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Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Bruce Kelley, CTO of NETSCOUT, examines some best practice for implementing 5G networks. Next-generation IoT and mobile-based technologies and services are ubiquitous, there is a service for virtually every need, and new ones are constantly developing

Chromecast with Google TV, a streaming dongle for TVs, has long rumoured to be in the works. This dongle is reportedly codenamed Sabrina and believed to be launching on September 30. Ahead of the launch, official-looking renders, specifications, and features of the new Chromecast dongle have surfaced online. Additionally, the price and release timeline has

Telcos all over the EU are celebrating after their overlords at the European Commission officially gave 5G and fibre the green light. As part of the latest state of the union propaganda fest Margrethe Vestager, who now goes by the title of Executive Vice-President for a Europe fit for the Digital Age, said she recommends

International telecom fraud is a skeleton in the closet for mobile operators worldwide, resulting in significant revenue losses and reputational damage. Fraud attacks on international voice and roaming traffic often take place using sophisticated techniques on the home network or while roaming, making detection almost impossible. This use case looks at how mobile operators can

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he supported a deal in principle that would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States, even as it appeared to conflict with his earlier order for China’s ByteDance to divest the video app. ByteDance was racing to avoid a crackdown on TikTok after the US

Shareholders of Spain’s Másmóvil have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a €3 billion takeover deal that will take the company private. Holders representing 86.41% of Másmóvil’s shares have accepted the €22.50-per-share offer lodged by private equity funds Providence, Cinven and KKR in June, Spanish stock market regulator the CNMV revealed on Thursday. That figure far

Telcos that want to play the so-called ‘trusted partner’ role in digital transformation have got a newly-emboldened rival to contend with. Systems integrator Accenture has revealed plans to invest $3 billion over the next three years to establish Accenture Cloud First. As the name suggests its aim is to help clients in any industry accelerate

Apple AirPower Mini Wireless charger has allegedly been leaked in a video for the first time. It could be the same charging mat that noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo talked about in an investor note earlier this year. Apple’s earlier AirPower wireless charging pad was cancelled because according to the company, the device would not

The biggest piece of M&A in the Ekholm era is designed to bolster Ericsson’s direct-to-enterprise offering. Ericsson describes Cradlepoint as the US-based market leader in Wireless Edge WAN 4G and 5G Enterprise solutions. It says it’s spending 1.1 billion bucks on it because it ‘complements Ericsson’s existing 5G enterprise portfolio which includes dedicated networks and

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, a lot more people are too skint to fork out for a flagship smartphone. As a result, devices in the $100-$400 price bracket dominated global shipments in the second quarter, a trend that is expected to continue in 2021. This is according to IDC, which said low-to-mid end smartphones accounted

Realme UI 2.0, the company’s proprietary Android 11-based skin, will be unveiled on September 21. The release will coincide with the launch of Realme Narzo 20 series of smartphones on the date. Realme X50 Pro users have already received an Android 11 preview release that will now be rolled out to the Realme Narzo 20

Even flogging Arm and much of its eponymous Japanese operator isn’t enough to cover SoftBank’s speculative positions, it seems. So the latest SoftBank Group (SBG) holding to be added to the great corporate fire sale is value-added reseller for the telecoms sector, Brightstar. Founded by current SBG COO Marcelo Claure, the majority of Brightstar was

Italy thinks it would be a really good idea to create a monopoly national fibre provider, but it looks like its overlords in Brussels don’t agree. We suspect this because Bloomberg has been chatting to people who claim to be familiar with the matter, as are we all now. These Deep Throats, who may or

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has extended the availability of its Work@Home promotional broadband plan that offers Internet access to its landline customers at no additional charge. The plan is now available until December 8. It is meant specifically for those BSNL landline customers who don’t have a broadband connection. Alongside the Work@Home broadband plan,

Huawei will soon be unable to make phones thanks to US sanctions, so demand is apparently spiking for them in China. The news comes courtesy of Reuters, which reports that China’s major phone markets are experiencing significant price inflation on Huawei smartphones, especially the flagship ones. It looks like Chinese consumers have been keeping their

Spanish operator group Telefónica has decided OpenRan is the way forward and that Rakuten Mobile is the trailblazer. Accordingly the two of them have signed Memorandum of Understanding that says they’ll collaborate on not just OpenRAN, but 5G Core and OSS technologies too. This marks the latest vote in favour of a technology set to

Samsung Galaxy A02 could be just around the corner as a phone carrying a model number SM-A025F has surfaced on Geekbench. The model number is similar to that of the Samsung Galaxy A01 that was launched back in December. The Samsung phone appears to come with 2GB of RAM and includes an octa-core Qualcomm SoC.

With COVID-19 forcing the majority of staff in many companies to work remotely for months on end, there is huge pressure on IT and network professionals to assure all corporate business and collaboration applications run as they should to meet employee and customer needs and expectations. Embracing digital innovation and leveraging cloud capabilities has become