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Google’s Project Starline 3D videoconferencing system, unveiled last week, is well-timed for a post-pandemic world but still has a long way to go in seamlessly marrying the in-person and the virtual, three people who have used the system say. Alphabet’s Google and rivals, including Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook, all view “mixed reality,” as it is sometimes

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Paul Wright, VP of Sales and Customer Operations at Cambridge Broadband Networks Group (CBNG), looks at what it will take to make a success of FWA. As regulators worldwide prepare for 5G, some operators with enterprise Fixed

CEO Tim Höttges on Thursday kicked off the sort of capital markets day aimed more at making Deutsche Telekom investors feel more like they were at a spa than a high-level strategy briefing. It wasn’t just his branded bomber jacket paired with matching magenta trainers that gave off a health club vibe, it was his

A federal judge on Friday grilled Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook over whether the iPhone maker’s App Store profits from developers such as Fortnite maker Epic Games are justified and whether Apple faces any real competitive pressure to change its ways. Cook testified for more than two hours in Oakland, California, as the closing witness in Apple’s

Mobile operator trade body the GSMA, which runs Mobile World Congress, held a press conference that came over like a plea for people to attend this year’s event. When the conference was announced, with just a day’s notice, the natural suspicion was that they were going to call the whole thing off. There haven’t been

NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT have announced plans to work together to build an integrated computing network in space that will include, among other things, space-based data centres. The Japanese operator is essentially pitching this as a CSR initiative, talking up the role of the new space business in helping work towards a sustainable society.

Microsoft is finally adding a dark mode to its Office app for Android. While the Office app has been available on iOS and Android for more than a year, only the iOS version has included built-in dark mode support until now. According to The Verge, Sourab Nagpal, a product manager at Microsoft admitted that “It

OpenRAN mania is officially underway, it seems, with spending on OpenRAN compatible kit and software going through the roof in the first quarter of his year. The news comes courtesy of estimates from analyst firm Dell’Oro, which published them in a blog. “Preliminary estimates suggest total Open RAN revenues – including O-RAN and OpenRAN compatible

5G is flourishing in the smartphone market, but that is not enough for Qualcomm, which has launched chipsets designed for use in all sorts of other gadgets.. The US chip maker is hosting its annual 5G Summit this week, giving it a platform to show off its latest wares. Arguably the most eye-catching are the

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced free extension of validity for all its prepaid subscribers whose validity expired on or after April 1. The company says the free benefits are being offered to users “facing hardships due to second wave of pandemic and subsequent movement restrictions to control the pandemic’ and also for those

Communications group Liberty Global has joined forces with digital infrastructure investment firm Digital Colony to launch Atlas Edge Data Centres. The joint venture will build a bunch of data centres across Europe, designed to cater for edge computing. ‘The company aims to serve the growing demand from cloud providers, streaming services and enterprises for high-performance,

The merger of UK mobile operator O2 with cableco Virgin Media is set to close in a matter of days, having cleared its final regulatory hurdle: the approval of the competition watchdog. It was really a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would green light the proposed tie-up.

Redmi Note 8 (2021) has been confirmed by Xiaomi. The phone was earlier spotted on certification sites like Bluetooth SIG and US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which leaked crucial details. The 2021 model is expected to bring slight upgrades to the 2019 model. But the Redmi Note 8 (2021) will reportedly launch only in global,

Connected cars aren’t much good if they stop being connected as soon as you cross a border, so Ericsson and Volvo are on the case. The claim to the first cross-border 5G network vehicular handover needs to be qualified by the fact that the car in question doesn’t seem to have actually crossed any national

Google has previewed the next version of Android which, once more, claims to empower the user to adapt and secure their device experience. Just as smartphones haven’t significantly evolved in a decade, having hit their optimal form factor quickly, so trying to innovate their operating systems has proven tricky. Most users just want them to

The Apple Watch Series 6 is arguably the best smartwatch you can buy right now, but as anyone with a good idea of how it works will tell you, it only makes sense if you have an iPhone. It’s also among the most expensive options available today, so buyers with an Android smartphone and those

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Amir Khan, CEO of Alkira, argues that as the world of enterprise networking transitions to a new sort of connectivity, built for the needs of the cloud era, service providers must be careful not to get left

The ongoing global pandemic has changed the way we work and learn remotely. Millions of people are now working from home and opting for sources of entertainment at home itself to keep everyone in their families safe. That being so, we need more powerful and reliable devices to get things done easily and efficiently. Working