingdom. 20 June, 2022 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and City of Dublin announced a successful proof of concept trial of OpenRoaming in Dublin, Ireland. Initially deployed at Bernardo Square, Dame Street and the City Council’s Amphitheatre, WBA OpenRoaming enables residents and visitors to log in only once and then maintain connectivity as their smartphones, tablets and other Wi-Fi devices automatically switch between different public Wi-Fi hotspots. The success of the trial will pave the way for a larger city wide deployment.

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14 March, 2022

Regulators are slowing mobile consolidation

Mobile operators realise that consolidation in most mature markets in inevitable, it’s just a shame that the regulatory regime has a habit of slowing things down. Business technology journalist, Antony Savvas looks at another big potential market shake-up, if it’s allowed to happen?

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18 October, 2021

Are telcos addressing the network challenge for next gen services?

There have been some interesting edge and 5G ecosystem developments in the past week. Business technology journalist Antony Savvas takes a close look.

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07 June, 2021

Selling off the family silver may be a risky business in a growing market

The pandemic has fuelled home and remote working, and the growing importance of edge connectivity to support apps and services around 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) is clear, as is the role of the telcos to support this extra data traffic.

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28 May, 2021

An emerging telco challenge at the potentially lucrative edge

It’s nice to see a telco seemingly ahead of the game when it comes to an emerging market growth area, namely the edge connectivity space, writes communications journalist, Antony Savvas. By 2025, analyst house Gartner predicts that 75% of enterprise data is expected to be created and processed at the edge.

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15 April, 2021

Liberty Global selects Teleste’s distributed access solution

Liberty Global, a converged video, broadband and communications company, is to trial Teleste’s Distributed Access Architecture to support their GIGAbit network. The aim is for customers to benefit from increased reliability and capacity through the new DOCSIS technology. (more…)