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Is 2020 the year of next generation television with high-speed internet?

US TV broadcasters and vendors as well as the FCC are now getting behind the latest US ‘Advanced Television Systems Committee’ (ATSC) standard, ATSC 3. This defines the way digital television can be transmitted over terrestrial, cable and satellite. The FCC is promising to remove any regulatory issues which might stymie developments. It views the resulting […]

Virus tracing app raises privacy concerns in India

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — As India enters an extended coronavirus lockdown, the government is actively pursuing contact tracing to help control infections. At the heart of the effort in the country of 1.3 billion people is a smartphone app that evaluates users’ infection risk based on location services such as […]

Here come COVID-19 tracing apps - and privacy trade-offs

By MATT O’BRIEN and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press As governments around the world consider how to monitor new coronavirus outbreaks while reopening their societies, many are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the pandemic. But their decisions on which technologies to use — and how far those allow authorities to peer into […]

A different approach to mobile data services

VodafoneZiggo, Vodafone’s Dutch Communication Service Provider, (CSP) is launching 5G with Ericsson Spectrum Sharing and Ericsson 5G core. The surprising factor here, is that it is not using any 5G spectrum initially. It is however, using the flexibility Ericsson’s Spectrum Sharing has provided it, to tap into some of its LTE/4G spectrum and data across […]

Home internet jammed up? Try these steps before upgrading

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer With so much of the U.S. workforce — and their families — now cooped up at home to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, it’s not a huge surprise that home internet is showing the strain. If you’ve had a business videoconference stutter while your teenagers play Call […]

California AG drops challenge to T-Mobile-Sprint merger

NEW YORK (AP) — California’s attorney general said Wednesday that the state will not appeal a judge’s decision approving T-Mobile‘s $26.5 billion purchase of Sprint, bringing the companies closer to creating a new wireless giant on par with AT&T and Verizon in size. Attorney General Xavier Becerra and New York Attorney General Letitia James led […]

The Global Carrier Community Meeting

On the 11th and 12th of February 2020, the Carrier Community (CC) hosted its 12th annual Global Carrier Community Meeting (GCCM). Several panels and talks took place featuring speakers from companies including, Microsoft, Three UK, and Lycamobile. Members of the CC consist of executives and decision makers representing over 350 operators from over 55 countries, […]

Mobile Operators - The Industry Roundup

Rakuten to introduce half mobile phone fees compared with rivals TOKYO (Kyodo) — Rakuten Inc.’s mobile phone unit is set to charge less than half the fees its rivals do for high data usage, in an effort to boost subscribers when it launches services next month. No more illegal phones: Indonesia to impose IMEI control […]

AT&T launches new online TV service as video customers fall

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is launching a new internet-delivered TV service Monday as it struggles with a shrinking DirecTV satellite business. The new service, AT&T TV, will have most of the same channels offered on DirecTV, but it’ll come over the internet rather than a satellite dish. AT&T […]

Spectrum, a catalytic component of the Middle East economy

The latest research by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), highlights that spectrum makes up 3.4% of GDP for the highest 20 ICT nations from a number of sources which include employment, non-oil revenue, technological adoption and investment deployment. The range of frequencies from 3 kilohertz (KHz) to 300 gigahertz (GHz) that carries radio signals and […]