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Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Pravin S Bhandarkar, Founder and CEO of RtBrick, looks at the telecoms infrastructure implication of the metaverse. There is a great deal of industry buzz around the metaverse. However, as consumers and businesses begin to embrace

Belgium’s big three mobile operators have shared the spoils in the country’s recent auction of 1400 MHz spectrum, a process that brought in an extra €216.5 million for state coffers. Incumbent Proximus picked up the lion’s share of the available frequencies, pledging slightly more than half of the total auction sum to secure them. In

Amazon Prime Day 2022 sale is already underway exclusively for Prime members. It brings offers and discounts on various products across different categories. The sale will end on Sunday and shoppers will be able to get deals on smartwatches, truly wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds, headphones, Bluetooth speakers, e-book readers, accessories, and much more. So, if

Mobile connectivity is a critical lifeline if you hit trouble in the mountains, which is one reason why Vodafone Germany has undertaken a network expansion programme in the Alps. The operator recently inaugurated a new 5G site in Aueralm, which is halfway up a mountain in the middle of nowhere, in a municipality called Bad

Rakuten Symphony plans to build a new innovation lab in India designed both to increase its own presence in the market and to boost the country’s position on the global technology stage. The Japanese firm revealed this week that its Global Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, the hub of India’s technology industry, will open its doors

Zoom will soon expand its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature to Zoom Phone and the Breakout Rooms. The company said that this will help users to achieve seamless and secure communication over the video conferencing platform. With the expansion, users will soon have the option to upgrade to E2EE feature during Zoom Phone calls. This will

UK business regulator the Competitions and Markets Authority has opted not to block a deal between BT Group and Warner Bros Discovery to form a new UK sports Joint Venture. The decision by the CMA to not pursue further probes leaves BT and Warner Bros Discovery free to complete the creation of the joint venture

A recent report indicates China’s biggest chipmaker is making rapid progress despite having been on the US entity list since 2020. Semiconductor intelligence platform Tech Insights got hold of a chip that it says was manufactured by SMIC using a 7nm process. On one level it’s not too surprising that SMIC is capable of such

Amazon Prime Day 2022 sale is now live. Scores of products including smartphones as well as electronics items such as laptops, smartwatches, digital cameras, speakers, TWS earbuds, and other electronics will be available with discounts and offers on the e-commerce giant. Customers are being offered a 10 percent discount to ICICI Bank and SBI card

Having got the green light from US authorities last week, Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has now successfully brought cloud and API specialist Vonage under its corporate wing. Ericsson’s biggest ever acquisition has gone through, having travelled a rocky road over the last few months as US authorities made a point of scrutinising the deal as

Sales at Finnish kit vendor Nokia didn’t grow much in Q2 22, and gross margin declined, but profit was up and consequently so is its share price. Net sales were only up a bit year-on-year but there were a few exceptional factors keeping that number down. We improved net sales growth to 3% in constant

The Google Pixel 6a has been launched as the successor to the Pixel 4a in India. These phones have a rather unusual two year gap between them, as Google did not launch its Pixel 5 series or the flagship Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro here. With the launch of the Pixel 6a, Google wants to

NEWSFLUSH: A report reveals a sizable chunk of the UK keeps up to date with their social media feeds whilst using the facilities. According to research from NordVPN, 59% of people in the UK take their phones with them into the commode, and 62% of those, which it clocks at 19.3 million people, take the

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Alejandro Saucedo, Machine Learning Engineering Director at Seldon, looks at best practice for the use of artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the process of transforming every industry, with over one in three organisations now

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up the telecom department for not finalising policy on spectrum assignment for captive users and flagged the absence of spectrum price review for captive users administratively. In its report titled ‘Management of spectrum assigned on the administrative basis to government departments/agencies’, the CAG asked the Department of

Google and Oracle both confessed to data centre outages as temperatures hit 40C in the UK yesterday. The Google Cloud status update site refers to an ‘Incident affecting Google Compute Engine’, caused by a ‘cooling related failure in one of our buildings that hosts zone europe-west2-a for region europe-west2.’ Oracle also confirmed its ‘Cloud Infrastructure

Mobile Cloud Gaming Report – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png intelligence Written by Ericsson 10 hours ago The Mobile cloud gaming report looks deeper into the fast-growing mobile cloud gaming industry, its relevance for 5G network slicing, and how to monetize. Slicing adds additional performance control to guarantee the user experience, which is desired by many gamers, and

Samsung Galaxy S22 FE has reportedly been killed off by the South Korean tech giant. The Galaxy S22 FE was earlier speculated to launch this year succeeding the Galaxy S21 FE, but as per a new report, it may not happen. Samsung has reportedly reallocated the chips meant for the Galaxy S22 FE to the