DT and Samsung flirt with each other over standalone 5G
As Deutsche Telekom’s reliance on Huawei kit increasingly looks like a precarious position, it has taken to playing the field.
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UK government has another look at laws governing access to telecoms infrastructure
Now that we’re free of EU regulation it’s time to make the Electronic Communications Code fit for purpose.
Three quarters of UK MNOs agree stage one of shared rural network
Vodafone, O2 and Three have reached agreement on the first phase of the government-backed project to improve mobile coverage in rural areas of the UK, but EE says it doesn’t need to be involved at this stage.
KPN doubles profits in Q4 but still makes a loss for the year
Dutch operator group KPN’s healthy profit increase last quarter looks like a one-off, with revenue growth flat.
Offloading HuffPost hits Verizon’s Q4 earnings
Verizon highlighted mobile revenue growth and a good media performance in its Q4 2020 results, but also revealed a sizeable dent in earnings from the sale of HuffPost.
Twitter trials community policing – what could go wrong?
Social media platform Twitter, famous for the measured and conciliatory attitude of its users, wants to let them annotate each other’s posts.
Softbank names new CEO
Softbank has named company insider Junichi Miyakawa (pictured) as the new chief executive of its retail telecoms business.
Ericsson makes its network slicing move
Network slicing has always been positioned as a key component of 5G but has been a slow burner. Ericsson is seeking to ignite it with its latest launch.
TIM launches €1 billion cloud company
TIM has formally launched its new cloud and edge computing business under the Noovle brand, repeating its pledge to generate €1 billion in revenues from the new outfit in three years.
Unions could succeed where politicians have failed in holding internet giants to account
Google and Amazon can add growing unionization to the list of challenges to their dominance of the digital economy.
Ofcom delays UK 700 MHz auction
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom waited until the end of the month to announce the 700 MHz auction won’t happen in January after all.
Orange to raise €1bn-plus from sale of new rural fibre unit
Orange has created a new business unit to house its fibre operations in rural France and has agreed to sell half of that entity to investors in a deal that should raise well over €1 billion.
Huawei reportedly mulling state bailout for premium smartphone business
With the separation of Honor having gone according to plan, Huawei is now reportedly considering the same manoeuvre for its own-brand premium smartphones.
Google decides Loon is too costly to keep afloat
Loon, the much-hyped Google-backed project to connect difficult to reach areas to the Internet, is no more; the company is winding down due to high costs.
Honor’s new brand strategy is simple: don’t mention Huawei
The smartphone brand spun out from Huawei in a bid to circumvent US sanctions is keen to show what a different proposition it is.
China launches comms satellite, SpaceX launches 60
2021 is off to a flying start for satellite communications, with China launching the third satellite in its Tiantong-1 series and Elon Musk’s SpaceX sending its latest batch of Starlink satellites into orbit.
New FCC Chair Rosenworcel claims to value freedom of speech – let’s see
New US President Biden has promoted FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to chair the regulator and the policing of social media is likely to be her biggest single task.
Belgium to get new fixed and mobile player in April
Youfone will launch fixed and mobile services in Belgium in April, having brokered a wholesale deal with incumbent operator Proximus.
IoT puts companies ahead as supply chain digitalisation accelerates
The most profound change in global supply chains in the coming years will be digitalisation, and as such companies that embrace IoT solutions will find themselves ahead of the competition.
China’s telcos ask to be relisted on NYSE
Within moments of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom sent in requests for their shares to be reinstated to the New York Stock Exchange.
Polls
What role will consumers expect telcos to play when COVID-19 is behind us?
- As a reliable utility similar to the role they have managed to play during the pandemic (45%, 13 Votes)
- Rolling out new technologies and services to support new customer behaviours (28%, 8 Votes)
- Turning special service offerings during the pandemic into standard offerings (17%, 5 Votes)
- As a digital platform that they have struggled to change into since the pre-COVID times (10%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 19
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