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Two major telecoms industry associations have decided to align their API standards to ensure they remain open and widely interoperable. Both organizations get involved in developing APIs to improve software interoperability within the ecosystems they serve. MEF specializes in metro ethernet and it adapted a TM Forum open API to better meet its members needs.

A US court has ordered IT networking giant Cisco to pay a whopping $1.9 billion for infringing four patents held by cybersecurity specialist Centripetal. According to court documents filed on Monday, the amount of damages Centripetal is entitled to totals $755.8 million including royalties. However, Cisco’s infringement was found to be “an egregious case of

Rovio Entertainment said on Monday that Chief Executive Kati Levoranta will leave the maker of the Angry Birds game series at the end of the year. Levoranta, who has led Rovio since 2016, took it public markets with a 2017 listing. While this was an initial success, only five months later Rovio issued a surprise

The Telecom Infra Project is doing the now-standard virtual event thing and it commenced today with a recap of what it has been up to in the past eight months. ‘TIP Community Achieving Significant Momentum on the Path to Open, Interoperable, Disaggregated and Standards-based Networks’ proclaimed TIP Executive Director Attilio Zani in his update. The

Last week the US secretary of State visited Italy to lobby for cooperation over 5G security and China wasn’t happy about it. Since the Chinese state doesn’t have the most open relationship with the press, we’re usually dependent the domestic media for its public position, since they won’t publish anything that would get them in

Twitter has confirmed that it is developing a new tool to counter misinformation. Dubbed “Birdwatch”, the new feature could allow users to flag tweets, add notes to explain their suspicion, and fill up a survey form that estimates the tweet’s potential harm and reach. Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane), who was the first to spot the

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Abhijeet Vivek Ingale, Tecnotree Solutions Consultant, looks at the trends defining today’s billing environment. For the past decade, telco services were relatively easy to manage and simple to bill. However, the introduction of 5G, coupled with

Big telco vendors have another reason to sleep in fear, after Docomo, Fujitsu and NEC laid claim to the world’s first successful 5G carrier aggregation using a multi-vendor RAN. Demonstrating that O-RAN can pull off the same tricks as traditional networks is another feather in the cap of the O-RAN Alliance, which wants the mobile

With the PlayStation 5, Sony’s game plan is quite straightforward — release a heavyweight console (albeit with a second digital-only variant in PlayStation 5 Digital Edition), make a bunch of PlayStation exclusive games and tie up with other studios for more exclusives, and then sell them individually (at a premium) and not as part of

Italy and the US had a joint press conference in which the Italian Foreign Minister made it clear he’s willing to play ball on securing his country’s 5G networks. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seems to be on a bit of a European tour and he stopped off in Rome for a bit of

Research from analyst firm Omdia indicates the UK is one of the most advanced European countries when it comes to the 5G rollout. The data is from earlier in the year, but it offers a good indication of the relative rate of 5G progress for countries around the world. It looks like Omdia puts its

Facebook and Twitter promised to stop encouraging the growth of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, which fashions President Donald Trump as a secret warrior against a supposed child-trafficking ring run by celebrities and government officials, after it reached an audience of millions on their platforms this year. But the social media companies still aren’t enforcing

Ofcom’s move to tackle the questionable money-spinning opportunity inherent in the 070 virtual phone number system has had a positive impact on fraud, according to new data from BICS. A year ago the UK regulator moved to cap the wholesale cost of calls to 070 numbers, primarily as a way of reducing bill shock for

Finnish kit vendor Nokia is on a solid run of winning 5G business, with 17 new deals in Q3 taking it to the 100 mark, just nine short of Ericsson’s total. Probably the most important public narrative for Nokia right now concerns any evidence that it’s making up for time lost mucking about with FPGA

The European Union (EU) is preparing to force big technology companies to share their customer data with smaller rivals, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing an early draft of its landmark ‘Digital Services Act’ regulations. “The likes of Amazon and Google shall not use data collected on the platform…for (their) own commercial activities…unless they

France’s auction of mid-band spectrum for 5G services ended almost before it had begun this week, with all four operators acquiring similar amounts of spectrum for broadly sensible prices. The state raised €2.79 billion from the sale of 310 MHz of 3.4 GHz-3.8 GHz frequencies in a licensing process that was done and dusted by

Internet giant Google has launched the latest version of its own-brand smartphone, which will set you back a relatively modest 600 quid. Google entered the 5G smartphone markets with two models. The Pixel 5 flagship and the 5G version of the more affordable Pixel 4a were unveiled at a virtual Launch Night In event. Both

Redmi 9 Prime will go on sale at 12pm (noon) today, October 2, via Amazon India and Mi.com. The phone was launched earlier this year. It features a quad rear camera setup, an octa-core processor, and a 5,020mAh battery. It is offered in four colour options and two storage configurations. The Redmi 9 Prime smartphone