Rakuten receives a $2 billion capital injection
The Japanese digital heavyweight Rakuten has sold a 13% share, worth $2.2 billion, to new investors to bolster its balance sheet and to finance more aggressive mobile rollout. Rakuten announced that...
View ArticleO2 speeds ahead on 4G but EE is in the driving seat for 5G
With the spring bank holiday weekend looming in the UK many will be hitting the road for a quick getaway, and O2 is using this to its advantage, trumpeting the strength of its 4G network coverage along...
View ArticleNokia brings 5G FWA to Oman
Finnish kit vendor Nokia has helped Ooredoo Oman to offer 4G and 5G fixed wireless access to its customers. The work started earlier this year and today they announced the availability of FWA...
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Rakuten says it will have “No More Secrets”
Rakuten’s CTO Tareq Amin told analysts and media that the company will soon disclose all prices it pays its suppliers, in a new drive for commoditisation of telecoms hardware and software. In addition...
View ArticleLondon Mayor takes credit for glacial Tube 4G rollout
In a few years’ time London commuters will be able to pay for the chance to connect their devices while travelling on the Underground. Ultimate responsibility for the Tube lies with the London Mayor,...
View ArticleNokia rolls out Africa’s newest greenfield network
Africell is using equipment from Nokia in what will become Africa’s newest mobile network when it launches in Angola later this year. The Finnish vendor on Monday announced that it is deploying a...
View ArticleEurobites: Netmore plans LoRaWAN IoT network in UK
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Nokia lands core gig at United Group; Arm sees sales soar; Community Fibre takes majority stake in Box Broadband. Swedish IoT operator Netmore is planning to...
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Rakuten Mobile loss almost doubled in Q2
Operating loss incurred at Japan’s challenger operator increased by 85% in Q2 to reach $900 million, which the company attributed to aggressive investment in network rollout and rising roaming cost....
View ArticleThe curious case of T-Mobile’s 3G shutdown date
UMTS network closure date was originally October 2021, then it was April 2022, and now it’s back to October. T-Mobile in the US, as far as Telecoms.com can tell, doesn’t give a breakdown of subscribers...
View ArticleNTT unveils “global” private 5G network
Japanese telecoms group offers cross-border 5G network-as-a-service platform but keeps schtum on ecosystem partners. Japan’s NTT claimed, somewhat ambitiously, that it had launched the first “globally...
View ArticleVirgin Media O2 flirts with Samsung as a RAN vendor
Newly-merged UK operator group VMO2 is going to conduct trials with Samsung to test the compatibility of its 4G and 5G kit with legacy networks. Samsung is a relatively recent arrival to the mobile...
View ArticleCovid drives Internet uptake but many are still left behind – ITU
Millions of people became new Internet users in the past two years, but over a third of the world’s population has still never gone online, according to new statistics from the ITU. The UN’s telecoms...
View ArticleCellular IoT market expected to double by 2026
Low-power wide area (LPWA) networking is expected to fuel a 97 percent rise in the value of the cellular IoT market. This is according to a report published by Juniper Research, which predicts it will...
View ArticleIndia hit 31% growth in 4G mobile data in 2021 – Nokia
Nokia’s annual Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report claims 4G mobile data in India increased by 31% in 2021, while average monthly data traffic per user grew by 26.6%. The report presents more stats...
View ArticleSamsung and VMO2 roll out new 4G and 5G sites
South Korean tech giant Samsung and UK telco VMO2 have deployed a series of new 4G and 5G sites across the UK. Following lab tests last year, field trials have been ongoing on the sites in Tamworth and...
View ArticleBT fuses fixed and mobile connections to boost copper speeds
UK telco group BT says a new technology can double download speeds and make upload speeds ten times faster on average for businesses which are not able to upgrade to fibre broadband. BT claims its...
View ArticleChina’s fourth mobile operator goes live
China’s fourth mobile operator has launched services, breaking into a market that has long been the domain of the big three. But it’s far too early to get excited about the prospect of additional...
View ArticleBT wants extension to Huawei kit rip-out deadline
BT has confirmed it wouldn’t mind having a bit more time to rip out Huawei equipment from its network, the process having been impeded by the Covid-19 pandemic. “A short extension would be reasonable,”...
View ArticleVodafone and VMO2 will deploy 4G and 5G on London Underground
A new deal with Infrastructure firm BAI Communications, who handles the network in the Underground, will mean Vodafone and VMO2 customers will be able to make calls on the tube. Vodafone and VMO2...
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The cheapest and most expensive countries for mobile data revealed
A report lists Israel as having the cheapest mobile data plans in the world, while Saint Helena clocks in at the most expensive country to get online. A survey carried out by Cable.co.uk analysed data...
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