Telecoms

• [New] India will remain a battleground for global technology and telecom companies irrespective of which side of the US-China technological cold war they are on.
• [New] Telecommunications, cloud, content, manufacturing and banking are all expected to be large contributors to total interconnect bandwidth by 2023.
• [New] Malaysia will build 5G infrastructure itself instead of relying on private telecommunications carriers as it seeks to accelerate the roll-out of high-speed services.
• [New] IT services providers are preparing to tap a potential $30 billion opportunity as rollout of 5G telecom services begins globally.
• [New] Ghana's Ministry of Communication plans to implement a unified licensing scheme for telecom operators that could reduce data cost.
• [New] 5G services are expected to launch worldwide in 2021, with more than 50 operators offering services in about 30 countries by the end of 2021 - making it a new technology trend you must watch out for, and also save a spot in.
• [New] The next phase in the evolution of telecommunications presents a world of new opportunities for connected devices.
• K-FON is neither a telecom service provider nor an Internet service provider but will set up as a vendor neutral optical fibre network that will serve as the infrastructural backbone that can take high-speed Internet services to the public.
• The United States and its allies are already far behind China in investing in 5G mobile telecommunications networks, said the former chief executive of Google, who is worried the C-Band spectrum proceeds will not go to 5G deployment.
• From homes to offices, manufacturing to world economies, telecommunications companies will play a huge role in the next several years.
• A former executive of a telecom company investing in Myanmar, who requested anonymity, said the turmoil there is likely to drag on for a certain period of time, which could level its economy before a recovery is possible.
• The balkanization of the telecom industry into rival geopolitical camps might not help, especially if it convinces the US of the need to play a pivotal role in the development of 6G outside China.
• We consider major divergence unlikely as a harmonised framework is in the interest of UK operators and the UK will continue to be a member of the International Telecommunications Union, which harmonises certain uses of spectrum at a global level.
• The need for more processing and instant computing could help to push edge computing to the forefront of the telecommunications sector in the coming years.
• In return, China could invest in European energy and technology companies, as well as implementing some self-control measures on its own industries.
• There is a strong risk that the urgent security challenges faced by the UK's telecommunications sector are indicative of a wider, and growing, geopolitical development.
• New regulations in renewable energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, and ESG are expected to impact companies and investors in Spain in the coming year.
• In the year 2019, the Bombay High Court had observed that there is no conclusive scientific evidence indicating any identifiable risk of serious harm on account of non-ionized radiation emanating from TCS/BS and equipments for telecommunication network.
• Each generation of wireless has contributed to driving demand for mobile services and opportunities for new use cases around the world - and 5G is no exception.
• Shares of Chinese ADRs have been volatile this week as the U.S. announced that it will go ahead with its plan to delist three Chinese telecommunication companies from the Nasdaq exchange.

Last updated: 28 February 2021