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Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Minchul Ho, GM of Baicells Technologies North America, outlines the potential of decentralised mobile networks. The world embraced digital transformation like never before over the past two years as the COVID-19 pandemic redesigned technology’s critical role not

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök is just another expansion pack, or is it? We’ll get to that in a bit. At first glance, it does seem to be just a plain, boring expansion pack but once you start playing the game — sorry, expansion — you realise you’re actually Havi-ng fun. Dawn of Ragnarök

GTA 5 — or Grand Theft Auto 5 — is one of the most popular games ever created by developer Rockstar Games. The game, which was released nearly a decade ago in 2013, has sold a whopping 160 million copes globally. While Rockstar has focused on other popular titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 and

Vodafone Idea on Monday launched its gaming service that is available in partnership with mobile gaming company Nazara Technologies. Called Vi Games, the service is claimed to offer more than 1,200 Android and HTML5 based mobile games across 10 genres directly through the Vi app. Gaming titles on Vi Games are available to both prepaid

The Indian government is considering lowering the reserve price for 5G spectrum in the auction it is due to hold later this year, it emerged this week. Details are scant at present, but any break on price would be great news for the country’s mobile operators, which have long complained about the amount they have

UK MNO EE and BT have ‘re-imagined’ watching sports, dance, music and theatre via some new VR and AR novelties. In its latest pitch to sell the benefits of 5G to consumers, EE in collaboration with BT Sport has unveiled a series of prototype AR and VR ‘experiences’ mainly around sport. The actual specifics of

Google is rolling out an updated Messages app that displays reactions from iPhone users on your Android phone as emojis. The update also enables users on an iPhone to receive high-quality photos and videos from Android devices through Google Photos links. Further, the updated Messages app organises your message inbox by automatically sorting your messages

UK incumbent BT has become the latest big name to buddy-up with a hyperscaler to overhaul its operations. The five-year deal announced on Thursday will see BT tap Google Cloud for a broad suite of products and services, including cloud infrastructure, machine learning (ML) and AI, data analytics, security and API management. The aim is

Cellnex has inked another deal to roll out a private 5G network for an enterprise customer, this one marking its entry into the automotive sector. The fast-growing neutral host company will deploy a private 5G network for engineering group Segula Technologies at its test centre in Rodgau-Dudenhofen, Germany. The pair are talking up the usual

Jio broadband service, or Jio Fiber, can be booked online. It offers a list of postpaid and prepaid plans across various parts of India. The broadband service also has a range of speeds to choose from, starting from 30Mbps to up to 1Gbps to let customers pick a suitable option depending on their requirement. Alongside

Open-source enterprise software vendor Red Hat reckons it’s perfectly positioned to be the default platform for the move towards Open RAN. Telecoms.com spoke to Honoré LaBourdette, VP of Industry Verticals and Edge at Red Hat, at Mobile World Congress 2022 last week. The telco sector is one of her main areas of focus and, in

Intracom Telecom innovations @ MWC Barcelona 2022 – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png Intracom Telecom innovations @ MWC Barcelona 2022 During MWC Barcelona 2022 Intracom Telecom presented its technological innovations on the 28 GHz FDD hub radio WiBAS™ G5 dual-BS and on the 24/26/27/28 GHz TDD hub radio WiBAS™ G5 smart-BS that enhance the density of subscribers and

We caught up with satellite base-station company Lynk at MWC, who told us they’ve now signed with 8 MNOs and that within ten years they’ll be providing the fastest speeds in mobile broadband via satellite. Lynk uses satellites to establish a direct connection directly to a device, as opposed to using a terrestrial hub. It

KKR is apparently still interested in acquiring TIM, but has reportedly shaved around a fifth off its original offer price. That may seem like an odd move, given that many inside the Italian incumbent oppose the proposed takeover in part because it undervalues the telco. But with the operator’s board being far from united on

Chinese start-up GalaxySpace has boldly gone where many other companies have gone before. The company this week launched China’s first low-Earth orbit (LEO) broadband satellite constellation, reported state-owned news outlet CGTN, which it hopes will one day offer an alternative choice to SpaceX’s Starlink service. Six 5G-capable satellites were deployed, joining a seventh test satellite

South African operator group MTN delivered its 2021 numbers and they seem to be headed in the right direction. MTN operates in 19 markets across Africa and the Middle East, so its performance is a decent barometer of how the telecoms industry is faring across that extended continent. Annual service revenue grew by 18% in

Spanish telecoms infrastructure provider Cellnex has opened three new offices in Manchester, Leamington Spa and North Lanarkshire which will host 150 staff. The new hubs are supposed to help the firm deliver localised support to customers and aid in ‘partnerships and collaborative projects’ in the regions, but more broadly to help deliver on its growth

Comviva discusses NextGen marketing technologies for telcos – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png Comviva discusses NextGen marketing technologies for telcos At Mobile World Congress 2022 we spoke to Greg Armstrong, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Consumer Value Solutions at Comviva Technologies. He discussed about how their NextGen MobiLytix Marketing Studio is meeting Telcos marketing objectives and much more.