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...This month, a consortium of global telecoms standards organisations declared plans to work on a sixth generation of superfast wireless cellular communications specifications....
...Millicom is planning to spin off its cellular tower business by the end of the year after a gruelling multiyear separation plan....
...AST SpaceMobile, for example, is building a space-based cellular network and has said it plans to launch its first satellite in mid-August....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 7 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The “fifth generation” of cellular wireless was launched to great fanfare last year, initially in the US and South Korea, with operators in markets including the UK and Germany quickly following suit....
...“When I am on an 8am phone call with the salesforce and my three-year-old daughter wants to come in and use MS paint while I am talking about raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Yum, it gets complicated...
...Then her phone. “I was like, 100 people will read it,” she says. “When we’re talking about millions, there are serious consequences. I was like, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ . . ....
...As the number one patent licenser by revenue worldwide, some of Qualcomm’s cellular IP is included in chips made by its rivals — which phonemakers must pay for....
...In many cases they are using patents they purchased or that have nothing to do with their cellular technology to harass Apple and other industry players.”...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 1, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 13, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Support for dual Sims will allow customers to use two phone numbers or two calling plans in the same device....
...“The company went from a small player in a massive market [of mobile phones] to a massive player. That required a very different skill set to an entrepreneurial visionary.”...
...Some owners of Apple’s new iPhone X are finding an unusual bug in their $1,000 piece of kit that is preventing them from answering the phone....
...The rapid rise of the M-Pesa mobile phone payment system, first launched in Kenya, also marked Mr Read’s tenure in charge of Vodafone’s African strategy....
...Qualcomm supplies cellular chips to many of the world’s mobile device makers, including Apple and Samsung, and holds intellectual property central to how 3G and 4G networks operate....
...Qualcomm’s mobile processors and modems, backed by a strong portfolio of intellectual property that underpins cellular communications in most modern mobile phones, have left it well placed as 5G rollout...
...In January, Apple accused Qualcomm of overcharging for intellectual property related to cellular wireless technologies....
...“There will be lots of debate on whether the TFTC is acting as a price-fixer to shield the country’s modem makers and phone manufacturers....
...Qualcomm, which makes the processors found in many Android phones and iPhone modems, describes itself as a “platform company”....
...The Apple Watch is expected to gain a cellular wireless connection, so that it can be used independently of the iPhone for the first time....
...Israeli tech wizards invented Waze, a navigation app that crunches traffic information and data from drivers’ phones to generate nifty real-time maps showing the fastest route....
...The patents Qualcomm is asserting are not part of the bundle of standard-essential patents for modem technologies and cellular networking standards that are at issue in its legal fight with Apple over royalty...
...Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission sued Qualcomm over the way it licenses its technology for mobile phones....
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