Nokia reveals impact of COVID-19 on network traffic
The Deepfield analytics team of networking vendor Nokia has been having a look at how network traffic evolved over March.
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European techies launch proximity tracing app initiative
Smartphones are a great way of tracking the spread of the pandemic, but that comes with major civil liberties implications.
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.
2019 was hard but 2020 will be even harder – Huawei CEO
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.
Social media censorship in the time of coronavirus
Every day new initiatives are being announced to ensure people have the correct information on the COVID-19 pandemic, but who watches the watchers?
First the Entity List, now COVID-19, the semiconductor segment is picking up bruises
Having recovered from the impact of Huawei’s entry onto the Entity List, the semiconductor industry has been dealt another blow with COVID-19 impacting supply chains and product launches.
Microsoft places restrictions on Azure as demand increases by 775%
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.
OneWeb files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy thanks to COVID-19
Satellite challenger OneWeb has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, blaming the spread of the coronavirus as the reason talks for additional funding fell through.
Huawei faces fresh threat from US-China spat over COVID-19
While the two presidents have spoken to each other again, the American government are planning to further restrict Huawei’s access to chip supplies.
Italian networks are having a bit of a wobble under the strain
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.
Huawei boss shrugs off effects of COVID-19 and US sanctions
Ren Zhengfei, Huawei founder and head honcho, is maintaining his defiant public position in spite of mounting challenges.
5G growth isn’t enough to compensate Chinese operators’ subs loss
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.
Use of subscriber data to tackle COVID-19 lets the civil liberties genie out of the bottle
Mobile operators are being asked to provide subscriber data to governments in order to track the spread of coronavirus and they dare not refuse.
TM Forum postpones Digital Transformation World
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.
Google sister company Verily prepares COVID-19 risk screening and testing site
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.
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