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UK eSim firm Truphone, which is partly owned by Roman Abramovich, is reportedly being sold for £1 to two investors following sanctions against Russian business people. The firm announced back in April that it had appointed FRP Advisory to ‘support the company in an immediate review of its strategic options’ following international sanctions placed on

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India’s biggest drone festival here on Friday and interact with kisan drone pilots as well as witness open-air drone demonstrations. ‘Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022’ is a two-day event and will be held on May 27 and May 28. Modi will inaugurate India’s biggest Drone Festival – Bharat Drone Mahotsav

Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and Qualcomm all chipped in for the launch of TMUS’s voice over 5G service, which is now available in areas of Portland and Salt Lake City, as long as you have a Samsung Galaxy S21 5G. The service is expected to be available in more areas in the next year over T-Mobile’s

BioWare has revealed the title for its upcoming addition to the fantasy RPG franchise that began with Dragon Age: Origins back in 2009. The new entry is called Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, deriving its name from the character of Solas who will also serve as the main antagonist for this game. Solas, the Dreadwolf, was introduced

Firefox Translations add-on by Mozilla has been released. The new tool has been developed under The Bergamot Project which is aimed to provide an option that runs directly on users’ machines for web page translation and, at the same time, preserve their privacy. The add-on will translate the text in and from any language by

The Telecoms.com Podcast: 5G, telco M&A and Nokia – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png The Telecoms.com Podcast: 5G, telco M&A and Nokia The guys are delighted to welcome special guest Dario Talmesio back to the pod. Dario is research director for service provider strategy at Omdia, which means he knows a lot about the mobile business, so they

Italian telco TIM and Open Fiber – as well as investors CDP, Macquarie and KKR –  have signed a document designed to bring the two fibre networks under one roof. CDP, KKR, Macquarie, Open Fiber and TIM have all signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ designed to enable integrating the fibre networks of TIM and Open

There’s a treat lined up for skywatchers this June as they will be able to watch five planets, visible with naked eyes, arranged in their natural order from the Sun – from left to right as you scan the horizon. These five planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The spectacular celestial show will

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece James Cater, EMEA VP for Spirent Communications, takes a look at the implications of 5G for the transport and logistics sectors. 5G and connected technologies are going to bring about a revolution in transportation. While automated

UK operator VMO2 has joined forces with high street pastry stalwart Greggs to donate mobile data to families feeling the pinch in the UK. The data will be distributed through the Greggs Hardship Fund via free O2 sim cards and voucher codes. Eligible families can get hold of them via schools across the UK, and

Although good large-screen televisions are considerably more affordable now than they were a few years ago, many might still want a more compact size such as a 43-inch television for a smaller room in their home. There are plenty of options available in this screen size ranging from full-HD to Ultra-HD resolution, but a lot

Swedish operator group Telia has completed the sale of a minority stake in its Swedish tower business to investors Brookfield and Alecta. The deal was announced in January 2022, and now that all regulatory approvals have apparently been received, on closing Telia will get SEK 5.5 billion for the 49% stake in its towers in

One year to the day since the merger which created it, UK telco group Virgin Media O2 reveals what the 39 billion gigabytes of data its customers have gobbled up was used on. The 39 billion gigabytes in question encompasses the group’s fixed and mobile networks, and the firm has released some other stats related

Meta Platforms on Wednesday compared searches by EU antitrust regulators to a fishing super trawler as they investigate the owner of Facebook’s data and online marketplace. Meta says it has already handed over more than a million documents to the European Commission since its first request in 2019 regarding its Facebook Marketplace, social networking and

The UK’s Competitions and Markets Authority is investigating the proposed joint venture between BT and Warner Bros Discovery, which would to merge their sports content into a new entity. The deal was announced last month, and would involve BT Sport, which includes Premier League football coverage, and Warner Bros Discovery owned Eurosport UK being brought

Kit Vendor Nokia and tech giant Microsoft have teamed up to integrate Microsoft Azure Arc cloud capabilities into the Nokia MX Industrial Edge platform, designed for digital transformation. The Nokia MXIE is, we’re told, a ‘future-ready, high-capacity and highly-resilient as-a-service OT on-premise edge solution’ aimed at firms who fancy a bit of that digital transformation

FAU-G is set to receive a new map called Dugong Rock Island. Developer nCore Games has released a teaser trailer for this upcoming map. It appears to be an abandoned naval base. There are buildings that offer elevated vantage points to the players. This new map is shown to have an underground area as well.

UK telco group BT has signed a new deal with Finnish kit vendor Ericsson which will provide it with new private 5G network services for factories, warehouses, retail and others industry customers. The multi-million pound, multi-year deal will arm BT with new private 5G offerings designed for manufacturing, defence, education, retail, healthcare, transport and logistics