OneWeb and Telefónica pledge to hook up remote areas

Low Earth Orbit satellite firm OneWeb and operator Telefónica have teamed up to bring network connectivity to rural and remote parts of Europe and Latin America.

Google sprinkles AI on everything at I/O

As well the new gadgets that were paraded out on the catwalk of Google I/O yesterday, there were a myriad of other updates to Google’s ludicrously wide product set, usually involving AI enhancements.

Deutsche Telekom bullish after a solid Q1

German telecoms group DT tweaked up its guidance after posting better than expected numbers for the first quarter of the year.

Nokia’s new SaaS offering targets five-fold increase in energy savings

Finnish kit maker Nokia has launched a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) designed to help telcos reduce their environmental impact.

VMO2 and Three UK call on Amdocs for customer service help

Virgin Media O2 and Three UK are both working with Amdocs on projects designed to improve their service offerings and provide a better experience for customers.

Google is building its own gadget ecosystem

The tech giant signals its growing intentions in the devices market, unveiling new Pixel phones, a smartwatch, a tablet, high-end earbuds and more at its annual announcement parade in California.  

Voda-Three merger is the rumour that refuses to die

Rumours of a possible merger between Vodafone and Three UK were beginning to wilt a bit, so they have been freshened up again with some new ones.

BT Sport gets a new lease of life with Warner Bros Discovery deal

BT has inked a joint venture deal with Warner Bros Discovery to merge their respective sports content offerings into a new entity, but they have yet to make a call on a new brand.

Informa CEO Stephen Carter to join the Vodafone board

Stephen Carter, the head of business information giant Informa, will become a non-executive director of UK telco group Vodafone in a few weeks.

Telia teaches 2000 employees how to use AWS

Swedish operator group Telia has brought in Amazon Web Services to upskill 10% of its workforce to use cloud technologies over the next 3 years.

VMO2 pushes fibre rollout as competition bites

Virgin Media O2 is shouting about its plans to crack on with full fibre rollout, but its latest quarterlies show it is starting to feel the heat from the competition.

Apple is set to kill off the Lightning port, claims analyst

Consumer tech giant Apple will drop its proprietary lightning charging and earphone port and replace it with the more widely used USB-C next year, according to an analyst.

EE extends in-store mobile repair service to 218 sites

UK MNO EE has extended its two hour in-store repair service for mobile phones to stores across the rest of the UK.

Three’s 3G shutdown should be smoother than its launch

Three UK’s 3G network was its launchpad, but now the company is pulling the plug with a view to channelling investments and spectrum into newer technologies.

Russia cyber-attacked Viasat ahead of Ukraine invasion

Russia deployed a cyber-attack on comms company Viasat in the Ukraine which had effects throughout Europe, according to new UK and US intelligence.

VMO2 bets on a whole lot of Nothing

Nothing, the latest supposedly disruptive smartphone brand, will be offered exclusively by O2 in the UK when they get around to making it.

Samsung says 6G will need all the mmWave spectrum it can get

Samsung wants tens of Gigahertz of contiguous millimetre wave spectrum so we can all enjoy the myriad benefits of 6G holograms.

EE says its 5G network now covers half of the UK population

MNO EE claims it is the first operator to expand its 5G coverage to more than 50% of people in the UK.

Tinder operator Match sues Google over Play Store billing

Match Group runs a bunch of dating apps and it reckons Google is abusing its power by making its own billing system mandatory on the Play Store.

GDPR killed a third of the Android app market, claims study

A paper by a cohort of economic boffins claims the EU’s GDPR legislation has led to a reduction in the number of apps on Google Play, as well as increased costs and reduced revenues for developers.

Frontier seeks $800m for fibre build

US broadband provider Frontier is after fresh funding to maintain the momentum of its ambitious network deployment.

Nokia opens 5G cybersecurity testing lab in US

The Advanced Security Testing and Research (ASTaR) lab is located in Dallas, Texas and Nokia claims it is the first end-to-end 5G testing lab in the US to focus solely on cybersecurity.

Ofcom begins mulling mmWave for the UK

UK comms regulator Ofcom, which controls the allocation of radio spectrum, is finally looking at opening up millimetre wave spectrum bands to the telecoms industry.

Google bows to further anti-Russia pressure

US internet giant Google is blocking the download of paid apps from its Google Play store in Russia.

Telefónica Tech bolsters Microsoft relationship with BE-terna buy

Telefónica has high expectations this year for its acquisitive Tech division, and Microsoft looks set to play an important role in fulfilling them.

TPG Telecom offloads the last of its towers

Australian MNO TPG Telecom is selling what’s left of its passive mobile tower and rooftop infrastructure inventory to OMERS Infrastructure Management for $950 million.

Canadian competition body looks to block Rogers, Shaw merger

The proposed tie-up between Rogers Communications and rival Shaw is under threat, with Canada’s Commissioner of Competition having indicated he intends to block the deal.