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China’s ByteDance is in talks with music labels for expanding its music-streaming service globally to compete with industry leaders such as Spotify, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The TikTok parent plans to eventually integrate music streaming within its short-video service and scale it to serve as a major platform for distributing music globally,

Apple, Google and Amazon will soon be among the media giants livening up dull car journeys with in-car entertainment services. A new forecast published by analyst firm Omdia this week predicts the number of connected cars on the road will reach 571 million by 2025, compared to 231 million last year. According to Omdia, it

The main pan-European communications regulatory group has found no evidence that calls to make big tech companies pay towards the cost of telecoms networks are justified. While it’s only a preliminary assessment, the conclusions of BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) will come as a bitter blow to European telcos. They have long

Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will be launched by the tech giant today at the ‘Made By Google’ event scheduled to begin at 10am ET (7.30pm IST). The Google event will launch a number of other products, including the Google Pixel Watch which was first teased by the company in May. The California-based

Community Fibre has secured the best part of £1 billion in financing to help it fund its ambitious fibre network rollout plans in London. The UK operator said it has signed a new finance facility of £985 million with a group of unnamed lenders. The financing, made up of £685 million in committed facilities plus

Kit vendor Nokia’s new Altiplano Application Marketplace will host its own apps as well as third party and operator built apps. The Altiplano Application Marketplace – named after Nokia’s broadband network controller suite – will launch with seven apps designed around the functions of network support, network insights and network automation. Network support apps are

Xiaomi has, in a short time, made big strides in the television business in India. Among the leading brands in the smart TV space and a popular option for buyers looking for affordable, value-for-money big-screen TVs, Xiaomi’s televisions are usually on the radar of many buyers in India. While it does offer some high-end options including OLED

Comviva to offer BlueMarble Compact BSS on Cloud with Microsoft Azure Integration – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png Comviva to offer BlueMarble Compact BSS on Cloud with Microsoft Azure Integration BlueMarble will bring CSPs to the forefront of platform economy – building services for a larger ecosystem faster and efficiently, making them available to enterprise customers as cloud

Payment processor giant PayPal has twice had to backtrack recently from an apparent attempts at censoring its users. Late last week the Daily Wire reported on a raft of new PayPal policies, scheduled to be implemented on 3 November, among which were the ability to unilaterally take $2,500 from the account of its users every

Instagram and Twitter said they have restricted the accounts of US rapper Kanye West over posts slammed as anti-Semitic. A spokeswoman for Twitter told AFP on Sunday that West’s account was locked due to a violation of the social media platform’s policies. And a spokesperson for Instagram parent Meta told AFP the group had deleted

UK telco group BT will ship replaced or decommissioned kit from customer’s networks to Cisco, where it will be to be re-used or recycled. Up to 99.9% of old network kit ripped out during upgrades will be re-used or recycled as part of the new programme designed to reduce BT’s business customers’ e-waste, by drafting

Safaricom has launched commercial mobile services in Ethiopia almost a year and a half after it won a licence to become the country’s first privately-owned telco. Safaricom Ethiopia on Thursday revealed that it has brought 4G services to market in 11 cities, including the capital Addis Ababa, having carried out a series of customer trials.

Apple launched a brand new model of its Apple Watch called the ‘Ultra’ at this year’s ‘Far Out’ launch event and it has been a major talking point. It’s bigger, chunkier, offers better hardware, and is designed keeping in mind a very special set of users. Another thing that the Apple Watch Ultra managed to

The US State Department has awarded a contract to Verizon worth $1.58 billion. Under the 10-year deal, the telco will modernise the comms infrastructure and provide IT services for the Department’s embassies, consulars and other important sites in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. In all, this is nearly 260 locations, a big

In part two of our interview with HPE, VP and General Manager, Communications Technology Group Tom Craig tells us the number one reason telcos are motivated to adopt AI, ML and automation is to gracefully manage an ageing workforce, and that to stay relevant they’ll need more of it. What are the practical applications of

Google Pixel Fold launch timeline has been tipped online, ahead of the debut of Google’s purported Pixel-branded foldable phone. The news comes shortly after the launch of the Pixel 7 series earlier this week, alongside the company’s first smartwatch, the Pixel Watch. While enthusiasts were hoping to catch a glimpse of Google’s foldable smartphone at

Bharti Airtel on Thursday made a formal announcement on the launch of 5G services in key Indian markets and revealed that it will not make customers pay more for the technology until its rollout is more widespread. The Indian press was full of the news of Bharti’s 5G launch earlier this week, the operator’s CEO

After all the fuss and drama of his bizarre legal drama with Twitter, new reports suggest it was all just a negotiating ploy by Elon Musk. When Musk first made his surprise bid to buy Twitter it was at a fairly hefty premium over the market price, although far from an exceptional one. Unsolicited acquisition