COVID-19 puts Year of 5G on hold
The telco industry might be in the limelight for the moment, but 5G looks like it is now taking a breather as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on society.
The telco industry might be in the limelight for the moment, but 5G looks like it is now taking a breather as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on society.
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson is doing its AGM remotely today coz of coronavirus and CEO Börje Ekholm offered a general update ahead of it.
Record revenues, record profits and record smartphone shipments, but the US Entry List heavily impacted Huawei in the second half and 2020 is going to be tougher again.
Every day new initiatives are being announced to ensure people have the correct information on the COVID-19 pandemic, but who watches the watchers?
Microsoft has said there has been 775% increase of cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing, and it has placed restrictions on customers to ensure performance.
In the spirit of collective endeavour Vodafone UK is offering unlimited mobile data for free to vulnerable customers and half a million others for a month.
Although Italian networks seem to be holding-up under the increased traffic, data from Opensignal and MedUX suggests there has been material levels of service degradation.
Ren Zhengfei, Huawei founder and head honcho, is maintaining his defiant public position in spite of mounting challenges.
When the GSMA was forced to cancel Mobile World Congress coz of coronavirus it indicated that no refunds would be given, but a month later it has seen sense.
The total recent decline in mobile subscriptions reported by China’s mobile operators totaled 20 million and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic isn’t the only reason.
Mobile operators are being asked to provide subscriber data to governments in order to track the spread of coronavirus and they dare not refuse.
The Digital Transformation World event, which was due to take place in Copenhagen in June, has been postponed to October due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
All three of the big Chinese mobile operators are reporting significant declines in their subscriber numbers, presumably due to the current exceptional circumstances.
With suggestions telco networks might come under strain over the coming weeks, BT has unveiled the facts and figures of its network to calm fears of homeworkers and parents desperate for peace.
With telecommunications now acting as the foundation for almost every element of society, how telcos react to the on-going coronavirus outbreak will be critically important.
Vodafone has announced a five-point plan to maintain network service and assist governments across Europe to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
As governments look to industry for assistance in tackling the coronavirus pandemic, a new online service designed to make initial risk assessments will be piloted in San Francisco.
All the major Spanish telcos have unveiled a joint statement to customers, asking for fair and reasonable use of the internet during over the foreseeable future.
AT&T has announced it will suspend download limits on its broadband products in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
BT CEO Philip Jansen will enter self-isolation for two weeks after contracting coronavirus, COVID-19.
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01 April 2020 @ 10:59:06 UTC
COVID-19 puts Year of 5G on hold https://t.co/H5c2mnbe0V #4GLTE #5G
01 April 2020 @ 08:33:32 UTC
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31 March 2020 @ 16:43:32 UTC
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