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Will 5G Kill Me? When Telecom Politics Become a Deadly Sin

5G is undeniably the talk of the moment, much more in the business corridors and governmental strategies, than in the telecom community. This does not come as a surprise since 5G with its promising capabilities paves the way to a myriad of new business use cases and digital transformation opportunities. 5G and the trend in wireless network […]

Everything We Know So Far About the Asus ROG Phone 6

We may only be a few months away from seeing Asus’s 6th iteration of a long history of rolling out high-tech premium smartphones, the Asus ROG Phone 6. Although no one knows for sure, when you get the phone depends largely on where you live. The Asus Rog Phone 6, with ROG standing for ‘Republic […]

Mobily: A Unique Strategy to Get Back into Competition

The Saudi telecom market is highly competitive with the existence of three major mobile network operators, STC, Mobily, and Zain KSA and several mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) licensed by the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), the main communications regulatory authority in the KSA. Although each with a different strategy, they have been all […]

Telcos Allow Free Calls to Ukraine, Waive Roaming Charges

From Deutsche Telekom to AT&T to Vodafone, more than a dozen telecoms providers on both sides of the Atlantic are either providing free international calls to Ukraine or are scrapping roaming charges with the country. European telecoms lobbying group ETNO said an internal survey showed at least 13 of its members have taken measures to […]

Etisalat UAE Successfully Tests Fibre-to-the-Room (FTTR) Solution

ABU DHABI, 28 February 2022:  Etisalat UAE part of e& today announced the successful testing of Fibre-to-the-Room (FTTR) solution. The FTTR solution is a revolutionary technology for intelligent home networks providing a solid bedrock for enhanced digital capabilities for millions of consumers in the UAE. The FTTR solution also effectively eliminates challenges restricting speed limits […]

Spyware find highlights depth of hacker-for-hire industry

Security researchers said Thursday they found two kinds of commercial spyware on the phone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident, providing new evidence of the depth and diversity of the abusive hacker-for-hire industry. One piece of malware recently found on an iPhone belonging to Ayman Nour, a dissident and 2005 Egyptian presidential candidate who subsequently […]

Intel CEO predicts chip shortage to last till 2023

It appears that the global chip shortage is here to stay, or at least till 2023. Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger warns of supply and demand shortage continuation till 2023 following the semiconductor manufacturer’s quarterly report highlighting a drop in 2021 revenue. “We’re in the worst of it now; every quarter next year, we’ll get incrementally […]

VI and Airtel’s DoT fines, India’s networking market 14% growth

As India’s networking market evolved in Q2 2021, the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT)brutally edged down its sword on telcos Vodafone Idea (VI) and comrade Bharti Airtel by forcing them to pay heavy fines in three weeks concerning flouting of license terms. This harsh decision could not have been taken in a more critical time […]