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Smartphone shipments in North America clocked in at 39 million units in Q1 2022, contrasting with Chinese figures which have taken a nosedive. In terms of the major smartphone manufacturer rankings, Apple grew 19% and grabbed a 51% market share in North America for Q1, according to figures from analyst Canalys. Samsung was up 1%

TikTok has been conducting tests so users can play games on its video-sharing app in Vietnam, part of plans for a major push into gaming, four people familiar with the matter said. Featuring games on its platform would boost advertising revenue as well as the amount of time users spend on the app — one of

UK MNO Three has partnered with retail group Currys to offer its portfolio of business services through the firm’s chain of stores. Three’s business services will be offered through Currys partner distribution network, its direct sales teams and across its 300 odd stores, which apparently includes 50 dedicated Business Hubs. This is the first time

BT has unveiled a new ‘charter’ for business customers, which is a grand way of saying it has published a series of intentions regarding research investment and commitments to roll out new services in the future. As part of this charter, it promises to invest almost £100 million over the next three years in its

Apple on Wednesday kicked off a new ad campaign to promote its key privacy features and eventually convince people to pick an iPhone over the competition. Themed ‘Data Auction’ where an auctioneer is seen selling data of a user, the ad highlights the fact that how people nowadays are losing their personal data at different

UK operator group Vodafone pointed to an ‘unsatisfactory’ commercial performance in Germany as well as inflation as main pain points in its FY2022 financial results. Vodafone says overall it made good financial performance in FY2022 which were in line with expectations, citing improving YoY service revenue trends in ten out of 11 European markets. Overall

The straightforwardly titled Ericsson-Intel Tech Hub will be tasked with coming up with new cloud RAN applications to release to the market. The Californian site pools the R&D resources of kit vendor Ericsson and chip giant Intel in the pursuit of cloud RAN applications. Based within Ericsson’s D-15 facility in Santa Clara, the Ericsson-Intel Tech

Oppo Reno 8 series will be launched in China on May 23. Now, a week prior to its launch, the upcoming smartphone has been listed on Oppo China’s online store. The website reveals three models, the Oppo Reno 8, Reno 8 Pro, and Reno 8 Pro+. On the other hand, a Chinese tipster has also

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Angus Ward, CEO of Beyond Now, analyses the megatrend of telcos attempting to transform themselves into ‘techcos’. In the last two years, most businesses regardless of the industry have experienced seismic change. Telecoms is no different.

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