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Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece David McGlew, Marketing Director at Openet, discusses how the move to online economies is driving up the value of telco brands. I was struck by a recent news headline covering a report from the organisation, Brand

A common theme in analyst calls this earnings season has been cautious pessimism about the knock-on effects of the global chip shortage. Most recently Nintendo followed its fellow games console maker Sony in warning it would flog fewer units because of reduced supply, rather than demand. Car companies have been ringing alarm bells since the

Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite support pages have been spotted on Samsung’s official websites in a few regions including India, Africa, and Romania. Alongside, its specifications have also been spotted on Google Play Console listing. The Galaxy Tab A7 Lite will come as a WiFi-only model and a Wi-Fi + LTE model when it is

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched investment trust, has picked up its first two investments, a mobile towers business in the Czech Republic and a fibre network in Norway. The company this week announced that it has acquired telecoms and TV towers firm České Radiokomunikace and an unnamed Norwegian fibre network plus land for a combined

The world’s biggest electronic device manufacturer is forming a new venture designed to cater to the lower end of the chip market. XSemi will be a joint venture between Foxconn’s parent company, Hon Hai, and electronic component maker Yageo, both of which are Taiwanese . It will focus on the development of semiconductors with average

Apple has released iOS 14.5.1 and iPadOS 14.5.1 for compatible iPhone and iPad models to patch two zero-day security flaws in WebKit that allowed attackers to execute a malicious code on the recently updated devices. The same security flaws existed for Mac computers and Apple Watch models that have also received macOS Big Sur 11.3.1

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece John Baker of Mavenir explains how OpenRAN is about open and Interoperable element specifications. In the last decade, competition and choice in the mobile network supply chain has dwindled. Globally there are now only a very

UK-based Vodafone has been a busy operator recently and its latest move is a strategic partnership with Google to do all kinds of cloudy stuff. The mutual commitment lasts no less than six years and is all about providing Vodafone with data analytics to help it develop new digital products for its customers. The two

Sony’s slimmest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera, the Sony A7C, has the guts of a Sony A7 III but in a body that more closely resembles its A6XXX series APS-C mirrorless cameras. The Sony A7 III was already a pretty popular full-frame camera and one that I liked very much too when I reviewed it.

Skate City wowed us early last year, when it arrived on Apple Arcade. Now, it’s back for a second run, but this time, it’s on consoles. Does the transition make sense? The iPhone maker’s video game subscription service brought a wide array of games from various genres — all free-to-play and free of ads. Skate

Twitter will struggle to replicate a bumper 2020 dominated by the US political battles, civil unrest, and the COVID-19 crisis as people venture out following vaccine rollouts, Wall Street analysts said on Friday. The lifting of restrictions as people get vaccinated has largely seen benefiting other digital ad firms such as Facebook and Alphabet’s Google

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BT is in talks that could lead to the sale of its sports business, it admitted on Thursday, a move that could help pay some of the upcoming bills at its core telco operation. “Further to media reports, BT can confirm that early discussions are being held with a number of select strategic partners, to

Jio customers can activate ISD on their connections to start making international calls. There are distinct rates to avail the International Subscriber Dialling service, that is commonly called ISD. Jio customers are, however, provided with a dedicated ISD pack that includes a fixed talktime to let customers make calls outside India for some minutes directly

5G will mandate extensive product catalog capabilities for supporting new business models, use of network resources and for engaging with external ecosystems and third party partners, in order to effectively monetize new opportunities. Read this white paper to understand: Disparate product catalogs hold back innovation 5G will accelerate the evolution of CSP business models An

Finnish kit vendor Nokia started 2021 with a bang, driven by a 28% increase in revenues from its network infrastructure business. Mobile networks did alright, which is something considering how well Ericsson is performing in that area. Cloud and network services remains a work in progress, as the equivalent group is for Ericsson, and the

Mobile chip giant Qualcomm is enlisting the help of OpenRAN cheerleader Vodafone to help it bring its smartphone methodology to the new radio paradigm. For decades Qualcomm has produced reference designs, which are pre-commercial devices housing its latest smartphone chips, made available to the rest of the smartphone ecosystem to muck about with in preparation

This article is sponsored by Amdocs For many businesses, “going digital” once represented an aspirational goal, mostly connected to business transformation. But the past few months have changed everything. The move to digital has become more than a future event that would eventually occur, but a prerequisite to keep pace with our new world, critical