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Cellcom has completed the acquisition of smaller rival Golan Telecom in a deal that will help it to build some scale but is unlikely to address competition issues in the Israeli market. Israel’s largest mobile operator announced it has closed the deal it has been working on for the past six months, ultimately paying 545

Flipkart has launched the Nokia Media Streamer, a new Android-based streaming device for televisions, priced at Rs. 3,499. Part of Flipkart’s branding partnership with Nokia that also includes smart televisions, the Nokia Media Streamer runs on Android 9, has a dedicated remote, and supports up to full-HD resolution streaming. Like other popular streaming devices such

Some long-running litigation between Huawei and a couple of patent holders has reached its conclusion, thus setting a global precedent. The cases of Unwired Planet v Huawei and Conversant Wireless v Huawei & ZTE were taken to the UK Supreme Court for appeal after a lower court ruled against the Chinese vendors in 2017. It’s

The increasing complexity of telecom networks and services and the exponential growth in the amount of data generated have gone beyond the capacity of manual calculation. Telecom operators therefore are increasingly compelled to embrace AI to help them properly manage their networks, services, and customers. This Telecoms.com Intelligence monthly briefing aims to separate noise from

WhatsApp is reportedly redesigning the Storage Usage section of its chat app with a list of options to let you easily organise your storage and delete unnecessary files that were forwarded or shared through the app. While the messaging app is yet to enable the new storage tools for its users, a screenshot has been

A bunch of operators and tech players have come together to try to accelerate the development of open, software-driven radio access network technology. There are already a number of initiatives in this area, most conspicuously O-RAN, but it seems some operators aren’t happy with the pace of progress and have decided to take matters in

Primevest Capital Partners has acquired a municipal fibre network in the German town of Leichlingen, attracted by the potential for a solid return on investment. The European investment group revealed that it has bought the fibre-to-the-curb network rolled out by the Leichlingen municipality via its Primevest Communication Infrastructure Fund (PCIF). The fund did not disclose

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron are among companies eyeing new factories in Mexico, people with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the US-China trade war and coronavirus pandemic prompt firms to reexamine global supply chains. The plans could usher in billions of dollars in badly needed fresh investments over the next few years

As antagonism between China and the West becomes entrenched, Foxconn and Pegatron are apparently thinking of opening branches in Mexico. The rumour comes courtesy of Reuters, which has been chatting to insiders at the Taiwanese firms. Between them they account for a lot of the manufacturing outsourced by big tech firms, including Apple, and have

Facebook hopes to benefit from the COVID-fuelled growth in home working by adding several major collaboration apps to its Portal video-calling service. From September, housebound middle-managers and their lucky subordinates will be able to use Portal to arrange virtual get-togethers over BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, Webex or Zoom. They can of course also use Facebook’s own collaboration

Vivo Y20 and Vivo Y20i alleged specifications have leaked through marketing material, shared by a known tipster on Twitter. The two phones seem to be powered by the Snapdragon 460 SoC and carry mostly the same specifications, except for the RAM, colour options, and charging speed. Recently, a Vivo phone with model number V2027 was

A partnership autonomous vehicle maker Aurrigo will see Vodafone help golfers get around at the Wales Open without having to interact with potentially pestilent drivers. This will apparently be the first major sporting event to use driverless technology and Vodafone is doing its best to derive some social distancing virtue from the move. It will

CityFibre has revealed that Swindon and Slough will be the next stops on its full-fibre rollout. The network provider, which is on a mission to offer a credible alternative to Openreach in major metros, will spend £40 million deploying a wholesale fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network to nearly every home and business in Swindon, and £24 million

Bharti Airtel has expanded Disney+ Hotstar VIP subscription for its users by bringing the benefit to the Rs. 448, Rs. 499, Rs. 599, and the Rs. 2,698 prepaid recharge plans. As a result of the new update, Airtel customers recharging with any of the four prepaid plans get one year of free Disney+ Hotstar VIP

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published its latest numbers on which providers have been moaned about most and EE put in a solid performance. The data is subdivided into mobile, broadband and landline. It’s not clear how many people still use landlines, let alone care about the service enough to complain when it falls short

IoT asset tracking device shipments are expected to surge 51 percent year-on-year through to 2024. This is according to ABI Research, which asserts that expanding LPWAN coverage and technological maturity are lowering the barriers to adoption for smaller companies, and growing the volume and variety of stuff that can be tracked. “Hardware devices for the

Google Pixel 5 has already been confirmed to launch in the autumn alongside the Pixel 4a 5G model. In the Pixel 4a launch blog post, the tech giant had shared a slight glimpse of the side of the phone, showing off the edges and the button placement, but apart from this, nothing else is known

The Italian government wants TIM to get involved in a national broadband monopoly but not control it. Tim’s not so keen. This saga has been going on for a while, pushed by an Italian government that owns broadband provider Open Fiber and apparently doesn’t like ISPs having the option of using a network it doesn’t