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Ethiopia has relaunched its plans to award a new telecoms operating licence and to sell off a stake in Ethio Telecom, and is doubtless hopeful of attracting significant foreign investment to the market. But while the country’s telecoms market still offers a relatively untapped opportunity for investors, the events surrounding previous attempts to award licences

US tech giant Amazon is feeling the pinch from the slowing economy. Staff working on its consumer products will pay the price, after the company this week confirmed it will cut an unspecified number of jobs at its Devices and Services arm. The announcement followed rumours on Monday that Amazon plans to lay off around

Building Telco Edge: Why Multicloud will Dominate – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png intelligence Written by Red Hat 1 day ago Developing edge-enabled services is Developing edge-enabled services is complicated; there are key decisions to be made at each level of the value chain, starting with infrastructure. CSPs are important stakeholders that can determine the growth of the

Using Cloud-Native Architecture for Communications SP Networks – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png intelligence Written by Red Hat 1 day ago As they digitally transform their networks to deploy 5G, many communications service providers (CSPs) have deployed virtual network functions (VNF) to reduce costs and increase agility. Now, software-defined networking (SDN) adoption and VNF deployment is shifting quickly

UK broadband provider’s valuation of their networks may be off by up to 20% because they don’t have the right oversight of their networks, claims Digpro. The assertion made by software firm Digpro is that the telco industry’s approach to designing, building and operating a fibre network can result in ‘poorer quality’ of data being

Social media app TikTok has joined telecoms industry trade body the GSMA, and we are told the firms will ‘work together on initiatives that benefit the entire mobile ecosystem.” TikTok has joined the GSMA – international telecoms trade body and organiser of the MWC conference –  as an industry member, and says as it intends

Telcos in Switzerland will soon be subject to stricter rules governing network outages and hacking incidents. From January, ISPs must have the capability to detect and counter malicious activity – such as phishing attempts – on websites, blocking them if necessary. This sort of thing is usually left to antivirus software, but the Swiss government

TIM this week announced the resignation of board member Frank Cadoret, a snippet of information that once again called into question the lack of harmony in its governance. The Italian telco had little to say on the matter, issuing a terse statement noting Cadoret’s departure and quoting Chairman Salvatore Rossi as thanking him for his

Donald Trump may be running for president, but he still can’t use Facebook. The social media platform has no plans to reinstate Trump’s account following the former president’s announcement that he will seek a second term in the White House, the company confirmed Wednesday. Trump was kicked off Facebook following the January 6, 2021, attack

Apple is testing the ability to customise the always-on display on its iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max smartphones with the company’s latest iOS beta. The beta update to iOS 16.2, which was recently rolled out to users, reportedly includes toggles that let users hide the wallpaper and notifications while using the feature. The always-on

iQoo Neo 7 launched in China in October and the company is now seemingly planning to bring two new Neo 7 series smartphones to the market. These handsets are believed to be the iQoo Neo 7S and iQoo Neo 7 SE. Rumours suggest that iQoo might unveil these smartphones in December. The Chinese smartphone brand

Three Australian telecom companies have been ordered by a court to pay a collective AUD 33.5 million (roughly Rs. 180 crore) in penalties for making misleading claims about speed of some NBN Internet plans, the country’s competition regulator said on Friday. The Australian Federal Court has ordered Telstra to pay AUD 15 million (roughly Rs.

ZTE, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer that introduced the Axon 40 Ultra featuring an under-display front camera and a sleek design earlier this year, may now be working on a special Ultra Space Edition of the smartphone series, according to the company’s President of Mobile Devices Ni Fei. Last year, the smartphone manufacturer launched a similar

Samsung is rolling out a fresh Galaxy Watch 4 update offering a fix to previously reported issues that affected users who had updated their wearables to version R870XXU1GVI3. The new software update comes with firmware version R870XXU1GVK4 and brings system stability improvements. It also includes the latest November 2022 security patch. A considerable number of

iPad (2022) was launched in India last month, as the first entry-level iPad in years to feature a redesigned chassis. It is also the first base iPad model to feature a USB Type-C port. The new, redesigned 10th generation iPad is powered by the company’s A14 Bionic SoC. which made its debut on the iPhone

The Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED is arguably one of the coolest laptops we’ve ever come across and it left quite an impression on us when its launch in India was first announced back in October. However, its unconventional form factor also raised a lot of questions around practicality and usability, and we’ll be exploring

DJI Osmo Action 3 was launched on Wednesday as the third action camera from the maker of drones and gimbals. The camera sports two touchscreen displays — one on the front and one on the back. It gets a single 12-megapixel 1/1.7-inch CMOS sensor which is paired with a lens that has f/2.8 aperture and

Nintendo raised its annual profit forecast by 18 percent on Tuesday as a softer yen helped the Japanese videogame maker offset slower-than-expected Switch console sales. The company, which earns about 80 percent of its revenues overseas, expects its net profit to come to JPY 400 billion (roughly Rs. 22,200 crore) for the year to March