Vodafone Idea’s (VI) fate is now controlled by the Indian government as the impending demise could immensely affect telecommunication service rivals, stakeholders, and the government, resulting in catastrophic outcomes on the country’s telecom sector. India’s telecommunication sector is wielding its final strategies to push itself from the underlying financial concerns, with Aditya Birla Group’s subsidiary, […]
Daryn Kara Ali
Daryn Kara-Ali has worked in the technology media space for three years. She is Inside Telecom’s Managing Editor. A digital and print news platform and magazine specializing in technology and telecoms. Her self-taught expertise has helped her manage and create a wide range of informative pieces covering all aspects of the tech industry, with content democratizing the industry, generally on a worldwide scale and specifically in the UAE. Daryn has solidly worked on driving a robust, informative culture of innovation around the tech and telecom space on a broad scale, be it digitally or physically, through Inside Telecom’s print magazine, focusing on the UAE. Her efforts and robust professional background fueled her to push herself to take her work to the next level.
China’s famous chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) revealed on Friday plans to upsurge independence in the chip manufacturing sector by investing $8.87 billion to build a chip plant in the tech city of Shanghai, according to a regulatory filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE). The Chinese expansion to globally take the lead […]
Arabian Internet and Communications Services Co. revealed plans of auctioning 24 million of its shares, trusting this move will raise $960 million in its initial public offering (IPO). The company, which is a subsidiary of Saudi Telekom Company (STC), will look to auction off the shares with prices ranging between $36.26 and $40.26 per share. […]
Under U.S. pretense that the Chinese telecom vendor Huawei could expose the Gulf to national security threats, United Arab Emirates (UAE) telco firms are urged by U.S. Lockheed Martin’s F-35 jets and drones’ sales deal to push Huawei from its 5G infrastructure contracts. The UAE has always held a fierce stance concerning its strong mobile […]
India’s homegrown telecom titan Bharti Airtel fulfilled its centralized goal and conducted India’s first cloud-gaming session in a 5G environment, successfully demonstrating its capabilities in delivering high-speed 5G internet. It is not a secret that cloud gaming will become one of the largest use cases of 5G networks as it provides a mixture of high […]
The smartphone industry will experience one of its best years in equipment manufacturing, despite the current global health crisis and semiconductor shortage, Gartner and IDC revealed in a new research. According to technology research firm Gartner, global smartphone production and sales reached a whopping 328.8 million in the second quarter (Q2) of the current year, […]
The Court of Justice in the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday against German mobile operators Telekom Deutschland and Vodafone for violating domestic authorities’ bloc net neutrality and roaming regulations for their “Zero-rating” scheme, following national investigations. The EU ruling was based on the compatibility of services provided by the telcos, following limitations on bandwidth […]
The slow process of releasing Ethiopia’s telecom market has finally reached an end with the licensing of East Africa’s Safaricom-led Global Partnership for Ethiopia’s consortium, granting the company a seat at the table to empower the government’s telecom services. Ethiopia is one of the last two countries in Africa to augment its national telco services […]
Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) launched on Sunday “The Local Roaming” initiative with the Kingdom’s leading telco firms to maximize services within all regions, specifically in remote villages and desert areas. Zain’s statement revealed that the primal phase of The National Mobile Inter-Network Roaming initiative will be launched in the Asir area […]
MTN Cameroon appealed for a license to deploy and operate a trial for 5G networks from the country’s Telecommunications Regulatory Board, aiming to provide Cameroonians entry to more modernized uses of information technologies, Business in Cameroon reports. Local media reported that the subsidiary of the South African telecommunications company MTN Group, MTN Cameroon (MTNC), has […]