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Only 44% of UK business say the
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their expectations
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August 2019 | Comms Business Magazine | 5
Vodafone
undercuts the
5G market
VODAFONE HAS SWITCHED on
its 5G network in seven cities
across the UK and announced
plans to offer Vodafone
Business Unlimited – a series of
new plans that give business
customers access to ‘Unlimited
data’ and 5G at the same price
as 4G. Vodafone also becomes
the fi rst UK provider to offer
5G roaming in four European
countries over the summer. To
enable business customers
to take full advantage of 5G,
Vodafone Business Unlimited
plans include 5G and unlimited
data with prices starting at
£19.16 per month excl. VAT.
Adam Simon, CEO of CONTEXT,
commented on the pricing “I think
its great, we all want 5G to take
off and its good to see one of the
POLY
Exertis enterprise, mobile and retail
markets, has announced that it has
secured UK distribution for the full range
of products from Poly, including audio
and video conferencing, headsets, SIP
endpoints and cloud services.
£183M FINE
British Airways is facing a fi ne of £183m
under the GDPR rules after it suffered
a breach back in 2018. This would be
the largest fi ne the ICO has handed out
to date. The incident in question left
the details of 500,000 customers in
cyber criminals hands after users were
diverted to a fraudulent website.
key players invest in this way
and create a bit of dynamism in
this market. The month of June
has been extraordinary for 5G,
in South Korea they got over one
million users of it, we are a long
way behind that, so it is great to
see how we can generate some
demand.”
Adrian Sunderland, CTO
of Jola commented “I think
the people that should be
concerned about this are the
fi xed line operators. This is
Vodafone, and Three have made
similar comments, that 5G is a
viable alternative to broadband
and with this pricing it is cost
competitive. They aren’t worried
about ARPU reduction in the
existing base, this is about
connecting the next x-million of
subscribers and bringing them
away from fi xed-line.”
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GAMMA INTRODUCES NEW PARTNER
ONBOARDING PROGRAMME
TO TACKLE THE vast increase of IT Partners and MSPs making a
move into the broader voice market, Gamma has introduced a new
business channel designed to focus solely on the dedicated new
partner onboarding programme. The programme was created in order
to implement a more seamless onboarding process in the face of the
vast increase of this new breed of partner looking to diversify their
product portfolio and add cloud telephony services to their offering.
Commenting on the new structure, Gamma’s Head of New
Business – Channel, Mark Lomas (pictured) comments:
“The new programme was designed to make Gamma’s new
business processes more effi cient across the board, allowing us
to make sure, as our partner base continues to grow, we can retain
the core focus on
providing the very best
partner relations, for
which we’re renowned.
It’s really great to see
such positive feedback
from our new partners,
who were all delighted
with the way the
onboarding experience
immediately made
them feel fully
equipped as a new
Gamma partner.”
G3 and Connect merge – lead by Tupman
CONNECT MANAGED SERVICES and
located within both the UK
G3 Comms have announced the
and abroad. The merger of G3
merger of the two businesses,
and Connect brings together
creating a Customer
two businesses with highly
Experience (CX) and Unifi ed
complementary capabilities
Communications (UC) managed
which will enable our combined
services provider, generating
clients to derive signifi cant
annual revenues in excess of
benefi ts from the newly
£55 million. The combined group
acquired skills provided by the
is backed by Apiary Capital, who
enlarged team, together with
acquired a majority stake in G3
the ability to offer an extended
in March 2019.
portfolio of specialist and
Connect’s Alex Tupman and
proven products and services.”
Martin Cross, will lead
the group as CEO and CTO
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said, “Our objective is to
create a highly scalable
and focussed business
that can support the needs
of a far greater and more
diverse customer base,
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