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TOKYO, Nov. 13, 2024 — NVIDIA has announced a series of collaborations with SoftBank Corp. designed to accelerate Japan’s sovereign AI initiatives and further its global technology leadership while also unlocking […]

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washington — A hack of U.S. telecommunications systems linked to China that initially appeared to focus on the American presidential campaigns goes much deeper, according to investigators, and is likely part of a vast effort by Beijing to spy on the United States. The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned on Wednesday that the breach first detected late last month has now “revealed a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign.” The two agencies said in a statement that their investigation has confirmed Chinese-linked hackers compromised the networks of multiple U.S. telecommunication companies, gaining access to a potential treasure trove of information. Specifically, they said the hackers would have been able to access customer call records and infiltrate the private communications of a select number of government officials and politicians. Additionally, the hackers appear to have been able to copy information requested by U.S. law enforcement as a result of court orders. “We expect our understanding of these compromises to grow as the investigation continues,” the FBI and CISA said. “We encourage any organization that believes it might be a victim to engage its local FBI field office or CISA,” they added. The two agencies first announced they were investigating a breach of U.S. telecommunications systems in late October, less than two weeks before U.S. voters cast their ballots in nationwide elections. Word of the breach followed a report by The New York Times that Chinese hackers were thought to have broken into telecommunications networks to target the campaign of President-elect Donald Trump — including phones used by Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance. The Trump campaign confirmed the breach in a statement to VOA. Separately, a person familiar with the investigation told VOA that people affiliated with the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris were also targeted. The Chinese Embassy in Washington at the time dismissed the U.S. hacking allegations as disinformation, calling the U.S. "the origin and the biggest perpetrator of cyberattacks." The embassy has yet to respond to the latest FBI and CISA allegations. U.S. intelligence agencies warned for months that foreign adversaries were using a combination of cyberattacks and influence operations to meddle with the November 5 U.S. presidential election. In addition, reports issued by private cybersecurity firms indicated a significant uptick in activity by actors linked to Russia, China and Iran. All three nations have repeatedly denied accusations of election meddling. U.S. agencies, led by CISA and the FBI, have long warned that China-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. computer systems and networks, in some cases hiding for years. The China-linked group, known as Volt Typhoon, has been "positioning itself to launch destructive cyberattacks that would jeopardize the physical safety of Americans," according to an advisory issued in February. "What we've found to date is likely the tip of the iceberg," CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a statement at the time.

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The Appellant filed an RTI application dated 21.09.2023 seeking information on following points:-

"What kind of punishment is sanctioned by the law for any Pilot who gets the RTR permit or licence on the basis of false documents?"

The CPIO, Sr. DWA (COP & regulations) vide letter dated 05.10.2023 replied as under:-

"- Information sought does not fall under purview of RTI Act 2005, hence this RTI is closed"

Dissatisfied with the response received from the CPIO, the Appellant filed a First Appeal dated 08.10.2023. The FAA vide order dated 08.11.2023 stated as under:-

"Reply :- I have gone through the case and found that information sought was denied by the CPIO stating that the information did not fall under the purview of the RTI Act, 2005. The undersigned is convinced with the above reply in view of Section 8-1(j) of the RTI Act. 2005."

and background of the case:

The Appellant filed an RTI application dated 21.09.2023 seeking information on following points:-

"To, Shri Umang Srivastva Sr.DWA (COP) I had complained on 05/05/2023 against Rahul Sinha regarding his COP permit. What action or inquiry has been conducted in this regard?"

The CPIO, Sr DWA (COP & Regulation) vide letter dated 05.10.2023 replied as under:-

"Information sought does not fall under purview of RTI Act 2005, hence this RTI is closed"

Dissatisfied with the response received from the CPIO, the Appellant filed a First Appeal dated 08.10.2023. The FAA, JWA vide order dated 08.11.2023 stated as under:-

"Reply :- I have gone through the case and found that information sought was denied by the CPIO stating that the information did not fall under the purview of the RTI Act, 2005. The undersigned is convir.ced with the above reply in view of Section 8-1(j) of the RTI Act. 2005."

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Once again Network Control is recognized as a key telecom expense management provider by Analyst firm Gartner in their 2020 Market Guide for Telecom Expense Management Services.

Telecom Expense Management company Network Control announced today that president and CEO Mark Hearn has been named a finalist for the AOTMP Telecom Professional of the Year award.

Telecom Expense Management pioneer Network Control has been named a finalist for the AOTMP Telecom Vendor of the Year award. This award honors the company that demonstrates innovation, excellence and customer value.

Network Control, a pioneer and leader in the Telecom Expense Management (TEM) space today announced the company has been named IT Telecom Vendor of the Year by AOTMP.

Company achieves 20% growth with its most diverse new customer additions to date. The positive results are due to complex work and business climate, the need for proactive management of communication costs.

Telecom Expense Management company Network Control has been selected for the latest Gartner Market Guide for Telecom Expense Management Services.

Network Control announces record year over year revenue and customer growth due to extreme value of its telecom expense management services in support of the sudden shift to work from home (WFH) requirements in most industries.

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(Telecompaper) Revenues of Russian national operator Rostelecom totaled RUB 193 billion in the third quarter of this year, up by 11 percent year-on-year...

(Telecompaper) Russian national operator Rostelecom has introduced to customers its promotion 'Forever', offering residential services at promotional rates for as long as the customer remains with the company...

(Telecompaper) Ninety-five percent of Russian telecommunications operators expect prices for telecommunications services will increase in 2025, according to a study from the agency TelecomDaily...

Een drukke week voor Meta, met nieuwe AR/VR-producten op het Connect-evenement en een nieuwe escalatie van het 'fair share'-debat met de telecomwereld...

De toekomst van satelliettelevisie staat opnieuw ter discussie nadat de twee grootste aanbieders in de VS, Dish en DirecTV, het eindelijk eens zijn geworden over een fusie...

Samsung trapte het Q3 rapportageseizoen af met een verrassende verontschuldiging, nu de druk toeneemt om de beloften van AI waar te maken. Deutsche Telekom en Korea Telecom wedden er ondertussen op dat AI hen veel efficiënter kan maken, wat lagere kosten en minder personeel betekent...

Nog geen tekenen van een opleving in de markt voor netwerkapparatuur, op basis van de kwartaalresultaten van Ericsson en Nokia, terwijl Netflix wist te verrassen met een hogere omzet, zelfs met een seizoensgebonden vertraging in de klantengroei...

Het vast-mobiel convergentieverhaal krijgt vorm in de VS met de aankondiging van de nieuwe breedbandstrategie van Verizon, terwijl AT&T en T-Mobile stappen zetten op de glasvezelmarkt. Op de jaarlijkse producttop van Qualcomm heeft de chipmaker hoge verwachtingen van zijn Oryon CPU, ondanks tegenstand van Arm...

De grootste smartphonefabrikanten waren vorige week allemaal in het nieuws, met kwartaalcijfers van Apple en Samsung en nieuwe toptelefoons van Xiaomi en Honor. De grote Amerikaanse techbedrijven presenteerden ook hun derdekwartaalresultaten, zonder tekenen van een vertraging in hun wereldwijde groei...

Moet een telecombedrijf uitbreiden buiten zijn thuismarkt? Deze vraag kwam vorige week in het nieuws nadat BCE een grote stap naar de VS aankondigde, terwijl BT en NTT gemengde resultaten lieten zien bij het opbouwen van een internationale business...

In the Telecom Business Market Insight report Telecompaper analyses the Dutch business telecoms market, focusing on quantitative data up to Q2 2024. It offers a transparent and objective overview of the business market, through detailed insights into retail revenues and customer numbers. These are split into different types of telecom services.

Aim/Purpose: Currently, the world faces unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19, particularly concerning individuals’ health and livelihood and organizations and industrial performance. Indeed, the pandemic has caused rapid intensifying socio-economic effects. For instance, organizations are shifting from traditional working patterns toward telecommuting. By adopting remote working, organizations might mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on their workforce, explicitly concerning their safety, wellbeing, mobility, work-life balance, and self-efficiency. From this perceptive, this study examines the factors that influence employees’ behavioral intention to adopt telecommuting in the banking industry. Background: The study’s relevance stems from the fact that telecommuting and its benefits have been assumed rather than demonstrated in the banking sector. However, the pandemic has driven the implementation of remote working, thereby revealing possible advantages of working from home in the banking industry. The study investigated the effect of COVID-19 in driving organizations to shift from traditional working patterns toward telecommuting. Thereby, the study investigates the banking sector employees’ behavioral intention to adopt telecommuting. Methodology: The study employed a survey-based questionnaire, which entails gathering data from employees of twelve banks in Jordan, as the banking sector in Jordan was the first to transform from traditional working to telecommuting. The sample for this research was 675 respondents; convenience sampling was employed as a sampling technique. Subsequently, the data were analyzed with the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to statistically test the research model. Contribution: Firstly, this study provides a deep examination and understanding of facilitators of telecommuting in a single comprehensive model. Secondly, the study pro-vides a deeper insight into the factors affecting behavioral intention towards telecommuting from the employees’ perspective in the banking sector. Finally, this study is the first to examine telecommuting in the emerging market of Jordan. Thereby, this study provides critical recommendations for managers to facilitate the implementation of telecommuting. Findings: Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this study highlights significant relationships between telecommuting systems, quality, organizational support, and the perceived usefulness and ease of use in telecommuting. Employees who perceive telecommuting systems to be easy and receive supervision and training for using these systems are likely to adopt this work scheme. The results present critical theoretical and managerial implications regarding employees’ behavioral intentions toward telecommuting. Recommendations for Practitioners: This study suggests the importance of work-life balance for employees when telecommuting. Working from home while managing household duties can create complications for employees, particularly parents. Therefore, flexibility in terms of working hours is needed to increase employees’ acceptance of telecommuting as they will have more control over their life. These increase employees’ perceived self-efficacy with telecommuting, which smooths the transition toward remote working in the future. In addition, training will allow employees to solve technical issues that can arise from using online systems. Recommendation for Researchers: This study focused on the context of the banking sector. The sensitivity of data and transactions in this sector may influence employers’ and employees’ willingness to work remotely. In addition, the job descriptions of employees in banks moderate specific factors outlined in this model, including work-life balance. For instance, executive managers may have a higher overload in banks in contrast to front-line employees. Thus, future studies should explore different contexts, including manufacturing and consultation, to understand the industry’s effect on remote working. Similarly, future research should concentrate on the influence of job descriptions on employees’ intentions toward telecommuting. Impact on Society: The COVID-19 pandemic created a sudden shift towards telecommuting, which made employees struggle to adopt new work schemes. Therefore, managers had to provide training for their employees to be well prepared and increase their acceptance of telecommuting. Furthermore, telecommuting has a positive effect on work-life balance, it provides employees with the flexibility to organize their daily schedule into more activities. Along the same line, the study highlighted the correlation between work-life balance and telecommuting. Such a relationship provides further evidence for the need to understand employees’ lifestyles in facilitating the adoption of telecommuting. Moreover, the study extends the stream of literature by outlining critical factors affecting employees’ acceptance of telecommuting. Future Research: Future studies should explore different contexts, including manufacturing and consultation, to understand the industry’s effect on remote working. Similarly, future research should concentrate on the influence of job descriptions on employees’ intentions toward telecommuting. Furthermore, the research team conducted the study by surveying 12 banks. Future research recommends surveying the whole banking industry to add more validation to the model.

Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we present an RFM model-based telecom customer churn system for better predicting and analyzing customer churn. Background: In the highly competitive telecom industry, customer churn is an important research topic in customer relationship management (CRM) for telecom companies that want to improve customer retention. Many researchers focus on a telecom customer churn analysis system to find out the customer churn factors for improving prediction accuracy. Methodology: The telecom customer churn analysis system consists of three main parts: customer segmentation, churn prediction, and churn factor identification. To segment the original dataset, we use the RFM model and K-means algorithm with an elbow method. We then use RFM-based feature construction for customer churn prediction, and the XGBoost algorithm with SHAP method to obtain a feature importance ranking. We chose an open-source customer churn dataset that contains 7,043 instances and 21 features. Contribution: We present a novel system for churn analysis in telecom companies, which encompasses customer churn prediction, customer segmentation, and churn factor analysis to enhance business strategies and services. In this system, we leverage customer segmentation techniques for feature construction, which enables the new features to improve the model performance significantly. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed system outperforms current advanced customer churn prediction methods in the same dataset, with a higher prediction accuracy. The results further demonstrate that this churn analysis system can help telecom companies mine customer value from the features in a dataset, identify the primary factors contributing to customer churn, and propose suitable solution strategies. Findings: Simulation results show that the K-means algorithm gets better results when the original dataset is divided into four groups, so the K value is selected as 4. The XGBoost algorithm achieves 79.3% and 81.05% accuracy on the original dataset and new data with RFM, respectively. Additionally, each cluster has a unique feature importance ranking, allowing for specialized strategies to be provided to each cluster. Overall, our system can help telecom companies implement effective CRM and marketing strategies to reduce customer churn. Recommendations for Practitioners: More accurate churn prediction reduces misjudgment of customer churn. The acquisition of customer churn factors makes the company more convenient to analyze the reasons for churn and formulate relevant conservation strategies. Recommendation for Researchers: The research achieves 81.05% accuracy for customer churn prediction with the Xgboost and RFM algorithms. We believe that more enhancements algorithms can be attempted for data preprocessing for better prediction. Impact on Society: This study proposes a more accurate and competitive customer churn system to help telecom companies conserve the local markets and reduce capital outflows. Future Research: The research is also applicable to other fields, such as education, banking, and so forth. We will make more new attempts based on this system.

Lou Fiore discusses how utilizing a mesh network for wireless alarm transmission provides alarm dealers complete control with virtually no reliance on third-party public infrastructure.

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A telecommunication satellite from the South Korean telecom giant KT has been launched into space and is now in orbit.  According to a launch video from SpaceX, the Koreasat-6A, a geostationary satellite for communication services, was launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space ...

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• After completing your application, the next step is completing a Criticall test on-site at the 911 Center. These tests will be conducted Tuesday, Nov 12 and Wednesday, Nov 13.  Applicants should allow 1 – 1 ½ hours for testing.  

Brian Drum, one of the supervisors of the Catawba County 911 Communications Center, who has been called upon to increase his supervising duties over the past year and has a record of dedication to 911 dispatch that spans more than ten years, has been recognized by his peers in the North Carolina Chapter of the National Emergency Number Association (NC NENA) as Supervisor of the Year.

Two former high court judges - SN Shukla of the Allahabad High Court and Quddusi of the Odisha High Court - have been charged by the CBI in the case. The agency had produced intercepted phone calls between the two judges as part of its charge sheet filed last July. It had also named other people in the alleged bribery scandal.

HCLTech said the lab is scalable to test millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency 5G infrastructure to help OEMs and telecom service providers quickly and accurately measure critical parameters.

The number of IoT devices (bots) engaged in botnet-driven DDoS attacks rose from around 200,000 a year ago to approximately 1 million devices, generating more than 40% of all DDoS traffic today, according to the report.

Precision time signals sent through the Global Positioning System (GPS) synchronize cellphone calls, time-stamp financial transactions, and support safe travel by aircraft, ship, train and car.

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"Every other telco will have to follow this new wave," SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said at an AI event where he was speaking alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

TeleCloud is thrilled to announce its recent acquisition of DiRAD's Nextphone customer base, further strengthening its position in the industry.

During MWC 2024, STL Partners and Red Hat will host a key roundtable on "Realising Value from Enterprise Net Zero Ambitions," focusing on telecom sector sustainability.

The complaint alleges TDS required Network Specialists to work overtime in order to complete all their work but failed to pay overtime pay for the overtime hours worked.

Tamer Shoukry channels years of expertise into his work with Transworld Business Advisors

Robert Hardy lends years of expertise to his work with RMH Enterprises

Stuart L. Mathison serves as the owner of Broadreach Associates

Andrea Marie Kesselak Robel has led a distinguished career in telecommunications for nearly 50 years