Having got control of the approval process the Competition and Markets Authority has already moved to phase 2 of its investigation into the UK telecoms mega-merger. The CMA finally wrestled jurisdiction away from the European Commission over the proposed merger of Virgin Media with O2 UK last month. It immediately vowed to get a move
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The new GoPro Hero 9 Black is finally available in India, but at a higher price of Rs. 49,500, compared to GoPro’s earlier flagships models. However, rather than just an iterative upgrade, GoPro has made some big changes in its 2020 model. There’s a new sensor, colour displays on the front and rear, and the
With so much uncertainty in the world, it is somewhat reassuring to know that Ericsson and Samsung are still able to have their semi-regular patent disputes. This time, the Swedish kit maker has sued its South Korean counterpart for alleged violations of its commitment to negotiate patent-licensing agreements in good faith and on FRAND (fair,
German operator Deutsche Telekom is positioning itself as the preferred on-ramp to Microsoft cloud services for medium and large enterprises. To that end, this week it announced it has expanded its strategic partnership with the US software giant. “We have agreed on the framework for joint strategic growth with our long-term partner Microsoft. We are
The Game Awards 2020 celebrated the best video games of the year and also made some exciting announcements, ranging from much-awaited sequels to worthwhile additions to popular games. Owing to the ongoing coronavirus-induced pandemic, the event was hosted virtually this year. The most notable among new announcements include an upcoming Mass Effect title, a new
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece GenCell CEO Rami Reshef takes a looks at some of the renewable energy options gaining favour among telcos. The coronavirus pandemic has only reinforced what we already knew – telecoms and digital connectivity play an indispensable role
BT has agreed to sell a couple of Italian businesses to TIM via a deal of undisclosed value, but that is unlikely to be a big money-spinner for the UK incumbent. Under the terms of the arrangement, TIM will take control of BT’s public administration unit, which serves local and national governments, and its SME
France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL has handed out its biggest-ever fine of EUR 100 million (roughly Rs. 900 crores) to Google and EUR 35 million (roughly Rs. 300 crores) to Amazon for breaching the country’s rules on online advertising trackers, or cookies. The CNIL said on Thursday it had also fined e-commerce giant Amazon EUR
The humble QR code has been adopted by the LoRa Alliance to speed up and simplify IoT device provisioning. The industry group, which promotes the LoRa LPWAN standard, said its new QR codes can be printed on IoT devices, and carry the required device and vendor information in a format that can be readily entered
Mobile app tacker App Annie has released its numbers for the year and the headline stat was that total global spend hit $112 Billion, a 25% increase on 2019. Apple’s iOS still dominates revenues, but Google Play seems to be slowly gaining ground. As you can see from the first chart below, most of the
Up until now, WhatsApp only allowed its users to set a common custom wallpaper for all it chats, this changes now. With a new software update, you can now set a custom wallpaper for each of your chats individually. That’s not all, the Facebook-owned messaging platform has also introduced a bunch of new bright and
Deutsche Telekom is rounding out 2020 with an upbeat announcement on its achievements and ambitions in 5G and FTTH. The trouble is, we already knew most of it. The German incumbent highlighted progress in the rollout of 5G and uptake of the technology in its home market. Two-thirds of the population can use 5G, it
Chinese vendor Huawei is doing everything it can to make it impossible for Sweden to sustain its ban. When Sweden explicitly stated that its 5G vendors can’t use Huawei kit, it created the opportunity for legal challenge that Huawei wasted little time in exploiting. Soon after Sweden appeared to concede that the decision had been
Wonder Woman 1984 will be the first 4K HDR title on HBO Max, bringing the fledgling streaming service up to speed in time for its biggest release, arriving on Christmas Day. On Tuesday, Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins announced that her new DC movie will be available in 4K Ultra HD resolution, with support
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Martin Morgan, VP of Marketing at Openet, explores the potential of mobility-as-platform services. Toyota and AWS recently announced they were partnering to expand Toyota’s Mobility Services Platform. As the announcement put it, the platform is an
Cisco has offered the equivalent of US$730 million for cloud-based customer experience firm IMImobile, a figure that represents a hefty premium on its current share price. The US tech giant has reached agreement with IMImobile on a 595 pence-per-share offer that has been recommended by its board of directors and is slated to close in
The Trump administration on Friday opted not to grant ByteDance a new extension of an order requiring the Chinese company to divest TikTok’s US assets, but talks will continue over the short video-sharing app’s fate, two sources briefed on the matter said. A Treasury Department representative said late on Friday the Committee on Foreign Investment in
Dividends, an employee shareholding scheme and improvements in networks and IT. These are just some of the items on Orange’s shopping list after it received a whopping €2.2 billion tax refund. In a separate announcement, Orange also shared plans to buy a shiny new boat. “The group’s priority is to allocate these funds in a