The Spanish carrier group Telefónica is big on WebRTC, the technology that allows for plugin-free in-browser voice and video calls, among other things – it uses it for the in-browser Skype… Read more »
Sigfox, the French startup that’s rolling out an international internet-of-things network, mostly by partnering with local network operators, has scored a massive $115 million funding round from the likes of Telefonica… Read more »
The negotiations are over: pending regulatory approval, BT will get back into the U.K.’s mobile scene in a big way by buying EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange for £12.5 billion… Read more »
The pairing-off of major U.K. telecommunications players continues: On Friday, Three’s Hong Kong owner, Hutchison Whampoa, said it was now in exclusive takeover discussions with Telefónica’s O2. The merry dance began… Read more »
Firefox Hello, the WebRTC-based video-calling feature that Mozilla and partner Telefónica revealed as a beta feature in October, hit the mainstream — sort of — with the full release of Firefox… Read more »
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Orange’s proposed takeover of Spain’s Jazztel. France’s Orange already has a Spanish subsidiary, whose connectivity Jazztel resells as a mobile virtual network operator… Read more »
The company said on Monday that it was in preliminary acquisition talks with two carriers, one of which it confirmed as being O2. The other is reportedly EE. Read more »
The firm announced its Skylink platform at AWS re:Invent. As it’s entirely built on the Amazon Web Services stack, the firm claims Skylink will work particularly well for startups that also… Read more »
The hub’s development is only on the Spanish carrier group’s to-do list, so there are scant details right now, but it will handle the fixed lighting and heating that Thinking Things… Read more »
The pack includes plug-and-play modules for power, connectivity, and sensing ambient light, temperature and humidity — as well as 2G connectivity that works in a bunch of places. Next to come… Read more »