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Cellnex Telecom has pulled out of the race to acquire a stake in Deutsche Telekom’s towers portfolio, leaving the way open for KKR to ink a deal. Six weeks ago the Spain-based passive infrastructure specialist confirmed media reports that it was involved in the preliminary phase of Deutsche Telekom’s towers sale. Back then it was

Income Tax Return (ITR) filing has now become a more streamlined process as taxpayers can easily login to the Income Tax Department website from anywhere. With the ITR filing date for the financial year 2021-2022 is coming near (July 31), it is advised that taxpayers file their ITR before the last date. Here is a

German operator group Deutsche Telekom seems to have decided the future is Google after handing over its network transformation to the US hyperscaler. Google was already doing a fair bit for DT, such as the sovereign cloud project embarked upon last year, and the operator clearly likes what it has seen. So the of them

Finnish kit vendor Nokia will spearhead 6G-ANNA, a German national-funded lighthouse project designed to drive 6G research and standardisation. 6G ANNA which stands for Access, Network of Networks, Automation & Simplification, is a German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) funded program. It aims to strengthen the 6G research

Xiaomi on Friday announced the ‘Xiaomi Turns 8’ anniversary sale in India. The company’s shopping festival will offer Xiaomi and Redmi devices at discounted rates. Xiaomi on Friday announced its ‘Xiaomi Turns 8′ anniversary sale in India. The company’s upcoming shopping festival will allow customers to purchase Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones, laptops, televisions and IoT products at discounted

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Yuval Stein, AVP Technologies at TEOCO, examines best practice for autonomous networks. As 5G proliferates across a number of industry verticals, the vision of a fully connected world arrives with new technical challenges as well as

The Telecoms.com Podcast: cloud, TIM and censorship – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png The Telecoms.com Podcast: cloud, TIM and censorship No guest but a refurbished studio this week as Iain bravely overcomes the effects of a long sesh the previous day. They start by reflecting on a few recent telecoms cloud stories, including the ongoing AI partnership between

Twitter employees expressed disbelief and exhaustion on Friday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said he was terminating a deal to buy the social media company in what could be the start of months of legal wrangling. Musk said Twitter breached multiple provisions of a $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,060 crore)  merger agreement struck in April, including

TIM has outlined more detailed plans to split its network operations from its services business, confirming recent reports that around half of its debt will go with the NetCo unit. But the financial picture at NetCo could change pretty quickly. TIM also noted that M&A is still an option, specifically the merger of the networks

US tech giant Apple has announced ‘Lockdown Mode’ – an upcoming security feature for iPhones, iPads and Macs made specifically to defend against state-sponsored mercenary spyware and cyberattacks. Lockdown Mode will be an option to flip on in upcoming iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura updates, and is designed to offer ‘extreme, optional protection

Apple AirPods could soon ensure the safety of users, suggests a new patent. The Cupertino-based tech giant has received a patent for an AirPods safety feature from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that could detect when a user is at risk. The AirPods will either pause or lower the volume, to help users

Telefonica has completed the migration of its mobile traffic to AT&T’s network in Mexico and has handed back the last of its spectrum to the regulator, but it remains pretty insistent that that does not make it an MVNO. The migration was tied up in the past few days, according to various local press reports.

Hong Kong-based HGC is completely sold on the whole metaverse idea, and has launched a new suite of services in an effort to capitalise on the hype. Casting itself as the ‘engine’ of the metaverse, its new portfolio is called EdgeX, and leverages HGC’s various infrastructure assets and managed services, and stitches them together into

Xiaomi 12 Lite will come in at least four colour variant — Green, Purple, Pink, and Silver — as per a recent tweet by the Chinese tech company. The global launch of the handset was teased by Xiaomi earlier this week. The launch date of the handset has not been revealed yet, but the teaser

A new deal with Infrastructure firm BAI Communications, who handles the network in the Underground, will mean Vodafone and VMO2 customers will be able to make calls on the tube. Vodafone and VMO2 joining BAI Communications’ London Underground network means commuters will be able to connect on all four of the major operator’s 4G and

The UK’s deeply flawed Online Safety Bill gets a rare positive amendment as measures are introduced to stop big US social media platforms from censoring some stories. The latest tweak seeks to prevent Category 1 companies, which include the largest and most popular social media platforms, from taking down or making less visible stories published

Broadcom $61 billion (nearly Rs. 4.8 lakh crore) deal for VMware will move forward after a rival bidder failed to emerge to break up the deal for the cloud-computing company during its so-called “go-shop” period, according to people familiar with the matter. VMware, which had 40 days to solicit rival offers, may disclose the outcome

Canada’s Commissioner of Competition has had a look at the proposed merger between Rogers Communications and rival Shaw, and his concerns remain unsettled. Talks with the Canadian regulator have, at least in the first pass, failed to alleviate the concerns it had about the proposed deal. A statement put out by Rogers reads: The early