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Among the many bitterly disputed terms of the UK’s divorce from the EU are the jurisdiction of competition authorities, which could affect the O2-Virgin Media merger. The whole purpose of the European Commission and the countless other EU bureaucratic bodies is to take sovereignty away from European nations and tell them what to do. While

French police managed to penetrate a super-secure smartphone platform and catch loads of baddies, but what does this mean for the rest of us? “DISMANTLING OF AN ENCRYPTED NETWORK SENDS SHOCKWAVES THROUGH ORGANISED CRIME GROUPS ACROSS EUROPE,” declares the Europol press release. It goes on to talk about the “impressive results” yielded by the successful

When OnePlus launched its first televisions in 2019, there were mixed reactions from reviewers and enthusiasts alike. The OnePlus TV Q1 series is impressive for a number of reasons, but with prices starting at Rs. 69,999, it is still far too expensive for many to even consider. The company’s new televisions for 2020 aren’t replacements

As the UK continues to trail other European nations on fibre deployments, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has omitted broadband infrastructure from grand spending plans to drive the economy forward. Seemingly inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt, Johnson has launched a New Deal for the UK. A strategy which involves sparking the domestic economy back to life

Social media giant Facebook is refusing to be blackmailed into having its censorship policies dictated to it, for now. Today is the day the great one-month Facebook advertiser boycott starts and, according to a Reuters report, Facebook execs met advertisers yesterday to try to talk them out of it. Judging by the unimpressed noises coming

Bharti Enterprises is backing a bid for collapsed SoftBank-backed satellite operator OneWeb, two sources said, in a consortium that is supported by the British government. OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the end of March after its biggest investor SoftBank Group pulled funding, with an auction for the startup due to start on Thursday.

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Upstart US MNO Dish has further signalled its commitment to O-RAN technology by signing a multi-year deal with Altiostar, which specialises in that sort of thing. Dish is one of the few examples of a company building a 5G network more or less from scratch. Free from the burden of legacy infrastructure, Dish is free

Honor X10 Max will launch on July 2 as a new addition to the Honor X10 series. Ahead of the launch, the Honor X10 Max has appeared in the database of the China Telecom – revealing its key specifications along with the pricing details. The listing indicates that the upcoming Honor phone will have three

Research from Vodafone UK suggests 5G connectivity could add as much as £38 billion to the UK economy over the next five years, and £158 billion over the course of a decade. Although some will struggle to understand why a faster internet connection means cumulative benefits of more than £158 million, this is a failing

Irish BSS vendor Openet has chalked up a nice win with MVNO Lebara to sort out its charging systems in five European countries, including the UK. This gig is all about the cloud, it seems with Openet’s Evolved Charging Suite residing in the AWS cloud and being managed by Rackspace. Openet is one of the

Activity tracker maker Fitbit said on Friday that young adults in the United States are lagging behind older age groups in returning to the same number of steps as before the coronavirus outbreak. Women and men under 29 years old took fewer steps in June than the same period a year ago, according to data

Iflix, dubbed the ‘Netflix of Asia’, has been acquired by Hong Kong-based Tencent, as the firm takes another step towards its dream of becoming the streaming giant of South East Asia. Financials of the deal have not been made public, but Tencent has confirmed the acquisition will form an element of WeTV, a sister-brand of

Identity software company Okta has surveyed a bunch of people in the UK and found that we’re among the most willing to provide location data to help fight COVID-19. This blitz spirit remains in spite of a healthy scepticism about data privacy, with 84% of Brits believing their contact tracing data will be used for

Apple has unveiled iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and new features and functionality for AirPods and AIrPods Pro, among the many announcements made at the WWDC opening keynote. iPadOS 14 gains all the features first shown off in the earlier iOS 14 demo, along with new tools and optimisations that are specifically aimed at getting the

Censorship advocates are celebrating the addition of US telco Verizon to their campaign against Facebook, but they’re mistaken. At the start of this week we reported on a campaign by a coalition of political activist groups designed to coerce Facebook into censoring any content it disapproves of. Initially it seemed to have only attracted the

NTT has announced a joint research programme with NEC, while also purchasing a 5% stake in the network infrastructure vendor. Some might suggest the ‘open’ movement is receiving a disproportionate amount of attention, there are limited OpenRAN trials compared to the market hype, however this latest move from NTT adds more credibility to the foundations

Xiaomi ecosystem company Ningmei has launched its Ningmei CR100 Mini PC in China. The small form factor PC is idea for workspaces where a full size PC cabinet will not work. It can fit under the monitor as well, giving even more space to the user. One point to note is that the Ningmei CR100