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News & Views Most Popular Sigfox Still Shedding Top Execs, Including CTO – Sources By Iain Morris, International Editor, 1/16/2019 The French IoT company has lost another two senior executives in recent months, according to sources, following a wave of departures in the past two years. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom Denies T-Systems Asset Sale By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/16/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Turk Telekom tests Nokia's machine-learning technology for 5G; Orange and Groupama form home surveillance JV; reversal of fortune for Qualcomm in German court. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The Leading Lights Awards Are Back! By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 1/11/2019 Yes, it's that time of the year again already, folks! Get cracking on your submission for Light Reading's annual awards before you catch MWC fever – there's a category (or three) for everyone! Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Huawei Controlled Firm That Sold to Iran – Reuters By Iain Morris, International Editor, 1/9/2019 A Reuters report uncovers documents that establish close links between Huawei and companies that breached US sanctions through deals in the Middle East. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: [email protected] Also you forgot to mention that every Skycom employee had a Huawei employee... Eurobites: Landlines Are Finished in Finland, Says Telia By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Swedes are well connected; Nagra wins big at Telefónica; Deutsche Telekom ignores Christmas, presses on with network upgrade; Mobileye sees China's potential. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Ericsson Seeks Jail for RCom Chairman Over Unpaid Debt By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 1/7/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: landlines dying a slow death in the UK; ARM boss takes home £22 million; Israeli V2X specialist lands Samsung deal; Teleste upgrades Telenet's HFC. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Light Reading's 23 Most Popular TV Stories & Interviews of 2018 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/28/2018 Light Reading's on-camera coverage during the year spanned a wide range of topics and technologies, from 5G and 4K to HDR, AI, automation, edge computing and more... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement WiCipedia: Israeli Tech Flounders, CIOs Make Change & How to 'Bust Down Those Doors' By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 12/21/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: Israel struggles to find techies; CIOs have diversity sway; the visibility lynchpin; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Analyst: AT&T Made 'Major Strategic Error' on SVoD Plan By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/17/2018 Decision to launch a trio of direct-to-consumer services and continue to license content is the wrong move, analyst says. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner As mentioned above, WarnerMedia and Disney are pushing ahead with their DTC... Eurobites: Telefónica Seeks Outage Compensation from Ericsson By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 12/10/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia and friends deploy liquid-based basestation cooling in Helsinki; Liquid Telecom invests in Egypt; Deutsche Telekom launches 5G in Warsaw. Post a Comment \| Read (0) PCCW Global on the Need to Monetize the Edge By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/10/2018 On the sidelines of Light Reading's 2020 Vision executive summit in Lisbon, PCCW Global's Shahar Steiff talks about the key challenges facing network operators as they figure out their edge computing strategies. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: MindCommerce "We need to sell to customers directly" (like cloud providers). Do you see... Qualcomm's $100M Plan to Seed AI in Devices By Iain Morris, International Editor, 11/29/2018 Chip giant's plans to support AI startups could help it to flog more expensive processors, but it faces a big challenge from China's Huawei. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Wind Tre Socked by Iliad's Entry Into Italy By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/28/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: TIM makes 5G connection; ADVA targets the network edge; Nokia boosts in-home WiFi, Ofcom tackles UK directory enquiries scam. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Synamedia CEO Seeks New Video Service Tangents By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/27/2018 In addition to helping pay-TV partners hit all screens, Synamedia is fleshing out its portfolio with cross-app search and discovery offerings and services that help distributors, OTT players and content owners crack down on video piracy and password sharing. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: komatineni unified view/search: Love to see if any major or minor OTT player willing to... Cisco: Connected Home Will Be Key Driver of IoT by 2022 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/27/2018 Connected home applications, such as home automation, home security and video surveillance, connected white goods, and tracking applications, will represent 48% of the total M2M connections by 2022, Cisco says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/27/2018 Broadband homes that consume 1 Terabyte-plus of data per month more than doubled, Cisco data shows. Will ISPs raise their data ceilings? Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: nelly.frd Cisco is forecasting that 4K/Ultra HD video will account for about 22% of global... Eurobites: Genish Versus Elliott Gets Personal By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/21/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Alfa deploys Nokia's 4.5G tech; TalkTalk ups sticks, sets up fiber rollout arm; Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson provide campus network for Osram. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: GypsumFantastic Regarding the cloud-based police control room, is that so they can do even... Huawei Has Shipped 10K 5G Basestations Outside China By Iain Morris, International Editor, 11/20/2018 Chinese equipment vendor is now selling 5G network equipment in Europe, the Middle East and South Korea, says its rotating chairman. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: mark5151 Huawei is making the base stations at the outside of the china and that shows... Eurobites: TIM, Huawei Combine on SD-WAN Services By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/12/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT Global Services plans customer cull; Ooredoo does the business on network upgrades; Orange's Richard to head up GSMA; EU digital tax deal edges nearer. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: EU Makes Life Awkward for OTT Video Crew By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/7/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: EU approves Disney-Fox deal; Nokia helps create private LTE network for BMW in China, gets cozy with Infosys; Hyperoptic attracts Middle Eastern money; Three UK trumpets 5G progress. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: indesilife Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai is an Indian television sequential having First Episode... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards [email protected], 1/11/2019 7:34:43 PM Huawei Controlled Firm That Sold to Iran – Reuters Re: Huawei/Skycom Also you forgot to mention that every Skycom employee had a Huawei employee badge and a Huawei email address. Otherwise has anyone heard if Ms. Meng is running out of friends to have coffee with in Vancouver while she... [email protected], 1/11/2019 7:22:23 PM Huawei Controlled Firm That Sold to Iran – Reuters Re: Huawei situation A couple of points: One that ZTE is more dependent on US technology than Huawei due to HiSilicon, the Huawei subsidiary that does everything from switching/routing silicon to baseband for them. An import ban on ZTE is... Marshalla4, 1/11/2019 8:37:08 AM Huawei Controlled Firm That Sold to Iran – Reuters Re: Huawei Excellent article Iain... Clifton K Morris, 1/9/2019 12:51:40 PM Huawei Controlled Firm That Sold to Iran – Reuters Re: The German connection Reminiscent of when Douche Telekom wanted to buy Sprint. Before the merger was announced, DT owned networks across Iran and other embargo'ed countries. But today, DT wants political favors, and because Germans are white... MindCommerce, 12/26/2018 9:07:20 PM PCCW Global on the Need to Monetize the Edge Re: Need for Carriers to Think Out of Box with Edge Computing "We need to sell to customers directly" (like cloud providers). Do you see that carriers get that model and see a way to adopt it? "We have (speaking of PCCW), developed our own platform...where customers can order on-demand". "We... aminahameens, 12/26/2018 2:10:55 AM GSMA Opens a Mobile Marketplace Re: Good Work All the facts and figure mentioned in the post are based on reality overall it's a great content good work. oneworldrental.ae macemoneta, 12/21/2018 11:13:18 AM 5G Americas: 1.3B Global 5G Connections by 2023 Re: In a vacuum These forecasts always appear to be made based upon the assumtion that there will be no new competing developments. In the case of 5G however, there will be: WiFi 6 (802.11ax), WiFi HaLow (802.11ah), SpaceX StarLink, LoRaWAN, and... Jeff Baumgartner, 12/18/2018 4:54:07 PM Analyst: AT&T Made 'Major Strategic Error' on SVoD Plan Re: OTT Holiday Cheer from NBCU's Steve Burke As mentioned above, WarnerMedia and Disney are pushing ahead with their DTC OTT plans while speculation runs rampant on what NBCU and Comcast will do (if anything) on that front in the wake of the Sky de According to Bloomberg,... nelly.frd, 11/29/2018 11:45:32 AM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Re: clipart png 2019 calendar printable calendar Cisco is forecasting that 4K/Ultra HD video will account for about 22% of global IP video traffic by 2022, compared to a mere 3% in 2017. Cisco also predicts that 62% of flat-panel TVs will be 4K-capable by 2020, a CAGR... cypherstream, 11/29/2018 10:05:59 AM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Re: Maybe not unreasonable? Game consoles will chew through 1TB+ easy these days. For example Microsoft's Xbox game pass is like the Netflix of Xbox one. You pay $10 a month for access to 100+ Games to play but the caviat is whatever games you want,... mark5151, 11/28/2018 6:40:51 PM Huawei Has Shipped 10K 5G Basestations Outside China Re: 5g basestation Huawei is making the base stations at the outside of the china and that shows that how the company reaching a new level to gain the whole achievement on the 5g connections. The thing is that many system and devices... komatineni, 11/27/2018 3:54:53 PM Synamedia CEO Seeks New Video Service Tangents Re: Good luck unified view/search: Love to see if any major or minor OTT player willing to open up their metadata with SP or Synamedia. They are called OTT because they want to bypass the traditional delivery model. Even with Youtube... Duh!, 11/27/2018 1:55:11 PM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Maybe not unreasonable? Quick back-of-the-envelope calculation. Assuming an equal mix of HD and UHD, we can use 11.3 Mbit/s as the average video data rate. That said, 1 TB of data equates to just short of 200 hours of video, or six and a half hours... GypsumFantastic, 11/22/2018 8:54:08 AM Eurobites: Genish Versus Elliott Gets Personal Re: police cloud Regarding the cloud-based police control room, is that so they can do even more monitoring of tweets and comments on social media or will it be used to help tackle real crime? GypsumFantastic, 11/22/2018 8:51:41 AM Eurobites: Genish Versus Elliott Gets Personal Re: minor fact check TalkTalk Salford is their 'HQ North', London is 'HQ South'. It's the existing Salford HQ the roles will likely be relocated to, not a different office. More Message Boards		Security Now Justice Department Indicts 2 Ukrainian Nationals With Hacking SEC Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 1/16/2019 The Justice Department has charged two Ukrainian nationals with hacking into the ... 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