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An Open RAN deployment collaboratively set up by VMO2, NEC and Rakuten is entering the ‘field phase’, with the activation of the first live sites in VMO2’s commercial network. Based in Northamptonshire, the deployment on macro-sites is in a brownfield network and baselined on the existing Telco Cloud supply chain, and represent the first live

Oppo A57s has been unveiled in Croatia as the company’s latest A-series smartphone in the European market. The smartphone comes with an HD+ display, a MediaTek Helio G35 SoC, 50-megapixel dual rear camera setup, and a massive 5,000mAh battery with 33W fast charging. The handset is quite similar to the Oppo A57 (2022) that made

Smartwatch fitness brand Fitbit has released three new watches into the wild, none of which appear to be loaded with parent company Google’s Wear OS. There are three new smartwatches in Fitbit’s ‘fall’ line up – the Inspire 3, Versa 4 and Sense 2. All of these use the Fitbit software so as with the

Google’s network slicing credentials are under the spotlight this week thanks to a fresh round of trials by Europe’s big two telco vendors. In similar but separate announcements, Ericsson and Nokia each shared details of successful demonstrations of multiple network slices – for both consumer and enterprise use cases – running on a Google Pixel

Jio 5G and JioPhone 5G can be launched by Reliance at the upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) meeting. The company has scheduled to hold its 45th AGM on August 29. During the event, we can expect a wide range of announcements from the company ranging from its retail to O2C businesses. However, the most anticipated

Magenta Telekom has buddied up with investment firm Meridiam in a joint venture that will spend €1 billion on the rollout of fibre in Austria by the end of the decade. The operator, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, is pushing pretty hard on network expansion in Austria and wasted no time in reminding us that

Singtel has inked a S$2.25 billion (US$1.6 billion) deal to offload a 3.3 percent direct stake in Bharti Airtel as part of its broader asset monetisation push. The Singaporean telco, which has been reshaping its business for the past couple of years, will actually bring in around S$0.6 billion (US$430 million) from the deal, because

Samsung is reportedly working on a dual screen phone that will come with a rear-facing transparent display in addition to the primary display. The patent application for the dual screen handset from Samsung is said to have been discovered at the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) and was filed in January. The latest foldable smartphones

There are signs that Amazon could be in line for another 5G standalone (SA) networking deal. Spark New Zealand this week shared details of two 5G SA proof-of-concepts (PoCs) it carried out, and the hyperscaler was heavily involved in both of them. With Mavenir providing the networking software, Spark deployed a 5G SA cloud-native core

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has promised there will be ‘no dead zones anywhere in the world for your cell phone’ – but there’s not much substance on offer yet. Yesterday Musk and T-Mobile CEO and President Mike Sievert (pictured) took to the stage at SpaceX’s launch facility to deliver a much hyped announcement of how

Meta’s next virtual reality (VR) headset will launch in October, a company executive revealed on a podcast. The executive also said that more details about the new VR headset at Meta’s Connect conference. There will be a few “big features” that will arrive with the headset, the executive added. The headset will get the ability

UK operator O2 has published the data it captured from its customers over the summer to paint a picture of where, if anywhere, they went on their holidays. The principal datapoint is that average weekly roaming numbers to ten top destinations was up 203% compared to last year. Of course there was still all kinds

Soaring inflation has produced a ‘cost of living crisis’, with many UK households potentially unable to pay their bills, but what should providers be expected to do about it? While the primary focus of the crisis is energy, which is in the middle of an inflationary perfect storm, other utilities are also coming under the

Honor 70 5G has been launched in the UK with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G+ SoC and a 6.67-inch OLED display. The company has also launched the Honor X8 5G and Pad 8 in the UK. The two smartphones and the tablet have already been unveiled globally earlier. The Honor X8 5G was launched globally in

According to a report by NCC Group’s Global Threat Intelligence division, ransomware attacks increased by 47% in July compared to June, adding more evidence for a trend of rising global cybercrime. The report has its own particular metrics but it mirrors others that have come out recently which collectively paint a picture of increasing international

Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile has added another string to its O-RAN bow with the opening of its Open Innovation Lab. Rakuten has long positioned itself as the global authority on all things Open RAN, among the manifestations of which was the creation of the Symphony spin-off to offer its expertise on the matter to other

The Apple MacBook Air has arguably been one of the most popular slim and light laptop series for both professionals and students for more than a decade. Apple gave it a major design overhaul in 2018 and this year, it has received yet another major update. Announced in June during the WWDC 2022 conference, the new MacBook

We sat down with Hannes Ekström, Head of Strategy BNEW at Ericsson (pictured), to talk about 5G slicing trials, the Vonage acquisition, Open RAN, and what 6G might look like. You’ve now had the green light from US authorities to buy the cloud and API specialist Vonage. $6.2 billion is a huge amount of money,