Africa-focused telecoms infrastructure specialist Helios Towers has expanded to the Middle East with the acquisition of 2,890 sites from Omantel. Helios has a presence in ten African countries, with a total of 7,356 sites, so this acquisition not only represents a geographical expansion, but a significant increase in its portfolio. The nearly three thousand sites
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Flipkart has introduced a new Flagship Fest on its site offering smartphones at a reduced rate thanks to the deals and discounts attached to it. The Flagship Fest has already begun and will go on till May 14. The five-day sale will see phones like iPhone 11, iPhone 12 range, and Samsung Galaxy F62 be
Telefónica’s German operation has taken its first steps in carrier aggregation for 5G and expects hat to lead to the launch of standalone 5G this summer. O2 Deutschland currently offers 5G using 3.6 GHz frequencies, with around 1,000 antennas covering 30-plus cities, it announced a few weeks ago. Now it has upgraded one 5G facility
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Liran Weiss, CCO at mce Systems, looks at the technological foundations required to make a success of IoT. These days, we see an ever-increasing labeling of products as “smart this” or “smart that.” But where do these
Live audio app Clubhouse will begin introducing a test version of its app to Google’s Android users in the United States on Sunday, the company said, in a potentially big expansion of its market. The app, which spiked in popularity early this year after celebrity billionaire Elon Musk and others appeared in audio chats, has
Orange secured just over half the shares it aimed for in its recent tender offer to minority shareholders of Orange Belgium, but insists that’s a good result. “We have achieved the objective we set for ourselves: offering a fair price to shareholders who wanted to monetize their shares and strengthening our stake in Orange Belgium,”
Verizon has achieved speeds of 4.3 Gbps in a lab trial that saw it aggregate C-band and mmWave spectrum. The US operator said it worked with Ericsson and MediaTek on the trial which took place recently and gives it the opportunity to once again talk up the planned expansion of its 5G Ultra Wideband network.
Vodafone Idea is a popular telecom operator in India, competing with giants like Jio and Airtel. The telco offers prepaid and postpaid services to its subscribers in India, along with other add-on services like caller tunes, value added services, and more. Vodafone Idea subscribers can easily attach caller tunes to their phone numbers instead of
The Italian government is reportedly on the verge of pulling the plug on a plan to create a single fixed-line network due to fears over creating a new telecoms monopoly in the country. There have been media rumblings to that effect for a few weeks and on Thursday Bloomberg reported that Italian Prime Minister Mario
The only fun in covering patent disputes comes when there’s a clear winner, but Ericsson and Samsung aren’t even revealing the terms of their settlement. Late last year we heard Ericsson was suing Samsung after accusing it of taking liberties when it comes to the licensing of FRAND patents. The Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory system
Realme V25 could be launching in China soon. A new leak suggests that the Realme V25 may be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 768G SoC and may have specifications similar to the Oppo K9 5G that was launched in China this week. The Realme V25 is said to have been listed on China’s TENAA certification
India’s telcos may have got the go-ahead to trial 5G services, but it could be some time before they have 5G spectrum for commercial use in their possession. Delays in allocating spectrum have been par for the course in India over the past decade or so, so it came as no surprise when the Economic
Earlier this week India started 5G equipment trials that excluded Chinese vendors and China thinks that’s bang out of order. While there didn’t appear to be and explicit ban on Chinese vendors at the time, the Chinese embassy in India reckons there was and is not happy. For some reason China decided to frame its
Oppo Enco Air true wireless stereo (TWS) earphones and Oppo Band Vitality Edition smart band have been launched in China. These products were unveiled alongside Oppo K9 5G smartphone and Oppo K9 smart TV at an event on Thursday. The Oppo Enco Air earphones come with a translucent case and supports Bluetooth v5.2. They are
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