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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

Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention. Here are the stories we think are worth a second look at this week: Huawei gets the green light for £1 billion Cambridge R&D centre Cambridge City Council has officially given Huawei permission to construct a 50,000 sq. meter

Once more the UK has failed to do what it’s told regarding its policy towards embattled Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei. Not satisfied with daring to make up our own mind on the matter of Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s 5G networks, we recently had the temerity to allow it to build a semiconductor optoelectronics R&D

The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies and video surveillance company Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, laying the groundwork for new US financial sanctions, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. A US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed

The fact that the Department of Defense is linking Huawei to the Chinese military should surprise few, but this could be viewed as a bureaucratic tick-box exercise for a renewed assault. Leaked this week was a list of 20 companies which the US Department of Defense believes has material ties to the Chinese Government and

Cambridge City Council has officially given Huawei permission to construct a 50,000 sq. meter R&D centre to focus on optoelectronics, serving as the international HQ for the segment. While Cambridge has long been associated with academic excellence thanks to the university, the region is increasingly gaining a reputation as a hub for the telecoms and

Sony has made its bug bounty programme for the PlayStation 4 console and the PlayStation Network public. It is a reward system for researchers or whoever finds a bug in Sony’s PlayStation related devices and reports it to the company, so it can patch it before the same is exploited. As per the company’s blog

Law enforcement needs timely, data-oriented intelligence to stay ahead of threats to society. Where telecom operators and other communication service providers are legally bound to enable lawful interception and monitoring, smart and effective solutions that can support both the law enforcement agencies and the service providers to fulfil their security responsibilities are critical. The billion-dollar