News

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Mobile

Liberty LatAm's bid for regional dominance

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Submarine Network

Telstra sheds a little light on subsea cable investments

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IoT Devices

Electronic offender monitoring: human IoT or Orwellian nightmare?

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Healthcare

What happens to medical insurance when AI can predict your health ‘outcome’?

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NFV

Telefónica selects Wind River for its UNICA NFV programme

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Media & Entertainment

Making LTE and 5G more broadcast friendly

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5G

Sprint adds to the growing list of US “5G firsts” with 2.5GHz and Massive MIMO call

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Wi-Fi

Marketing broadband: Wi-Fi quality coverage becomes big selling point

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Backhaul

Deutsche Telekom achieves “fiber-like” results with mmWave wireless backhaul for 5G

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Devices

Samsung all bent out of shape by worsening smartphone market

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5G

AT&T is an easy target but operators in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

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5G

The kids are alright...thanks to Samsung and KDDI's 5G kit

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Security

Huawei's Hu hoisted with his own petard

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Radio Access Network

AT&T working with Nokia on open source O-RAN architecture for 5G

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IoT Devices

Smart speakers are booming in Las Vegas: any room for Telcos?

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Automotive

The battle for digital assistant supremacy shifts from the home to the car

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Core Network

ZTE claims lead on 5G core network maturity

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Wi-Fi

Qualcomm, Netgear offer up Wi-Fi 6 home mesh network

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Data Centres

Starting the year as it means to go on, Huawei announces an ARM-based server chipset

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Mobile

Telenor launches data top-up product with Google for Android users

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Net Neutrality

AT&T warms up for the non-neutrality game

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Devices

Is it crunch time for Apple as its new year gets off to a shaky start?

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Broadband

Huawei maps out wireless fibre solution for speedy broadband roll-out

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Video

Cut! Nokia completes the sale of its IP video business