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The Telecoms.com Podcast: Lynk, satellites and Apple Vision Pro

We recorded this on a Tuesday because a little bird told us Charles Miller – CEO of satellite-direct-to-phone company Lynk – was in town and up for some podcast action. Pausing only to reflect on an old-school long lunch with Hyperoptic, they get into the physics, logistics and economics of enabling regular mobile phones to connect directly to satellites. The only other news they had to make time for was the launch of an augmented reality headset by Apple.

• 1 day ago

Apple launches expensive Vision Pro augmented reality headset

The king of tech firms Apple has made its long anticipated entrance to the AR/VR/XR field with the Apple Vision Pro headset, which comes with a hefty $3,499 price tag.

• 2 days ago

How network connectivity and the metaverse will shape the future

The real value of the metaverse lies in changing how things work in the business domain.

• 15 May 2023

The breakfast cereal metaverse may be the most baffling yet

Nestlé is promising to take you ‘beyond the cereal bowl’ with a splurge of loosely defined metaverse, web3 and sustainability marketing concepts.

• 18 Apr 2023

Meta wields the axe again amid looming identity crisis

Another 10,000 workers at Facebook parent Meta will be shown the door in the coming months.

• 15 Mar 2023

What to expect from European operators at MWC 2023

With the biggest trade show in the telecoms calendar kicking off next Monday, here’s a sneak peak of what some of the main European telco groups will be showcasing in the halls of La Fira in Barcelona.

• 22 Feb 2023

UK M&A watchdog opposes Microsoft’s Activision deal

Gamers will face higher prices, fewer choices and less innovation if Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision is allowed to go through, says the CMA.

• 10 Feb 2023

STC and Telefónica pool resources to develop new tech

Spanish operator Telefónica has signed another collaborative agreement, this time with Middle Eastern telco STC as they look to rustle up some treats in the cybersecurity, cloud, IoT and Big Data fields.

• 06 Feb 2023

DoCoMo wants 6G to be all touchy-feely

Broadband makes it possible for people to share text, sounds, images and videos, but that’s not enough for DoCoMo.

• 26 Jan 2023

World Economic Forum holds first metaverse meeting

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is actually having two meetings this week, one taking place in-person in Davos, the other in the metaverse.

• 20 Jan 2023

Singtel and SK Telecom host metaverse meet-up, but the jury’s still out

2023 looks set to be another year of ups and downs for the metaverse.

• 16 Jan 2023

Why the telecoms industry should care about CES 2023

As the telecoms and wider tech industries become increasingly intertwined, CES and MWC are starting to look like two sides of the same coin – with the former providing the consumer use cases for advanced connectivity.

• 03 Jan 2023

2022 has been a great year for telecoms, industry professionals say

According to Telecoms.com Annual Industry Report, the industry is predominantly happy with telecom’s business performance in 2022 as 63% vote for an ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ year.

• 13 Dec 2022

Investors lose faith in Meta’s gambling habit

The company formerly known as Facebook took another big hit to its share price as the cost of its pivot to the metaverse hit home.

• 27 Oct 2022

TIP and Intel claim to be making mMIMO for the metaverse

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has teamed up with Intel and Analog Devices to develop some O-RAN massive MIMO solutions which will apparently enable the metaverse.

• 27 Oct 2022

Meta has another go at selling the metaverse

The company formerly known as Facebook now makes its annual developer conference almost entirely about plugging the concept of the metaverse.

• 12 Oct 2022

HTC VIVE and e& unveil metaverse partnership

The Middle Eastern operator group formerly known as Etisalat has partnered with Taiwanese mobile device maker HTC to showcase the latest in metaverse cleverness.

• 10 Oct 2022

Most football fans fancy watching the World Cup in the metaverse

Amdocs surveyed people in the UK who planned to watch the 2022 World Cup, and claims that 62% expressed interest in using the metaverse to be part of a virtual stadium.

• 04 Oct 2022

78% of business professionals are up for meetings in the metaverse

A study claims 78% of business professionals would participate in more immersive experiences such as the metaverse as opposed to boring old video conferencing.

• 28 Sep 2022

Telefónica and Qualcomm are developing a metaverse ecosystem

Operator Telefónica and chip firm Qualcomm are putting their heads together to ‘establish the groundwork that will drive the metaverse forward’… but it’s all still a bit vague.

• 26 Sep 2022