Monty Mobile is on a quest to provide its userbase with the right tools to carry out control over mobile services, while meeting and exceeding any form of basic services. With the Show ID application, all calls conducted with contacts and companies will be synchronized, registering all calls made or received on the app. Show […]
Telecoms
Estonian Telecom Telia Eesti announced last week that it’s 5G network is currently available in 77 locations across 14 main cities within the country. Telia Eesti — one of the Baltic region’s main telecom suppliers and subsidiary of Swedish provider Telia — revealed that it’s planning to invest more in the construction of 5G. By the end of the year, the Estonia-based company plans to expand the new generation mobile network to more than 100 locations, including various county centers. Currently, Telia’s 5G […]
Telcos have been reluctant to take up eSIMs. In some ways, who can blame them? After all, removing the physical SIM and embedding eSIM technology into a mobile device removes much of the hassle of changing service providers and makes it far easier for customers to switch, if they’re drawn in by a better deal. […]
Australian telecom giant Telstra announced on Monday that it is currently in talks to acquire Jamaican telco Digicel’s operations in the South Pacific for a rumored bid of $1.5 billion, various media reports highlighted. The Australian offer has been backed up from the government which will support the acquisition not only financially but also in […]
Edge computing is exactly what it says on the tin. Computing that takes place at the endpoint of an edge network, with the ‘edge’ being the end devices accessing the rest of the network, like phones and laptops. In other words, the very edge of a network. Affiliated devices were connected to the nearest central […]
Ericson reported on Tuesday a grow in its organic sales of eight percent of its market value as Geopolitical tensions grow between the Swedish company and the world’s second largest economy, following the company’s warning of its deteriorating market share in China. The telecoms vendor – one of Huawei’s biggest competitors – announced that both […]
Five network operators in the Middle East signed on Sunday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide support and deployment of open RAN technology in their future infrastructure rollouts. Etisalat Group, Saudi Telecom Company (stc), Zain Group, Mobily – the Saudi operator part-owned by Etisalat- and du announced in a joint statement their aim to […]
North Macedonia’s Agency for Electronic Communications (AEK) announced earlier this week that it has obtained four bids from telcos that aim to participate in a planned auction for the allocation of 5G frequencies. Makedonski Telekom, A1 Makedonija, and Bitstream Mobile have expressed interest in licenses for national coverage in the 700 MHz and the 3 GHz spectrums. Neotel’s expression of interest concerns licenses for regional coverage in the 3 GHz […]
Open Radio Access Network, Or Open RAN for simplicity, isn’t a new thing, but it is seeing a sharp rise in adoption coinciding with. It refers to open access to radio network architecture, and telcos are clamoring to jump aboard the band wagon. A bandwagon that would otherwise be very, very expensive to implement for any one entity. The biggest players in worldwide telecoms, those same ones […]
Ethiopia’s liberalization of its telecommunications sector is in full swing, as the state-run Ethio Telecom reported an 18.4 percent rise in full year revenue as of end of June to $1.29 billion, the telco’s CEO Frehiwot Tamiru told reporters on Tuesday. The provider’s ballooning revenue streams were followed by a 22 percent hike in subscribers […]