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WhatsApp has started rolling out a new shopping button that will let users quickly look at the catalogues offered by businesses on the platform. The new button, which will replace the voice call button, will be featured directly on the chat screen to ease shopping on WhatsApp. In September, the Facebook-owned company was spotted adding

Swedish kit vendor had its latest Capital Markets Day, in which it celebrated steadying the ship but halved the profitability outlook for its software unit. Investor days are rarely the most thrilling of events and this was no exception. There are lots of accounting terms like EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) and

Sweden is already reviewing its Huawei ban, but the Chinese vendor is still reportedly looking to raise billions by flogging its Honor smartphone unit to the Chinese state. With Huawei having challenged its decision to make the imminent 5G spectrum auction conditional on the winners not using Huawei or ZTE kit, Swedish telecoms regulator, PTS

Apple on Tuesday is expected to unveil new Mac computers using its own in-house processor chips, a move that could reignite a race to control the market for desktop and laptop chips and benefit players such as Qualcomm. The market has been dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices since 2006, when Apple joined most other

This article is sponsored by LARUS Limited Plagued with uncertainties and ambiguities of the development in the public adaptation of IPv6, IPv4 becomes a commodity that gives rise to leasing IPv4. Leasing IPv4 is a crucial component, especially if it becomes a better option for corporations to capitalize massive investment over an asset that may

Control of Romania’s second-largest fixed-line player will effectively switch from Deutsche Telekom to Orange, signaling the evolution of their respective European strategies. Telekom Romania Communications is known as TKR to its friends. It’s 46% owned by the Romanian state, but the controlling stake is owned by Greek tech giant OTE, of which DT is by

Xiaomi Mi 11 was reportedly recently spotted on Geekbench with a Snapdragon 875 SoC and has now been tipped to feature a 48-megapixel ultra-wide camera. The Geekbench listing comes with model number M2012K11C and hints at some of the specifications that can be expected from the rumoured phone. The details about the camera were shared

The FCC has slapped T-Mobile US with a $200 million fine for fraudulently collecting millions of dollars in government subsidies designed to help low-income phone customers. Ouch. It’s the largest ever fixed fine the FCC has ever imposed to settle an investigation, the regulator said. But, given the nature of the infraction, T-Mobile can have

UK fibre network specialist CityFibre has awarded the contracts for building out fibre across 27 towns and cities. The total value of those contracts amounts to £1.5 billion, taking CityFibre’s total outlay so far to £2.5 billion. The altnet is trying to extract maximum PR capital out of the fact that this fresh investment will

In a significant direction, the Supreme Court Friday ordered telecom companies to disclose to regulator TRAI the details of special tariffs and offers made to consumers. Allowing an interim application of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Jusitces A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said that

Coronavirus means the US-Canadian border remains closed, unless of course you’re in a position to spend billions on a couple of hundred phone towers there. American Tower certainly is. The company on Thursday marked its entry into Canada by striking a $3.5 billion deal to acquire InSite Wireless. Admittedly InSite, like American Tower, is headquartered

Chinese vendor Huawei has continued its fight back against its exclusion from European markets by launching a legal challenge to the Swedish decision. A couple of weeks ago the Swedish comms regulator made its 5G auction conditional on the winners not using Huawei or ZTE kit – in other words, a ban. The usual security-related

LG Velvet Dual Screen smartphone is up for pre-order on Flipkart in India. The phone was launched in the country last week, but did not go on sale from October 30 as expected. However, the phone is now up for pre-order on Flipkart, with the e-commerce site listing its tentative release date as November 12.

Thanks primarily to the addition of Sprint, the self-styled Uncarrier has turned in a particularly strong set of third quarter results. However, it was net additions of 2.04 million customers – including 689,000 postpaid phone subscribers – that really stole the show, pushing T-Mobile US above the 100 million customer mark for the first time.

The spoils were shared evenly at this year’s Global Telecoms Awards, but emerging technologies such as OpenRAN caught the eyes of the judges. You can see the full list of winners below and find that only one company one more than once – last year’s big winner SK Telecom – which grabbed the ‘best operator’

Apple has released software updates for its iPhones and iPads, smartwatch, HomePod, tvOS, and laptops. iPhones get iOS 14.2 and older models have received iOS 12.4.9. Apple Watch models have got watchOS 7.1, HomePod and tvOS get software version 14.2, and macOS gets Catalina 10.15.7 supplemental update. There are a lot of improvements and big

As we move towards the end of an unprecedented year, we are delighted to share with you the results of our prestigious Annual Industry Survey in this special report. It is encouraging to see that despite all the adversity, the telecoms industry is still standing tall. Although more than 40% of respondents said their businesses

Liberty-owned cableco Virgin Media has enabled 1-Gbps services for a further 6 million premises. 3 million of those are in London, with the other 3 million spread across Northern Ireland. It represents a huge increase in the reach of Virgin Media’s Gigabit-capable broadband network, which now covers 6.8 million homes, or 45 percent of its