Calling the reader on the end of the phone booths: What are your memories of the yellow houses?

In England they are red, in Germany yellow, and later increasingly magenta: the telephone booth, which was once so important, will soon be history in Germany. The mobile phone makes the telephone redundant. What are your memories of the yellow little house? Do you still have the smell of the cells in your nose today? … Read more

IT failure: Lufthansa also on the ground in Leipzig and Dresden – the cause is railway construction work | free press

A failure of the IT systems at Lufthansa causes chaos. Check-in and boarding systems are affected. Flights are delayed or cancelled. Thousands of Lufthansa passengers suffered delays and flight cancellations due to an IT failure on Wednesday morning. Among other things, the computer systems for checking in and boarding were affected by the breakdown, as … Read more

Telekom Street Gigs opened the Greentech Festival with Milky Chance

Deutsche Telekom AG : Telekom Street Gigs opened the Greentech Festival with Milky Chance – Photo: The power plant used to provide heat for Berlin, today musical highlights such as the Telekom Street Gigs © Deutsche Telekom, Markus Nass. / More text via ots and www.presseportal.de/nr/9077 / The use of this image is free of … Read more

Magyar Telekom is testing the introduction of a 4-day work week

Revolutionary news has arrived from the Magyar Telekom Group: In Hungary, for the first time in the corporate sector, the Magyar Telekom Group is experimenting with the introduction of a new work schedule: between July and October, four teams, including support and customer relations, will switch to a 4-day work schedule. According to the company’s … Read more

Mobile communications: are 5G tariffs worth it?

When researching on the Federal Network Agency’s website how far mobile network coverage has progressed in Germany, a waiting symbol is displayed for a few seconds – the map loads and does not load. Internet speed may be too low. That probably wouldn’t have happened with 5G. The latest mobile communications standard promises data transmission … Read more

Krefeld, Wuppertal and Düsseldorf: No more troubles with emergency numbers

November 11, 2021 at 7:45 a.m. Partially unreachable for two hours : Krefeld, Wuppertal and Düsseldorf: Telekom no longer reports faults with emergency numbers – The police could not be reached by emergency call at times. Photo: dpa / Andreas Arnold – – Telekom has fixed a problem with the emergency numbers in NRW. Düsseldorf, … Read more

Now you can make calls with the Fischer-Price iconic toy phone

The American toy manufacturer Fischer-Price is now releasing a new version of its classic toy phone Chatter, which actually works like a real phone, reports Engadget. The special phone will be released in connection with Chatter’s 60th anniversary and is not a landline phone but will be connected to an iOS or Android mobile via … Read more

Lynk has managed to connect mobile phones directly via satellites

Space startup Lynk says that they have managed to connect ordinary mobiles through their satellite service, reports Ars Technica. Lynk’s one-square-meter Shannon satellite was launched into orbit three months ago aboard one of the Spacex Falcon 9 rockets. According to the company, after some initial tests, it should have been possible for hundreds of mobile … Read more