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The new CEO of US chip giant Intel has unveiled his turnaround strategy, which includes the creation of Intel Foundry Services. Pat Gelsinger called his cunning plan IDM 2.0, referring to Intel’s legacy business model as an integrated device manufacturer. In essence this meant it designs and manufactures its own chips, unlike companies like Qualcomm,

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Mark Pegulu, VP of IoT at Semtech looks at the various wireless technologies that are contributing to the next industrial revolution. No one wireless technology is entirely appropriate for all the applications in the next generation

Telstra’s rival operators are getting all worked up over suggestions that the Australian incumbent could merge with state-owned broadband infrastructure provider NBN. Optus and TPG Telecom have privately lobbied the government to block any future move by Telstra to take over NBN, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, citing unnamed sources. The government has apparently reassured

Internet giant Google has unveiled its latest forays into the telecoms world in the form of its Network Connectivity Center. In his blog announcing the new product, Google’s Product Manager for Cloud Networking, Rohith Ramkumar, describes NCC as ‘a revolution in simplifying on-prem and cloud networking’. It seems to be an attempt to provide a

UAE operator group Etisalat is the latest telco to use Rakuten’s platform to accelerate its adoption of OpenRAN technology. The Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) is the Japanese MNO’s way of offering some of the cleverness it has put into its greenfield 5G deployment to others. Telefónica was one of the first to get involved with

Japanese operator NTT Docomo is determined not to let rival Rakuten get too much of a head start with OpenRAN, so has drafted in Samsung to help. While this move is of no great immediate consequence, it is symbolically significant in many ways. As we saw today, fellow Japanese MNO Rakuten has not only hit

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Francesca Greane, Marketing Manager, Content & Community for Informa Tech, discusses the evolving 5G ecosystem around the globe. 2020 was destined to be the year of 5G, with both telcos and enterprises alike expecting the journey

Finnish kit vendor Nokia is holding its Capital Markets Day today, in which it tells investors how it plans to turn things around. As indicated in the announcement of yet another round of job cuts earlier this week, Nokia’s cunning plan is to reduce overheads to free up money for increased R&D spend. This, in

Ofcom will not cap the wholesale prices fibre network operators can charge customer for access to the fastest available services on their networks. The announcement will be music to the ears of those building out fibre networks in the UK, for whom the threat of regulatory intervention on pricing was casting a shadow over their

The US Federal Communications Commission will auction off 100 MHz of spectrum in the 3.45 GHz band in the autumn, with bidding set to begin in early October. The US regulator is seeking comment on its plans for the sale, dubbed auction 110, including a proposed reserve price of more than $14.7 billion, a sum

A year after it first pledged to plough £5 billion into gigabit-capable broadband for hard-to-reach areas, the UK government has formally kicked off the initiative, now known as Project Gigabit. While it has shared a certain amount of information on the areas set to benefit from the first phase of funding, we are still lacking

AT&T recently had a moan about a new California net neutrality law and how it affects its ability to zero rate certain content. Like almost everything else, in the US the concept of net neutrality polarises opinion and has become politicised. Investopedia defines net neutrality as “the concept that all data on the internet should

The news that US telecoms giant AT&T will use Nokia for a major part of its 5G rollout comes as the Finnish vendor tries to give investors hope. AT&T recently announced it expected to drop around $2 billion per year on rolling out kit designed to make use of the mid-band 5G spectrum it won

Vantage Towers started trading in Frankfurt on Thursday as planned, priced at €24.00 per share, towards the lower end of parent Vodafone’s initial price range. As of mid-afternoon on day one, the company’s share price stood at around €24.25, having peaked at just above €25.00 shortly after trading commenced. The flotation price means that Vodafone

Having made its mark on the Italian mobile market over the past three years, Iliad has now confirmed it will add to its portfolio and launch fixed services in Italy in the coming months. The French operator did not share an exact date, but in a statement accompanying its full-year results announcement pledged to launch

Operation Diànxùn used a fake Huawei career site to target telecoms professionals with the apparent aim of getting hold of 5G technologies. The whole thing is detailed in this McAfee blog, which ‘details an espionage campaign, targeting telecommunication companies, dubbed Operation Diànxùn.’ It used a URL designed to look like a legitimate Huawei careers site

Nordnet, the satellite broadband business owned by Orange, has officially launched its satellite broadband service in France. Neosat, as the offer is known, provides broadband services of up to 100 Mbps to homes and businesses in areas of poor fixed connectivity for less than €40 per month, Nordnet announced on Tuesday. That’s surprisingly affordable, and

Dish Network is in double figures, in that it has just inked its tenth towers deal of the year so far, this time brokering a master lease agreement with American Tower. The new deal will give Dish access to up to 20,000 American Tower sites across the US and, like the agreements that went before,

One of Trump’s last acts as President was to blacklist Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi for reasons basic due process has revealed to be fundamentally flawed. The US legislature is largely circumvented by the current fashion of executive orders followed by court challenges. The matter of Xiaomi’s treatment at the hands of the US government is

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Richard Piasentin, Chief Strategy Officer at Accedian, says it’s time for CSPs to stake their claim to the mobile edge. Mobile data and device volumes have been soaring over recent years. That in itself should be some

Verizon will spend $10 billion over the next three years rolling out 5G on its new C-band spectrum and is completely unphased about making a return on its massive investments. Further, it appears than home broadband will play as big a part as mobile in helping the US telco in driving revenue growth from 5G,

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has unveiled a new service enablement platform that’s designed to enable innovation across the OpenRAN ecosystem. The new SEP is apparently “The first commercial solution to deliver radio network programmability, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning innovation across the OpenRAN ecosystem.’ It bundles together Nokia’s RAN Intelligent Controller and edge computing stuff

The Indian government has published new procurement rules for the telecoms space, a move that looks a lot like step in the direction of blocking Chinese vendors from the market. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Wednesday issued amendments to its licensing agreements for telcos and virtual operators, imposing additional conditions on the procurement of

A year after it was announced, the Shared Rural Network programme took one step closer to actually happening with the publication of a transparency notice. Leaving aside questions about why it took a year to draft, you may also be wondering why a such a thing is a prerequisite at all. The answer lies in

The UK’s mobile network operators are poised to start bidding in the country’s second 5G auction, with the reserve prices for the available frequencies coming it at north of £1 billion. The auction kicks off on Friday, and EE, O2, Three and Vodafone will all take part, Ofcom confirmed earlier this week. The operators will

There is further evidence that Biden is picking up where Trump left off regarding policy towards China as his government is reportedly adding restrictions to Huawei trading licenses. For much of his presidency Trump expressed concern about the Chinese government stealing intellectual property. This was one of the reasons given for acting to not just

MasMovil has reopened discussions with Vodafone about a possible merger of their Spanish businesses, according to local press reports. You could be forgiven for getting a feeling of déjà vu: MasMovil denied a similar report in September last year and that was far from the first time the telco had been linked with a major

Chinese smartphone vendor Oppo has launched the Find X3 Pro as part of its bid to fill the vacuum left by Huawei’s decline. The device itself has all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a sector that ceased to excite with its product launches years ago. The stated USP of this one is it’s

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Guillaume Lavernhe, Senior Product Manager Fraud Prevention & Security at BICS, analyses the evolving telecoms security landscape. The mobile connectivity and roaming ecosystem has evolved significantly over the past 15 years. People have been travelling more for

Dish Network has been linked with a possible move for TDS, which would give its mobile ambitions a significant boost. Following the announcement earlier this week that Dish had agreed to buy mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Republic Wireless – along with its 200,000 customers and Relay business unit – a Citi analyst posited the