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ISP Zen Internet has signed a deal to extend its services to 285 cities, towns and villages across full fibre infrastructure firm CityFibre’s UK network. Zen Internet committed to four initial locations with CityFibre in 2020, a number which has since expanded to 31. This deal represents a commitment to extend that further to 285

Belgium will become the newest member of the independent towerco crowd after Telenet struck a deal to offload its passive infrastructure. The buyer is US-based real estate investment trust (REIT) DigitalBridge. It has agreed to pay $820 million for Telenet’s footprint of 3,322 sites, which includes 2,158 owned sites and 1,164 third-party sites. The deal

Godrej is among the most established names in the business of home security in India, with a wide range of products including door locks, personal lockers, video door phones, alarm systems, and CCTV camera systems. Among the company’s more recent launches is the Spotlight range of home security cameras, which is a foray into the

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Russia, T-Mobile US and nothing – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png The Telecoms.com Podcast: Russia, T-Mobile US and nothing Iain was knackered after a half marathon when we recorded this pod as was Pierre’s audio mixer, which gave up an hour or so into the recording. Nonetheless the lads manage to open with another look

Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm, delves deeper into both the evolution and future of 5G, and highlights the connected intelligent edge as a key component for success – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm, delves deeper into both the evolution and future of 5G, and highlights the connected intelligent edge as a key component for success As Qualcomm

New State Mobile (formerly PUBG New State) recently released its March update for Android and iOS that brought the McLaren 765LT supercar to the game. This update also introduced a new location to the Erangel 2051 map. To celebrate this change, Krafton has launched the Play Erangel 2051 event. The event adds two limited-time challenges

Farmers in Australia’s south-eastern state of Victoria are getting a helping hand from a vast IoT network. Deployed by Australian IoT operator National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo), and funded by the Victorian government’s On-Farm IoT Trial, it uses the non-cellular LoRaWAN standard to connect a broad array of sensors. Various agriculture technology (AgTech) use cases

Nokia has bagged a significant deal involving Vodafone’s 143 million European fixed broadband customers. Under the agreement, Voda will conduct proof-of-concept (PoC) trials of Nokia’s Altiplano SDN manager and controller (SDN-M&C) services for multi-access fixed networks. If all goes well, the two companies will begin a broader rollout later this year. “The last few years

iQoo U5x has been launched in China. The new budget 4G smartphone from iQoo is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 chipset and features a 5,000mAh battery that supports 10W charging. iQoo U5x boots Android 11-based Origin OS out-of-the-box and sports a dual camera setup on the back. The new handset from the Chinese company

China Mobile ended last year with more than 200 million customers using its 5G network, an increase of almost 50 million in a single quarter. The Chinese telco’s full-year financial report, published this week, shows that 5G network customers numbered 207 million as of 31 December. It did not provide a comparative figure for the

The EU bureaucracy has unveiled its latest initiative designed to curb the power of US internet giants, called the Digital Markets Act. As ever with the EU, it has taken it ages to get to this point and this announcement still only concerns the provisional agreement of the text of the bill. Its core aim

Netflix has announced that its streaming services will be bundled with two Airtel Postpaid Family plans, as part of the company’s plans to make the service more accessible to users. Customers who have bought or upgraded to the new Airtel postpaid plans will be eligible for Basic and Standard subscriptions on the streaming service with

Key talking points from the Huawei Operation Transformation Press Conference held at MWC 2022 in Barcelona. At MWC Huawei held a round table looking at digital transformation within the telecoms industry. In it, a panel of experts from Huawei took questions from journalists on subjects including best practice, partnerships how operators can manage their own

Telecoms operators are actively preventing 5G technology from reaching its full potential, according to T-Mobile US. The US telco has unveiled plans to make life easier for developers working with 5G networks, including the creation of a new developer platform, a 5G technology hub, and venture funding. As usual, the implication – and as usual

Airtel Xstream Box price has been reduced by Rs. 499 to Rs. 2,000. The revised pricing is notably applicable to customers getting new Airtel Digital TV connections along with the Xstream Box option. The direct-to-home (DTH) set-top box now also comes bundled with free access to over-the-top (OTT) apps, including Amazon Prime Video and Disney+

A smartphone startup created by the founder of OnePlus is promising to take the fight to Apple but is still keeping its cards close to its chest. The name of the company is Nothing, which seems to be representative of a cryptic, nebulous approach to marketing. So much so that we had never heard of

5G – where were we 5 years ago and where are we today? Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm, talks about an important moment for the role of digital in the new design of automotive technologies – Telecoms.com https://telecoms.com/wp-content/themes/telecoms.com/assets/images/dummy/tcoms-logo.png 5G – where were we 5 years ago and where are we today? Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm, talks about an

Instagram on Wednesday announced Favourites and Following, two chronological news feed options for users on the service. These feed options will allow users to view recent posts from accounts they follow on the platform, in the order that they were posted. The service said that users will be able to easily switch between both Favourites