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
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
Crown Castle is experiencing the highest level of tower activity in the company’s history due to 5G deployments in the U.S., the company’s CEO Jay Brown said during a conference call with investors. “We continue to generate significant growth in cash flows and dividends from the deployment of 5G in the U.S. We are experiencing
Verizon executives outlined plans to significantly ramp its C-Band network deployment spending in the second half of the year, as it works towards an initial goal of covering 100 million people in 46 markets. During Verizon’s Q2 earnings call earlier this week, bosses explained it had already spent around $160 million on its C-Band deployment
Back at the start of 2020, the major operators in India found themselves with found themselves faced with the unenviable task of paying billions of dollars to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) regarding AGR fees. Reliance Jio, who faced the smallest sum, quickly paid off its dues, leaving rivals Bharti Airtel and Vodafone challenging the
OnePlus 8T is receiving an OxygenOS 11.0.9.9 update with some software tweaks and improvements to the camera. The update is rolling out in North America currently and is expected to reach the European markets soon. Notably, India will not be receiving this particular update. OnePlus has also added the OnePlus Store app to the smartphone
Prime Day 2021 is nearly here and our readers have asked us for help in finding the best deals and offers. For this year’s annual advertisement for its subscription service, Amazon has revealed deals, discounts, and offers on various products, including smartphones, wearables, and other gadgets. Companies including OnePlus, Samsung, and Xiaomi are also launching
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
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
Altiostar said that it is expanding its flagship U.K. test lab, located in the London area, and it is hiring new staff to support expanded software development, customer support and testing for 4G and 5G Open Radio Access Network technologies. The lab is set up for Remote Radio Unit (RRU) integration testing with Altiostar software,
Verizon hailed its 5G progress during the second quarter, noting 20 per cent of its phone subscribers had compatible devices, the bulk of which were C-Band capable. On the company’s earnings call, CEO Hans Vestberg (pictured) noted more Verizon customers are using digital channels to purchase phones, though there was also an increase in footfall
Spain’s 700MHz spectrum auction has been a long time coming. The auction was first planned to take place in early 2020 but, as was the case in so many markets around the world, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic saw these plans delayed. Since then, disputes over price and conditions related to the spectrum licences
VOCHI, a Belarus-based startup behind a clever computer vision-based video editing app used by online creators, has raised an additional $2.4 million in a “late-seed” round that follows the company’s initial $1.5 million round led by Ukraine-based Genesis Investments last year. The new funds follow a period of significant growth for the mobile tool, which
Huge parts of the Internet including Zomato, Paytm, Disney+ Hostar, Sony LIV, Paytm, PlayStation Network (PSN), and Steam are down for many users around the world. About an hour after the outages started being reported, Internet infrastructure provider Akamai confirmed that it is facing an outage. According to Internet outage tracker DownDetector, the outage seems
Airtel on Thursday revised its postpaid plan portfolio for both retail and corporate customers. The revision upgrades the Rs. 999 retail Airtel postpaid plan with better data benefits, while corporate customers have now been provided with postpaid plans starting at Rs. 299. Alongside revising the postpaid plans for its retail and corporate subscribers, the telco
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
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,
The National Governors Association (NGA) in the USA is the voice of the leaders of 55 states, territories, and commonwealths. On May 24th, the Resource Center for State Cybersecurity featured a panel of experts from AT&T for a conversation on understanding the 5G ecosystem, security risks, supply chain resilience and the challenges and opportunities that
According to Ericsson, this is Ireland’s first indoor 5G campus network in a live manufacturing environment Ericsson and Three Ireland have launched what they say is Ireland’s first indoor 5G campus network in a live manufacturing environment at Glanbia’s multi-purpose dairy processing plant in Ballyragget, County Kilkenny. The indoor network is designed to deliver enhanced
La licitación de espectro radioeléctrico en la banda de los 700 MHz destinado a los servicios 5G en España ha finalizado tras la segunda jornada del proceso de subasta con una recaudación total ligeramente por encima de los 1.010 millones de euros. Cada uno de los tres grupos que concurrían se ha adjudicado 20 MHz
India is a country that has been undergoing massive digitalisation for many years now. In the last five years, internet users in India have more than doubled to around 700 million, with forecast’s expecting this number to increase to 900 million by 2025. But while 700 million is certainly an incredibly large figure – over
Samsung’s latest F-series smartphone looks quite practical, goes big on battery life, and appears to offer decent hardware at a budget price point. However, after using it for more than a week, I discovered that it’s not what the Samsung Galaxy F22 offers, but what it doesn’t, that makes it just an average budget smartphone
Google Bookmarks will be shut down entirely on September 30. A banner has been put up on the Google Bookmarks website that mentions that the service will no longer be supported by Google after the mentioned date. The service has not been used by many users since it was introduced in 2005. Notably, Google also
Verizon Communications will make Google’s Messages the default messaging app on all Android devices it sells starting next year, the US wireless carrier said on Tuesday. With that move, Verizon would join peers AT&T and T-Mobile US in propping up competition to Apple’s iMessage service. Alphabet-owned Google’s Messages comes with features similar to those in iMessage,
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
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
Viavi Solutions really, really wants to buy rival test company EXFO, and it has made a fourth and higher purchase offer — which was promptly quashed, again, by EXFO founder, chairman and majority shareholder Germaine Lamonde. Viavi had upped its most recent offer from $7.50 per share to $8 — valuing EXFO at nearly $460
At the end of last year, O2 launched the UK’s first commercial 5G satellite lab, hoping to explore the complementary nature of the technologies for the development of autonomous vehicles. The Darwin SatCom Lab’s first task was to convert two vehicles into connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs), then remotely operate them as they drove around the
Samsung just sent out invites for its next Unpacked event. There are those companies that like to sneak hints into their invites — and then there’s Samsung. The note leads with the big, bold words “Get ready to unfold” and features a pair of flat-colored objects that can reasonably be said to resemble the form
Pegasus spyware from Israel-based NSO Group was found to have allegedly helped governments in countries, including India, to hack into the phones of thousands of activists, journalists, and politicians. An international consortium of news outlets revealed some details of the targets in the last couple of days. However, the scope of targeted attacks through Pegasus
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