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Following in the footsteps of T-Mobile and AT&T, the last of America’s “big three” Verizon announced that Android Messages will be the default bearer of its RCS messaging service from next year. Even before the telcos formally abandoned their joint Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI), T-Mobile had already adopted Android’s RCS solution which Google launched

Flipkart Big Saving Days 2021 sale is now live for Plus members. The sale will kick off for everyone else starting midnight tonight and will remain open until July 29. The Walmart-owned company is looking to take on Amazon’s Prime Day 2021 sale with this five-day sale. This month’s Big Saving Days 2021 sale on

Tech consulting giant CGI will use Nokia kit in a new 5G lab that is intended to showcase how great it is. CGI already has an ‘innovation centre’ in the central London skyscraper known as the walkie-talkie building, so it looks like Nokia is helping it create a 5G zone within that. To some extent

AT&T is selling another of its content operations, this time in Latin America, as it looks to focus on the connectivity side of the business there, much like it is doing back home. The US operator is offloading Vrio, which provides video services across a variety of platforms – DirecTV’s Latin American unit, Sky Brasil,

Samsung on Wednesday confirmed that it is hosting the next Galaxy Unpacked event on August 11. Alongside confirming the launch date, the South Korean company teased the launch of its two new foldable phones that are a part of the rumour mill as the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 for some

Crown Castle has upped its full-year guidance for the second time this after posting a strong set of quarterlies on the back of 5G growth in the US. But while business in the telecoms towers space is buoyant, Crown Castle’s figures raise some serious questions over the small cells market. The towers specialist cited the

Consumers in the UK are paying less for their communications services than they were five years ago, even though data usage is increasing, according to Ofcom’s latest Pricing Trends report. However, the regulator also noted that a number of big names in the industry have hiked prices in recent months and warned telcos that they

iPadOS 14.7 has been released just a couple of days after Apple brought iOS 14.7. This is the first time when the Cupertino company split up iPadOS and iOS releases as it normally brings software updates for both together, thanks to the same underlying architecture. The iPadOS 14.7 update brings improvements to the Home app

A couple of Democrat Senators want to make social media companies liable for public health ‘misinformation’ on their platforms. We have long argued that Section 230 needs reforming as, in its current form, it grants social media giants all the editorial privileges of a publisher with none of the liability. This initiative, however, which seeks

The UK government wants to protect us from online horridness but seems confused about how best to go about it while also protecting freedom of speech. A parliamentary committee has published a report in to government digital censorship proposals contained in the draft Online Safety Bill. The report is titled ‘Free for all? Freedom of

Google has pulled the last Chrome OS update that was causing users to lock out of their Chromebooks due to a major bug and announced the development of its fix that is expected to release later today (July 21). The issue emerged after users downloaded Chrome OS version 91.0.4472.165. It restricted users from logging back

Spain has finally auctioned off spectrum in the 700 MHz band, but bidding was lacklustre at best, with the final total only just exceeding the reserve price. The sale brings in €1.01 billion, with the big three operators – Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange – all taking home frequencies, but no mention of challenger player Masmovil.

Bharti Airtel has inked a mobile networks deal with Intel that will see it tap into the flexibility of OpenRAN technology as it rolls out 5G. The companies call it “a collaboration to drive network development of 4G and 5G virtualized radio access network (vRAN) and open radio access network (RAN) technology to transform Airtel’s

The drama never stops in the crazy world of telecoms test and measurement, with US outfit Viavi persisting with its unsolicited bids for Canadian rival Exfo. Viavi has chucked $8 per share onto the table, having had its previous offer of $7.50 thrown back in its face a month ago. On the other side of

UK operator group Vodafone and Finnish kit vendor Nokia have been mucking about with artificial intelligence to detect network anomalies. On first inspection this seems like the kind on self-organizing/optimizing network (SON) tech that has been knocking around for years, so it’s not immediately obvious why both companies felt it was worth an announcement. Then

Tom Clancy’s is going Fortnite. On Monday, Ubisoft announced a new free-to-play first-person shooter in Tom Clancy’s XDefiant that will offer “fast-paced 6-v-6 arena combat with faction-based abilities”. The factions in XDefiant will be inspired by the other Tom Clancy’s series in the past, including Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, and The Division (which is getting

Dish has inked a mobile network services deal with AT&T that is worth in excess of US$5 billion over the next decade. It’s essentially an MVNO and national roaming agreement. Under the terms of the deal Dish’s various mobile brands will use AT&T’s network, while its yet-to-be-launched 5G service will roam on AT&T’s infrastructure in

As anticipated, Ericsson was awarded just 2% of the available base station work for China Mobile’s 700 MHz 5G rollout, with even Nokia getting more. China Mobile seems to have only published the results of its 700 MHz tender in Chinese, so we’re reliant on Google for the translation, apart from the numbers, which seem