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• Huawei vows to keep investing in diversification

  04-01-2022 16:12
  
  The Chairman of embattled Chinese vendor Huawei has published his New Year message, in which he stressed a strategy of searching for new business areas.
  Huawei has greater incentives to diversify than most companies, having had a significant chunk of its business taken away from it by US sanctions. Stated annual revenues for 2021 of 634 billion yuan (~$100b) represent a 29% fall. No breakdown of that figure was offered, but previous announcements indicate pretty much all of that decline comes fr
  
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• Samsung focuses on digital features to differentiate its tellies

  04-01-2022 15:48
  
  Samsung has unveiled its 2022 range of TVs ahead of CES, loaded with an array of smart technologies that provide NFT trading and onboard cloud gaming.
  Samsung boasts that the new Micro LED, Neo QLED and ‘Lifestyle’ TVs have ‘next generation’ picture quality.  The latest incremental hardware upgrades have been thrown into the stew in order to achieve this – 20-bit greyscale depth, advanced contrast mapping, over 1 million steps of brightness and colour levels, a
  
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• Verizon and AT&T forced to delay 5G expansion once more

  04-01-2022 13:50
  
  The failure of US aviation authorities to get their act together has ensured their battle of wills with the country’s biggest mobile operators carried over into 2022.
  On New Year’s Even the Federal Aviation Administration decided it needed the help of Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, to impose its will on Verizon and AT&T over the imminent launch of 5G on their C-band spectrum. While the band was auctioned a year ago, it wasn’t until the beginning of November th
  
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• CES to close a day early as Omicron surge persists

  04-01-2022 12:25
  
  The Consumer Technology Association has announced that the CES 2022 technology show will run for just three days instead of the usual four, as a safety measure.
  In the release, which came out last week, the CTA claimed over 2200 exhibitors are confirmed to exhibit in person, and that in the prior two weeks 143 additional exhibitors came on board. This spin certainly runs counter to the coverage in the pre-Christmas period, in which many high profile firms pulled out.
  The decision to shorten the
  
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• Swissdigital Design Launches Travel Gear Line with Apple Find My Network Support

  04-01-2022 10:46
  
  January 4th, 2022. Swissdigital Design offers a travel line that works with Apple’s Find My app, allowing travellers to locate and keep track of their belongings in a secure and easy way. Swissdigital Design, a technology fashion premium brand, today announces its first line of travel gear, SDD Finding series, which works with Apple’s vast and global Find My network. The Find My network is a crowdsourced network of almost one billion Apple devices that...Source: RealWire
  
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• AT&T and Verizon delay 5G rollout over aviation concerns

  04-01-2022 04:48 via ft.com
  Telecoms reverse course a day after rejecting US regulators’ request over possible aircraft interference
  
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• Startup Stories: how a San Diego company is addressing the three Cs of tracking and monitoring

  04-01-2022 01:00
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  Totum provides global IoT connectivity and positioning for low power, asset tracking and monitoring applications using a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) nanosatellites and optimized device silicon. Based on our revolutionary, direct-to-satellite wireless waveform, the Totum solution provides global coverage with indoor reach using a module the size of a postage stamp. By combining Totum’s connectivity and positioning capabilities, a compact tracker or mo
  
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• Indian government tells Starlink to refund pre-orders

  04-01-2022 01:00
  Elon Musk’s SpaceX has long held that India will be one of the key markets for their growing low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation Starlink, with the billionaire suggesting that it will help deliver broadband to customers in hard-to-reach areas, uncovered by terrestrial operators. Attaining a commercial licence…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Aviation fears further delay Verizon and AT&T's 5G rollouts

  04-01-2022 01:00
  Back in February last year, the US government conducted an enormous 5G spectrum auction, raising a record $80.9 billion. Verizon took home the lion’s share of the C-band spectrum available, spending $45.5 billion for the privilege, followed by AT&T who spent $23.4 billion.  The US’s other major national player, T-Mobile, spent far less in comparison, just $9.3 billion, largely due to already owning a significant amount of spectrum in the C…read more on Tota
  
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• 2022 begins with renewed interest in Italy’s single network plan

  04-01-2022 01:00
  For around two years now, the Italian government has toyed with the idea of creating a single national broadband network across the country, hoping to prevent overbuild of infrastructure, accelerate fibre rollout, and reduce cost for consumers.  This national network has typically been conceived as a merger between incumbent operator TIM’s fibre business with its fixed line rival Open Fiber, but many months of negotiations in late 2019 and early 2020 ultimately ended in failure&
  
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