London-based retro game streaming service Antstream Arcade today announced an exclusive partnership with StarHub, a leading provider of communication, entertainment and digital solutions in Singapore, to enable customers to experience supercharged gaming with zero lag on StarHub’s first-to-market 5G service. This tie-up between StarHub and Antstream Arcade is the first such partnership in the Asia Pacific […]
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China has been working seriously on including 5G initiatives as part of the aviation infrastructures. “Digitalization is a new value-growth point of the whole aviation industry”, said Xu Jun, vice president of Asia-Pacific OEMs of Honeywell Aerospace, according to Xinhuanet. On August 24, 2020, The Shanghai Airport Authority signed an agreement with Shanghai branches of […]
Telecommunications customers around the world have been suffering from poor services. However, under the scheme proposed by the UK telecom regulator Ofcom, broadband and landline customers who suffered from poor service have received £20.7 m in compensation payments between July and December 2019, according to The Guardian. Companies automatically pay out £8 for each day […]
Spanish Telecom operator MásMóvil is expected to launch 5G in five major cities in Spain by the week of September 7, 2020, according to Spanish Network Expansión. MásMóvil will be the third Spanish Telecom operator to provide a 5G network for its customers. Vodafone already launched 5G operations last year. Téléfonica has yet to announce […]
In the past few years, the Sultanate of Oman has been considered as the most progressive telecom market in the Middle East for its liberalization and promotion of competition. Oman has a total of 16 telecom service providers operating under 3 categories. The competition between the telecom operators has engendered significant growth for different sectors […]
Chinese Telecom operators are showing significant growth in their 5G business. Reports shared by China Telecom showed that the company gained 37.8 million 5G subscribers by the end of the first half of 2020. However, this number is equal to 11% of its overall mobile customer base, states Telecoms.com. According to the 2020 H1 financial […]
The government of Australia has announced allocation limits of the 26 GHz spectrum for the country’s next 5G auction set to occur in March 2021. The new spectrum will complement the 3.6 GHz spectrum, which mobile operators are already using to deploy 5G services across Australia, according to RCR Wireless. Paul Fletcher, Australian Minister for […]
According to the Office of the OMBUDSMAN for Telecommunications annual report, the number of complaints relating to nuisance calls in Belgium was 4456 in 2019. Moreover, the number of un-identified malicious calls was 2891 while the number of identified calls was 1578. MP for the Flemish centrist CD&V party, Leen Dierick, sees that the operator’s […]
On August 11, 2020, Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos decided to leave her position on the board of the country’s leading telecommunications operator- Unitel Telecom. This decision came out amid ongoing tensions between Unitel board members. In her resignation statement, dos Santos who holds a 25% stake in the company, said, “After 20 years dedicated […]
On August 12, 2020, The Goa Government approved the state Telecommunications infrastructure policy 2020 which will adopt a single-window permit system- where only the public works department will grant permission to companies for setting up mobile towers, states the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. The companies have to pay Rs 50,000 as a one-time license fee […]