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Italian operators tackle broadband not-spots The growing influence of AWS on telecoms and other data-heavy sectors, how Plume is smokin’ and the ongoing effort to take broadband to the most remote areas of Italy by whatever means possible are the news queue-jumpers today. UK MVNO giffgaff is migrating its entire IT stack and application development work from its in-house servers to Amazon Web Services (AWS), with the migration set to be completed by the end of this year. It will use more than 60 of AWS’s 175+ services to fulfil its needs. The move will make the MVNO, which is owned by O2 UK and (naturally) uses its network to provide mobile services, more efficient and speed up development times, according to the company’s chief operating and technical officer Steve MacDonald. ....
New Vice Chairs Announced as Broadband Forum Strengthens the Service Provider Action Council Two new vice chairs have been appointed to the Broadband Forum s (News - Alert) Service Provider Action Council (SPAC) as was announced at the industry s leading organization s Q4 meeting. Mike Talbert from Verizon and Weiqiang Cheng from China Mobile (News - Alert) will help the group continue to provide critical direction on standards development and operator engagement. Broadband Forum s SPAC was created to ensure that Service Providers voice and requirements stay front and center to all broadband work, accelerating time-to-market and maintaining relevancy and value. SPAC chair Mauro Tilocca (TIM) said: It has been a pleasure to be able to bring in two people with the level of leadership, expertise and experience Weiqiang and Mike have within their fellow Service Provider community. ....