Germany may snub the US and allow Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies to supply gear for some parts of the country's 5G network.

An American security professional has questioned whether the attack on the Australian Parliament's network and the systems of the three main political parties were indeed a sophisticated attack sponsored by a nation state as claimed by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Chinese smartphone companies increased their share of the European market in 2018 even as the total shipments to Europe for the calendar year fell 4% to 197 million units.

Despite the US campaign against it and a subsequent big drop in North American business, Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab says it has increased its global revenue for calendar 2018 to US$726 million, a 4% year-on-year increase.

Mobile traffic will make up nearly 20% of global IP traffic by the end of 2022 and reach 930 exabytes each year, the networking giant Cisco says in its Mobile Visual Networking Index.

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