In the middle of the ‘Russiagate’ debacle, the Trump administration reportedly forced Apple to provide data from the accounts of Democrat politicians. According to the New York Times, in 2017 ‘prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members. One was a
Nokia and AT&T completed trials of voice calls in C-Band spectrum, moving the pair closer to a goal of launching 5G service in the band this year. The companies employed a device running Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55 5G modem-RF in a pair of trials conducted at AT&T’s headquarters in Texas and the city of Detroit, Michigan.
German operator Deutsche Telekom said that its 5G service based on 3.6GHz frequency is already available in around 50 cities across the country, where the telco already deployed over 1,800 antennas. Some of the cities where the telco offers 5G via 3.6GHz spectrum are Aachen, Augsburg, Berlin, Bonn, Braunschweig, Bremen, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen,
The Integrated Telecom Company (ITC) of Saudi Arabia has revealed a rebranding of the company to ‘Salam’ which the company describes as human… The Integrated Telecom Company (ITC) of Saudi Arabia has revealed a rebranding of the company to ‘Salam’ which the company describes as human-centric. CEO Osama Al Dosary said: “The name ‘Salam’ reflects
This spring, Facebook confirmed it was testing Venmo-like QR codes for person-to-person payments inside its app in the U.S. Today, the company announced those codes are now launching publicly to all U.S. users, allowing anyone to send or request money through Facebook Pay — even if they’re not Facebook friends. The QR codes work similarly
Volkswagen AG’s US unit said a data breach at a vendor impacted more than 3.3 million customers and prospective buyers in North America. Nearly all those impacted were current or potential customers of Audi, one of the German automaker’s luxury brands. Volkswagen Group of America said on Friday an unauthorized third party obtained limited personal information
AT&T has completed a call on its recently acquired C-band spectrum, a further sign of the intense competition between the US telcos as they push on with 5G rollout. The news came from Nokia, which which is supplying radio equipment for AT&T’s 5G rollout over C-band. In fact, the companies passed this particular milestone a
It has been reported that French telecoms conglomerate Altice wants to raise a few euros by selling what’s left of the Portuguese business it acquired in 2014. The goss comes courtesy of Reuters, whose moles presumably combined their investigations with an early summer holiday. In between Pastéis de Nata washed down with chilled port, they
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) scheduled its next auction of 5G-suitable mid-band spectrum to commence on 5 October, offering up to 4,060 licences covering the 3.45GHz to 3.55GHz band. Dubbed Auction 110, the regulator plans to auction ten licences of 10MHz in each of the nation’s 416 Partial Economic Areas, geographic boundaries established under
IBM expects unprecedented 5G hypergrowth to begin around mid-decade, and the decisions made by CSPs today are critical The cloud hyperscaler dominance over legacy media companies has been making headlines lately, heightening the pressure on Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to avoid the same fate. The race for CSPs to restructure their business models in a
Ofcom have released the new Online Nation 2021 report which reveals the changing patterns of the internet usage in the UK and how we compare to other countries in the year where COVID changed the way we live. Stand out figures include a five percent rise in the number of homes with internet access… Ofcom
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 FE (LTE), which launched last year, has so far been a solid contender in the low-cost flagship segment. While it performed well in most of our tests, there were some drawbacks. It did get a bit warm under stress, and its battery life was just average; both things that the OnePlus 8T
15 GB of free storage with unlimited photo backup – Google Photos is undoubtedly an excellent cloud storage service, but now it is no longer free. Any photos and videos uploaded after June 1, 2021, will now be counted towards your 15 GB of free storage quota, and once you exhaust your free storage, you
The beginning of summer brings with it the start of a major international football tournament and that can mean only one thing: a telco-backed survey on the TV viewing habits of UK fans. This year it was the turn of MVNO Sky Mobile, which published the results of some fairly straightforward research carried out earlier
Zoom is getting into hardware, with the launch of a range of branded desk phones aimed at the business market. No, you don’t need to read that again; it’s not a mistake. Videoconferencing specialist Zoom, which raised its profile stratospherically during the various Covid-19 lockdowns of the past 12 months or so, is actually flogging
An online conference on 5G is currently going on. ‘Backed by 5G: Technology for Impact’, is hosted by Start North as a part of the Aalto University Summer Course 5G Hack the Mall. It is a two-week online conference which gathers the industry experts, entrepreneurs and policymakers together to discuss, present and question how 5G will affect our
Dos entidades de tecnología móvil en Japón y Finlandia han acordado colaborar en el desarrollo de tecnologías 6G con el objetivo de hacer contribuciones significativas a los estándares globales y desarrollos regulatorios. El Consorcio de Promoción Beyond 5G del Ministerio del Interior y Comunicaciones de Japón y el programa de investigación 6G Flagship dirigido por
Previously, Telenor Bulgaria had only conducted 5G trials On Thursday, Telenor Bulgaria officially launched its 5G network in more than 60 locations across the country, living up to its previous promise of getting the network up in June. The capital city of Sofia is one of the first locations to receive the new 5G services,
Today, BT has confirmed that Altice has acquired a 12.1% stake in the company for around £2 billion. Altice Group, owned by billionaire Patrick Drahi, currently operate France’s second largest operator SFR, as well as other operations in Portugal, Isreal, and the Dominican Republic. For their new investment in BT, the Group has created a
Apple announced a batch of accessibility features at WWDC 2021 that cover a wide variety of needs, among them a few for people who can’t touch or speak to their devices in the ordinary way. With Assistive Touch, Sound Control, and other improvements, these folks have new options for interacting with an iPhone or Apple
Paytm, Infosys and MakeMyTrip are among companies seeking approval in India to provide online COVID-19 vaccine bookings, the head of the government’s tech platform said, as the country tries to make it easier for its huge population to book shots. The government relaxed rules last month to potentially allow third-party apps to offer vaccine bookings
UK communications regulator Ofcom has moved to beef up its digital economy expertise with the appointment of Amazon veteran Sachin Jogia as Chief Technology Officer. Jogia has spent the past nine years at Amazon, where he’s currently General Manager for Alexa Smart Home International. That means he should be clued up on the broader role
The collective 6G efforts of Finland and Japan have vowed to help each other out in a bid to move the nascent standard along. You can tell they’re serious because they signed one of those memoranda of understanding, so there’s no turning back now. They published it at the Nikkei Global Digital Summit, which noted
Research by IBM’s Institute of Business Value found most operators have not yet developed a business case for 5G applications, though executives were optimistic on the prospects for edge-computing as a revenue generator. A survey of around 500 operator executives revealed 7 per cent of new services are expected to be uniquely enabled by 5G.
The 5G economy is one of incredibly high customer expectations, increasing innovation and competition from unexpected players and new business paradigms enabled by the performance and flexibility of 5G networks. This economy creates new opportunities for service providers to reclaim their right to play in the digital economy by moving up the value chain from
In the last years, Google has been the focus of a barrage of US anti-trust lawsuits, all of which posit that the company’s dominant market position is giving them an unfair advantage over competition. The first case, filed by the US Department of Justice back in October and joined by 11 Republican state attorneys,
Realme C21Y could launch in Vietnam soon and ahead of its launch, an online retailer listing shows the specifications for the phone. The tipster who shared the listing claims Realme C21Y will be the company’s first phone to run on Android (Go edition). The phone has been listed with a triple rear camera setup and
Loki — out now on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — arrives a decade on from Tom Hiddleston’s first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the God of Mischief’s longevity isn’t up to some grand plan concocted by Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige and his cohorts. In fact, it’s the Loki fans. Loki died —
The US Senate voted 68-32 on Tuesday to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese technology. The desire for a hard line in dealings with China is one of the few bipartisan sentiments in the deeply divided US Congress, which is narrowly controlled by President Joe
UK adults spent as much as an hour longer per day online than our peers in other major European markets in 2020, according to the latest research from Ofcom. Given that information, one cannot help but wonder what we were doing for that extra time…or rather, what our European neighbours were up to offline that
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