The deadly skirmishes on India’s border with China may have a knock-on effect on the telecommunications market after government officials, quoted in the Indian media, floated the idea of barring Chinese vendors from supplying telecommunications companies.
The United States is in discussions with Brazil’s government over providing funding to help the country’s operators purchase 5G network equipment from Ericsson and Nokia rather than Chinese rivals.
New evidence has emerged that Huawei deliberately obscured the relationship between its Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou and the Iran-based Skycom Tech.
A Canadian court has ruled that the US charges against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou are sufficient to allow the extradition case against her to proceed.
Nokia’s departing CEO Rajeev Suri has defended the vendor’s recent contract record, indicating that lucrative deals are in the pipeline even though it has missed out on some major wins.
China Unicom and China Telecom have followed market leader China Mobile in quietly leaving Nokia off their standalone 5G network equipment suppliers’ lists.
Chinese enthusiasm for 5G rollouts has helped Huawei to weather the first quarter of 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic and trade blocks in the US.
Huawei and ZTE were the major winners in China Mobile’s recent CNY37.1 billion ($5.2 billion) 5G tender, leaving Nokia empty-handed.
Oman has cleared Huawei to supply equipment for 5G network deployments in the market.
Emerging markets are not typically early adopters when it comes to new generations of mobile technology, but this is not the case for the 5G era, according to ZTE.
Huawei was trumpeting its 5G successes at a product and solution launch in London this morning.
Intracom Telecom has announced the delivery of its NGINius-Charging solution to a major Greek operator, member of a global Tier-1 Group.
Malaysia has stated that it will adhere to its own security standards in selecting vendor partners as it prepares to deploy 5G this year.
Ericsson has withdrawn from MWC Barcelona 2020 as a result of the outbreak and continued spread of the corona virus.
Samsung is reportedly lining up an investment of $500 million for a smartphone display manufacturing plant in India.
After receiving permits to trial 5G technologies from the Department of Telecommunications, India’s operators have selected suppliers for their tests.
The government of India has thrown the doors open for vendors to take part in the country’s forthcoming 5G trials, including China’s Huawei.
Google has claimed that it will be unable to sell new Android smartphones in Turkey after falling afoul of the country’s competition regulator.
Digital Colony has announced its entrance into the digital infrastructure market in Brazil with the acquisition of a major telecoms infrastructure company.
News agencies are reporting that vendor Ericsson is planning to invest about 1 billion reais (close to $240 million) in Brazil to add a new assembly line dedicated to fifth generation technology.
Spectranet and Nokia are to provide 100+ Mbps ultra-broadband services with FttH to home and business users in Nigeria. Meanwhile, also in Nigeria, solar-based internet service provider (ISP) Tizeti has launched a 4G LTE network.
Globalstar, a provider of mobile satellite voice and data services, and telecoms giant Nokia have announced a partnership to deploy a digitization platform utilizing 3GPP Band 53 spectrum. A shared solution is being showcased at the Globalstar stand at AfricaCom.
A flurry of announcements in recent days has offered both good and bad news for the giant Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, with a number of 5G deals being done, prevented or delayed.
Recent reports from the Indian press indicate that some vendors that have sold goods or services to BSNL and MTNL are considering insolvency pleas against the state-run operators after non-payment of dues.
At ZTE’s recent Wireless User Congress & 5G Summit in Vienna, DT Editor James Barton sat down to a roundtable with Zhang Jianpeng, Senior Vice President and President of Overseas Marketing, to discuss the Chinese vendor’s 5G strategy across various global markets.
