Half of Australians could get Telstra 5G if they want it
Telstra’s 5G network now covers half of the population of Australia, the telco announced on Thursday.
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Samsung launches new Galaxy S21 smartphone family priced £769-£1,149
Korean tech giant Samsung decided to get its flagship launch in nice and early this year with three devices to take on the best Apple has to offer.
Nokia gets even more intimate with Google Cloud
Finnish kit vendor Nokia has signed a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to bundle its stuff into enterprise 5G solutions.
T-Mobile’s 5G mega-spend continues with Nokia, Ericsson deals
T-Mobile US has signed two 5G equipment deals with Nokia and Ericsson, both of which carry multi-billion-dollar valuations.
EE calls out the other UK MNOs over 5G claims
BT’s consumer head Marc Allera reckons his rivals are stretching the truth with their 5G claims.
Australia shows the way for mmWave 5G over long distances
NBN Co is claiming a new 5G transmission distance record, which is no bad thing when you consider the size of Australia.
Qualcomm drops $1.4 billion on server chip startup Nuvia
Nuvia was founded by former Apple chip engineers and it’s in legal dispute with one of them, so Apple must be especially delighted it’s being acquired by Qualcomm.
UK government chucks some money at a few 5G bright ideas
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has managed to scrape together £28 million to contribute to some test projects focusing on consumer applications of 5G.
Social media use boomed last year, especially with TikTok
Consumers spent a lot more time on social networking apps last year, with video-sharing app TikTok making major strides, according to new data from App Annie.
Telefónica’s €7.7 billion towers sale is good news for Vodafone
Telefónica has agreed to sell its towers portfolio in Europe and Latin America to passive infrastructure specialist American Tower for €7.7 billion.
International investigation alleges anti-Western discrimination within Huawei
Four European newspapers have investigated Huawei’s internal policies and found evidence that some of them punish Chinese employees for marrying Westerners.
SoftBank accuses Rakuten of industrial espionage
A former employee of Japanese operator group Softbank, who now works for rival MNO Rakuten Mobile, has been arrested on suspicion of violating unfair competition prevention law.
LG teases phone with rollable screen at virtual CES 2021
Korean tech giant LG is the first major vendor to promise a smartphone with a rollable screen.
T-Mobile raises $3bn to fund massive US spectrum spending
T-Mobile is tapping the bond markets to raise US$3 billion that will help to fund its upcoming spending on spectrum.
BT creates digital transformation unit, poaches Bharti Airtel exec to lead it
UK telecoms group BT reckons there might be something in this digital transformation thing, so it’s setting up a special silo to focus on it.
Orange Ventures legal separation is official
Orange has spun off its investment fund arm into a separate legal entity renamed as Orange Ventures with €350 million worth of start-up investments.
Covid-19 drives wearable device spending
Consumers will spend significantly more on wearable devices this year than they did last, with the Covid-19 pandemic proving to be a strong market driver, according to new data from Gartner.
DT reportedly wants to flog T-Mobile Netherlands
A new report cites a few anonymous inside sources for the gossip that Deutsche Telekom his hoping to get as much as €5 billion for its Dutch subsidiary.
AWS banning of Parler exposes the precariousness of the public cloud
Following activist pressure from its own employees, Amazon Web Services kicked social network Parler off its servers today.
Vodafone boosts Vantage’s earnings, IPO potential by adding UK towers
Vodafone will transfer its 50% stake in UK towers business Cornerstone to Vantage Towers, having brokered a deal with joint venture partner Telefonica to operate the unit as a commercial entity.
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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