// June 2016

By Marko Jagodic - Slovenian Electronic Communications Society, Slovenia and Tomi Mlinar - Slovenian Electronic Communications Society, Slovenia

VITEL 2015, the 31st workshop on telecommunications, took place at the Congress Centre Brdo pri Kranju in Slovenia 11–12 May 2015. A Program Committee, chaired by Bostjan Tavcar, selected ‘Critical Infrastructure and ICT’ as a theme for the workshop. An event was organized by the Slovenian Electronic Communications Society, a member of the Electrotechnical Association of Slovenia, and sister society of the IEEE Communications Society. A group of 35 authors and co-authors prepared 22 papers, and more than 130 participants attended the workshop.

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By Jose-Ignacio Castillo-Velazquez - UACM, Mexico

On February 25, 2016, AT&T for the first time in México opened its data center during the AT&T High Tech Day, when ComSoc student members and student branch members from Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de México, with students from other universities, visited the center. AT&T opened some of its data centers that same day. Students had the chance to communicate using video conferencing with students in other cities where AT&T has data centers, such as San Juan, Puerto Rico; Texas, New Jersey and Florida in the U.S.; and Tlalnepantla in

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By Nicolae Oaca - Romania

Telekom Romania, the former Romtelecom and Cosmote Romania, is facing network challenges in one of the most competitive markets in the EU. In the fixed line business, the former Romtelecom is competing with RCS&RDS, UPC Romania, and telcos with larger optical fiber networks, while in the mobile business, the main competitors are Orange and Vodafone, celcos with better national coverage of LTE networks and providing higher speed access. In September 2014 Romtelecom and Cosmote were rebranded under the Telekom logo, while

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By Josemaría Malgosa-Sanahuja - Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain, Juan Pedro Muñoz-Gea - Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain and Pilar Manzanares-López - Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain

As everyone knows, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the world’s biggest and most influential mobile event. This year the conference was held February 22–25 in Barcelona (Spain). This edition of MWC was the 10th time that it has been held in Barcelona. Until 2005 the Congress was held in Cannes (France) under the name of 3GSM World. In 2006 it was moved to Barcelona and since then it has become one of the biggest technology events. This relationship will continue until at least 2023, thanks to the agreement that was reached recently.

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