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Telenor signs with ip.access for small cells
Telenor has signed an agreement with small cell vendor ip.access

Nordic operator group Telenor has signed a deal with ip.access which will see the vendor supply the operator its end-to-end small cell solutions. The agreement covers all 11 operators in the Telenor Group globally, and will see ip.access supply its 3G small cell solutions for the operator’s residential, business and public customers.

Samsung teams up with Corning for OLED displays
Corning and Samsung are teaming up to innovate in OLED screen manufacturing

Samsung has signed an agreement with specialty glass and ceramics manufacturer Corning to establish a new venture for the organic light emitting diode (OLED) device market. Based in Korean, the newly formed entity will supply OLED backplane glass substrates for Samsung Mobile Display, as well as for the broader Korean market.

BT trials “FTTP on-demand”

UK telco BT has successfully trialled the delivery of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband on an on-demand basis in St Agnes, Cornwall, delivering speeds of up to 300 Mbps

Hutchison to buy Orange Austria

Orange Austria, owned by France Telecom, is to be acquired by Hong Kong’s Hutchison, which competes with Orange through its 3 Austria operation. The deal, worth €1.3bn, consolidates the third and fourth players in the Austrian market.

U.S. Cellular to launch LTE network in March

The North American carrier U.S. Cellular has announced that it will launch its LTE network in March, along with accompanying LTE ready devices. The network which will be launched in conjunction with its build partner King Street Wireless, was originally meant to come online by the end of 2011, and no specific reason was provided for the delay.

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Dawinderpal SahotaWhat Facebook’s IPO filing means for the telecoms industry

As the industry awaits Facebook’s IPO, Telecoms.com takes a look at what the social networking site going public will mean for the telecoms industry. The social networking site revealed in its documents that it currently has 823m unique users per month, according to its December 2011 figures, and half of that figure – around 430m – are using the site from a mobile device, which is larger than the global Android install base.

Network Sharing: Improving the medium so the message is not lost
Without an adequate medium of delivery, there is no message

Way back in 1996, at the dawn of the digital revolution, Microsoft founder Bill Gates declared in an article that “Content is King.” Gates drew a parallel to television, saying that “The television revolution that began half a century ago spawned a number of industries, including the manufacturing of TV sets, but the long-term winners were those who used the medium to deliver information and entertainment.” This statement has proved prophetic.

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STC: “Network operators in the Middle-East region have consistently driven innovation in the mobile communications market.”
Adnan Salkic is a senior consultant for network strategic planning & performance, for Saudia Arabian carrier STC

Adnan Salkic is a senior consultant for network strategic planning & performance, for UAE carrier STC. We speak to him about STC’s strategy for LTE deployment and his thoughts on why it is a key technology for operators looking to lower costs and increase network efficiency.

Interface Schools
What will the device of the future look like?

Mobile devices have come a long way from their walkie-talkie wartime roots, and their user interfaces have come further in a shorter time. Touchscreens are all the rage today, but in the future, where will the user interface reside?

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LTE: The next stage of evolution

LTE special: VoLTE, LTE Advanced, TD-LTE and a full round-up of deployments in the Americas.

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