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As the EU works to refine its massive Digital Services Act, France is publicly lobbying for greater national censorship powers and for more content to be made illegal. We know this because Cedric O, the French minister for the digital economy, chatted to the FT about it. “Getting these laws passed is a major objective

America Movil has become the latest big-name telco to announce a plan to spin off towers with a view to maximising the value of those passive infrastructure assets. The Mexican giant said it will hive off its towers in the Latin American markets in which it operates  later this year. In each case, the plan

India is up there with other major global markets when it comes to mobile data growth, according to the latest mobile broadband report from Nokia. The Indian broadband market is largely dominated by mobile, due to affordable smartphones, low data prices and ease in the provisioning of services, Nokia noted in the eighth edition of

Games The Shop Valentine’s Sale is now on and brings huge discounts to over 200 games for PC. The sale has offers across Steam, Epic Games, Bethesda Launcher, Rockstar Games Launcher, and Ubisoft Connect titles. Games The Shop Valentine’s Sale will end on February 21, however, not all games will be available at discounted prices

Olaf Swantee will join Vodafone as a non-executive director this summer, provided his nomination gets the go-ahead from shareholders at the telco’s July AGM. In many ways, it’s hardly news. A seasoned telecoms professional joining a telecoms group’s board is a fairly common occurrence. But Swantee’s move to Vodafone has understandably captured headlines because, despite

UK MNO O2 spent almost a decade overcharging customers when they switched, for which Ofcom has belatedly given it a token punishment. Ofcom only started investigating this malpractice in 2019 but it still took a couple of years to get to the bottom of it. It found that between ‘at least’ 2011 and 2019 an

The US audio-only social media app Clubhouse said it is reviewing its data protection practices after a report by the Stanford Internet Observatory said it contained security flaws that left users’ data vulnerable to access by the Chinese government. The app said in a response to the study, published by the research group at Stanford

Millicom did its best to talk up a fairly weak full-year financial performance on Thursday, but did not attempt to conceal the difficulties it will face in its various operating markets this year. The telco, which provides services in Latin America and one African market – Tanzania – under the Tigo brand, saw revenues and

It turns out that when governments muck about with markets there are sometimes unintended consequences. Earlier this week we reported on a global chip shortage brought about, in part, by unilateral US action designed to prevent Chinese companies getting hold of semiconductors containing American intellectual property. Quite reasonably, Chinese companies such as Huawei them tried

Slack’s Android app was accidentally logging in users’ credentials in plain text, as per a report. The company has now reportedly been emailing people who use Slack for Android, requesting them to rest their passwords. From December 21, 2020, till January 21, 2021, the Android version of the Slack app stored users’ credentials in plain

There is apparently a trust problem around digital identities and no wonder, with talk of vaccine passports being required for previously unrestricted activities. To address it the UK government today published its draft rules of engagement regarding the future use of digital identities. The big idea is to make it quicker and easier for people

Telstra is taking back control of its network of retail outlets, many of which are currently operated under licence by third parties. The Australian incumbent said the move, which will affect a couple of hundred stores, is driven by its need to keep pace with the growing digital economy and to give it more flexibility

Google has released a new Android TV update that brings an all-new home screen interface, which looks quite similar to the UI available on Google TV. The new home screen interface comes with dedicated Home, Discover, and Apps tabs. In addition to the updated Android TV interface, Google is discontinuing the YouTube app for Apple

Swedish operator group Telia has made its big IoT move in the form of a bundle of technologies designed to take the hassle out of global implementation. The new portfolio is called Telia Global IoT Connectivity and the big claim on its behalf is that it will save companies on average 28 percent of the

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Dr Silke Holtmanns, head of 5G security research at AdaptiveMobile Security, looks at some of the unique security challenges associated with 5G. 5G networks are at a critical stage in their design and roll out. Touted

Canadian e-commerce company Shopify said on Tuesday it would expand its payment option, “Shop Pay,” to all users choosing to sell on Facebook and Instagram. The move marks the first time the feature will be available outside Shopify’s platform and will help the company tap into the rise of shopping through social media platforms during

Everything is being done online like never before. Telcos have been keeping the whole world connected and to do this better they have started to adapt their own business models to digital-first. Where are they in this journey? What decisions have they already made? Are they investing more? Do they have digitalization strategies in place?

US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has unveiled its latest 5G modem – the X65 – which claims to be the world’s first to manage 10 Gigabits per second. On top of that it’s also apparently the first 3GPP release 16 modem-RF system, so it will support all the latest wireless goodness that implies. Qualcomm seems