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The Central Role of Telecom Operators in the Metaverse

The digital world has been witnessing intermittent events that change how we interact, access information, complete our daily activities, and basically live our daily life beyond our physical connections. Probably the first prominent introduction was the Internet and the world wide web in the nineties. The next awaited event is the advent of the Metaverse, […]

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 […]

DT closes Softbank deal as it eyes up U.S. telecoms market

In a labyrinthine deal of swapping, selling, and buying shares, Japanese conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. dropped the curtain on what could be a crowned deal, as it plans to own segments of Deutsche Telecom by selling units of its T-Mobile U.S. Inc. shares to the German telco. Deutsche Telekom (DT) has finally revealed plans to […]

Bharti Airtel, Intel collaborate to accelerate 5G rollout in India

Indian telco Bharati Airtel and U.S.- based chipmaker Intel announced on Wednesday a collaboration to develop 5G network by leveraging virtualized radio access network (vRAN) and open radio access network (O-RAN) technologies in India.  According to Intel’s statement this collaboration will evolve communications networks from fixed-function equipment to virtualized cloud-native deployments and enable edge-to-cloud communications to power hyperconnected world.  The Indian telco will deploy Intel’s latest 3rd gen Xeon Scalable […]

EU telco heads unite over regulation overhaul

Heads of the EU’s most prolific telecoms operators have taken to the Mobile World Congress on Monday to call for a complete regulatory overhaul of the continent’s network, as their statements labelled the current framework as “century-old.”  Industry analysts have previously noted that the current framework in place will not be suited to handle the […]

DT & Samsung’s first 5G trial could spell danger for Huawei

German Deutsche Telekom and South Korean Samsung announced on Wednesday the successful completion of the first 5G Standalone (SA) trial in the city of Pilsen, Czech Republic. The two companies verified the performance of 5G SA Multi-User, Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) technologies, demonstrating three times higher spectrum efficiency compared to LTE, a joint statement said. “Samsung […]

Germany resists U.S.-fueled Huawei ban

Huawei will remain part of Germany’s future 5G network, reports German business daily Handelsblatt, as the battle for government consensus on telecoms national security has edged in favor of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s favor for close trade relations with China. As reported, the draft bill looks to tighten security measures and protocols on all telecom vendors […]