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News & Views Most Popular Looking Back at 2019 in India: 5G Miss, AGR, Price Hikes & More By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 12/13/2019 India's telecom sector has witnessed a year of major developments in 5G, pricing, competition and M&A activity. Post a Comment RJio Will Gain Most From India's Tariff Hike By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 12/6/2019 India's youngest and most aggressive operator could be the main beneficiary of an increase in prices. Post a Comment Hon Hai Eyes 5G Prize as It Tips $328M Into APT By Robert Clark, 11/27/2019 The manufacturing giant is diversifying into 5G in a bid to become a technology services company. Post a Comment Advertisement Eurobites: Nokia Discontinues COO Role By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 11/26/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Tele2's Croatian deal comes under scrutiny; Orange takes its bank to Spain; TIM agrees €350 million EU loan to support 5G rollout. Post a Comment The Telecoms.com Podcast: AT&T, India & 5G Races By Light Reading, 11/26/2019 Hangover? What hangover? This week the below-par podders put late-night carousing behind them to talk AT&T, India and 5G deals. Post a Comment Indian Telcos Find Some Relief By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 11/25/2019 Price rises and deferred spectrum payments should help operators that have been hit by a recent court ruling. Post a Comment Indian Telecom Industry Still in a Tough Spot By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 11/20/2019 India's government is working on a rescue package for its beleaguered service providers. That cannot come soon enough. Post a Comment Advertisement Vodafone Registers Slight Sales Growth as Debts & Losses Pile Up By Iain Morris, International Editor, 11/12/2019 Takeover activity, 5G investments and unfriendly Indians are weighing heavily on the UK-based operator's financial performance, but at least revenues inched up. Post a Comment Vodafone Idea Readies NB-IoT Services in India By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/5/2019 Vodafone Idea is the third major carrier in India to plan an NB-IoT network. Post a Comment The Telecoms.com Podcast: Smartphone Numbers, India & Fitbit By Light Reading, 11/5/2019 Under the pod spotlight this week: smartphone numbers; the Indian telecom soap opera; and Google's decision to buy Fitbit. Post a Comment Vodafone Denies Plan to Exit India By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 11/1/2019 One of India's biggest operators has played down speculation it wants to quit the Indian market after service providers were hit with huge penalty payments by government authorities. Post a Comment India Court Decision a Massive Blow for Telcos By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/29/2019 Indian authorities say telcos owe them another $13.9 billion in various fees. The bill could drive one player out of business. Post a Comment India's Ailing BSNL & MTNL Get Revival Package By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/24/2019 Indian authorities have promised a rescue package for the country's struggling state-backed operators. Post a Comment Vodafone Idea Plots Cloud BSS Future With Optiva By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/22/2019 The Indian operator is trying out the BSS specialist's cloud-based charging system at its commercial operations in the Punjab as part of its back-office evolution strategy. Post a Comment India's RJio Is Still Adding 10M Customers a Month By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/21/2019 The Indian operator continues to record dramatic increases in subscriber numbers, but customers are spending less. Post a Comment Netflix Pushes Past 158.3M Global Streaming Subs as New OTT Rivals Emerge By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2019 Netflix's Q3 numbers were in-line, but OTT video giant warns of 'some modest headwind' to near-term growth as a batch of new, major streaming services such as Disney+ and Apple TV+ near launch. Post a Comment Chill Out! Netflix Is Fine, Analyst Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/14/2019 Concerns about new direct-to-consumer competition alongside pressure on Netflix's pricing power is misunderstood or overblown, contends LightShed Partners analyst Richard Greenfield. Post a Comment India Opens 5G Door to Huawei at IMC By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 10/14/2019 Authorities have allowed the controversial Chinese vendor to participate in demos at an industry event, suggesting it may be allowed into the country's 5G market. Post a Comment For Trump's Attack Dogs, There's No Stopping Huawei By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/4/2019 Most governments and operators have shown little inclination to heed US warnings about the consequences of using Chinese suppliers. Post a Comment Facebook's TIP Is Desperate to Add Friends By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/3/2019 Three and a half years after its birth, the Telecom Infra Project is trying to be more collaborative than confrontational. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Starz Sets International Streaming Expansion Monday, November 25, 2019 1-Gig Available to 354M People Globally, Viavi Claims Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Cujo AI Passes 500M Monitored, Protected Devices Tuesday, October 8, 2019 ZEE5 Chooses Kaltura TV Platform Player Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Motion Picture Association Goes Global Wednesday, September 18, 2019 NOS Teams With Tata Elxsi on RDK-B DOCSIS 3.1 Router Monday, September 16, 2019 Dish TV India, Broadpeak Connect on Mobile Video Service Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Reliance Jio & Microsoft Team Up on Cloud Monday, August 12, 2019 Tejas Boosts US Team With Hire From Infinera Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Yvette Kanouff Joins JC2 Ventures Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Tomia Intros Cloud-Based Blockchain Settlement Platform Monday, June 24, 2019 Smartphone Display Shipments Slow Amid US-China Trade Friction Monday, June 24, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Hardware Is the New Attack Surface – Forrester 12/12/2019 Attackers have already begun to breach security at the BIOS level, according to a ... 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MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... Masergy's NFV Journey Mavenir on RCS Cloud Platform & Multi-ID Keep Connected IoT Devices Under Control With Allot Metaswitch: Defining the Cloud Native Core Accelerating IP/Optical Network Visibility & Control Making 5G NR a Reality With Qualcomm Act on Your Intelligence With Amdocs aia! Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving Dan Sahar of Qwilt on Open Edge Cloud Platform Nominum's Craig Sprosts on DNS & Cybersecurity Trends Versa: A Lot More Than SD-WAN SmartNICs & the Future of Network Virtualization Introducing the Next-Generation ONT (Optical Network ... A10 Networks on Service Providers' Industry Needs Check Point on Cybersecurity Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation With Nominum DNS VeEX Test & Measurement Solutions Versa Networks' Kumar Mehta on SD-WAN Managed Services The Era of Agile Optics Has Arrived Atrinet's NetACE – Migration to NFV & SDN With ... 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Rockbot CEO Aims to Shake Up B2B TV

The same market disruption hitting residential pay-TV is providing a ripple effect across the landscape of video services for restaurants, taverns, retail outlets and ...