All the US tech giants had a spectacular quarter, but Amazon’s continuing dominance of the booming public cloud market sets it apart. Analyst firm Canalys reckons cloud infrastructure services spending grew 35% year-on-year in Q1, hitting $41.8 billion. Of that AWS accounted for 32%, with Microsoft Azure coming in at 19% and Google Cloud at
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Huawei is losing another friend in Europe, if press reports that it has been shown the door by Italy’s TIM prove to be correct. The Italian incumbent is squeezing Huawei out of its 5G RAN contract, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing the usual unnamed sources and crediting Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore as
WhatsApp has already provided an option to let you mute notifications of individual chats and group messages forever on its platform since October last year. However, that option is not useful when you are mentioned by someone in a group chat for which you have already muted notifications. You will continue to receive notifications if
Swisscom and Salt are playing their cards close to their chests when it comes to the financial details of their new FTTH partnership, but it looks to be a good move. The pair unveiled a partnership deal that will effectively see Salt invest in the build-out of Swisscom’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, but without actually taking
Judging by the first-quarter figures shared by China’s big three telcos over the past few days, there are probably already more than 400 million 5G customers in China. The trouble is, only about half of them are actually using 5G services; the rest are simply taking advantage of attractive 5G tariff plans. The operators together
Apple Music is launching a set of playlists, dubbed City Charts, that lists top 25 songs from more than 100 cities around the world. The list of cities also includes Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai. The playlists are available to Apple Music subscribers and can be found under the Browse section of the app on iPhone,
Satellite company SpaceX has received permission to halve the altitude at which its low earth orbit satellites float. SpaceX is run by US zillionaire Elon Musk, who is an early leader in the LEO market, having already lobbed over a thousand satellites, which deliver broadband to underserved areas, into orbit already. Those exist at a
Open-source software vendor Red Hat has launched a bunch of arcane products and initiatives so baffling they must be doing something clever. Red Hat made its name using Linux to make enterprise-grade software. As the business world, including telecoms, is increasingly inclined to stick as much as it can into the cloud, IBM-owned Red Hat
Redmi K40 Gaming Edition has launched in China and is the latest entrant in the Redmi K40 series. The phone, as the name suggests, carries some dedicated gaming features such as retractable shoulder buttons, three mics, Dolby Atmos support and audio tuned by JBL, among others. The design of the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is
OneWeb, the communications satellite company that investors refuse to give up on, has flogged a quarter of itself to Eutelsat for $550 million. The UK company’s business model seems to consist of burning through billions of dollars of investors’ cash, then asking for more. When the pandemic meant its previous long-suffering backers finally decided to
O2 and Vodafone have entered into a UK agreement to trade spectrum holdings in the 3.4 GHz-3.8 GHz band to create more efficient frequency blocks for 5G rollout. The deal formed part of the assignment phase of Ofcom’s recently concluded 700 MHz and 3.6 GHz spectrum auction, in which it raised £1.36 billion for government
Reliance Jio offers postpaid and prepaid plans to its subscribers in India. In the telecom space, Jio competes with Airtel, Vodafone Idea, BSNL and other companies. Jio recently revamped its postpaid offerings, and its plans now start from as low as Rs. 199. While postpaid users get a bill at the end of every month,
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Phil Siveter, Nokia CEO for UK & Ireland, gives us the Nokia perspective on the importance of automation in telecoms networks. The world is at a key inflection point whereby intelligent technology is freeing humans from
Spanish telco group Telefónica concluded its AGM by re-electing José María Álvarez-Pallete as Chairman and CEO, and unveiling a rebrand Álvarez-Pallete has been the double boss of Telefónica since 2016. He received 84% of the shareholder vote to keep his job, a higher number than he managed in 2017, implying investors are happy with his
The Vivo X50 Pro was the first smartphone to launch with a gimbal camera system in India. This enabled the primary camera sensor to move physically in order to compensate for shakes and wobbles. Vivo has now launched the Vivo X60 Pro, the successor to the X50 Pro, which claims to improve upon the original.
Orange posted a fairly solid set of first-quarter results on Thursday, all things considered, but it was hard not to notice the fly in the ointment that is its Spanish operation. The telco is starting to see some green shoots of recovery in a market characterised by aggressive competition, but while executives insisted it will
The biggest takeaway from Q1 reporting season is that in this, the 5G rollout phase, the impetus remains with the tower providers rather than the mobile operators themselves. Crown Castle this week boosted its full-year outlook on the back of a strong set of first-quarter numbers that showed, amongst other things, that it is benefiting
India is witnessing a massive surge in COVID-19 cases and the most effective way to control the spread of the novel coronavirus is by staying indoors. However, there’s a variety of healthcare products that can come in handy to ensure you stay healthy at your home. E-commerce platforms such as Amazon and Flipkart have an