The Court of Justice of the EU has made what is widely considered to be a precedent-setting ruling on net neutrality, but it doesn’t make much sense. The matter at hand concerns Telenor Hungary, which offers a couple of zero-rated packages – i.e. services that allow potentially unlimited data use at no extra cost. The
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Apple Watch Series 6 has been unveiled by Apple at its virtual “Time Flies” event. The new smartwatch by the Cupertino giant looks quite similar to the Apple Watch Series 4 and Series 5 models. However, it does bring new hardware that is touted to deliver faster performance, better water resistance, and enhanced wireless connectivity,
US telco CenturyLink has seen the light and reinvented itself as Lumen Technologies. In a bid to position itself as a leading light in the market for the provision of enterprise solutions and services in new areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, collaboration and automation, CenturyLink has shed its legacy brand in
With governments around the world seeking to prevent people having a life, the Telecoms.com Awards represent a much-needed opportunity to celebrate business as usual. Now in their seventh year, the Glotel Awards are arguably more important than ever, considering the massive disruption experienced by the telecoms, and pretty much every other, industry. While business on
Apple is expected to spotlight its smartwatch, iPad, and subscription services on Tuesday as it strives to reignite growth with a must-have holiday lineup. A keenly anticipated 5G iPhone considered vital to the company’s fortunes will likely star in a separate event later in the year due to disruption in production caused by the pandemic,
Green field US MNO Dish has been doshing out the work for building its 5G network recently and Nokia has managed to grab a piece of the core action. Specifically Nokia will be providing the software for Dish’s standalone 5G core, which represents a significant coup on many levels. Not only is the business itself
Telefónica has an ambitious timescale for its 5G deployment, and it has tapped Nokia to put it on the right track. The Finnish kit maker has been a long-standing 5G partner of Telefónica’s: the two have been working on the technology together since 2018 as part of the Spanish incumbent’s Technological Cities trial in Segovia.
Laptops from multiple manufacturers hitting the market later this year will bear Intel’s new ‘Evo’ branding, which is meant to signify that they are premium ultraportables that have gone through extensive testing and validation at the design stage. Intel will also be rolling out high-profile marketing and advertisements to promote these laptops. Readers might recall a similar
GTT Communications has been seeking a buyer for its infrastructure business for most of this year and now looks to have a serious offer at a price that should find favour with its board and shareholders. The company itself is keeping schtum on the matter for now, but according to Bloomberg, it is in receipt
Having spent spring and summer equipping their homes for work and education, US consumers are expected to turn their attention in Q4 to more leisurely pursuits. That is what NPD Group thinks, anyway. The analyst firm predicted this week that consumer technology sales in the final three months of this year will jump 18 percent
Panasonic Lumix S5 is a brand new full-frame mirrorless camera launched by the company and will be available from mid-September. It is a new “hybrid” camera in the S-series which is said to offer equally good performance for stills and video work. The Lumix S5 features a wide ISO sensitivity range, 5-axis in-body stabilisation (IBIS)
Patrick Drahi, the founder and 40% shareholder of telecoms conglomerate Altice Europe, reckons the time is right to take it private. Draghi has managed to scrape together enough cash to make a cash offer of €4.11 per share, which represents a premium of 23.8% over the closing price on 10 September 2020 and a premium
The UK is making steady, if not world-beating, progress in the rollout of full fibre, but residents’ ability to connect is still highly dependent on where they live. New figures from Ofcom show that 14% of UK homes had access to full fibre broadband, as of May this year. That’s an increase of two percentage
Microsoft will on Tuesday launch its Xbox cloud gaming service priced at $1 (roughly Rs. 74) for new users’ first month, in a major drive to attract casual gamers with the promise of cutting ties to the living room and as competition with Sony heats up. Subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, priced at $14.99
Hot on the heels of Android 11 comes Android 11 (Go edition), which is designed to work on lower-specced smartphones. Google describes Go edition as being designed for ‘entry level’ smartphones, which typically means very low-priced ones such as my be sold in India and Africa. We’re told that, since its creation back in 2018
Nick Read reckons there’s not enough competition in Italy, but too much in Portugal and the Czech Republic, all countries in which Vodafone does business. Public lobbying is a tricky business. If you just say something like “I want more/less of this because it benefits/harms me,” you don’t tend to get much sympathy. So chapter
Realme C17, an unannounced Realme phone, has been spotted on Geekbench. Realme has been launching new smartphones at a rather fast pace in the budget segment. The company recently launched the Realme C12 and the Realme C15 as a part of its budget-friendly C series. With the recent spotting of the Realme C17 on Geekbench,
Anyone hoping Huawei will challenge the smartphone OS duopoly anytime soon is likely to be disappointed. Huawei held its developer conference today, at which the hot topic was Harmony OS, the in-house smartphone operating system Huawei is in a hurry to develop in the face of mounting US sanctions. Rome wasn’t built in a day,