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As the EU faces fresh calls to investigate Google for abusing its market dominance, the internet giant flexes its muscles once more by starting to charge for Google Photos. For some reason Reuters has the exclusive on a letter sent by 165 organisations – mostly European internet players – moaning about Google biasing its own

Xiaomi Mi TV Stick and Mi Box 4K buyers this Diwali festive season will get multiple offers and discounts on premium streaming services. Up to Rs. 2,400 worth of benefits are on offer across various streaming services. The Mi TV Stick and Mi Box 4K were launched earlier this year and are the company’s first

The National Security and Investment Bill seeks to give the UK government to block any mergers and acquisitions it doesn’t like the look of, even in retrospect. The bill applies to a bunch of sectors deemed to be ‘sensitive’. There doesn’t seem to be any mention of specific countries, but we all know which ones

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Sirish Raghuram, Co-founder & CEO of Platform9 takes a look at the rapidly growing edge computing sector.  Edge computing is rapidly emerging as the new cloud. According to Gartner, by 2022, more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will

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.