The telecoms infrastructure market is still in decline, and vendors banking on 5G to kickstart the market and get revenues back on track are going to have to wait a couple more years before that Read more…
(Reuters) – T-Mobile US and Sprint said on Sunday they had agreed to a $26 billion all-stock deal and believed they could win over skeptical regulators because the merger would create thousands of jobs and Read more…
The Joint Video Experts Team – a collaborative team formed by the ITU-T Study Group 16 Video Coding Experts Group and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29/WG11 (Moving Picture Experts Group, MPEG) – has launched a project to Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet president Sergey Brin said on Friday that technology companies must take greater responsibility for the social impact of their work, his first comments following a year of heightened global awareness Read more…
LONDON/NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – After bouncing up, falling down and keeping investors on the edges of their seats, Bitcoin may be maturing into a period of relatively boring stability, experts say. A worldwide wave of Read more…
KDDI has formed a strategic partnership with Osterhout Design Group (ODG) to jointly plan and develop smartglasses using VR/AR technology for 5G apps. In anticipation of the changes that will be brought on by widespread Read more…
Dialog Axiata has announced the commercial deployment of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, along with the launch of the eSIM-compatible Huawei Watch 2 smart watch in Sri Lanka. The pre-installed eSIM in wearables gives customers the Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: DNA can store music albums (and actually lots of other stuff); a new type of Read more…
HELSINKI/LONDON (Reuters) – Nokia posted a big drop in profits at its mainstay network equipment business as operators, particularly in North America held off spending, but it sees momentum building later in 2018 as the Read more…
Sharing economy apps make use of mobile voice calls, but users don’t like sharing their private number with strangers. Solution: telcos can provide disposable cloud numbers for such apps. The seamless transition between digital apps Read more…
(Reuters) – A month of darkening sentiment around Facebook among analysts was washed away in an instant when the social media giant’s earnings report blew through even the most optimistic earnings estimates. The response was Read more…
The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), Audi, Ford and Qualcomm Technologies have announced what they claim is the world’s first demonstration for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) direct communications technology interoperating across vehicles from different manufacturers. C-V2X is Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Gold and diamond companies including Berkshire Hathaway’s Richline Group joined with IBM to develop blockchain technology to track the origin of jewelry and ensure it is ethically sourced, the companies said Read more…
Cloudera has announced that Indosat Ooredoo has adopted Cloudera Enterprise to enable real-time insights across over 200TB of data and to harness more than 10TB of data collected daily into a centralized hub. Cloudera says Read more…
Network automation investments are expected to grow by approximately 30% between now and 2021, with 75% of network providers expecting to achieve full or significant network automation in the next five years. That’s according to Read more…
Satellite players have always looked for ways to stay relevant in the mobile era. But aside from expensive satellite handsets and rural cellular backhaul, it’s been tough going. And you’d be forgiven for thinking that Read more…
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – US prosecutors in New York have been investigating whether Chinese tech company Huawei violated US sanctions in relation to Iran, according to sources familiar with the situation. Since at least 2016, US authorities Read more…
Open APIs are at the heart of the move from legacy BSS to open and agile digital business platforms. The TM Forum’s main conference is almost upon us. After MWC, this is the main telecoms Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine Bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesday. “Eight high-power fans Read more…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be such a disruptive technology over the next decade that global business value derived via AI is projected to total $1.2 trillion in 2018 – an increase of 70% Read more…
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