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Syniverse has concluded a significant deal with Verizon, just a week before its shareholders consider a US$2.85 billion reverse takeover bid. -
The Philippines' third telco has launched commercial services today local time, starting a new era for the country's telecoms sector.
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New figures released by Juniper Research predict that operator revenues from 5G will accelerate from US$5 billion in 2020 to reach $357 billion by 2025.
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Transaction Network Services (TNS) can now support outbound roaming traffic from US carriers to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama.
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Italian 4G users have seen their speeds drop significantly during March as the coronavirus restrictions have tightened.
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A Virginia start-up has raised a total of $12 million to build and launch five nanosatellites to connect mobile phones directly.
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Customers in Peru are now receiving LTE internet service from balloons, thanks to a collaboration between Google’s owner, Alphabet, with CenturyLink and Telefónica.
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Verizon and T-Mobile US have both hit out at AT&T’s move to pretend its LTE Advanced mobile network is really 5G.
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A “global software problem” has left millions of users of Telefónica's O2 UK without access to 4G and other internet services.
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BT is set to ditch Huawei equipment from its core 4G network and prevent the mobile vendor from bidding for contracts for future 5G core infrastructure contracts, according to several reports.
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Etisalat’s Egyptian arm has partnered with Ericsson to launch the first voice over LTE (VoLTE) service in the country.
