Japan's second largest carrier KDDI faced its worst ever outage that left 40 million customers without data and voice call options. Some areas are still affected with added limits on data transfer.
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The Japanese mobile operator, KDDI, is trialling Nokia's Liquid Cooling AirScale Baseband solution to help reduce its energy costs and, by extension, its climate change impact compared to air-cooling.
5G broadband technology is progressing slowly, but another company has had success in testing its equipment for sustained faster speeds. The test involved a moving train, a 5G router, and a 5G radio.
Microsoft is working with numerous global carriers "to provide seamless eSIM connectivity" for the new generation of Always Connected Windows 10 PCs, with 'silicon support' from Intel and Qualcomm.
The Mozilla and KDDI Firefox OS Fx0 smartphone has appeared in a hands-on video showing off its design and capabilities. It was designed by Tokujin Yoshioka and is currently exclusive to Japan.