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The Spanish government has approved plans to spend more than €12 billion of public money on the manufacture of semiconductors. The Council of Ministers green lighted what it terms PERTE Chip, or the Strategic Project for the Recovery and Economic Transformation of Microelectronics and Semiconductors. The project is designed to strengthen R&D and design in

Reliance Jio is offering three new postpaid monthly recharge plans with the purchase of its JioFi 4G wireless hotspot. The plans are priced at Rs. 249, Rs. 299, and Rs. 349 with different data limits. The base plan comes with 30GB of data, while the Rs. 299 and Rs. 349 recharge plans offer 40GB and

UK operator group BT has embarked on a rare foreign adventure by partnering with the B2B arm of pan-African operator group MTN. The move is being positioned as a ‘strategic alliance’, no less, and seems to represent a major new international initiative for BT, which will offer stuff like managed connectivity, cloud security and voice

Operator China Telecom and Chinese vendor ZTE have put their best brains together and created a self-adaptive spatiotemporal cognitive network, which is easy for them to say. The self-adaptive spatiotemporal cognitive network is based on ZTE’s Radio Composer, which is designed to help maintain connectivity in ‘high-capacity scenarios’ – which presumably means where lots of

Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro — Google’s upcoming flagship smartphones — display specifications have surfaced online, well ahead of the launch of the handsets later this year. The smartphones are tipped to feature the same displays as the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro that debuted last year. The company teased its next generation

After dragging its feet for nearly a year, the UK government has launched a national security investigation into China-backed Nexperia’s acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab. “We welcome overseas investment, but it must not threaten Britain’s national security,” tweeted Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Wednesday. Today, I called-in the acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia,

A Giant Leap for 5G – An Executive Briefing (for everyone!) – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png Partner Resources Written by VIAVI 5 hours ago A short eBook, outlining the promise of 5G, balanced against the complexity of changes that are happening across the globe in RAN wireless infrastructure. It’s aimed at everyone working in the industry to

Amazfit T-Rex 2 has been launched globally by Huami on Tuesday, May 24, for purchase across the United States and will soon be available for pre-order in Europe. This is a rugged smartwatch designed for the outdoors with high-precision GPS technology. It is also fitted with a sweat-wicking silicone strap. The company claims it to

Telefonica has spent a few euros on the development of portable 5G base stations in Germany, with events like Munich’s Oktoberfest in mind. The telco has 60 mobile 5G base stations at its disposal, it announced this week. These have a part to play in emergency response connectivity, but hopefully more frequently at social events,

Chip and component manufacturer Broadcom has agreed to pay a whopping $61 billion a cash and stock transaction for cloud services firm VMware, and will also assume $8 billion of its net debt. Following the transaction the firm intends to rebrand the Broadcom Software Group division as VMware, incorporating its existing infrastructure and security software

Amazon is disabling Store access from older Kindle models to let its users no longer be able to browse, buy, and borrow books from its dated e-readers. The change, which will come into effect from August 17, will be applicable to the Kindle (2nd Gen) International, Kindle DX International, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle (4th Gen), and

US telco Verizon warned this week that corporate ransomware attacks are increasing at an “alarming” rate. In its 15th annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) – which analyses security incidents to identify among other things the type of attack, their origin, success rate, and attack vectors – Verizon Business found that the number of ransomware

Italian telcos TIM and Open Fiber have won government funding worth a total of €3.4 billion to roll out high-speed fixed broadband to uneconomic areas of the country. Italy’s Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition (MITD), headed up by telecoms veteran Vittorio Colao, has announced the results of its Italia 1 Giga tender, through

It’s surprising that Samsung has taken so long to launch laptops in India. The brand is highly regarded and has a huge network of stores as well as service centres. In addition to its thriving smartphone ecosystem and home appliance lines, Samsung is one of the top global brands when it comes to monitors and

The latest European smartphone shipment data from analyst firm Canalys reveals the impact of the Ukrainian conflict. In Q1 2022 shipments were down 10% on the same quarter a year ago. It should also be noted that the war in Ukraine only kicked off well into the quarter, so the numbers for the three months

UK telco group BT says a new technology can double download speeds and make upload speeds ten times faster on average for businesses which are not able to upgrade to fibre broadband. BT claims its Hybrid Speed Boost is the first product in the UK to combine a copper broadband line with a 4G network

A unique characteristic of the geology of Mars has been revealed in breathtaking clarity in the latest release from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Mars Express orbiter. The surface of the Red Planet appears to have enormous scratches across it. These marks, however, are part of the Tantalus Fossae, a massive fault system on Mars. Apart

[Shanghai, May 20, 2022] On this year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, China Mobile Shanghai (Shanghai Mobile) and Huawei released the result of their verification of China Mobile’s 5G network slicing-based cloud phones. The result shows that with 5G slices, China Mobile’s cloud phones can deliver optimal experience in multiple respects like bandwidth, latency,