Amazfit Bip U, an upcoming smartwatch from Huami, has been listed in a promotional page on Amazon. It follows the Amazfit Neo that was launched last week in India as a budget friendly retro-style smartwatch. The Amazon page for Amazfit Bip U reveals specifications for the smartwatch but does not share pricing or launch information.
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The two largest Belgian CSPs have announced a wholesale swap-out of Huawei gear in their RAN, in favour of Nokia. Both Proximus and Orange Belgium are currently heavily invested in Huawei for their radio access network, which they share. After a supposedly ‘thorough competitive process, based on technological, operational and financial criteria,’ (both operators used
UK telco group BT is preparing its network for the expected explosion in 8K video and AR/VR usage. Which is another way of saying that BT is the flagship customer for a new edge CDN (content delivery network) offering based on the Streaming Video Alliance’s Open Caching technology. The solution itself has been jointly developed
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to consider whether to protect Alphabet’s Google from a long-running lawsuit by Oracle accusing it of infringing Oracle copyrights to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world’s smartphones. The shorthanded court, down one justice following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last month, is
Capital expenditure on OpenRAN radio units (RUs) is expected to reach $47.4 billion by 2026, predicted ABI Research this week. $40.7 billion of that sum is expected to be ploughed into outdoor public networks – which includes macro as well as small cells – with shipment volumes reaching 9.9 million. The remaining $6.7 billion is
The Parliamentary Defence Committee has published a detailed report on UK 5G security, which takes a robust position over China. The report is headlined ‘We must not surrender our national security for the sake of short-term technological development’, which leaves no doubt where the 11 committee members stand on the matter. Their investigation focused on
AMD has taken the wraps off its next-generation Ryzen 5000 Series desktop CPUs, based on the updated ‘Zen 3’ architecture. The new processors are said to offer up to a 26 percent increase in performance in gaming and a 19 percent improvement in instructions per cycle compared to the current Ryzen 3000XT series. The company is
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has asked the European Commission not to get involved in the merger as it’s none of its business. After years of mucking about and political nonsense, the UK is finally leaving the European Union at the end of this year. That means, from January 1 2021, the UK technically
Deutsche Telekom has pledged to accelerate its fibre rollout after reaching a wholesale FTTH deal with rival Telefónica. The two telcos have extended and expanded a partnership dating back to 2013 that lets Telefónica buy VDSL lines from Deutsche Telekom. That agreement has been renewed for a further 10 years, and now also includes FTTH
Amazon on Thursday announced a drone for recording security video inside homes and car products for alerting vehicle owners about attempted break-ins. The news reflects Amazon’s growing security business since its acquisition of smart doorbell maker Ring in 2018, an effort that’s drawn scrutiny from civil liberties advocates. It also represents Amazon’s latest push into
Two major telecoms industry associations have decided to align their API standards to ensure they remain open and widely interoperable. Both organizations get involved in developing APIs to improve software interoperability within the ecosystems they serve. MEF specializes in metro ethernet and it adapted a TM Forum open API to better meet its members needs.
A US court has ordered IT networking giant Cisco to pay a whopping $1.9 billion for infringing four patents held by cybersecurity specialist Centripetal. According to court documents filed on Monday, the amount of damages Centripetal is entitled to totals $755.8 million including royalties. However, Cisco’s infringement was found to be “an egregious case of
Rovio Entertainment said on Monday that Chief Executive Kati Levoranta will leave the maker of the Angry Birds game series at the end of the year. Levoranta, who has led Rovio since 2016, took it public markets with a 2017 listing. While this was an initial success, only five months later Rovio issued a surprise
The Telecom Infra Project is doing the now-standard virtual event thing and it commenced today with a recap of what it has been up to in the past eight months. ‘TIP Community Achieving Significant Momentum on the Path to Open, Interoperable, Disaggregated and Standards-based Networks’ proclaimed TIP Executive Director Attilio Zani in his update. The
Last week the US secretary of State visited Italy to lobby for cooperation over 5G security and China wasn’t happy about it. Since the Chinese state doesn’t have the most open relationship with the press, we’re usually dependent the domestic media for its public position, since they won’t publish anything that would get them in
Twitter has confirmed that it is developing a new tool to counter misinformation. Dubbed “Birdwatch”, the new feature could allow users to flag tweets, add notes to explain their suspicion, and fill up a survey form that estimates the tweet’s potential harm and reach. Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane), who was the first to spot the
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Abhijeet Vivek Ingale, Tecnotree Solutions Consultant, looks at the trends defining today’s billing environment. For the past decade, telco services were relatively easy to manage and simple to bill. However, the introduction of 5G, coupled with
Big telco vendors have another reason to sleep in fear, after Docomo, Fujitsu and NEC laid claim to the world’s first successful 5G carrier aggregation using a multi-vendor RAN. Demonstrating that O-RAN can pull off the same tricks as traditional networks is another feather in the cap of the O-RAN Alliance, which wants the mobile