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Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, a lot more people are too skint to fork out for a flagship smartphone. As a result, devices in the $100-$400 price bracket dominated global shipments in the second quarter, a trend that is expected to continue in 2021. This is according to IDC, which said low-to-mid end smartphones accounted

Realme UI 2.0, the company’s proprietary Android 11-based skin, will be unveiled on September 21. The release will coincide with the launch of Realme Narzo 20 series of smartphones on the date. Realme X50 Pro users have already received an Android 11 preview release that will now be rolled out to the Realme Narzo 20

Even flogging Arm and much of its eponymous Japanese operator isn’t enough to cover SoftBank’s speculative positions, it seems. So the latest SoftBank Group (SBG) holding to be added to the great corporate fire sale is value-added reseller for the telecoms sector, Brightstar. Founded by current SBG COO Marcelo Claure, the majority of Brightstar was

Italy thinks it would be a really good idea to create a monopoly national fibre provider, but it looks like its overlords in Brussels don’t agree. We suspect this because Bloomberg has been chatting to people who claim to be familiar with the matter, as are we all now. These Deep Throats, who may or

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has extended the availability of its Work@Home promotional broadband plan that offers Internet access to its landline customers at no additional charge. The plan is now available until December 8. It is meant specifically for those BSNL landline customers who don’t have a broadband connection. Alongside the Work@Home broadband plan,

Huawei will soon be unable to make phones thanks to US sanctions, so demand is apparently spiking for them in China. The news comes courtesy of Reuters, which reports that China’s major phone markets are experiencing significant price inflation on Huawei smartphones, especially the flagship ones. It looks like Chinese consumers have been keeping their

Spanish operator group Telefónica has decided OpenRan is the way forward and that Rakuten Mobile is the trailblazer. Accordingly the two of them have signed Memorandum of Understanding that says they’ll collaborate on not just OpenRAN, but 5G Core and OSS technologies too. This marks the latest vote in favour of a technology set to

Samsung Galaxy A02 could be just around the corner as a phone carrying a model number SM-A025F has surfaced on Geekbench. The model number is similar to that of the Samsung Galaxy A01 that was launched back in December. The Samsung phone appears to come with 2GB of RAM and includes an octa-core Qualcomm SoC.

With COVID-19 forcing the majority of staff in many companies to work remotely for months on end, there is huge pressure on IT and network professionals to assure all corporate business and collaboration applications run as they should to meet employee and customer needs and expectations. Embracing digital innovation and leveraging cloud capabilities has become

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

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