Wireless/Mobile
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British internet users have moved away from watching events with loved ones to become a nation of split-screeners, according to BT’s annual usage data. -
Researchers at University College London (UCL) have achieved a new wireless transmission record, sending data at speeds over 9,000 times faster than average 5G download speeds.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced that it will start to switch off 3G services in 2025 as part of its ongoing network transformation.
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Separate reports from Analysys Mason and Dell’Oro give gloomy outlooks for the telecoms market in 2023.
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Ukrtelecom, Ukraine's incumbent telco, reports that as of this morning, 75% of its regional hubs remain operational and that its national carrier network is still working
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Veon CEO Kaan Terzioğlu said this morning it would be “irresponsible” to provide guidance on the effect of Russia’s attack on Ukraine on the company’s performance
Forthcoming events
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UK operators will make it more difficult for fraudsters to use their networks after plans unveiled today by Ofcom.
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Japanese operator KDDI has chosen Californian vendor Wind River for its O-RAN-compliant 5G virtualised base station plans.
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Two of the main tasks of 6G, the next generation of mobile, will be to improve human communications and machine communications.
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Netcracker has launched a digital platform to help CSPs accelerate business growth in the digital economy.
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Tonga has been reconnected to the world’s subsea cable networks, nearly six weeks after a volcano blew an 80km gap in it.
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Zoom Video Communications and Deutsche Telekom are collaborating to offer a jointly developed product for the German market called ‘Zoom X’.
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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has said it has registered six participants for its spectrum auction.
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African group MTN is following the example of the former Liquid Telecom and rebranding to reflect its status as a technology company.
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The European Union is challenging China’s use of its courts to block non-Chinese telecoms vendors from backing their patents.
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Arc Solutions and Israeli internet service provider (ISP) Bezeq International have signed an agreement to connect the UAE and Bahrain directly to Israel.
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European cloud providers have launched an initiative for common infrastructure that meet Gaia-X requirements.
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The US financial regulator has made South Korean telco KT pay a total of US$6.3 million for bribing politicians in South Korea and Vietnam.
Forthcoming events
Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
