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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 Mark Pegulu, VP of IoT at Semtech looks at the various wireless technologies that are contributing to the next industrial revolution. No one wireless technology is entirely appropriate for all the applications in the next generation

Internet giant Google has unveiled its latest forays into the telecoms world in the form of its Network Connectivity Center. In his blog announcing the new product, Google’s Product Manager for Cloud Networking, Rohith Ramkumar, describes NCC as ‘a revolution in simplifying on-prem and cloud networking’. It seems to be an attempt to provide a

Apple switched its default camera formats for photos and videos from JPG to HEIC (High-Efficiency Image Format) with iOS 11 to save space on the phone. Now, this might be an old change, but once you share your iPhone photos and videos to your laptop, you’ll realise that it can’t open them because it is

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Matt Warman, Minister for Digital Infrastructure in the UK government, shares his thinking on the use of satellites to help with rural connectivity. The UK’s broadband roll-out is now firmly among the very fastest in Europe –

Japanese operator NTT Docomo is determined not to let rival Rakuten get too much of a head start with OpenRAN, so has drafted in Samsung to help. While this move is of no great immediate consequence, it is symbolically significant in many ways. As we saw today, fellow Japanese MNO Rakuten has not only hit

Walmart Onn branded streaming stick could be in the works as per a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) listing. Onn is Walmart’s brand of personal electronics and accessories. The listing includes pictures of the streaming stick as well as that if its accessories. The Walmart Onn streaming stick appears to have a round design with

UAE operator group Etisalat is the latest telco to use Rakuten’s platform to accelerate its adoption of OpenRAN technology. The Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) is the Japanese MNO’s way of offering some of the cleverness it has put into its greenfield 5G deployment to others. Telefónica was one of the first to get involved with

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Francesca Greane, Marketing Manager, Content & Community for Informa Tech, discusses the evolving 5G ecosystem around the globe. 2020 was destined to be the year of 5G, with both telcos and enterprises alike expecting the journey

Twitter could be working on an “undo tweet” feature specifically for its paid subscribers to let them recall their tweets that have a typo or some other error. The new development could be the company’s response to the much-demanded edit option that it has not provided on the microblogging network so far. It could also

Finnish kit vendor Nokia is holding its Capital Markets Day today, in which it tells investors how it plans to turn things around. As indicated in the announcement of yet another round of job cuts earlier this week, Nokia’s cunning plan is to reduce overheads to free up money for increased R&D spend. This, in

Ofcom will not cap the wholesale prices fibre network operators can charge customer for access to the fastest available services on their networks. The announcement will be music to the ears of those building out fibre networks in the UK, for whom the threat of regulatory intervention on pricing was casting a shadow over their

Facebook shares rallied on Friday, with the stock extending a recent advance after Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg downplayed the risk that the social-media company could see as a result of an upcoming change to Apple’s privacy policies. “I’m confident that we’re gonna be able to manage through that situation,” he said in an interview

The news that US telecoms giant AT&T will use Nokia for a major part of its 5G rollout comes as the Finnish vendor tries to give investors hope. AT&T recently announced it expected to drop around $2 billion per year on rolling out kit designed to make use of the mid-band 5G spectrum it won

A year after it first pledged to plough £5 billion into gigabit-capable broadband for hard-to-reach areas, the UK government has formally kicked off the initiative, now known as Project Gigabit. While it has shared a certain amount of information on the areas set to benefit from the first phase of funding, we are still lacking

Grammarly has introduced a tone detection feature for its smartphone keyboard app on both Android and iOS. The new feature detects the tone of the user and provides feedback on how they can improve their message so it can be better interpreted by the recipient. The tone detection feature was launched by Grammarly back in

AT&T recently had a moan about a new California net neutrality law and how it affects its ability to zero rate certain content. Like almost everything else, in the US the concept of net neutrality polarises opinion and has become politicised. Investopedia defines net neutrality as “the concept that all data on the internet should

Vantage Towers started trading in Frankfurt on Thursday as planned, priced at €24.00 per share, towards the lower end of parent Vodafone’s initial price range. As of mid-afternoon on day one, the company’s share price stood at around €24.25, having peaked at just above €25.00 shortly after trading commenced. The flotation price means that Vodafone

Bharti Airtel added over 300 percent more wireless subscribers than Reliance Jio in January 2021, according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) data. The monthly data released by the regulator shows that the New Delhi-headquartered Airtel added more than 5.89 million wireless subscribers during the month, whereas the Mumbai-based Jio added over 1.95 million