Anatel (A National Telecommunications Agency) granted satellite exploration rights, late last week, to both companies SpaceX and Swarm. As such, Space Exploration Holdings, through its legal representative Starlink Brazil Holding Ltda, now has the right to explore the Starlink non-geostationary satellite system until March 2027. On the other hand, Anatel granted the right to Swarm […]
Karim Husami
Journalist for 8 years in print media, with a bachelor degree in Political Science and International Affairs. Masters in Media communications.
Yahoo Japan announced that most of its online services would no longer be accessible in the European Economic Area and the UK, starting April 6th. However, the company’s email, credit card, and ebook services will continue to be available, but everything else is going dark. The main reason behind that decision is the cost of […]
Huawei’s 5G RAN portfolio was rated a leader for the third year in a row in GlobalData’s recent H2 2021 report 5G RAN: Competitive Landscape Assessment. In the H2 2021 report, Huawei’s product portfolio exceeded its competitors in all four criteria: radio unit portfolio breadth, baseband unit (BBU) capacity, ease of installation, and technological evolution. […]
India’s 5G technology standard became part of global standards that companies will adopt locally and worldwide, a senior official of Indian telecom standards body TSDSI said late last week. “In a significant development, stakeholders across the globe, that came together last week at the RAN plenary meeting of global standards development body 3GPP, have agreed […]
Mobile Telecommunication Company Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA) reported a net profit after Zakat and tax of $ 57 million for 2021, down 18 percent from $69 million a year earlier. In addition, it has seen a 17.7 percent decrease in net profit in 2021 as COVID-19 driven repercussions weighed on revenues. The company explained that […]
The owners of Virgin Media O2 have initiated talks to raise hundreds of millions of pounds from investors to fund the rollout of fast fibre broadband to millions more British households. Telefónica and Liberty Global, who managed the merger of Virgin Media and O2 to create the developed group last year, will start contacting potential […]
In a surprise move, India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has decided to abandon 5Gi, as the local standard is known. While this follows opposition from telecommunications companies worried about compatibility issues involving 3GPP’s 5G and India’s 5Gi, there should have been testing, equipment, manufacturing and software costs involved. In addition, the Telecommunications Standards Development Society […]
Together with telecom titan Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom has extended its campus network portfolio, in addition to offering a location-specific 5G mobile networks for companies based on 5G Standalone Technology (5G SA). As such, the new campus network offering is based on a local 5G infrastructure that is exclusively available for the customer’s digital applications. The […]
Nokia, China Mobile (CMCC) and MediaTek has successfully achieved, in a joint trial, a new Standalone 5G (SA) download speed record of 2.94Gbps (Gigabits per second). The trial isn’t as fast as some previous tests, however, it was achieved using modest amounts of spectrum within the common 700MHz and 2.6GHz bands. “Achieved a new 5G […]
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) confirmed that the merger between DTAC and True Corporation is supposed to move forward, with the company’ accepting confirmation of their intent. The merger is expected to close in Q1 2022, according to local outlet prachachat.net, especially after receiving approval from the operators’ respective boards of executives on 19th November […]