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Connecting America: The challenges facing a nation
Interview Ahead of the inaugural Connected America conference, we caught up with The Wall Steet Journal's SVP of Tech, Media & Telco Business Development, Sara Mascall, to discuss some of the biggest challenges facing the telecoms industry in the US 5G was a...
GSMA unveils framework for universal network APIs
News The GSMA’s Open Gateway programme is backed by 21 operator groups, thereby allowing software developers to build apps with the potential to reach almost half of the world's mobile connections At Mobile World Congress this week, the GSMA has announced the creation...
Ericsson latest tech firm to announce major job cuts
News The telecommunications equipment vendor said it would cut around 1,400 jobs in its home market of Sweden This week, Ericsson has announced that it is seeking to reduce its company headcount in Sweden by 1,400 people, having agreed with trade unions to implement a...
China Mobile and China Telecom withdraw from Sea-Me-We 6 project
News Reports suggest that the companies withdrew their investment last year, with geopolitical tensions with the US proving insurmountable According to a report from the Financial Times, China’s two largest mobile operators – China Mobile and China Telecom – have...
The Zoom boom is officially over as company lays off 1,300 staff
News With revenue growth slowing and profits falling, Zoom says it is taking proactive measures to ensure the future viability of the business This week, video conferencing company Zoom has become the latest in a string of major tech firms to announce major job cuts,...
Nokia and Telefonica successfully test 25G PON in Spain
Press Release Nokia today announced that Telefonica Spain has successfully trialed 25G PON technology The trial, the first in Spain to demonstrate symmetric speeds of 20 Gbps, showed that the state-of-the-art 25G PON can co-exist with Telefonica’s existing GPON...
Transpacific Unity cable system doubles capacity with Infinera’s ICE6
Press Release Infinera announced today that Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent optical solution has been deployed to modernize and increase capacity on the transpacific Unity Submarine Cable System, which spans 9,620 kilometers and provides operators with a direct cable...
Exploring a collaborative approach to digital skills development
Interview At Connected Britain 2022, we caught up with PhD student Daisy Curtis to discuss her experience of working alongside 5G Rural Dorset, as well as the importance of digital skills in addressing the gender imbalance in the telecoms sector As part of her PhD...
Israel’s Cognyte embroiled in Myanmar spyware scandal
News Reports suggest the company won a tender to sell spyware to state-run telecoms operator Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) just one month before the military overthrew the Burmese government Israeli software firm Cognyte is coming under scrutiny this...
Vodafone launches first urban Open RAN sites in Southwest UK
News The deployment follows a small-scale rural rollout in Wales and the Southwest of England last year Vodafone has long been a major proponent of Open RAN and now it is claiming a new European first: an urban deployment of Open RAN equipment in a live network. Until...
dtac, Telenor, and Google Cloud team up for Thai SME digitalisation platform
Press Release Total Access Communication PLC (dtac) has entered into a strategic partnership with Telenor and Google Cloud to help Thai businesses accelerate digital transformation. Together, the organizations have developed and launched dtac B-LAB – a one-stop...
DigitalBridge and IFM Investors complete $11bn privatisation of Switch
Press Release DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (“DigitalBridge”) and IFM Investors today announced they have completed their previously announced transaction in which funds affiliated with the investment management platform of DigitalBridge and an affiliate of IFM Investors...
Meta, Bharti Airtel, and STC partner to extend 2Africa Pearls to India
Press Release Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s premier digital communications solutions provider, and Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) today announced a collaboration to support the growth of India’s digital ecosystem. Airtel and Meta will jointly invest in global...
TSMC to pump $40bn into Arizona chip fab
News The world’s largest chipmaker is set to more than triple its previously announced $12 billion investment Back in May 2020, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), by far the world’s largest producer of microchips, announced its intentions to build its newest...
AT&T pays $6.3m to put SEC lawsuit to bed
News The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had accused AT&T executives of leaking financial data to analysts This week, AT&T has reportedly agreed to pay the SEC $6.3 million to settle a lawsuit relating to the misconduct of three of its executives. The...
US–Cuba subsea cable link in jeopardy over national security fears
News The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has recommended to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that they deny a permit for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) to connect to Cuba This week, the US DoJ’s special purpose committee known as ‘Team...
Booming broadband and the journey to become an ISP
Interview In this interview, CTO of Giganet, Matthew Skipsey discusses the UK’s rapidly accelerating fibre rollout, as well as the company’s strategic shift to become a consumer ISP In recent years, the UK fibre industry has been hard at work, transforming the country...
Court rules against Swisscom in FTTH expansion case
News The Federal Supreme Court has rejected Swisscom’s appeal, leaving the operators fibre expansion At the end of 2020, the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) announced the launch of an investigation into Swisscom’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) expansion using...
NTT Docomo calls in Samsung for Open RAN
Samsung delivers range of O-RAN compliant 5G radios covering comprehensive set of NTT DOCOMO’s 5G spectrum holdings — 3.4GHz, 3.7GHz, 4.5GHz and 28GHz
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