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Social media giant Facebook is refusing to be blackmailed into having its censorship policies dictated to it, for now. Today is the day the great one-month Facebook advertiser boycott starts and, according to a Reuters report, Facebook execs met advertisers yesterday to try to talk them out of it. Judging by the unimpressed noises coming
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Upstart US MNO Dish has further signalled its commitment to O-RAN technology by signing a multi-year deal with Altiostar, which specialises in that sort of thing. Dish is one of the few examples of a company building a 5G network more or less from scratch. Free from the burden of legacy infrastructure, Dish is free
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Research from Vodafone UK suggests 5G connectivity could add as much as £38 billion to the UK economy over the next five years, and £158 billion over the course of a decade. Although some will struggle to understand why a faster internet connection means cumulative benefits of more than £158 million, this is a failing
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Iflix, dubbed the ‘Netflix of Asia’, has been acquired by Hong Kong-based Tencent, as the firm takes another step towards its dream of becoming the streaming giant of South East Asia. Financials of the deal have not been made public, but Tencent has confirmed the acquisition will form an element of WeTV, a sister-brand of
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Censorship advocates are celebrating the addition of US telco Verizon to their campaign against Facebook, but they’re mistaken. At the start of this week we reported on a campaign by a coalition of political activist groups designed to coerce Facebook into censoring any content it disapproves of. Initially it seemed to have only attracted the
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Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention. Here are the stories we think are worth a second look at this week: Huawei gets the green light for £1 billion Cambridge R&D centre Cambridge City Council has officially given Huawei permission to construct a 50,000 sq. meter
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Once more the UK has failed to do what it’s told regarding its policy towards embattled Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei. Not satisfied with daring to make up our own mind on the matter of Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s 5G networks, we recently had the temerity to allow it to build a semiconductor optoelectronics R&D
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The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies and video surveillance company Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, laying the groundwork for new US financial sanctions, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. A US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed
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