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OneWeb this week declared itself “financially secure” after receiving a further $500 million investment from shareholder Bharti Global, while arch-rival Starlink’s founder Elon Musk shared figures that suggest his company is far from it. Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Musk was surprisingly frank about the cost of the Starlink satellite Internet service that

Jio Rs. 3,499 prepaid plan with a year’s validity has been launched. The new annual plan can be spotted on both the website and the mobile app. It is present in the 3GB per day prepaid plan list and is the most expensive plan that Jio offers. The new plan comes with subscriptions to various

The UK government issued a press release detailing how great everything will be when the shared rural network is finished. That won’t be until the end of 2025 at the earliest, however, so the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) feels the need to bang on about it every now and then, presumably

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson and US internet giant Google have decided to help each other out when it comes to flogging mobile edge stuff. There’s a bit of a land grab going on when it comes to the edge, with every week seemingly revealing some new pact between a telecoms player and a public cloud

Samsung Galaxy M52 5G camera details have been tipped and it is said to pack a triple rear camera setup. The phone was recently spotted in a Geekbench listing which hinted at the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC under the hood. Now, the camera details have surfaced hinting at a 64-megapixel primary sensor similar to the

UK electronics retailer Dixons Carphone has decided to be monogamous with Vodafone and make it the only MNO it offers its customers. Back when Carphone Warehouse was independent it used to resell postpaid contracts from all UK mobile network operators in as part of subsidised handset bundles. As part of the group that uses the

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Olivier Lebigot, CTO at Gamestream, analyses the business potential offered to telcos by cloud gaming. With a global network infrastructure that can now support huge volumes of data transfer, and the widespread rise of cloud computing, video

Samsung’s virtual event at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2021 is set for today. The South Korean tech giant has teased the launch of new devices at the event. The company is speculated to launch a new smartwatch, among other things. While Samsung usually holds standalone Galaxy Unpacked events for its flagship models, like the foldable

Samsung has taken the wraps off a new radio design that it hopes will help it gain further traction with European telcos. The Korean electronics giant has been winning fans with its 5G portfolio – particularly in markets that have shut the door on Huawei and ZTE. A good example would be Samsung’s five-year, $6.6

T-Mobile US has upped the ante in the attention-seeking stakes and is marking hitting its 5G coverage target ahead of schedule with the launch of a branded gin. There’s no obvious link between mobile connectivity and gin – apart from perhaps needing a stiff one after trying to get through to your provider’s call centre

Apple is expanding retail operations as the United States emerges from the pandemic, betting that a combination of strategies developed before and during COVID-19 will make its stores more popular than ever, its retail chief told Reuters. Apple is doing this as the retail industry works out what the post-pandemic future will look like, including

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has taken the latest step towards getting its act together on 5G with the launch of a bunch of new AirScale products. Specifically we’re talking about basebands, remote radio heads and massive MIMO active antennas, the last of which nudges Nokia ahead in the competition to offer the lightest 5G antenna,

Openreach this week announced plans to add a further 5 million homes and businesses to its full fibre footprint in the UK, sharing details of a raft of new towns and cities in which it plans to build. The move forms part of Openreach’s plan to roll out fibre coverage to 25 million homes by

After months of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) shortage and their skyrocketing prices, there are indications in the European market that the crisis may be nearing its end. A new report reveals that the prices of AMD and Nvidia graphics cards have fallen by nearly 50 percent in Europe. Not just that, when it comes to

The ever-generous British taxpayer has chucked a million quid at a new initiative called Sonic Labs, which is designed to give 5G OpenRAN R&D an extra boost. Yes, it was a somewhat forced headline, but it had to be done and is no more forced than their acronym, which we’re not going to dignify with

KDDI and Softbank are using shared RAN equipment to help them reduce the cost and increase the speed of their 5G network deployment. The pair are deploying a Multi-Operator Radio Access Network (MORAN) – the first of its kind in Japan, they claim – using equipment from Ericsson and other vendors, the Swedish kit maker

Apple has been a laggard in the smart-home space, but a versatile new device in early development could change that. The company is working on a product that would combine an Apple TV set-top box with a HomePod speaker and include a camera for video conferencing through a connected TV and other smart-home functions, according to

A year after it claimed a UK first with a 5G standalone network trial, Vodafone has announced that it is running a commercial pilot of the technology in three major cities. The mobile operator will carry out the pilot in London, Manchester and Cardiff with a view to testing the new capabilities that will come