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KT TELECOM EYES 2018 5G NETWORK
MEANWHILE NOKIA NETWORKS AIMS TO BE TOP TWO PLAYER
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BLACKBERRY UNVEILS LEAP SMARTPHONE
CANADIAN VENDOR ALSO TEASES NEW CURVED-SCREEN HANDSET
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WIKIPEDIA FOUNDER URGES MOBILE OPERATORS TO HELP OPEN
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FCC chief
defends net
neutrality rules
By Richard Handford fixed, as common carriers under Title ‘wait a minute, does that make auctions, raising the prospect of 2015 Global
II of the Communications Act, a piece sense?’ Do we have a set of rules slowing future network investment Mobile Awards
Speaking in the Mobile World of legislation that dates from 1934. that says that is just and by the country’s operators. winners revealed
Live keynote last night, reasonable?” said Wheeler.
Federal Communications Wheeler argued Title II has been “With this and the new rules [on Actor, comedian, writer and
Commission (FCC) chairman Tom modernised. “This is about as far as The two also chewed over net neutrality], is there a fear that film producer John Cleese
Wheeler defended the agency’s use you can get from old school spectrum, and the bumper $45 the US might lose out to Asia and yesterday announced the
of decades-old regulatory tools in regulation.” billion auction of radio frequencies in China?” she asked. Wheeler argued winners of the 20th Global
putting together its new net the US that finished a few weeks ago. the bidders had made rational Mobile Awards. Cleese opened
neutrality rules. The FCC voted to approve net Bouverot pointed out the price is business decisions based on their the ceremony in an irreverent
neutrality proposals just last week high in comparison to international likely returns. style, referring to the audience
Debating with Anne Bouverot, in a 3-2 decision, with Democrats as “technical geeks” and
director general of the GSMA, outvoting Republican members of recalling his experiences of hotel
Wheeler said: “Those opposed to the commission. service on his global travels. A
open internet rules, they like to say full list of the winners can be
we used depression era regulation. The proposal called for a stricter found on page 4.
But we took Title II and modernised set of rules that will treat
it. We built our model on a regulatory broadband providers, including
model that has been wildly mobile operators, more like utilities.
successful in the US for mobile.”
“The basic question is if the
The FCC intends to reclassify internet is the most powerful and
broadband providers, both mobile and pervasive platform in the history of
the planet, can it exist without a
referee? We need a referee to say
EU digital chief hails EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS
collaborative 5G effort
FOR
By Saleha Riaz Earlier in the day in a Mobile virtual infrastructures drawing on ALL-DIGITAL
World Congress keynote session, physical resources implemented in DAS FOR HIGHLY
EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger mentioned that “being a different Member States,” he said, EFFICIENT HIGH
Oettinger said that Europe’s 5G lead adopter requires to be a 4G adding that “our ambition is QUALITY
authorities have a crucial leader, but Europe is still lagging towards a global standard rather NETWORKS
role in driving the continent’s 5G behind on 4G deployments.” than a divided one, with European
efforts, and that “without the the 5G input.” This would “avoid a war on TE Connectivity www.te.com/mwc
Public-Private Partnership, without The commissioner said that 5G standards contrasting clearly with
the European Commission to infrastructure must support the situation at the start of the Hospitality 16:00
moderate the process, and without multiple vertical industries and previous generations of Booth 6B52
the Horizon 2020 funding, Europe promote “confidence in the future,” communications systems.”
would not stand a chance to even which is “the key for investments.”
be part of the game.” 5G technology, he said, will lower Oettinger also said that the issue
entry barriers for third party of spectrum should be solved by the
He was speaking at a press developers, as networks become end of the decade, and spectrum
conference where the PPP – more software-oriented. should come under ministers in
including companies such as charge of digital, rather than finance.
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia and He also stressed the importance
Orange – presented its vision for of the digital single market, which Oettinger concluded that the PPP
5G, and where he was quizzed on “enhance economies of scale and can count on the undivided support
how this body will give European scope,” with hope for a convincing of the commission to consolidate
operators an advantage that they decision by summer of this year European leadership on this critical
“lost in 4G”. supporting it. infrastructure for our economies
and societies.
“We must create pan European
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