China is building tens of thousands of 5G base stations every week. This will allow it to maintain – and advance – its position as the factory floor of the world.
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Britain is betting that satellite operator OneWeb will help it boldly go into a post-Brexit era. But it faces formidable challenges to complete a working constellation and rebuild a collapsed venture.
Alphabet began offering the world’s first commercial high-speed Internet using balloons to villagers in remote regions of Kenya’s Rift Valley on Wednesday.
But pressure from the US has continued to grow and European governments and carriers have found themselves having to choose sides between two world powers.
Finland’s Nokia on Tuesday became the first major telecoms equipment maker to commit to adding open interfaces in its products that will allow operators to build networks that are not tied to a vendor.
Could communications regulator Icasa miss its self-imposed deadline of licensing 4G- and 5G-suitable spectrum by the end of the year? There is now a real concern this could happen. By Duncan McLeod.
Blue Label Telecoms will take a R330-million knock to its earnings after it decided to close its WiConnect retail stores, which it opened in partnership with Edcon Group starting in 2015.
Cell C’s planned recapitalisation remains the subject of discussions with potential investors, despite a plan, announced last month, to retrench almost 40% of its workforce.
The head of the French cybersecurity agency Anssi said there would not be a total ban on using equipment from Huawei in the roll-out of the French 5G telecommunications network.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to begin phasing out the use of Chinese tech giant Huawei’s technology in Britain’s 5G network as soon as this year, according to a report.