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SK Telecom has teamed up with Uber to launch a new joint venture in the taxi market in South Korea that will also look ahead to future mobility technologies, such as flying cars. Uber will invest a total of US$150 million in the as-yet unnamed venture and in SKT’s broader mobility business. SKT is spinning

BT has hit out against Ofcom’s decision to launch an investigation into its compliance with broadband USO rules, calling for a new plan for connecting hard to reach areas. To put it simply, the UK regulator is looking into whether BT is inflating the cost for homeowners when it quotes for the provision of a

Xiaomi’s ‘Diwali with Mi’ sale has begun and will go on till October 21. Phones and accessories from the company will also be listed with deals and discounts on Flipkart’s Big Billion Days sale, and Amazon Great Indian Festival as well. Mi VIP Club members have access to few exclusive deals and get free shipping

Japan will not bar Chinese kit makers – including Huawei – from supplying telecoms network equipment in the country, it emerged this week. The US is keen to see other nations follow in its footsteps and block Chinese companies from providing 5G equipment, but Japan is reluctant to join the growing club of governments that

October 14, 2020, the UN Broadband Commission and Huawei held the sixth Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2020) online in Beijing. With the theme of “Intelligent Connectivity, New Value Together”, this year’s UBBF discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the connectivity industry in the intelligent era. At the event, David Wang, Huawei Executive Director and Chairman of

Twitter said on Thursday its social networking site was down for many users due to an inadvertent change it had made to its internal systems but the platform seemed to be returning to normal after about an hour and half of outage. The company said that the site should be working for everyone within the

We’re sure your appetite for virtual events is undiminished by nine months of Zoom calls, so make sure you register for the best one yet. After an outrageously successful inaugural event last year, Telecoms.com LIVE has been transformed into a digital symposium, no less, for reasons that will be only to obvious. You see, the

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has decided to save a few euros by migrating its on-premise IT infrastructure to the Google public cloud. There are several upsides to a move like this. As well as the cost savings that come from not having to manage your own datacenters, Nokia also gets to bang on about how

iPhone 11 is set to be available for purchase during the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale for as low as Rs. 47,999, the e-retail giant revealed through a banner on its online marketplace. For customers looking specifically for a deal on the iPhone 11 Pro, Flipkart has separately teased a discount worth Rs. 26,600 on

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Akil Chomoko, Chief Marketing Officer at MDS Global, explores what we mean by ‘digital BSS’ and why we should care. The need to switch to digital methods and systems has been an accepted business and technology

Knowing the location of subscribers and what they are doing with their devices is of great importance to mobile operators. This information is critical for managing and optimizing networks, but has even more value in the additional revenue it can provide as operators bridge the gap between the digital and physical lives of subscribers for

If you have been waiting for the successor of the “flagship killer” Poco F1, you’ll have to wait longer. Poco has instead launched the mid-range Poco X3 which joins the Poco X2 in the same series. Unlike some other recent Poco smartphones that borrow their design from their Redmi cousins, the Poco X3 has a

After years of preparation, China Broadcasting Network has been given the bureaucratic seal of approval. As with nearly everything else in China, the state had a major role to play in the creation of CBN, having issued the license over four years ago. According to China Daily it’s 51% owned by the state broadcasting authority,

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Dion Price, Trustonic CEO, examines best practice for operators when it comes to revenue assurance. Smartphones have never been more important for keeping people and businesses connected and have helped many of us navigate the difficult

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is finding it harder to counter US sanctions designed to choke off its access to semiconductors but can continue to serve European 5G network clients, a senior European executive told an Austrian newspaper. The world’s biggest maker of mobile telecommunications equipment and smartphones was still “looking for a solution” to help millions

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has done one of those grand studies that extrapolate a technology to see what its total economic impact might be. As ever the actual research was done by a specialist firm, in this case Sapio, which surveyed 1,628 technology purchasing decision-makers in eight markets and across six industry sectors. The apparent aim was

Radical policy changes are needed if the UK is to achieve nationwide FTTP coverage, according to a new report. So concludes the Social Market Foundation (SMF), which warned this week in a report sponsored by TalkTalk that the current framework does not do enough to incentivise telcos to invest, and that it could also leave

Apple is expected on Tuesday to unveil a keenly anticipated iPhone 12 lineup starring models tuned to super-fast new 5G telecom networks in an update considered vital to the company’s fortunes. A streamed event was cryptically teased with the message “Hi, Speed” in an apparent reference to the faster wireless networks being introduced in many