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U.S. Congress seeks FCC guidance for data protection

Lawful presence takes over as lawmakers assembled on Wednesday to conduct a series of data privacy hearings in an attempt to bolster data protection protocols against social networking platforms. The Senate Commerce Committee’s intentions to address the development of an additional privacy bureau at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will set new scales for extensive […]

Ethiopia initiates bidding for second license

The Ethiopian Communications Agency (ECA) disclosed Tuesday that it has once again welcomed a request for a second license for national telecoms with a lower than anticipated price margin, due to be issued in January of next year. Ethiopia’s government revealed that any submitted proposal for the second license must be presented by December 20 […]

India’s relief package may not resurrect Vodafone Idea

Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea might not have enough financial sturdiness to pull itself out of its accumulated $30 billion debt, despite governmental deliberation of a four-year moratorium on paying overblown past dues. Vodafone Idea’s extravagant debt of almost $30 billion is a result of the Indian government’s pressure on its telecom sector and telcos. […]

Microsoft’s CEO says trying to buy TikTok was “the strangest thing”

During an interview with journalist Kara Swisher at the Code conference, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella came forward with new information regarding the negotiations that happened while trying to acquire TikTok.  “It was the strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,” Nadella Said, describing his attempt to save the TikTok app in the U.S. and elsewhere after Donald Trump’s administration threatened to ban it.  If you haven’t heard about Trump’s efforts in banning TikTok from the […]

Trudeau: Canada's decision on whether to allow Huawei coming

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will decide within weeks whether to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei into the country’s next-generation 5G wireless networks and noted that major telecommunication companies have already started to remove Huawei from their networks. Canada and its security agencies have been studying whether to use equipment from Huawei […]

Dubai to find out if pandemic-delayed Expo 2020 will pay off

A computer-graphic-soaked advertisement featuring Australian actor and Hollywood heartthrob Chris Hemsworth beckons the world to Dubai’s upcoming Expo 2020, promising a “world of pure imagination” as children without facemasks race across a futuristic carnival scene. Reality, however, crashes into the frame in all capital-letters caption at the bottom of the screen, saying: “THIS COMMERCIAL WAS […]

Ethereum analyst pleads guilty to conspiring against U.S. sanctions

Famous Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith was sentenced to 20 years in prison for assisting the North Korean government in eluding U.S. sanctions during a blockchain conference, jeopardizing American coercion on the Democratic People’s Republic. The researcher gave an admittance of guilt for colluding to break the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, strictly preventing the export […]

Pakistan, UAE’s Etisalat rectify 14-year-old valuation quarrel

The Pakistani government has decisively reached a settlement with UAE’s Etisalat over what seemed to be a never-ending quarrel following the Emirati operator’s acquisition of a faction of shares in Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). The achieved settlement focuses on the assessment of multiple properties initially planned to become a segment of PTCL after its […]

China outlaws all cryptocurrency transactions, Bitcoin value yields

The People’s Bank of China doubled down on Friday its crackdown on all cryptocurrency mining and trading activities by instituting its latest regulation prohibiting overseas cryptocurrency exchanges from accommodating to Chinese citizens under threat of criminal penalty, yielding Bitcoin value. China’s perception of decentralized currencies is not a thing of the past. As the first […]