ZTE Corporation announced that it has received two No. 1 rankings in research firm Dell’Oro Group’s recently released Broadband Access & Home Networking Quarterly Report 3Q21.
Chinese state-owned telecommunication company China Telecom has selected ZTE Corporation in the operator's core router centralized procurement 2021, with the core router ZXR10 T8000 gaining a No.2 market share of 30% in the CR-A1 (single device) section, and winning the CR-A2 (cluster) section with the highest score in the overall ranking.
Africa’s smartphone market saw shipments decline 2.3 per cent quarter on quarter (QoQ) during Q3 2021, though feature phones performed reasonably well, according to the latest figures announced by market intelligence provider International Data Corporation (IDC).
Smartphones are getting cheaper. 3G and 4G are reaching more people than ever. However, nearly three billion people are still offline – and in fact have never used the internet. And, of those 2.9 billion, an estimated 96 per cent live in developing countries.
The South Korean tech giant Samsung has reportedly decided to shift some of the manufacturing of its smartphones from Vietnam to India.
Africell and Industry Five are launching a pilot project that will see mobile phones assembled in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the first time.
The growth of mobile advertising indicates the continuing importance to operators of diversifying their business models, something that has been further underlined by an agreement between Indonesian operator Indosat Ooredoo and mobile advertising and data monetisation specialist Out There Media.
80.8 million smartphones were shipped in China in 3Q21, down 4.7% year-on-year (YoY), said a study.
Yahoo has announced that it will exit China due to an increasingly challenging operating environment.
JioPhone Next, the smartphone jointly developed by India's largest 4G network Reliance Jio and global internet major Google, will run on a new operating system called Pragati OS. The Pragati OS, powered by Android, has been built specifically for the country.
Operator Vodafone Turkey, and wholesale telecoms platform provider Linxa have announced the deployment of Linxa Connect, which, the partners say, enables Vodafone Turkey to bring the automation, control and efficiency of its international and national voice wholesale business to the next level.
Underlining the growing importance of streaming video and OTT services, Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its video platform as a service (VPaaS); it’s called Airtel IQ Video and was developed by Airtel’s in-house engineering teams.
SICO Technology, described as Egypt’s first smartphone maker, plans to get into the African electronics market assembling handsets for other companies, according to recent news reports.
Irrespective of the second wave of COVID, India’s networking market, which includes Ethernet Switch, Routers, and WLAN segments, witnessed a reasonable 14.1% year-over-year (YoY) growth in terms of vendor revenues during 2Q21 (April – June).
The Government of Togo and Bboxx, a next generation utility, have announced what is described as the first-ever memorandum of understanding (MoU) to sell smartphones in Togo on a pay-as-you-go basis.
The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development and telecoms giant Vodafone have got together to urge action to connect 3.4 billion people with smartphones by 2030.
Mozambique will start turning off analogue television transmitters next Monday (September 27th) as the country transitions to the digital era, the National Institute of Communications (INCM) announced.
Global smartphone shipments are continuing to grow – and that growth is being led by strong recovery in many emerging markets. That’s the view of market intelligence provider International Data Corporation (IDC) in the latest edition of its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
Brazilian handset and PABX manufacturer Intelbras and American chipmaker Qualcomm have teamed up to produce 5G Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), using the second generation Qualcomm 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) platform with the Snapdragon X62 5G Modem-RF system and Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6 and 6E.
Aztelekom, the national communications operator of the Republic of Azerbaijan, has updated stations of the Alcatel 1000 S-12 type and switched to the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) technology meeting modern standards to ensure high-quality international and long-distance phone communications.
Chipmaker MediaTek emerged as the preferred chipset partner in India for smartphone original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the first half of 2021, according to a report by Techarc.
The Ethiopian government is reportedly planning to build a local rival to Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp, apparently following a number of disagreements with the social media giants – and Facebook in particular – though this has not been officially confirmed.
Chinese partially state-owned technology company ZTE Corporation said that that it has won the bid for Section 3 (high-end router level 3) and Section 5 (high-end router level 5) with the second-highest scores in China Mobile's centralized procurement of high-end routers for the year 2021-2022.
Wind Telecom, a service provider in the Dominican Republic, says it is modernizing its GPON network infrastructure for its FTTH and FTTO services by implementing digital transformation company Alepo’s AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting) solution.
Indonesian wireless network provider PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) appointed Thoughtworks to redefine their technology architecture blueprint to support business agility.
Slovenian provider of telecommunications services Telekom Slovenije is the only telecom operator participating in the European project 5G-IANA (Intelligent Automotive Network Applications).
Tata Sons subsidiary Panatone Finvest Ltd has proposed to buy a 43.3% stake in Tejas Networks, a global optical, broadband, and data networking products company, for around INR 1,850 crore (USD 249 million) in a multi-step deal.
Silkbank, a leading commercial and Islamic bank in Pakistan, has gone live with digital banking platform Temenos Infinity from banking software company Temenos.
Far from struggling with the pandemic, India’s smartphone market looks set for a boom this year, according to reports from two analyst firms.
Reports from Russia show that In June of this year, Xiaomi was ranked number one in sales in the Russian market.
Philippines telecommunications services provider Globe Telecom installed 212 new cell sites in the National Capital Region (NCR, aka Metro Manila) in the first six months of the year.
The largest mobile network operator in Sri Lanka Dialog Axiata has selected the messaging app Rakuten Viber as an international Application-to-Person (A2P) messaging platform.
DITO Telecommunity, the Philippines' third player, has expanded its coverage in 17 more areas and is now available in a total of 140 cities nationwide.
The Nigerian Twitter suspension controversy took a new turn last week as the country’s government decided to initiate talks with Twitter – or at least to name a team that will be asked to do so.
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