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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

UK ISP TalkTalk has agreed to discuss a takeover bid from its second-biggest shareholder. Hedge fund Toscafund Asset Management (TAM) currently owns around 28.5 percent of TalkTalk, according to the telco’s most recent annual report. Charles Dunstone remains its single-biggest shareholder, with a stake of 29.8 percent. On Thursday, TalkTalk confirmed that it received a

Never one to pass up an opportunity to make its rivals look bad, T-Mobile US is extending its fixed-wireless access (FWA) service to areas left in the lurch by AT&T’s DSL phase-out. “We can’t stand idly by while AT&T leaves potentially millions with fewer home Internet options at a time when our connection to the

Amazfit Bip U, an upcoming smartwatch from Huami, has been listed in a promotional page on Amazon. It follows the Amazfit Neo that was launched last week in India as a budget friendly retro-style smartwatch. The Amazon page for Amazfit Bip U reveals specifications for the smartwatch but does not share pricing or launch information.

The two largest Belgian CSPs have announced a wholesale swap-out of Huawei gear in their RAN, in favour of Nokia. Both Proximus and Orange Belgium are currently heavily invested in Huawei for their radio access network, which they share. After a supposedly ‘thorough competitive process, based on technological, operational and financial criteria,’ (both operators used

UK telco group BT is preparing its network for the expected explosion in 8K video and AR/VR usage. Which is another way of saying that BT is the flagship customer for a new edge CDN (content delivery network) offering based on the Streaming Video Alliance’s Open Caching technology. The solution itself has been jointly developed

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to consider whether to protect Alphabet’s Google from a long-running lawsuit by Oracle accusing it of infringing Oracle copyrights to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world’s smartphones. The shorthanded court, down one justice following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last month, is

Capital expenditure on OpenRAN radio units (RUs) is expected to reach $47.4 billion by 2026, predicted ABI Research this week. $40.7 billion of that sum is expected to be ploughed into outdoor public networks – which includes macro as well as small cells – with shipment volumes reaching 9.9 million. The remaining $6.7 billion is

The Parliamentary Defence Committee has published a detailed report on UK 5G security, which takes a robust position over China. The report is headlined ‘We must not surrender our national security for the sake of short-term technological development’, which leaves no doubt where the 11 committee members stand on the matter. Their investigation focused on

AMD has taken the wraps off its next-generation Ryzen 5000 Series desktop CPUs, based on the updated ‘Zen 3’ architecture. The new processors are said to offer up to a 26 percent increase in performance in gaming and a 19 percent improvement in instructions per cycle compared to the current Ryzen 3000XT series. The company is

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has asked the European Commission not to get involved in the merger as it’s none of its business. After years of mucking about and political nonsense, the UK is finally leaving the European Union at the end of this year. That means, from January 1 2021, the UK technically

Deutsche Telekom has pledged to accelerate its fibre rollout after reaching a wholesale FTTH deal with rival Telefónica. The two telcos have extended and expanded a partnership dating back to 2013 that lets Telefónica buy VDSL lines from Deutsche Telekom. That agreement has been renewed for a further 10 years, and now also includes FTTH

Amazon on Thursday announced a drone for recording security video inside homes and car products for alerting vehicle owners about attempted break-ins. The news reflects Amazon’s growing security business since its acquisition of smart doorbell maker Ring in 2018, an effort that’s drawn scrutiny from civil liberties advocates. It also represents Amazon’s latest push into