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CityFibre is once again on the warpath against Openreach, lodging a new complaint with UK authorities over the incumbent network operator’s wholesale pricing strategy. Specifically, CityFibre has filed a Competition Act complaint with the Communications and Markets Authority (CMA) and Ofcom against Openreach for its – in its opinion – attempts to squeeze competition out

Britons are getting hit with more dodgy calls and texts than ever before, prompting Ofcom to nudge the telco industry into doing something about it. We spoke to Eli Katz, CEO, XConnect about what can be done to bat away the spam. A lot of organisations and companies have by now declared that the amount

WhatsApp is rolling out an update for its beta testers on Android that introduces support for WhatsApp for tablets. Select Android beta testers can now link their existing WhatsApp account on their phones with the tablet version of the app. Until now, a WhatsApp account on an Android phone could not be accessed on a

A study by VMO2 says Brits have some of the cheapest mobile and broadband deals in the world, with household spend on telecoms having dropped by about 20% since 2017. The report, commissioned by VMO2 and carried out by Assembly Research, claims average monthly household spend on telecoms in the UK has fallen by nearly

The Financial Services and Markets Bill currently passing through parliament doesn’t do enough to protect users from arbitrary punishment, according to the Free Speech Union. Hot on the heels of the controversial Online Safety Bill comes another piece of UK law that has profound freedom of speech implications. The Financial Services and Markets Bill is

President Joe Biden flies Tuesday to Arizona to celebrate the mammoth expansion of a Taiwanese semiconductor plant, citing the project as proof that the United States is finally breaking dangerous dependency on foreign manufacturers for the vital component. The White House announced that TSMC is unveiling plans to build a second facility in Phoenix by

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece telecoms engineer Natalia Molinero Mingorance looks at the environmental implications of the video streaming revolution. Video streaming is widely used in many areas such as entertainment, social media, and online education. The consumption of video has dramatically

A new ‘national institution’ could be set up as part of plans to boost the UK’s semiconductor industry. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is commissioning some research looking at the feasibility of some new national initiatives which have the ultimate goal of growing the UK’s semiconductor industry, presumably in response to

US telco Verizon has eyes on a slice of the burgeoning network-as-a-service (NaaS) market. But the operator can’t do it on its own, so it has partnered with India-based IT services giant Wipro to do some of the legwork. Their joint NaaS offering launched on Wednesday, and is designed to help enterprises migrate from the

Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether UK broadband providers have given customers clear enough information on mid-contract price rises. About time, particularly given the financial difficulties many UK consumers are facing at present amidst the ongoing economic crisis. But before we get too carried away, the UK regulator is only probing broadband contracts signed

Xbox Game Pass is adding 11 new titles in the first half of December, including three day-one releases. The highlight here is Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which lets you relive all nine episodes in the epic titular series, in a hilarious fashion that brings an array of planets to explore and immersive combat

Telco group BT has entered ‘phase two’ of its Green Tech Innovation Platform programme, bringing three start ups under its wing. BT today has announced it has entered phase two of its Green Tech Innovation Platform, an environmental scheme which was set up to ‘fast-track cutting-edge new digital solutions to help manufacturers cut their carbon

Troubled Australian state broadband wholesaler NBN is giving Nokia’s Lightspan MF-14 broadband platform a go. Nokia calls Lightspan “the world’s first 6th generation broadband platform.” In practice this means it has four times higher capacity than the previous generation and can support 25G, 50G and 100G PON services. It’s also heavy on the SDN and

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Charlotte Goodwill, CEO of The ITP, calls on telcos to rethink their approach to recruitment and retention. It’s time for our industry to stop and look at itself. Tech roles make up 14% of all job

Elon Musk’s Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety told Reuters. Twitter is also more aggressively restricting abuse-prone hashtags and search results in areas including child exploitation, regardless of

iQoo 11 5G’s launch event has been rescheduled for December 8 after the Chinese smartphone manufacturer postponed its initial plans to introduce the handset on December 2. iQoo Indonesia confirmed the development on the Instagram handle. Some of the key specifications of the latest iQoo flagship smartphone have already been hinted, as spotted on various

The Glotel Awards were back as a live, physical, event this year and the winners represented a great cross section of an industry going from strength to strength. For reasons that will be obvious, we weren’t able to get loads of telecoms professionals in a big room for the past two years. Now that, in

The Italian government has formally brought to a close the long-running plan to create a single fixed network from TIM’s assets and those of Open Fiber, but the story does not end there. TIM responded by declaring its “openness to discussion” when it comes to setting out a new single network plan, as well as