Telephone and mobile communications

It is possible that in the future Twitter will have to be completely blocked in Russia.

The largest Russian mobile operator MTS announced the launch of the first in Russia user pilot 5G communication network in the 4.9 GHz band in 14 popular locations in Moscow.

The Chinese company ranked third in the world in smartphone shipments after South Korea's «Samsung Electronics» and the US's «Apple» in 2020.

Russian scientists have created a communication system that allows transmitting signals using the effect of reflection from the traces of meteors flying in the Earth's atmosphere.

According to a Russian parliamentarian, Roskomnadzor must use technical means to combat Twitter, after blocking more than a hundred Russian accounts, symmetric measures must be taken.

The head of the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands, Eric Akerbom, claims without evidence that the country's special services allegedly "every day catch hackers from both China and Russia."

Roskomnadzor requires Clubhouse to restore access to the account of the Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov and explain the reasons for the blocking.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to speak in the Clubhouse app, created for voice communication and online conferences.

According to CNN, the social network Instagram has deleted the account of the nephew of the 35th American President John F. Kennedy, environmental activist and lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr., due to false claims about the coronavirus and vaccines against it.

The combination of these factors led to a change in the long-term outlook of the sovereign credit rating of Belarus from stable to negative.

The Barcode Scanner application for Android smartphones turned out to be malicious after the last update, as it is reported on the official blog of the Malwarebytes antivirus program.

Instagram has confirmed the development of a feature that will make the service more like TikTok.

In the new version of the operating systems for mobile there is support for Playstation and Xbox controllers, as well as support for two SIM cards in 5G mode.

The Telegram messenger has released an iOS 7.4 update allowing users to transfer their chat history from other messengers, including WhatsApp. The update became available on January 27th.

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