Mobile and Infrastructure News
From government licensing through to ISP and infrastructure, this is our global news and commentary of all things 5G, mobile and telecommunications related.
A guide to Europe’s coronavirus contact tracing apps
More than 20 countries across Europe have launched or plan to launch apps that seek to break the chain of coronavirus infection by tracking encounters between people and issuing a ...
ByteDance founder defends TikTok’s US strategy
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has told employees that there were misunderstandings on Chinese social websites concerning TikTok’s situation in the US and that the business c...
Microsoft nears big bet on TikTok after risky LinkedIn deal shows promise
Microsoft Corp’s possible purchase of short-video app TikTok carries a myriad of dangers, thrusting it to the fraught social networking business and geopolitical conflict ami...
White House adviser Navarro suggests Microsoft divest its China holdings
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro suggested on Monday that Microsoft Corp could divest its holdings in China if it were to buy the Chinese possessed short-video program TikTo...
Trump to give ByteDance 45 days to agree sale of TikTok
President Trump has agreed to provide China’s ByteDance 45 days to negotiate the sale of TikTok to Microsoft, two individuals knowledgeable about the issue said on Sunday.
Google says 20 US states ‘exploring’ contact tracing
Google has said that 20 US states and territories, representing about 45 percent of the nation’s inhabitants, are”exploring” contact tracing programs for its nove...
Canada says requirements for Huawei CFO’s extradition to US met
Canada’s attorney general states the prerequisites for extraditing Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to the US on charges of financial fraud have been met, documents filed in a British...
Apple removes thousands of game apps from China store
Apple eliminated some 29,800 apps from the Chinese app shop on Saturday, including more than 26,000 games, according to new data from research vendor Qimai.
Nokia posts second-quarter profit jump ahead of CEO change
The Finnish telecom network gear maker Nokia reported an unexpected rise in its own underlying profit on Friday regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, while its new CEO Pekka Lund...
Google advertising rebound offsets Alphabet’s first-ever sales drop
Google’s advertising sales have recovered since they plummeted back in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, parent Alphabet Inc said on Thursday, easing worries about its ...
Samsung expects smartphone demand to drive second half earnings
Samsung Electronics anticipates a recovery in demand for smartphones and customer electronic equipment to underpin profits in the second half of the year, after a coronavirus-prope...
Huawei Technologies overtakes Samsung Electronics as top handset maker
Huawei Technologies grabbed the title of vendor that was biggest smartphone from Samsung Electronics in the second quarter, underscoring the resilience of the Chinese marketplace e...
Qualcomm forecasts sales above estimates and settles Huawei dispute
Qualcomm has forecast fourth-quarter earnings that were above Wall Street expectations, driven by sales of its processors used in 5G apparatus and attaining a settlement with Huawe...
US lawmakers accuse Big Tech of crushing rivals to boost profits
Google and Facebook took the sharpest jabs from politicians at a much-anticipated congressional hearing that put four of America’s most notable tech Chief Executives in the p...