Apple has released software updates for its iPhones and iPads, smartwatch, HomePod, tvOS, and laptops. iPhones get iOS 14.2 and older models have received iOS 12.4.9. Apple Watch models have got watchOS 7.1, HomePod and tvOS get software version 14.2, and macOS gets Catalina 10.15.7 supplemental update. There are a lot of improvements and big
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As we move towards the end of an unprecedented year, we are delighted to share with you the results of our prestigious Annual Industry Survey in this special report. It is encouraging to see that despite all the adversity, the telecoms industry is still standing tall. Although more than 40% of respondents said their businesses
Liberty-owned cableco Virgin Media has enabled 1-Gbps services for a further 6 million premises. 3 million of those are in London, with the other 3 million spread across Northern Ireland. It represents a huge increase in the reach of Virgin Media’s Gigabit-capable broadband network, which now covers 6.8 million homes, or 45 percent of its
Samsung is among the very few manufacturers still pushing out high-end Android tablets, and the Galaxy Tab S7+ is its latest model. While most other manufacturers have been sticking to low-end tablets, Samsung has been showcasing what a top-tier Android tablet should be like. The Galaxy Tab S7+ has some impressive specifications such as a
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece public cloud evangelist Danielle Royston looks at the disruptive effect Japanese MNO Rakuten is having on the broader market. It takes a lot to truly unsettle telecoms operators, which have functioned in the same self-contained way for
Disruptive MNO Rakuten Mobile announced that it has joined OpenRAN standardisation body, the O-RAN Alliance, and the company’s CTO has been appointed to the board. If there could be any surprise at the news that Rakuten Mobile, the poster boy of OpenRAN, has joined O-RAN Alliance, it would be why it has taken it so
SK Hynix, the world’s No.2 memory chip maker, said it expected inventory build-up by Huawei’s competitors in China to boost mobile demand in the current quarter, but its mainstay server demand would remain week. The South Korean company, which counts Apple and Huawei among its customers, said Chinese smartphone vendors were building up inventory to gain
It has emerged that Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei is challenging the EU legality draft security laws in Poland and Romania. One of the many fun things about being a member of the EU is that your own national laws can be overruled by Brussels. This dynamic is not lost on Huawei’s lawyers, who think 5G
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Richard Ullenius, VP of Customer Solutioning & Business Model Transformation at CSG, offers some best practice tips on business transformation. If you are overseeing an enterprise transformation project, you’re likely familiar with a chorus of doubt coming
Sony on Wednesday raised its annual profit outlook after reporting a surprise second-quarter profit increase, as its gaming business continued to capture “nesting” demand driven by COVID-19 lockdown measures. July-September profit reached JPY 317.76 billion (roughly Rs. 22,500 crores), up 13.9 percent from JPY 278.96 billion (roughly Rs. 19,700 crores) in the same period a
US chip giant Intel is finally gaining some telecoms credibility, having been picked as a partner for Dish’s greenfield 5G network. Intel is not exactly synonymous with telecoms. For years it tried to make a chip you could put in a phone but they were always rubbish compared to those made using the Arm microarchitecture.
A new report estimates the UK could miss out on £108 billion worth of economic benefit and 350,000 new jobs due to a three-year delay in the country’s 5G rollout. The report, titled “Regional and consumer impact of a delayed 5G roll-out”, is the second instalment of research produced for Huawei by the London-based independent
Honor of Kings, Tencent’s flagship video game, announced a record 100 million daily active users worldwide and said it was expanding into other genres and forming a tie-up with British luxury group Burberry. The moves come as the world’s most lucrative mobile game celebrates its fifth anniversary and faces a challenge from a mobile version
Nokia reported net sales down by 7% in Q3 and lowered its 2021 outlook, causing its share price to plummet. It also unveiled a new strategy and organisational structure. Despite some recent wins in the 5G market, Nokia has yet to turn the corner to resolve the competitive disadvantage it admitted to a year ago.
5G holds a great deal of promise, but as with any new undertaking, there are a lot of risks and unknowns. What was acceptable on 3G networks became unacceptable by 4G standards, and the same will be true of 5G. It is, after all, human nature to want and expect more. But when the consequences
Intel’s 11th Gen Core ‘Tiger Lake’ CPUs are the first to feature the company’s new integrated Xe graphics architecture. Just as laptops built around these CPUs are going on sale in many parts of the world, the company has revealed that some of them will also ship with its first discrete GPU, the Intel Iris
Samsung had its best smartphone quarter for years as the overall market grew sequentially by 35%. The global smartphone market hit 365.6 million units shipped in the third quarter of 2020, having only managed 271.4 million the previous quarter. It declined slightly year-on-year, but still represented an impressive rebound after the COVID-19 depression that dominated
A Canadian judge has decided to allow Meng’s assertion that the US misrepresented evidence in accusing her of fraud. The US has been trying to extradite the Huawei CFO from Canada ever since it called for her to be arrested two years ago. It alleges that she was complicit in sanction-busting by enabling Huawei to