Green field US MNO Dish has been doshing out the work for building its 5G network recently and Nokia has managed to grab a piece of the core action. Specifically Nokia will be providing the software for Dish’s standalone 5G core, which represents a significant coup on many levels. Not only is the business itself
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Telefónica has an ambitious timescale for its 5G deployment, and it has tapped Nokia to put it on the right track. The Finnish kit maker has been a long-standing 5G partner of Telefónica’s: the two have been working on the technology together since 2018 as part of the Spanish incumbent’s Technological Cities trial in Segovia.
Laptops from multiple manufacturers hitting the market later this year will bear Intel’s new ‘Evo’ branding, which is meant to signify that they are premium ultraportables that have gone through extensive testing and validation at the design stage. Intel will also be rolling out high-profile marketing and advertisements to promote these laptops. Readers might recall a similar
GTT Communications has been seeking a buyer for its infrastructure business for most of this year and now looks to have a serious offer at a price that should find favour with its board and shareholders. The company itself is keeping schtum on the matter for now, but according to Bloomberg, it is in receipt
Having spent spring and summer equipping their homes for work and education, US consumers are expected to turn their attention in Q4 to more leisurely pursuits. That is what NPD Group thinks, anyway. The analyst firm predicted this week that consumer technology sales in the final three months of this year will jump 18 percent
Panasonic Lumix S5 is a brand new full-frame mirrorless camera launched by the company and will be available from mid-September. It is a new “hybrid” camera in the S-series which is said to offer equally good performance for stills and video work. The Lumix S5 features a wide ISO sensitivity range, 5-axis in-body stabilisation (IBIS)
Patrick Drahi, the founder and 40% shareholder of telecoms conglomerate Altice Europe, reckons the time is right to take it private. Draghi has managed to scrape together enough cash to make a cash offer of €4.11 per share, which represents a premium of 23.8% over the closing price on 10 September 2020 and a premium
The UK is making steady, if not world-beating, progress in the rollout of full fibre, but residents’ ability to connect is still highly dependent on where they live. New figures from Ofcom show that 14% of UK homes had access to full fibre broadband, as of May this year. That’s an increase of two percentage
Microsoft will on Tuesday launch its Xbox cloud gaming service priced at $1 (roughly Rs. 74) for new users’ first month, in a major drive to attract casual gamers with the promise of cutting ties to the living room and as competition with Sony heats up. Subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, priced at $14.99
Hot on the heels of Android 11 comes Android 11 (Go edition), which is designed to work on lower-specced smartphones. Google describes Go edition as being designed for ‘entry level’ smartphones, which typically means very low-priced ones such as my be sold in India and Africa. We’re told that, since its creation back in 2018
Nick Read reckons there’s not enough competition in Italy, but too much in Portugal and the Czech Republic, all countries in which Vodafone does business. Public lobbying is a tricky business. If you just say something like “I want more/less of this because it benefits/harms me,” you don’t tend to get much sympathy. So chapter
Realme C17, an unannounced Realme phone, has been spotted on Geekbench. Realme has been launching new smartphones at a rather fast pace in the budget segment. The company recently launched the Realme C12 and the Realme C15 as a part of its budget-friendly C series. With the recent spotting of the Realme C17 on Geekbench,
Anyone hoping Huawei will challenge the smartphone OS duopoly anytime soon is likely to be disappointed. Huawei held its developer conference today, at which the hot topic was Harmony OS, the in-house smartphone operating system Huawei is in a hurry to develop in the face of mounting US sanctions. Rome wasn’t built in a day,
A company that specializes in embedding cameras in American football helmets is using Telit to connect them via 5G. Orbi has only been around for a few years and seems to be a kind of GoPro for professional sports, currently specializing in American football. This looks like a rare example of 5G potentially justifying its
For almost a decade, Apple users have had AirDrop that allows users to share files between Apple devices in a jiffy. Now, Google has also come up with its own version of AirDrop for Android called Nearby Share. Google has been working on this new file sharing feature since 2019 and now it is finally
China is close to hitting its target of rolling out a staggering 500,000 5G mobile base stations by the end of the year. The country’s telcos have installed 480,000 5G sites, which equates to 96% of the target figure, the South China Morning Post reported, citing Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) director Wen
Dominique Leroy, who was due to be KPN’s CEO until an insider trading investigation got in the way, is set to join the DT board. The former Proximus CEO will be the new Board member for Deutsche Telekom’s Europe segment from the start of November. Leroy (pictured) has plenty of experience both in telecoms and
LG has revealed that support for AirPlay 2 and Apple HomeKit will be rolled out for its 2018 smart TV lineup. This comes after the LG rolled out support for these Apple services for its 2019 range of smart TVs in July. The support for the two features was introduced via a firmware update and