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Telefónica is pushing ahead with debt-reduction efforts and this time it is logistics business Zeleris that is up for grabs. So claims Spanish business publication CincoDias, which cites unnamed sources as saying Telefónica has received initial offers from the private equity space for Zeleris, its M&A advisor having been touting the business for the past

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Dr Paul Carter, CEO of Global Wireless Solutions, reviews the progress of the UK 5G rollout. 5G is expanding rapidly across the UK, with the next generation network continuing to pop up at new locations served

Sony seems to have discontinued its A-mount DSLR cameras and is focusing on mirrorless cameras, going by the listings on its own website and a leading photography e-commerce website. Sony launched its last A-mount DSLR camera – the A99 Mark II – back in 2016 which has now been removed from the official website. Along

UK operator group BT saw its revenues decline by 7% in full year 2020, but there are signs that it’s headed in the right direction. “BT comes out of this challenging year as a stronger business with an even greater sense of purpose,” said BT Chief Exec Philip Jansen. “Our fantastic colleagues have shown the

Australia’s telcos have not moved as quickly as their European counterparts, but 2021 is shaping up to be the year of towers sales down under. Optus has not divulged a lot about its planned towers transaction, but reports in the financial press this week suggest that things are shaping up nicely. Parent company Singtel is

PS5 DualSense controllers have arrived in two new colourways that Sony will start selling soon. The two variants add to the black and white default controller that was launched along with the PlayStation 5 last year. Cosmic Red and Midnight Black are the new colours that will be available globally from next month. The patterns

Telefónica’s first quarter results were all about flat earnings, cash generation and debt-reduction, which is as good a performance as the Spanish telco could have hoped for. Indeed, the operator declared that its Q1 figures put it on track to meet its targets for the full year, which essentially cover a stabilisation of revenues and

US LEO satellite outfit SpaceX will use Google data centres for its cloud applications and services at the network edge. SpaceX will move its Starlink ground stations into the Google Cloud for the same reasons pretty much every other network operator is handing the keys to its infrastructure over to public cloud giants: it’s cheaper

Ireland’s data regulator can resume a probe that may trigger a ban on Facebook’s transatlantic data transfers, the High Court ruled on Friday, raising the prospect of a stoppage that the company warns would have a devastating impact on its business. The case stems from EU concerns that US government surveillance may not respect the privacy

The cost of building out a new mobile operation from scratch was all too evident in Rakuten Mobile’s first quarter results, but the company is unconcerned. Japan’s newest mobile operator just turned one year old and marked the occasion by reporting a 94.1 billion yen (US$860 million) operating loss for the first quarter of 2021,

South Korean electronics giant Samsung ha pledged to invest $150 billion in its chip business by 2030 and its government says it will get involved too. Nikkei Asia reports that the whole of South Korea has committed to invest 510 trillion won in the semiconductor sector, with Samsung alone accounting for a third of it.

Airtel is among the largest telecom operators in India and holds the second largest market share when it comes to wireless subscribers, according to latest data by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). As of January 31, 2021, Airtel added 5.8 million new wireless subscribers which was the highest among other major telecom operators in

In 2020 the average download speed of UK residential broadband services increased by 25% from 64 Mbps to 80.2 Mbps, according to new Ofcom research. The communications regulator’s UK Home Broadband Performance report polled a sample of UK households last November. It turned out that upload speeds are improving even more rapidly, improving by 54%

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Angus Ward, CEO, Beyond by BearingPoint, looks at how to tackle the challenges faced by CSPs trying to get into IoT. As the number of connected things continues to proliferate, CSPs and enterprises alike are focused

Samsung has launched its next generation of 4K UHD TVs, Crystal 4K and 4K Pro. Samsung, which has been the leading television brand in India for 14 years now, says Crystal 4K is the next evolution of UHD. That’s because of a number of technical advancements Samsung has made, which elevate the viewing experience and

Orange is reportedly considering buying back an infrastructure asset it sold almost two decades ago to boost its recently-created TOTEM towers business. That’s a surprising development in a world in which telecoms operators are increasingly looking to offload infrastructure or monetise it by bringing in third-party investors, for example. But it also makes sense against

A couple of months after a US judge overturned Trump’s decision to blacklist Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi, the US government has moved to make it official. Placing Xiaomi on the list of companies that should be shunned by the US on the grounds that they might, in some unspecified way, assist the Chinese military, was

 Germany’s lead data protection regulator for Facebook is banning the social network from processing personal data from WhatsApp users because it views the messaging app’s new terms of use as illegal, it said on Tuesday. The decision follows emergency proceedings opened by the regulator in the city-state of Hamburg last month after WhatsApp required users