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The Telecoms.com Podcast: OpenRAN, Ericsson and retail tech

Scott embarks on his second recording of the day, having shot the Glotel Awards vid previously. The lads are compelled to lead with OpenRAN once more, because that’s what was going on again that week, specifically European operators using it as a pretext to beg for state cash. They move on to talk about Ericsson, which launched some software that promises to play nice with OpenRAN before concluding with a look at cashierless technology that is creeping into the UK retail sector.

• 6 days ago

Clash of the titans as Amazon declares war on Visa

Amazon has written to some of its UK customers to say it will no longer be accepting Visa credit cards as payment from next year.

• 17 Nov 2021

Sainsbury’s turns to Amazon for cashierless tech

UK grocer Sainsbury’s has entered into a Faustian bargain with etail leviathan Amazon to power its new cashierless stores.

• 16 Nov 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: OpenRAN, broadband and Google

Both the lads are a bit worse for wear after a proper session with BT the previous day. They start by reviewing the professional pretext for the sesh, which was to talk OpenRAN, as was Iain’s trip to Paris the day before that. UK fibre once more made the news this week, but the middle segment was rebranded ‘broadband’ to avoid repetition, and they conclude with a look at how Google’s legal team fared recently.

• 15 Nov 2021

Microsoft and Facebook get cozy over workplace collaboration

Users of Microsoft Teams will be able to directly access Workplace stuff without leaving the app, in a move that will add to concerns over the ubiquity of big tech.

• 11 Nov 2021

Google has a mixed day in European courts

US internet giant Google has defended a class action suit in the UK but still has to hand over billions to the EU.

• 10 Nov 2021

Facebook does an about-face on facial recognition

As if to symbolise its rebrand, Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting over a billion individuals’ facial templates.

• 03 Nov 2021

VMO2 thinks UK should invest more in digital infrastructure, funnily enough

The vested interest in Virgin Media O2 publishing a report calling for more spending on its area of business is clear, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

• 02 Nov 2021

Consensus against digital censorship begins to cross political divides

Recent acts of digital censorship are helping people understand it’s not a tool that can be restricted to their ideological opponents.

• 01 Nov 2021

Facebook addresses its tarnished image with Meta rebrand

The company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is now called Meta, ostensibly to signal a pivot towards AR and VR.

• 29 Oct 2021

EE offers online course to help children avoid a life of Internet misery

BT’s mobile division EE has launched an online course designed to teach children how to safely use the Internet when they get their first phone.

• 22 Oct 2021

Vodafone creates 7,000 new software jobs in bid for IT autonomy

Operator group Vodafone is aiming to improve its in-house IT competence by adding thousands of new software engineers to its European workforce.

• 21 Oct 2021

Tesco takes on Amazon with its first checkout-free store

A new Tesco store trial called ‘GetGo’ uses similar technology to Amazon Fresh shops to automatically charge you for any stuff you walk out with.

• 20 Oct 2021

The ‘right’ to fast internet: fairy-tale or reality?

An increasing number of countries are passing laws making fast residential internet access an essential right – similar to rights concerning access to heat, water and electricity.

• 18 Oct 2021

Microsoft pulls LinkedIn out of China

US tech giant Microsoft has decided operating a social network in China has become too much like hard work.

• 15 Oct 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: China Mobile, Orange and Facebook

We’ve run out of guests for the time being so you’re just stuck with boring old Scott and Iain. They start by reviewing the latest 5G tender from China Mobile and what it might mean for the future of the global telecoms industry. Orange had a strategy day earlier in the week, which they both attended, so them move on to review that before concluded with the latest dramas around Facebook.

• 11 Oct 2021

Netherlands reportedly finds Apple app store rules to be anticompetitive

A Dutch antitrust authority has been looking into Apple’s policy of excluding all other payment systems and seems to have decided it needs changing.

• 08 Oct 2021

Google punishes commercial partners who flout ‘scientific consensus’

If you don’t express the correct views on climate change then Google doesn’t want to do business with you, according to new policies.

• 08 Oct 2021

Sky launches its own telly

The UK bit of Sky has launched Sky Glass, a TV with all the things you need to access Sky services built into it.

• 07 Oct 2021

Facebook ‘whistleblower’ did it a favour by breaking cover

The distinct possibility that the Facebook leaker has hidden agendas has weakened the effectiveness of her revelations.

• 06 Oct 2021