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The eastern seaboard of Australia has entered week two of devastating flooding up and down the coast, with power and telecommunications outages widespread in impacted areas. The following information from each provider is intended to be as up to date as possible, and will be changed when we know more. Optus As of noon on Friday, Optus has 38 sites down in Queensland and 26 mobile sites down in New South Wales. The total number of sites impacted is decreasing, and the telco said 55 of the sites are individual sites. It does have 8 sites on generators.The company has deployed temporary satellite-powered units (satcat) in Lismore and Ballina, with another on the way to Nimbin. These units have a range of 3 to 4km and given their placement and local topography, it is possible that even though a satcat is nearby, reception may not have improved. Telstra The incumbent telco said on Thursday it has technicians on the ground in places where it could gain access. “Many areas are however still inaccessible due to flood waters or are without power. We are working with power and local authorities to access the affected areas so we can get to work to bring services back online,” the company said. “We have temporary mobile facilities available that can be used in appropriate situations. Our technicians were able to install a temporary satellite mobile service in Kilkivan, near Gympie in Queensland, to deliver some coverage to the community after one of our cables was washed away. “Temporary mobile facilities do have the same limitations of requiring power and access to an area in order to be deployed and we carefully and constantly assess where and when they may be able to help.” NBN On Friday, the company responsible for the National Broadband Network said it has seen the total number of premises offline rise to 74,000 in northern NSW, while southeast Queensland was trending downward with 33,200 services offline. “Where possible, we are deploying generators into the region to support connectivity and will continue to work with the emergency authorities to deploy more generators into areas as waters recede,” the company said on Twitter. Earlier in the week, NBN said 56,000 premises in the NSW Northern Rivers region were offline due to fibre access node (FAN) in Woodburn losing power. “This site had been running on battery power, however the battery has been exhausted. Due to floodwaters it is not possible to access the site safely,” NBN said. “The site is owned and operated by a third party and we are working closely with them to restore services as soon as it is safe.” Those hit by the FAN outage extended as far north as into Queensland, and included Tweed Heads, Kingscliff, Currumbin Valley, Byron Bay, Brunswick Heads, Ballina, Lennox Head, and Evans Head. NBN said on Thursday it has 14 generators on standby for NSW to be used once waters recede, and generators have been put into Caboolture, Barellan Point, Grantham, Munruben, Milton, and Jimboomba. “We have a Muster Truck arriving in Skennars Head tomorrow morning from Queensland as this is the only access we have into the community at present,” a spokesperson said on Thursday afternoon. “We also have Muster Trucks on standby, however access remains limited in many areas.” The company added it has disaster satellite dishes installed at all places covered under the first round of deployment, which did not include areas in NSW. When announced, NBN said it would complete the NSW installations during 2021, but the spokesperson said it was continuing to “roll out the second phase of installations”. “Sites for the installations are nominated by state and territory governments,” a spokesperson told ZDNet.”To date there have been 504 services installed and active nationwide. This includes a service Casino Fire Control Centre in Northern NSW, which is currently impacted by floodwaters. The service is operational. “We also have services installed at Coffs Harbour, Wauchope, and Kempsey.”NBN further said it has a Sky Muster truck at Ballina Coast High School, which is providing connectivity to an evacuation centre, as well as deploying five hybrid power cubes to power fixed wireless towers, and eight generators.The company added it has been made aware that scammers are impersonating NBN and asking for money to speed up service restoration. “It is unthinkable that scammers would use this as an opportunity to target people and communities,” NBN said.”Please be aware NBN will never contact customers asking for payment or any other financial information and we urge anyone who receives one of these calls to report it to Scamwatch immediately.”TPG TelecomThe company behind Vodafone Australia said it is facing an outage across the flood-hit areas due to power outages, and will deploy temporary power and network facilities where available, and practical. It had also gained funding from the nation’s AU$37 million pot for new cell on wheels that will arrive later this year. The company said in any locations where its network is unavailable, calls to Triple Zero will divert onto an alternative network.  Evacuation centres For people in NSW that need to evacuate, the NSW SES maintains a list of current evacuation centres. Queenslanders are informed that they will find out more from local radio and TV, emergency phone warnings, local councils, and even door knocking from emergency services. Updated at 17:06pm AEDT, 4 March 2022: Additional information from TPG and NBN.Related Coverage More

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Swedish telco equipment giant Ericsson said on Wednesday it was informed by the United States Department of Justice that it breached a 2019 agreement that included deferring any criminal charges before having them dismissed after three years. “On March 1, 2022, the DOJ informed Ericsson that the disclosure made by the company prior to the DPA [deferred prosecution agreement] about its internal investigation into conduct in Iraq in the period 2011 until 2019 was insufficient,” the company said. “Furthermore, it determined that the company breached the DPA by failing to make subsequent disclosure related to the investigation post-DPA.” At the start of the week, a number of reports appeared that alleged the networking giant hid years of bribery and fraud in its Iraq business. The alleged actions included making payments to move equipment through ISIS-controlled areas and insisting its contractors continue to work in ISIS-held areas that led to them being kidnapped. The reports all claim to be based on a leak of an Ericsson internal report on its Iraq business, of which the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists said it has 73 of 79 pages.In February, Ericsson said an internal investigation found serious breaches of compliance rules and ethics violations. “It identified evidence of corruption-related misconduct, including: Making a monetary donation without a clear beneficiary; paying a supplier for work without a defined scope and documentation; using suppliers to make cash payments; funding inappropriate travel and expenses; and improper use of sales agents and consultants,” the company said. “In addition, it found violations of Ericsson’s internal financial controls; conflicts of interest; non-compliance with tax laws; and obstruction of the investigation. “The investigating team also identified payments to intermediaries and the use of alternate transport routes in connection with circumventing Iraqi Customs, at a time when terrorist organizations, including ISIS, controlled some transport routes. “Investigators could not determine the ultimate recipients of these payments. Payment schemes and cash transactions that potentially created the risk of money laundering were also identified.” The company said it would not identify any employee that had direct involvement with financing a terrorist organisation, but several employees have left the company in light of the investigation. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Ericsson president and CEO Borje Ekholm said the company would remedy its actions. “I think the reality here is we found this ourselves in 2018, investigated it in 2019. There are parts that can be substantiated and there are parts that cannot be substantiated,” he said. “The question on financing … cannot be substantiated. What can be substantiated are several breaches of our code of business ethics, conflict of interest allegations, as well as other types of misconduct. That includes, for example, payment or donations where we cannot find the ultimate recipient, and there are a number of those, and those are hugely embarrassing by itself. “So, don’t get me wrong. They’re unacceptable. We cannot do them as a company, and we’re going to fix it in the future.” At the start of February, Ericsson accused the media of focusing on business conduct in unstable areas where corruption and terrorists exist. Related Coverage More

The internet is more than just hardware. It’s also a global network of shared standards and protocols. Some, such as Domain Name Server (DNS), provide the master address list for all internet resources. Now, because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Andrii Nabok, Ukrainian representative on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, have asked that Russia’s top-level domains (TLD), such as .ru, .рф, and .su be revoked along with their associated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates.  Why? To stop the Russian propaganda machine, and prevent further propaganda and disinformation.”These atrocious crimes have been made possible mainly due to the Russian propaganda machinery using websites continuously spreading disinformation, hate speech, promoting violence and hiding the truth regarding the war in Ukraine,” Nabok said.Fedorov has also asked that RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, to  withdraw Russia and its Local Internet Registries (LIR) rights to use their assigned IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and to block their DNS root servers.  If it were to happen, the move would be unprecedented. While Russia has deliberately disconnected itself from the internet in the past as a security test, this is an entirely different proposition.  If ICANN and RIPE NCC were to do this and grant Ukraine’s request to “shut down Russia’s DNS root servers,” it would be extremely disruptive.  While we think of DNS as being primarily for browsers, it’s far more than that. Everything that runs on the internet — Slack, email, you name it — DNS works behind the scenes to make sure all the application requests hook up with the appropriate internet resources. Whether a website, email link, or FTP site, it has an IPv4 address or its IPv6 address equivalent, and the 13 DNS master root servers track them all. These authoritative DNS servers hold the addresses for every internet-connected device in the world. DNS is essential and without it, there is no practical internet. Period. Bill Woodcock, executive director of the Packet Clearing House, the international organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical internet infrastructure, sums up what he believes would happen to Russia’s internet in a series of tweets. First, it would make Russian websites and email unreachable from outside Russia. Next, it “would make connectivity spotty for many users inside Russia, but mostly regular folks, not government or military users.” Finally, it would break the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) and Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) security that protects Russia’s internet routing.The result? Woodcock believes it would make “Russian civilian Internet users much more vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, such as are used to compromise banking credentials and website passwords,” while having “little to no effect on the Russian government or military.”Therefore, while “Russia is doing many bad things at the moment, and retribution is part of what happens to people who pick fights. But this is not the thing to do.” Paul Twomey, former ICANN President and CEO agrees. Twomey wrote in a tweet: “Keeping the protocol layer operating in Russia is the best way to ensure that sites carrying diverse views to Russian audiences are effective.”So far there’s no groundswell of support for pushing Russia out of the internet. The RIPE NCC Executive Board has already stated “that the means to communicate should not be affected by domestic political disputes, international conflicts or war. This includes the provision of correctly registered Internet numbering resources.”On the ICANN AtLarge Mailing List, Dr. Erich Schweighofer, a European Commission Principal Administrator,  wrote: “Removing Russia from the Internet does not help supporting the civil society in this country for a democratic change. ICANN is a neutral platform, not taking a position in this conflict but allowing States to act accordingly, e.g. blocking all traffic from a particular state.”Thus, while attacks are being made on Russia’s internet by Anonymous and other hacker groups, it seems unlikely that RIPE NCC or ICANN will be taking any action against Russia.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has damaged Ukraine’s internet. So, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov requested help from SpaceX and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk.  Musk replied, saying he’d make the Starlink service active in Ukraine and send Starlink terminals. Some said this was just a PR stunt. These naysayers have been proven wrong.

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On February 28th, Fedorov tweeted, “Starlink — here. Thanks, @elonmusk,” along with a photograph of what appears to be a military truck filled with Starlink terminals. Musk replied, “You are most welcome.” Russia is continuing to interfere with Ukraine’s landline internet. Georgia Tech’s Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) project, which monitors internet traffic, reported continued outages in Ukraine. These started late on February 23rd and have continued to this day.NetBlocks and other similar groups report GigaTrans, Ukraine’s main internet service provider, has seen its traffic disrupted since February 24. NetBlocks also reported internet outages in major Ukrainian cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Mariupol.SpaceX’s low-earth orbit (LEO) high-speed, low-latency Starlink internet service avoids the problems that come from conventional landline broadband. Unlike the cables and switches of the traditional internet, Starlink satellites are, in theory, immune to missile and artillery attacks. However, as the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Director Christopher Scolese recently warned, Russia’s military can target satellites to disrupt satellite-based internet traffic, communications, and GPS services. Scolese said that if Russia feels it needs to, they will extend their war into space. Russia recently showed it can destroy satellites in orbit with an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile. In addition, the US military has long worried that Russia could jam GPS and communications satellites during a war.Besides interfering with Ukraine’s internet, Russia has been targeting Ukraine with other cyber attacks. On 15 January 2022, Russia injected malware and employed a DDoS attack on Ukrainian websites. More recently, Russia has been attacking Ukrainian sites with destructive wiper malware such as IssacWiper and HermeticWiper. Both malware assaults destroy a target’s data. Still, despite all of Russia’s efforts, Cloudflare Radar shows that Ukraine’s internet traffic, while suffering a significant drop, is still hanging in there. The vast majority of these network assaults, 86%, are distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. With the help of Starlink, Ukraine’s internet should keep up for now. If Russia goes after the satellites, then all bets are off. More

BlackRock, the major asset management firm, is deploying a Verizon Business On Site 5G private network at its new global headquarters in New York City, the companies said Tuesday during Mobile World Congress. The deal — the first commercial implementation of Verizon’s On Site 5G offering — showcases how private 5G networks can be used in lieu of wi-fi at facilities that require secure, fast networks. Verizon launched On Site 5G in June to bring private 5G networks to enterprise and public sector facilities. The service brings Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband capabilities to indoor and outdoor locations, regardless of whether they’re within a public 5G Ultra Wideband coverage area.The private networks are non-standalone, meaning they combine 5G Ultra Wideband small cells with the LTE packet core and radios of On Site LTE. With a non-standalone network, customers can leverage both 5G Ultra Wideband and 4G LTE capabilities.At BlackRock’s new Hudson Yards facility, the network will be used on the trading floor, the client-facing conference center, meeting rooms and other areas that will benefit from high speed and low latency.Verizon has been busy aggressively expanding its 5G Ultra Wideband network, which uses high-band, ultra-wide millimeter wave spectrum to deliver high-speed 5G. That’s different from Verizon’s “5G Nationwide” network, which leverages 5G and 4G. (Read more about the different “flavors” of 5G here).After spending an eye-popping $52 billion last year for C-band spectrum spanning the US, Verizon has used it to bring 5G Ultra Wideband mobility service to parts of more than 1,700 cities around the US so far.Verizon’s larger 5G strategy melds 5G with edge computing, and it involves creating an ecosystem with tech giants like AWS and Microsoft Azure. More

Bulltt Group, which is the global licensee for Cat Phones and Motorola in the rugged device space, has been busy during 2021, launching an H+ version of the Cat S42 smartphone whose external components are laced with an antimicrobial silver ion additive, and two phones for T-Mobile in the US – the Cat S62 and Cat S22 Flip. The company also launched its first rugged Motorola phone, the Motorola Defy. SEE: Best cheap 5G phone 2022: No need to pay flagship prices for quality devicesAt Mobile World Congress (MWC), Bullitt Group is addressing a growing category – mobile internet hotspots – with a rugged 5G device called the Cat Q10. There’s a good number of mobile hotspots available, but few are 5G compatible, and fewer are durable and weatherproof, the company points out. The canonical use case is an outdoor space such as a building site, a farm, or a pop-up business, where the need is for fast and secure internet connectivity to a good number of devices via a battery-powered device that’s quick and easy to set up and carry around. The Cat Q10 Rugged 5G Mobile Internet Hotspot.
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The Cat Q10 is a 283g device measuring 81mm by 128mm by 26mm that’s dust and water resistant to IP68 level, and MIL-STD-810H certified for ruggedness. It packs a swappable 5300mAh battery that’s claimed to deliver 10 hours usage, 1,000 hours standby and can act as a power bank to recharge smartphones if necessary. Powered by a MediaTek T750 chipset supporting 5G (SA and NSA, but no mmWave as yet), 4G LTE and Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), the Cat Q10 can support up to 32 connected users simultaneously. It accepts a single Nano SIM, supports WPA 3 security and is set up via a mobile (Android or iOS) app. The Cat Q10 will launch at the end of Q2 2022. No pricing details were available at the time of writing. Bullitt Group also announced a range of services designed to prolong the lifecycle of their rugged devices, enhancing the company’s sustainable credentials. ‘Business Edition’ on selected Cat phones provides an extra year’s warranty, while ‘Rugged Care’ and ‘Rugged Care+’ service contracts cover the replacement of parts such as batteries and device repairs. Finally, Bullitt Group announced its own MVNO for the UK market – Bullitt Connect. Built in partnership with Transatel and utilising the EE mobile network, Bullitt Connect will offer voice, text and data services to consumers and industry verticals, focusing particularly on sectors such as logistics and the gig economy. More

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine’s internet was sent staggering. Georgia Tech’s Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) project, which monitors the internet, reported serious outages in Ukraine starting late on February 23.In response to this and other internet attacks, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov requested help from SpaceX and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk. Musk responded on Twitter, where he wrote, “Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route.”Starlink, SpaceX’s low-earth orbit (LEO) high-speed, low-latency internet service, is considered far more reliable than conventional broadband.One person on Twitter summed it up nicely: “The people of Ukraine now have access to the fastest, most robust satellite internet system ever created. This makes it impossible for Russia to disable the Ukrainian internet access fully without cyber attacking foreign data centers.” Even before the declaration of war, Russia has been targeting Ukraine with cyber attacks. On 15 January 2022, Russia injected malware and employed a DDoS attack on Ukrainian websites, while in 2016, a Russian cyber attack turned off the power supply of Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv. More recently, Russia has been trying to disrupt Ukraine’s internet. According to the internet monitoring group NetBlocks, GigaTrans — Ukraine’s main internet service provider — has seen its traffic disrupted since February 24. NetBlocks also reported internet outages in major Ukrainian cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Mariupol.The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of Ukraine also reported that Russia’s internet attacks have expanded beyond Ukraine. CERT Ukraine said the NC1151 group, a hacker organization associated with Belarus’s Ministry of Defense, a Russian ally, has also been attacking Polish and non-government Belarusian and Russian sites.Still, despite all of Russia’s efforts, Cloudflare Radar shows that for now Ukraine’s internet traffic, while suffering a significant drop, is still hanging in there. With the help of Starlink, Ukraine’s internet should still continue to hold its own. Updated at 11:21am AEST, 28 February 2022: fixed grammatical errors and added further information about Starlink activation.

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Fresh from unveiling a portfolio of products at CES, including TVs, tablets, smartphones, AR glasses and a laptop, and launching its first two (US exclusive) 30 Series phones, TCL is back at Mobile World Congress (MWC) with yet more new products. This time, there are details on a quintet of 30 Series phones, including one 5G model, along with three new tablets and three CPE routers. Here’s a tour of TCL’s MWC announcements.30 Series smartphones
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TCL ‘pre-announced’ its 30 Series phones at CES, and has recently launched the $300 30 V 5G and $200 30 XE 5G in the US, via Verizon and T-Mobile respectively. There are five new phones, all costing less than €300 and launching first in Europe; four of them are 4G handsets and the top-end phone is a 5G device. The phones are: TCL 30 5G, TCL 30+, TCL 30, TCL 30 SE and TCL 30 E. Key selling points across the range include the screens, which all feature TCL’s NXTVISION display optimisation technology and 20:9 aspect ratios. The 30 5G, 30+ and 30 have a 6.7-inch AMOLED panel with FHD+ (1080 x 2400, 395ppi) resolution and a 60Hz refresh rate. The 30 SE and 30 E both have a 6.52-inch ‘mini-notch’ panel with HD+ (720 x 1600, 269ppi) resolution. All 30 Series models bar the low-end TCL 30 E have a triple rear camera system comprising a 50MP main camera, a 2MP depth camera and a 2MP macro camera. The 30 E omits the macro capability. The front cameras are more varied: 13MP ultra-wide on the 30 5G and 30+, 8MP on the 30 and 30 SE, and 5MP on the entry-level 30 E. AI assistance makes it easy for non-expert users to get good results in different shooting conditions, TCL says – these are not premium cameras aimed at pro photographers. The 6.7-inch devices (30 5G, 30+, 30) all weigh 184g and are 7.74mm thick, with claimed screen-to-body ratios of 91.7%. The 6.52-inch models (30 SE, 30 E) are heavier (190g) and thicker (8.9mm) with lower screen-to-body ratios (89.1%). Although TCL describes the phones as ‘durable’, there’s no IP rating for dust and water resistance. The 30 Series phones all benefit from large batteries (5010mAh on the 30 5G, 30+ and 30, 5000mAh on the 30 SE and 30 E), delivering ‘better than day-long battery life’, according to TCL. Fast charging at 18W is supported on the three higher-end phones, 15W on the 30 SE and 10W on the 30 E. AI smart charging optimises the charging cycle to minimise battery deterioration. The 30 Series phones will ship with Android 12, and TCL plans to support two OS upgrades, although the details may change for carrier variants. However, TCL confirmed that the 30+ and 30 models are certified by the Android Enterprise Recommended program and will get at least two years of security patches and at least one OS upgrade. TCL’s 30 Series phones are all powered by MediaTek chipsets: Dimensity 700 (30 5G), Helio G37 (30+, 30) and Helio G25 (30 SE, 30 E). TCL 30 Series: pricing and availabilityModelPriceRegionDateTCL 30 5G€249 (64GB), €269 (128GB)Europe (select regions later)April 2022TCL 30+€199Europe (select regions later)nowTCL 30€179Europe (select regions later)nowTCL 30 SE€149 (64GB), €169 (128GB)Europe (select regions later)nowTCL 30 E€139Europe (select regions later)April 2022TabletsTCL is expanding its education-focused Android tablet portfolio with three new products: the TCL NXTPAPER MAX 10, TCL TAB 10 HD 4G and TCL TAB 10s 5G.
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The 10.36-inch NXTPAPER MAX 10 features TCL’s ‘paper-like’ NXTPAPER LCD display technology, which focuses on eye protection via a combination of multi-layer blue light reduction and anti-glare glass. The result, TCL says, is a ‘more comfortable, natural reading and writing experience’. There are two models – Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi plus 4G LTE. 
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The 10.1-inch TCL Tab 10 HD 4G is an entertainment-focused device with an HD (1280 x 800) IPS screen, 8.7mm bezels resulting in an 82% screen to body ratio, and a 5500mAh battery that will ‘comfortably’ deliver all-day battery life, TCL says. As well as 4G LTE, the device offers Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) connectivity. A version with an FHD (1920 x 1200) screen will be available in Asia in mid-Q2 this year. 
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TCL claims that the 10.1-inch TAB 10s 5G is among the first affordable tablets with 5G connectivity. The NXTVISION screen has FHD (1920 x 1200) resolution, and the device is powered by an octa-core MediaTek chipset with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, expandable via MicroSD card. Power is supplied by an 8000mAh battery, replenished by a 9V/2A charger. TCL also teased another 5G tablet – the 2-in-1 TCL TAB PRO 12 5G with ‘a large display and a ultra-fast 5G connectivity’, but offered no further details. TCL tablet pricing and availabilityModelPriceRegionDateTCL NXTPAPER MAX 10  from €269  Asia  mid-Q2 2022TCL TAB 10 HD 4G  €179  Europe  nowTCL TAB 10 FHD 4G  €199  Asia  late March 2022  TCL TAB 10s 5G  €349  n/smid-Q2 2022  RoutersTCL tops off its MWC portfolio with three CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) routers, the LINKHUB 5G CPE HH515 (first announced at CES), the LINKZONE LTE CAT6 Mobile Wi-Fi MW63, and the LINKHUB LTE CAT6 Home Station HH63.
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Capable of delivering a peak data rate of up to 4.7Gbps via sub-6GHz 5G, the LINKHUB 5G CPE HH515 can support up to 256 connections over dual band Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax). With support for standalone (SA) as well as non-standalone (NSA) 5G networks, the HH515 router can support a variety of use cases (cloud-based gaming, live streaming, online education, home working) in areas where fixed-line internet access is poor. The LINKHUB 5G CPE HH515 will be available in Europe in Q1 2022, but TCL has not provided pricing.
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The LINKZONE LTE CAT6 Mobile Wi-Fi MW63 is a ‘MiFi’-style 4G device offering up to 300Mbps download speed and up to 32 Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) connections in a portable form factor powered by a 2150mAh battery offering up to 8 hours of working time and 300 hours on standby, TCL says.
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LINKHUB LTE CAT6 Home Station HH63 comes in a new ‘Tile’ design and also offers up to 300Mbps download and up to 32 Wi-Fi 5 connections. Both of TCL’s 4G routers, which are eSIM compatible, will launch in Europe in Q2 2022.Finally, TCL teased a 5G mobile router, the LINKZONE 5G Mobile Wi-Fi MW513, which will support mmWave as well as sub-6GHz 5G frequency bands and will launch ‘later in the year’. More