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The Delhi high court on Monday deferred hearing on the plea by Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla in connection with the dismissal of her lawsuit against 5G wireless network technology. Justice Sanjeev Narula recused from hearing Chawla’s plea and directed that it be listed before another bench on July 29. “Subject to the order of the

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Arnab Das, VP, Global Service Line, Advanced Networking & IoT, Capgemini Engineering, explores the possibilities presented to operators by private networks. The global private 4G/5G infrastructure market will hit close to $6 billion by 2024, IDC

Identifying and correcting interference issues in a mobile environment is a challenging but critical task. Mobile users near the interference source will experience degraded call success rates, increased dropped calls, decreased battery life, poor voice quality, and reduced data throughput. Detecting, locating, and ultimately eliminating sources of RF interference is an essential strategy for service

Realme X9 series has reportedly been spotted on China’s TENAA and 3C, as well as Russia’s EEC certification websites. The model number RMX3361, believed to be of the vanilla Realme X9, has reportedly made its way to TENAA and 3C website, suggesting that the phone may launch soon. The listings hint at some of the

Telenor has sold its operations in Myanmar for less than a quarter of the licence fee it paid to enter the market seven and a half years ago. The Norwegian firm has agreed to hand the business over to Lebanon-based investment firm M1 Group for US$105 million (NOK900 million), $55 million of which is payable

Google Play store has reportedly received an update on Wear OS 3.0 ahead of the official release. The update brings a new design to the user interface (UI) of the app marketplace on smartwatches running Google’s new OS. Google announced Wear OS 3.0 at its Google I/O event in May and said that it will

UK operator group Vodafone has enlisted the help of US software vendor Mavenir to see if they can add some OpenRAN secret sauce to small cells for businesses. The two companies are among the most busy in the OpenRAN space, so its unsurprising to see them get the band back together for a spot of

IoT is failing to live up to expectations in the UK and in the US, or at least that is what the creators of a new report would have us believe. 77% of companies who implemented at least one Internet of Things (IoT) project in the past 12 months said their project was at best

Apple introduced the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Mini-LED display but did not incorporate it in the 11-inch iPad Pro model this year. A new investor note by TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that is going to change next year. Kuo claims that the Mini-LED display technology will not be limited to the 12.9-inch model

Ambitious Spanish infrastructure specialist Cellnex has completed its acquisition of Polkomtel Infrastruktura. The move was announced in February and needed to be approved by the appropriate authorities. The apparent absence of the EU from the process resulted in a relatively quick turnaround by Polish competition authority UOKiK. Cellnex has now added around 7,000 towers and

Policymakers are not making enough mid-band spectrum available for 5G and that could cost operators – and ultimately consumers – dear, the GSMA warned this week. The industry body shared the results of a study carried out by Coleago Consulting that shows densely populated cities require on average 2 GHz of mid-band frequencies by the

Google Chrome OS 91’s latest update seems to have created another issue when it was pulled for degrading performance. Google released the version 91.0.4472.147 update at the end of June for Chrome OS, but users reported that it was causing performance issues on their laptops after which it was pulled. However, this seems to have

Italy’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into TIM’s exclusive deal with rights holder DAZN to stream top-flight football content, but the Italian telco is sticking to its story – that the deal is good for competition in the pay TV market. The Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) said it will look

The US has created another 6G initiative and got a bunch of tech and telecoms giants on board from the start. It’s called [email protected] because it’s based at the University of Texas in Austin, a city that is vying to rival Silicon Valley as America’s tech hub. UT Austin reckons it was a major contributor

If you’re familiar with the action camera market, then you’ve most likely heard of Insta360, a popular maker of action and 360-degree cameras. Although not as well-known as GoPro in India, the company hopes to change this now that it has an official presence in the country. Today we’ll be testing the Insta360 Go 2,

A stretch of the UK’s famous Jurassic Coast has become one of the first locations in the world to receive standalone 5G coverage at 700 MHz. The 5G RuralDorset project has installed a few base stations at various points along a 30-mile stretch of coastline, beginning in Kimmeridge in the east, and ending in Portland

An imminent trial marks a significant step for Samsung in Australia as well as adding to a busy week for TPG. Earlier this week Australian operator TPG got Nokia’s help with what it claimed was the world’s first 5G SA network over the 700 MHz frequency. Now it has switched to the other end of

Pokemon Go has surpassed $5 billion (roughly Rs. 37,323 crores) in lifetime revenue in five years, Sensor Tower reports. This milestone has been crossed by game maker Niantic as it celebrates the five-year anniversary of its popular augmented reality mobile game, Pokemon Go, which was launched in 2016. Sensor Tower notes that it remains the