Rain, a telecoms new entrant active in data-only communications, launched what it claims to be Africa’s first commercial standalone 5G network in South Africa.

Now that standardisation activities for 5G are over and deployments have commenced in different parts of the world, industry and academia have begun to conceptualise the next generation of wireless communication systems (6G) based on the expected communication needs in the 2030s.

Several mobile network operators around the world have been showing increasing interest in open radio access networks (OpenRAN). Indonesia is one of the countries where government and industry are jointly pioneering OpenRAN adoption.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking Google to court claiming the search giant did not appropriately collect user consent when it expanded personal data collection activities in the country.

The 5G race has started in Brazil and other countries across the region might soon follow, despite the Covid-19 health crisis and uncertainties over spectrum availability.

The EU is considering policy options on regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, in particular those which may pose a high risk. The European Commission (EC) published in the meantime the results of a recent survey that shows the uptake of AI among EU enterprises is on the rise.

The European Commission (EC) launched a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into the internet of things (IoT) for consumer-related products and services to identify and assess potential competition issues.

The UK government is stepping in to force internet of things (IoT) product manufacturers and software service providers to offer adequate protections for the use of all consumer smart products, such as smart speakers, kitchen appliances or cameras, sold in the UK.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Kingdom of Bahrain is updating its regulatory approach on voice and messaging services over internet protocol (IP). The objective is to clarify services’ scope and definitions and to confirm the applicable licensing regime for each.

The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google’s parent company Alphabet testified in Congress on 29 July 2020 as part of an antitrust investigation about their alleged monopoly and gatekeeping power as well as anticompetitive practices.