Smartphone shipments in China plunge to a record low
Smartphone shipments declined below the 300 million mark for the first time in a decade, due to a weakening economy and dipping consumer demand.
Urguay’s Antel works with VMware on cloud-supported use case-driven trial
Antel, the leading mobile operator in Uruguay, is working with VMware, a provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, for a use case-driven trial using the VMware Telco Cloud Platform to support a proof of concept (PoC).
India announces home-grown mobile OS
India seems to have taken the self-sufficiency theme to another level with a home-grown mobile operating system developed at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. It’s called BharOS (Bhar is short for Bharat, or India).
Turkcell upgrades Ericsson Mediation platform to support BSS evolution
Turkish operator Turkcell has upgraded to the Ericsson Mediation platform, supporting its ongoing business support systems (BSS) evolution.
LATAM, Caribbean see smartphone shipments drop 13%
Smartphone shipments in Latin America and the Caribbean dropped 13% year-on-year in Q3 2022, with the decline attributed to slowing consumer demand, resulting in declines and stagnation for most top brands.
