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Huawei Enjoy 20 and Enjoy 20 Plus have been launched with MediaTek Dimensity 720 SoC. Both new Huawei Enjoy 5G phones come just a little over two months after the Chinese company launched the Enjoy 20 Pro in the market. While the Huawei Enjoy 20 retains the waterdrop-style display notch design of the Enjoy 20

Reports from India suggest beleaguered telco Vodafone Idea is considering a share sale and even investment from Verizon to keep it alive while it pays off the government. Bloomberg Quint reckons Vodafone Idea is looking to raise a cool $1.5 billion, following the final Supreme Court ruling, compelling it to hand over many times that

Six years after first posing the idea, UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has managed to prise 80 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum from the clammy grip of terrestrial broadcasters. The announcement was made by Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman, in keeping with government policy of claiming all the credit for these things at the 11th hour.

Samsung Galaxy Fit 2 fitness tracker has been launched by the company as it expands its Galaxy portfolio. During the ‘Life Unstoppable’ virtual event, Samsung announced a bunch of new devices, one of which was the Galaxy Fit 2 fitness tracker. It is an iterative update to the Galaxy Fit that was launched in India

This article is sponsored by BICS What is the cost of telecoms fraud? €29 billion a year, according to Europol, representing one of the largest sources of lost revenues for operators. From the direct cost of traditional wholesale fraud and indirect costs associated with damaged reputations and regulatory oversight to hindering enterprise segment revenues, telecoms

Millions of broadband speed tests in 221 countries, commissioned by Cable.co.uk, have revealed that average UK download speeds are among the slowest in Europe. The UK fell 13 places since the last time this study was done and is now 47th in the world, behind significantly poorer countries including Bulgaria and Portugal. Our average download

Apple has asked suppliers to build at least 75 million 5G iPhones for later this year, roughly in line with last year’s launch, in a sign that demand for the company’s most important product is holding up in the midst of the global pandemic and recession. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant anticipates shipments of these next-generation

How do you measure electromagnetic pollution from mobile networks? The deployment of 5G and associated new technologies such as beamforming and millimetre wave have raised health concerns among the population and government organizations. Electromagnetic field (EMF) measurements are becoming essential to ensure that the total radiated power and electromagnetic pollution is below a certain threshold.

Spanish telecoms group Telefónica officially switched on its 5G signal today and promised three quarters of the population will have access by the end of the year. That’s quite a lofty claim when you consider how rubbish many other developed economies are at 5G. It should be stressed that it’s easier to get high population

Netflix is offering limited free access to several original series and movies, including Stranger Things, Murder Mystery, Élite, Boss Baby: Back in Business, Bird Box, When They See Us, Love Is Blind, The Two Popes, Our Planet, and Grace and Frankie. If you are undecided on whether Netflix is worth the monthly subscription, well, the

Bouygues Telecom has published a solid set of numbers for the first half of the year and claims its customer growth has accelerated in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown. The French telco followed in the footsteps of many of its peers by bigging up the reliability of its network amidst increased demand during the

Internet giant Amazon has entered the digital health market with products that, among other things, want to make you sound more positive. Amazon’s new health and wellness offering is called Halo. It consists of a screen-free fitness band and ‘a suite of AI-powered health tools’. This suite is comprised of five categories: activity, sleep, body,

Action camera maker GoPro said on Thursday its premium subscribers can now live stream their treks, rides and swims directly on to its website. Earlier, users with high-end GoPro action cameras could only live stream content via third-party services such as Amazon.com’s Twitch, Alphabet’s YouTube and Facebook. GoPro’s premium service, GoPro Plus, lets users upload

Despite raising $41 billion already this year, Softbank reckons it needs a bunch more cash to protect itself from the effects of a COVID-19 resurgence. In a ‘secondary offering of shares in subsidiary SoftBank Corp, SoftBank group is hoping to raise another $12 billion or so to keep down the back of the sofa in

Facebook is up in arms over Apple’s plan to let users opt out of sharing their Web-usage data with the social network. It warned in a blog post this week that the resulting curtailment of personalised ads by Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 operating system could lead to a 50 percent drop in publisher revenue on

Apple said Friday it has followed through on its decision to block the maker of Fortnite from developer tools needed to update games on its mobile devices. The move to suspend Epic Games from the iOS developers program came just days after a US court rejected its bid to have Fortnite reinstated on the App

Taiwanese chip-maker Mediatek reportedly thinks it can supply Huawei without getting put on the US naughty step, but is double-checking just to make sure. The report comes courtesy of Reuters, which says Mediatek has applied for permission from the US to keep supplying Huawei with chips. “MediaTek reiterates its respect for following relevant orders and

TIM. The Italian incumbent will get its wish to control the country’s proposed single high-speed network, if it agrees to a plan the government is about to present to its board. The Italian press is awash with reports that the government has approved a plan hammered out by state-owned investment bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti