GlobalData Technology
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1 Aug
Europe’s fixed broadband penetration of households set to reach 70% by 2024
The aggregate fixed broadband penetration of the population in Europe was 58.3% in 2018 and is expected to reach 70% in 2024.
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31 Jul
Saudi telecom regulator oversees competition reform and hosts digital spectrum sale
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is pressing ahead with the development of its communications infrastructure as a part of plans to reduce the country’s economic dependence on oil resources.
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31 Jul
Mobile data will soon become Morocco’s largest telecom revenue contributor
Morocco’s mobile telecoms market is changing, as user demand for mobile data is growing.
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31 Jul
Skype for Business Online: Microsoft sets a none-too-subtle retirement date
Microsoft has finally set a retirement date for Skype for Business Online, outlining a greatly anticipated migration plan to its shiny new Microsoft Teams messaging solution.
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31 Jul
CSPs need to digitise, automate and become more agile
Communications service providers (CSPs) face declining carriage revenue and increasing competition from traditional rivals and disruptive players in the form of OTT players, cloud-based service providers and new market entrants with leaner operating models.
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31 Jul
How to make money from AI on a case-by-case basis
AI is big business and a major focus of R&D and acquisitions – especially for tech giants such as Facebook, Microsoft and Apple.
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31 Jul
Tech Mahindra AI platform GAiA gives enterprises an AI ecosystem
The Tech Mahindra AI platform GAiA is designed to make it easier for enterprises to build and manage models, and to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and partners when deploying AI applications.
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31 Jul
The Samsung folding phone release date is in September (hopefully)
The innovative flagship folding phone from Samsung, the $2,000 Galaxy Fold, is finally expected to have a release date in September, after a five-month delay.
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31 Jul
Uruguayan telco market remains among the most developed in the region
At 152.4%, Uruguay recorded the second-highest mobile penetration rate in Latin America, at year-end 2018, only below Costa Rica and nearly 41 percentage points above the regional average.
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31 Jul
Dish Network may come to the rescue of T-Mobile-Sprint merger
After more than two years of negotiations, a T-Mobile-Sprint union may finally come to fruition.
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30 Jul
Consumers are becoming increasingly receptive to digital assistants
As digital personal assistants move past gimmicky mobile usage to adoption in the home, take-up is on the rise.
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29 Jul
Why video analytics is a growth area for tech companies
Video analytics has been a hot topic for the past few years, but only recently have we seen larger-scale deployments in the public safety sphere. Government spend on these technologies is set to increase in the coming years and plenty of vendors are readying their portfolios to meet this demand.
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29 Jul
Real drivers behind the sharing economy demand their rights
Ongoing US demonstrations in California, point to a growing conflict between Silicon Valley giants Lyft and Uber, and the thousands of drivers who are now starting to insist on employee status, a living wage and associated benefits, as well as the right to collectively organise.
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26 Jul
Smartphone adoption is boosting mobile subscriptions in Ecuador
Mobile subscription penetration of the population in Ecuador reached 91.8% in 2018, 21 percentage points below the regional average.
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24 Jul
Half of UK businesses fear a post-Brexit tech skills shortage
Over half of British businesses fear the UK’s tech skills shortage will deepen after Brexit, according to a survey of 1,000 business leaders by Salesforce, a cloud services provider.
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19 Jul
Evolution of corporate social media is finding new directions
Brands need a social media presence; this is accepted as an absolute given in modern-day marketing.
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18 Jul
Pursuing the digital transformation of industry in the Middle East
Industrialisation has long been a central pillar of global economic development.
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18 Jul
Mobile data monetisation remains strong among US mobile operators
GlobalData expects revenue to expand from $192 billion in 2019 to $224 billion in 2024, a 3% CAGR for the period.
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18 Jul
Component makers: sensing developments in the Internet of Things
The explosion in the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the industrial internet represents the biggest influence on the components market worldwide.
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9 Jul
Catalog successfully stores all 16GB of Wikipedia text on DNA
US-based startup, Catalog, recently revealed that it had successfully stored all 16 gigabytes of Wikipedia’s English-language text on tiny DNA strands within a laboratory vial, in the latest demonstration of the power and potential of synthetic DNA as a medium for storing digital data.
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9 Jul
Gauging the long-term impacts of augmented and virtual reality
Content developers working in the realms of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are constantly improving the immersive user experience.
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8 Jul
5G is fuelling new radiation fears
Consumers have long held unfounded concerns over the long-term effects of daily exposure to radio waves emanating from smartphones and cell towers.
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8 Jul
Top autonomous vehicles talent in demand as Apple snaps up start-up Drive.ai
When Apple recently decided to acquire Silicon Valley start-up Drive.ai, it was a reminder that in the competitive world of autonomous vehicles, top talent is a much sought-after commodity.
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5 Jul
Nokia is inching its way back to US carriers
The Nokia brand is very much alive and kicking.
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4 Jul
Telco interest in M&A is heating up, but think diversification, not consolidation
Judging by telco executives’ M&A intentions, network operators are feeling increasingly acquisitive.
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4 Jul
5G is coming to US aviation by 2021, but possibly only for the elite
Gogo, which currently provides in-flight WiFi for the aviation sector, announced plans to build a 5G network to support in-flight services.
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4 Jul
IPTV market will become Europe’s leading pay-TV technology by 2023
Cable is currently the leading pay-TV technology in Europe in terms of subscriptions, with a market share of 36.5% as of year-end 2018, closely followed by DTH/satellite (33.7%) and IPTV (28.3%).
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4 Jul
US government agencies take aim at robocallers and telemarketers
On 25 June 2019, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a major crackdown on illegal robocalls, dubbed Operation Call it Quits.
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4 Jul
América Móvil operations in El Salvador are driving the highest M&A activity in a decade
In May 2019, El Salvador’s competition regulator, Superintendencia de Competencia (SC) analysed the application submitted by América Móvil for the takeover of Telefonica’s Movistar, a US$315 million deal signed in January 2019, and stated that the application fell short of all the required information and hence remains “inadmissible”.
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4 Jul
Mobile data and fixed broadband to drive telecoms and pay-TV revenues in Uruguay to 2023
Uruguay is one of the most developed telecom markets in Latin America both in terms of NGN infrastructure development and service adoption.