Blog
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Marynet Bassily, director of procurement and supply chain, EMEA at Vantage Data Centers, explains how she has overcome many obstacles to establish a career spanning construction and telecoms – and how she is encouraging her company and the wider industry to focus on inclusivity -
Microsoft has quietly added voice calls to its Teams package. now, no one will need a fixed-line phone on their desk, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Leading OTT players know that extra capacity gives an in-region advantage. Jim Fagan, chief strategy and revenue officer at Global Cloud Xchange writes
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From ageing infrastructure to on-demand energy models, Terry Storrar, MD of Leaseweb UK, writes about the new quick wins improving data centre sustainability
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While many believe satellite and fibre will save the day for unconnected Africa, Wim van Thillo, CEO and co-founder at Pharrowtech, has another suggestion
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With the exploding use of APIs to drive new partnerships and services across all markets, the demand for a compliant, core-and-edge data centre platform which can bring diverse sectors together will skyrocket.
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Debbie Nolan, commercial director at Arvato Financial Solutions, explains how artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help telecoms businesses maximise their collections, tackle bad debt and protect relationships with their most vulnerable customers.
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As spectrum demands increase, some regulators are looking for ways to share it out. Some newcomers to the mobile industry, including wholesalers, look likely to win access to spectrum too
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In the not-too-distant past, network operators had the insight to understand what was traversing their networks. This not only helped them better engineer and plan for capacity, but it also gave them a plethora of data which helped them create service packages to encourage upgrades and ultimately reduce churn.
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The market size of blockchain in telecom this year has reached $46.6 million, and that number is projected to grow to $993.8 million by 2023.
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Well, there are a number of potential answers to that - but last week one of the thing that attendees from Facebook, TalkTalk Business, Zayo and Telstra had in common was supporting a panel at the Capacity Europe event on 'Empowering Women in Telco'.
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Throughout history, we have never ceased in our pursuit of greater productivity. With each new industrial revolution, from industrialisation and digitalisation to today's focus on robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), we have seen giant leaps in terms of our industrial efficiency.
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Whilst He-Man was a master of the universe, us mere mortals may have to lower our goals. The network is a mini-universe for network managers, but much to their dismay, they often don’t have the control or visibility over it that they’d ideally like.
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With the recent release of the latest 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G New Radio (NR) standards and the first true 5G networks potentially coming online in 2018, 5G-ready transport networks continue to evolve into semi-unmapped territory.
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These days, it seems the only thing more important to travellers than their wifi access is the suitcase containing their clothes.
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Cybersecurity today is a critical business enabler. Without the right approach to managing risks, organizations will be handicapped when it comes to delivering great customer experiences. By Ricky Chau, Vice President, Enterprises, CenturyLink Asia Pacific
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Einstein thought it was spooky, but carriers and equipment companies are using a property of quantum physics to send encryption keys down fibre. BT and Telefónica have already demonstrated it on live networks, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Gagan Singh, senior vice president and general manager of mobile at Avast, examines the role of telcos in protecting the smart homes of tomorrow in the advent of IoT
