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Communications platform Twilio has become a significant minority owner of telecoms transaction processor Syniverse with a $750 million investment, which it describes as a strategic partnership. Syniverse concurrently raised $1.025 billion in new term loan debt and $340 million in new preferred equity, the proceeds of which were primarily used to reduce leverage and were

Bharti Airtel is planning to set-up a new technology centre in Pune to support digital services in the Western region and will be hiring around 500 digital engineering professionals by the end of the current fiscal, a senior company official said. This will be Airtel’s fourth digital technology hub in India and first in the

Virgin Media O2 and Three UK are both working with Amdocs on projects designed to improve their service offerings and provide a better experience for customers. And given the state of play for both in the UK telecoms market at present, it’s probably not a bad idea. Virgin Media O2 this week revealed that it

Finnish kit maker Nokia has launched a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) designed to help telcos reduce their environmental impact. It is called AVA (analytics, virtualisation and automation) for Energy, and it uses AI to constantly monitor network traffic patterns in multi-vendor environments and make real-time adjustments to power consumption. Nokia claims that compared to non-AI systems

Samsung Galaxy M22 has reportedly started receiving the Android 12-based One UI 4.1 update. The update is said to bring the latest custom skin by the South Korean tech giant along with the April 2022 security patch. The Android 12 update for the Samsung Galaxy M-series phone comes with firmware version M225FVXXU4BFD8. It is currently

Deutsche Telekom bullish after a solid Q1 – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png German telecoms group DT tweaked up its guidance after posting better than expected numbers for the first quarter of the year. Revenues were up six percent to €28 billion, which was slightly above consensus expectations. As a consequence DT upgraded its guidance for the full

As well the new gadgets that were paraded on the catwalk of Google I/O yesterday there were a myriad of other updates to Google’s ludicrously wide product set, usually involving AI enhancements. The most headline grabbing things to come out of Google’s announcement extravaganza I/O yesterday was its roster of new gadgets – including the

Google Pixel Watch was unveiled alongside the Pixel 6a during the I/O 2022 event this week as the company’s first smartwatch. Google confirmed that the wearable will be available in the US starting this fall, but ahead of the official launch, a new report suggests that Google Pixel Watch will pack a four-year-old processor. The

WBBA Martin Creaner: Broadband Generational Roadmap Initiative – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png Partner Resources Recently, Informa, a well-known UK analysis and research institute, jointly held the “F5G Evolution Summit 2022” in Shenzhen with the participation of several operators, ETSI, WBBA and Huawei. WBBA Director General Martin Creaner, a guest speaker on the day, disclosed that a number

Low Earth Orbit satellite firm OneWeb and operator Telefónica have teamed up to bring network connectivity to rural and remote parts of Europe and Latin America. OneWeb and Telefónica Global Solutions – a subsidiary of Telefónica that handles international wholesale, global roaming, multinationals and US businesses – have got together and signed a ‘Memorandum of

Google hosted its I/O 2022 consumer keynote this week, where it showcased its new hardware developments, including the Pixel 6a and Pixel Watch, as well as software innovations, including an ‘immersive’ view on Google Maps. While the Pixel 6a is confirmed to launch in India, the Silicon Valley giant has not yet provided any details

Rumours of a possible merger between Vodafone and Three UK were beginning to wilt a bit, so they have been freshened up again with some new ones. It has been nearly four months since Bloomberg cited ‘some people with knowledge of the matter’ who claimed that Vodafone had approached Three parent CK Hutchison late last

The tech giant signals its growing intentions in the devices market, unveiling new Pixel phones, a smartwatch, a tablet, high-end earbuds and more at its annual announcement parade in California. Years ago Steve Jobs turned Apple product announcements into stage performances, complete with comedy bits and live audiences, and soon after the rest of the

Facebook parent, Meta Platforms, and chip maker AMD on Wednesday said they were partnering for a mobile internet infrastructure program that would bring base station costs down to make broadband more accessible around the world. The programme, called Evenstar, was launched by Meta in early 2020 and promotes a platform called OpenRan that makes it

Consumer tech giant Apple will drop its proprietary Lightning charging and earphone port and replace it with the more widely used USB-C next year, according to an analyst. Ming-Chi Kuo, analyst at TF International Securities, who describes his MO as ‘sharing observations and predictions of tech industry trends’ dropped a couple of tweets predicting the

Virgin Media O2 is shouting about its plans to crack on with full fibre rollout, but its latest quarterlies show it is starting to feel the heat from the competition. The UK mobile and broadband provider, which came into being in its current form in Q2 last year, on Wednesday shared Q1 numbers that show

DJI Mini 3 Pro has been unveiled as the latest addition to the DJI’s Mini Drones lineup. The new lightweight and portable camera drone weighs less than 249 grams and can fly for a maximum time of 34 minutes. The drone offers more built-in features along with better flight and camera performance than its predecessors,

Taking the lead on IT automation – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png Partner Resources Written by Red Hat 4 hours ago IT automation is now a strategic initiative and long-term IT strategy. The division between the stated importance of IT automation and its lack of widespread use could be due to the way these tools have historically been