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Chinese companies are crucial to the mobile phone ecosystem (GSMA) – Xinhua English.news.cn
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
BARCELONA, Spain, March 3 (Xinhua) — Chinese companies are crucial to the mobile phone industry ecosystem, experts from the World Communications Industry Association told Xinhua in recent interviews. (GSMA), which brings together the main telecom operators.
During the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, some media questioned whether Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE were eligible to participate following being included in the US sanctions list.
A spokesperson for the GSMA, organizer of the MWC, said on this subject that the association was fully authorized to carry out activities with these Chinese companies.
“Part of our role as a global industry association is precisely to align technological developments for the benefit of people, industries and society in a fragmented geopolitical environment,” he said.
Companies such as Huawei “have always been important partners of the GSMA and an important part of our ecosystem. We will not exclude Huawei and ZTE,” said GSMA Chief Marketing Officer Lara Dewar.
“China is a leader in the field of 5G and related applications,” she said, adding that this country is not only an important market, but also plays an important role in the way where people think, discuss and exchange ideas on how to build the digital world of the future.
According to GSMA chief executive John Hoffman, the number of Chinese attendees at this year’s MWC, which was held from Feb. 27 to March 2, reached around 5,000. He said he was very impressed by the crowds that visited the booths of Chinese companies, including Huawei, ZTE and Xiaomi.
Mats Granryd, CEO of the GSMA, said the huge exhibition areas of Huawei and ZTE at the MWC show the importance of Chinese companies to the ecosystem of the sector.
Chinese companies can bring innovation, scale and advanced technologies, which are crucial for the entire industry, he noted. END
Meta drastically reduces the price of its virtual reality headsets
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Meta, which is struggling to grow its investments in the metaverse, will slash the price of its most expensive virtual reality headset by 33% and that of another model by 14%.
From March 5 in the United States and Canada, and March 15 in other countries where it is available, the Meta Quest Pro, designed for professional use, will be sold at 1,000 dollars, instead of 1,500 dollars.
The Meta Quest 2, a headset more intended for games, will be available at 430 dollars instead of 500 dollars from March 5 in around twenty countries.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram has invested tens of billions of dollars in these headsets and its platforms, Mark Zuckerberg betting on the rise of parallel universes accessible in particular in augmented and virtual reality.
He even changed the name of the company to Meta to symbolize this evolution.
But the division bringing together these new businesses, Reality Labs, lost $13.7 billion in 2022, sparking investor skepticism regarding the new strategy.
On his blog, Meta stresses that he is always “committed to building a thriving virtual reality market for developers, companies and creators”.
The company’s goal “has always been to create affordable hardware so that as many people as possible can enjoy all that virtual reality has to offer,” the group adds.
Major change for Proximus and Orange customers: advertisements imposed on certain recorded programs!
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
“The habits of Belgian television viewers have changed radically in recent years. While the consumption of content has never been as important as it is today, the gradual abandonment of linear in favor of time-shifted puts pressure on current models in the local media landscape”, justify the telecom operator and the media group.
In this context, the local media sector is increasingly calling for a rethinking of existing models.
personalized ads
Concretely, the reading of programs recorded on VTM channels will soon be preceded, on certain TV Boxes, by one minute of compulsory . Subject to the customer’s consent, these spots will be personalized in order to be better suited to their interests. In the rest of the program, including commercial breaks, fast forwarding will remain possible.
In addition, the two companies have agreed to exchange more precise information on the start and end times of the programs, so that the recordings can start when the show begins. Viewers will therefore no longer have to search for the program start credits themselves and will be able to watch the chosen program immediately, just following the one minute of mandatory .
RTL channels soon affected?
These changes will first be implemented on the latest generation of TV Boxes from April. Older models will follow later. “The VTM channels are the first to launch this new model. Discussions are also underway with other media groups”, specifies Proximus. Note that DPG Media recently acquired RTL Belgium: it is therefore not impossible that this functionality will arrive very soon on the French-speaking side, on the group’s channels (RTL-TVI, Club RTL, Plug RTL), even if no communication has been made in this direction for the moment.
Le concur de Neximus, Telenet has already introduced an equivalent system.
DPG Media also reports that it has also signed a similar agreement with Orange, a more modest player in digital television.