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Orange secured just over half the shares it aimed for in its recent tender offer to minority shareholders of Orange Belgium, but insists that’s a good result. “We have achieved the objective we set for ourselves: offering a fair price to shareholders who wanted to monetize their shares and strengthening our stake in Orange Belgium,”

Verizon has achieved speeds of 4.3 Gbps in a lab trial that saw it aggregate C-band and mmWave spectrum. The US operator said it worked with Ericsson and MediaTek on the trial which took place recently and gives it the opportunity to once again talk up the planned expansion of its 5G Ultra Wideband network.

Vodafone Idea is a popular telecom operator in India, competing with giants like Jio and Airtel. The telco offers prepaid and postpaid services to its subscribers in India, along with other add-on services like caller tunes, value added services, and more. Vodafone Idea subscribers can easily attach caller tunes to their phone numbers instead of

The Italian government is reportedly on the verge of pulling the plug on a plan to create a single fixed-line network due to fears over creating a new telecoms monopoly in the country. There have been media rumblings to that effect for a few weeks and on Thursday Bloomberg reported that Italian Prime Minister Mario

The only fun in covering patent disputes comes when there’s a clear winner, but Ericsson and Samsung aren’t even revealing the terms of their settlement. Late last year we heard Ericsson was suing Samsung after accusing it of taking liberties when it comes to the licensing of FRAND patents. The Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory system

Realme V25 could be launching in China soon. A new leak suggests that the Realme V25 may be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 768G SoC and may have specifications similar to the Oppo K9 5G that was launched in China this week. The Realme V25 is said to have been listed on China’s TENAA certification

India’s telcos may have got the go-ahead to trial 5G services, but it could be some time before they have 5G spectrum for commercial use in their possession. Delays in allocating spectrum have been par for the course in India over the past decade or so, so it came as no surprise when the Economic

Earlier this week India started 5G equipment trials that excluded Chinese vendors and China thinks that’s bang out of order. While there didn’t appear to be and explicit ban on Chinese vendors at the time, the Chinese embassy in India reckons there was and is not happy. For some reason China decided to frame its

Oppo Enco Air true wireless stereo (TWS) earphones and Oppo Band Vitality Edition smart band have been launched in China. These products were unveiled alongside Oppo K9 5G smartphone and Oppo K9 smart TV at an event on Thursday. The Oppo Enco Air earphones come with a translucent case and supports Bluetooth v5.2. They are

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece David McGlew, Marketing Director at Openet, discusses how the move to online economies is driving up the value of telco brands. I was struck by a recent news headline covering a report from the organisation, Brand

A common theme in analyst calls this earnings season has been cautious pessimism about the knock-on effects of the global chip shortage. Most recently Nintendo followed its fellow games console maker Sony in warning it would flog fewer units because of reduced supply, rather than demand. Car companies have been ringing alarm bells since the

Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite support pages have been spotted on Samsung’s official websites in a few regions including India, Africa, and Romania. Alongside, its specifications have also been spotted on Google Play Console listing. The Galaxy Tab A7 Lite will come as a WiFi-only model and a Wi-Fi + LTE model when it is

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched investment trust, has picked up its first two investments, a mobile towers business in the Czech Republic and a fibre network in Norway. The company this week announced that it has acquired telecoms and TV towers firm České Radiokomunikace and an unnamed Norwegian fibre network plus land for a combined

The world’s biggest electronic device manufacturer is forming a new venture designed to cater to the lower end of the chip market. XSemi will be a joint venture between Foxconn’s parent company, Hon Hai, and electronic component maker Yageo, both of which are Taiwanese . It will focus on the development of semiconductors with average

Apple has released iOS 14.5.1 and iPadOS 14.5.1 for compatible iPhone and iPad models to patch two zero-day security flaws in WebKit that allowed attackers to execute a malicious code on the recently updated devices. The same security flaws existed for Mac computers and Apple Watch models that have also received macOS Big Sur 11.3.1

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece John Baker of Mavenir explains how OpenRAN is about open and Interoperable element specifications. In the last decade, competition and choice in the mobile network supply chain has dwindled. Globally there are now only a very

UK-based Vodafone has been a busy operator recently and its latest move is a strategic partnership with Google to do all kinds of cloudy stuff. The mutual commitment lasts no less than six years and is all about providing Vodafone with data analytics to help it develop new digital products for its customers. The two

Sony’s slimmest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera, the Sony A7C, has the guts of a Sony A7 III but in a body that more closely resembles its A6XXX series APS-C mirrorless cameras. The Sony A7 III was already a pretty popular full-frame camera and one that I liked very much too when I reviewed it.