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The European Commission seems to think that if it improves data sharing within the bloc, that might give it a better shot at taking on US big tech. The EC unveiled its cunning plan for digital domination back in February of this year and, with its customary urgency, has just got around to detailing its
The trade war with the US continues to take its toll on Chinese business interests through a combination of sanctions and retreats. India seems to have decided that Chinese mobile apps represent a grave threat to its national security, because it keeps banning them. The latest batch of 43 apps, which somehow slipped through the
Bitcoin’s streak of breaking its own record price has been relentless for the past few months, with the cryptocurrency climbing over $14,000 (about Rs. 9 lakh) this week, from having been less than $800 (about Rs. 51,600) this time last year. This unprecedented growth – nearly 10 times its value since the start of 2017
The utopia in which swarms of drones do everything for us can only be achieved if you can stop them colliding. Thankfully Vodafone and Ericsson are on the case. The two telecoms players had some fun at Vodafone’s 5G lab in Germany, flying drones around and trying to make them crash into each other. But
Chinese vendor ZTE asked US telecoms regulator FCC to reconsider its designation as a national security threat, but the FCC said no. Not one of the biggest shockers of the year, for sure, but at least ZTE forced the FCC to adopt some semblance of due process. The designation was made over the summer and
The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K was launched just about two years ago, and it’s still a very capable device for the price, thanks to its reliable performance and support for Ultra-HD Dolby Vision content as well as plenty of apps. However, the company’s more affordable full-HD Fire TV Stick lineup has been long overdue
KPN is banking on network expansion, especially in fibre, to drive a return to growth next year. There is some talk of digitalisation, mainly around customer care, but essentially this is the strategic plan of a traditional telecoms operator, rather than the lean towards the digital services provider model we have come to expect in
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece R. Ezhirpavai, Global Chief Architect for 5G Solutions at Altran, examines Asian 5G standalone use cases and explores the lessons operators in Europe and America can learn from their Asian counterparts. It looked so promising. 2020 was
Twitter will show a warning if you try to like a tweet that has been labelled for potentially including misleading information. Twitter already showed a similar warning to users when they attempted to retweet something that had been similarly labelled, to potentially include misleading information ahead of the 2020 US election. The micro-blogging site is
Play’s shareholders have overwhelming backed a takeover offer from Iliad, leaving the French firm in a position to call itself one of the biggest mobile groups in Europe. Iliad announced the €2.2 billion acquisition of Polish mobile operator Play in September, having already secured 40.2% of its shares from its two major holders; it launched
China Mobile IoT (CMIoT) has picked Nokia to help it with its global enterprise IoT offering. Specifically Nokia’s WING (Worldwide IoT Network Grid) managed service platform will take care of one of CMIoT’s offerings called the OneLink IoT SIM Card Connection and Management Platform. The two companies will jointly build a Chinese node of Nokia
Apple, advertising giant GroupM, and others asked the judge hearing the US Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Friday to allow them to designate certain data used by the government as “highly confidential,” to ensure that no-one from Google could see it. The US Justice Department, which sued the search and advertising giant in
As previously rumoured, the European Commission has decided to stay out of the Virgin Media merger with O2 UK on the grounds that it’s none of its business. It was always a straightforward matter. The proposed merger has no competition implications whatsoever for the European Union, therefore the European Commission has no jurisdiction to approve
Ofcom is pretty pleased with the progress Openreach has made in separating itself from parent company BT but is still receiving complaints from some altnets. The UK regulator has published its annual report that monitors Openreach’s independence from BT, something it has been doing since 2017, when the incumbent made a series of voluntary commitments
Lenovo has teased the launch of its new series that appears to take on the new Redmi Note 9 smartphones that Xiaomi is launching in China on November 26. The Chinese company has released a teaser image on Weibo that aims to take a dig at Redmi. Lenovo is speculated to bring its Lemon series
After a decade of false starts Rich Communications Service has hit the mainstream with Google making it available to all Android users. RCS is effectively SMS on steroids, which brings it closer to the kind of functionality we’ve come to expect from OTT messaging apps such as WhatsApp. In fact, one of the things it
Altice USA will not continue to pursue an acquisition of Canada’s Cogeco, having failed to win over its major shareholder before its C$11.1 billion (US$8.4 billion) offer expired. The revelation will come as no surprise to anyone following the saga. The Audet family were clear and firm in their rejection of the unsolicited bid; they