DiGiSPICE: Industry Monitoring 19 to 21 January 2019
- Priyanka Kanodia
- Jan 22, 2019
- 6 min read
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Willing to halve royalty rate for 5G smartphones in India: Ericsson
Publication- The Economic Times
Edition- Online
Date- 19 January, 2019
Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson is willing to halve its royalty rate for 5G smartphones to $2.50 per device from $5 to accommodate the needs of markets such as India where affordable devices are required for mass consumption. “We look at $5 for a 5G handset but we also said that we are willing to lower our prices to $2.50, depending on the circumstances.
We need to accommodate the fact that handsets come at very different price points,” Monica Magnusson, vice president of IPR Policy, told ET. Finland’s Nokia is likely to charge $3.50 royalty per 5G handset, while Qualcomm has said it will charge up to $16.25 in royalties. Magnusson’s comments have a major bearing for a market like India where pricing of smartphones is key to wider adoption of the next-gen technology.
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TRAI Chairman bets big on 5G
Publication- CRN
Edition- Online
Date- 19 January, 2019
With digital media on a roll in recent times, the TRAI chairman Ram Sevak Sharma is finding a bright future ahead with the 5G spectrum. Speaking at the first day of the 13th India Digital Summit, organized by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), R. S. Sharma said that, 5G will be the digital tomorrow of this nation of fast growing internet consumers.
OTT or over the top content is considered to be another strong point of digital India’s future. Talking about the Changing Landscape of Digital Concept in India, Neeraj Roy, Founder and CEO, Hungama digital and Hiren Gada, CEO, Shemaroo Entertainment were of the opinion that estimated 500 million internet users will be subscribing to a bouquet of content in the next 5 years, in which videos will be in the driver’s seat.
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We’ve done away with Bell Curve system for appraisals, says Priyanka Anand, VP & Head HR, Ericsson
Publication- The Financial Express
Edition- Online
Date- 21 January, 2019
Companies are moving away from the ‘bell curve system’ of performance appraisal, and are instead looking at a holistic appraisal process. A ‘bell curve’ typically segregates employees as non-performers, average and top performers—with majority treated as average—and hikes, if any, are usually based on the rating given. Ericsson, the telecom MNC, is one of the latest to drop this system. “We now focus on assessing the impact an individual makes, as opposed to activities undertaken,” says Priyanka Anand, the vice-president & head of HR, South East Asia, Oceania & India, Ericsson. In an interview with FE’s Vikram Chaudhary, she shares how technologies like AI and ML are reshaping the traditional workplace. Excerpts:
How is talent requirement in the Indian telecom space evolving? The digital boom has changed talent requirements. Advent of technologies like AI and ML has created new opportunities, and are reshaping the traditional workplace—polls have indicated it will have a positive impact on job creation. AI and ML will create opportunities for reskilling and redeployment of the workforce, as some jobs will become automated. It will also necessitate fresh hiring of professionals.
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Cryptocurrency News: Corda Network Launched By Blockchain Software Firm R3
Publication- Owlt Market
Edition- Online
Date- 19 January, 2019
Cryptocurrency News declares that blockchain software firm R3 has launched Corda Network that will be under the authority of the non-profit organization called the Corda Network Foundation. Implementing of Corda Network can enhance security to the data and the businesses apart from it Corda network is an independent organization that will govern Corda Network.
Highly efficient in exchanging of Data or processing of any information along with the high-end privacy. Above all it will openly be governed by the participating bodies to enable the developers to work on upgrading application for Corda and Corda enterprise. Ripple XRP was the first that R3 has chosen to who served with the foremost universal crypto payment CorDapp and it supported the new crypto payment platform. CorDapp application has the ability to sort out any obligations or difficulties that may arise in Corda Blockchain including the digital assets of cryptocurrency.
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Big data on China's high-speed railway amid homecoming rush
Publication- CGTN
Edition- Online
Date- 19 January, 2019
China is proud of its railway system for its high transportation capability and stability. Every year, the advanced infrastructure is responsible for humankind's biggest migration, known as Chunyun. An estimated 413 million trips will be made by train during the 2019 Chunyun, or the Spring Festival travel rush season, up 8.3 percent year-on-year. It means 10.33 million people will travel from one city to another per day for 40 days non-stop.
Traveling thousands of miles a day used to be a dream to some in ancient Chinese poetry. But now people can do it in just a few hours, thanks to the high speed bullet trains that run up to 350 kilometers per hour. From Beijing to Hong Kong, it needs just nine hours.
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Is IOT paving the way for a new sector in the consumer market: View
Publication- ET CIO
Edition- Online
Date- 20 January, 2019
Internet of Things (IoT) has taken automation to another level. With uses from airplanes to houses, IoT is bringing in a new wave of innovations that present a massive business opportunity for manufacturers of consumer goodsthrough a host of opportunities to improve everyday health and lifestyle of consumers.
IoT is an important component of Industry 4.0 - the fourth industrial revolution in the making. With connectivity playing a crucial role in our lives, we can expect good growth of IoT applications in consumer goods putting consumer IoT on the road to become mainstream.
The majority of successful IOT implementations have been in the industrial sector. In the case of consumer goods, while there have been quite a number of innovations, the market penetration is very limited. In this sector, there are two variants which are IoT for consumer business and IoT for personal consumption.
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How Big Data Analytics Can Offer Exciting Opportunities
Publication- CXO Today
Edition- Online
Date- 21 January, 2019
The advent of modern computer networks and the democratization of information has exponentially multiplied the amount of digital data being generated. According to a Cisco estimate global IP Traffic will reach 2 zettabytes by 2019. (1 zettabyte = 1 billion terabytes).
This unprecedented increase in data has come about not only due to employment of existing methods, but from new horizons that have seen massive growth in the number of connected devices.
Portable devices are at the center of data growth. Plus, additional volumes from M2M (Machine to Machine) data through AI and IoT technologies are responsible for constant data accumulation. The term Big Data has come into daily parlance owing to a shift in analyzing structured relational databases toward working with massive quantities of unstructured databases generated through a variety of sources. There developed an urgent need to build tools that analyze and interpret such unstructured datasets.
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Oracle Java Card updated for IoT applications
Publication- Computer World
Edition- Online
Date- 21 January, 2019
Oracle’s Java Card platform, which provides security for smart card and limited-memory device applications, increases support for the internet of things in Version 3.1.
Java Card is a software technology providing isolation between secure hardware and software services. Typical hardware platforms that use Java Card include embedded secure elements, smart card chips, and secure systems with a general-purpose CPU. Sensitive materials such as cryptographic keys can be provisioned. The development kit is free, but manufacturers using Java Card must get a paid commercial license to use the technology.
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Pre-Budget Expectation from Telecom and IoT industry
Publication- India Info Line
Edition- Online
Date- 21 January, 2019
At the telecom industry level, we would like the Government to publish an implementation plan/roadmap for the various strategies outlined in NDCP 2018 and Budget 2019/future budgets to allocate funds in-line with the plan for the implementation.
This shall not only give a clear direction and push to us working towards achieving the 2022 strategic objectives and goals defined in NDCP but also send a strong message globally of a stable telecom regulatory and policy environment in India.
Further we would like to see a clear national design for best coverage for India - independent of the individual telcos.
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