Editorial Report: Can we really bridge the digital divide without workforce investment?
The significant funding allocated to broadband deployment through various U.S. legislative efforts will play a crucial role in overcoming the primary obstacle to bridging...
Expanded ‘CBRS 2.0’ access expected by late this summer
CBRS' continued evolution likely to set the roadmap for sharing in other bands
The Citizens Broadband Radio Service's three-tiered spectrum-sharing framework has essentially set the...
Artificial Intelligence: The Major Cyber Threats for 2024 (Reader Forum)
What are the major cyber threats related to AI?
Artificial intelligence has been hailed by many as the “future of work” thanks to its...
Revitalizing and enhancing critical communications during wildfires (Reader Forum)
Revitalizing and enhancing critical communications during wildfires
When wildfires strike, they are unforgiving, damaging, and devastating to the critical communications supporting civilians and frontline rescue...
Rakuten Mobile surpasses 7 million mobile subscribers
Rakuten Mobile previously highlighted that it plans to continue to expand 4G and 5G infrastructure across Japan
Rakuten Mobile announced that the number of subscribers...
Crypto Quantique, ZARIOT, Kigen team up on ‘quantum-safe’ IoT
UK-based IoT security provider Crypto Quantique, Luxembourg-based IoT connectivity provider ZARIOT, and Ireland-based eSIM vendor Kigen have aligned to implement the GSMA’s IoT-SAFE standard...
O2 Telefonica activates 5G street lighting mast in Cologne
O2 Telefonica had recently activated similar 5G street lighting masts in Frankfurt am Main and Würzburg
German operator O2 Telefónica, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica,...
Vodafone seeks to sell its entire stake in Indus Towers: Report
Vodafone currently owns 21.5% of Indus Towers via various group entities
U.K.-based Vodafone Group is looking to sell its entire $2.3 billion stake in Indian...
Netmore to install 42,000 residential LoRaWAN sensors in Sweden
Sweden-based IoT network operator Netmore Group, with infrastructure operations in Europe and the US, has signed with Stena Fastigheter to deploy LoRaWAN technology across...
Telefónica Tech and IBM combine on AI for enterprises in Spain
Telefónica Tech, the enterprise division of Spain-based operator Telefónica, has signed with IBM to develop AI solutions for enterprises in its home market. They...
Telenor creates new company with focus on cybersecurity
Telenor Cyberdefense will offer businesses a Security Operations Centre (SOC) for 24/7 monitoring, prevention, detection and response to all types of cyber threats
Nordic operator...
Indian telcos request 6 GHz band to expand 5G networks
Last year, the GSMA said that India should identify and support 6 GHz spectrum for the expansion of 5G services across the country
The Cellular...
BT warns about negative effects of Vodafone-Three merger
The U.K.'s competition regulator launched the initial phase of an antitrust investigation in January after the entity was notified by the two carriers about...
Where is airport connectivity the best? Ookla weighs in
Wi-Fi is fast, but mobile networks are even faster: Ookla
Airports are notorious for the intensity and density of data usage. Just as summer travel...
South Korean government set to cancel Stage X’s license
The South Korean government expected Stage X to become the country's fourth mobile operator
South Korea's Science Ministry said it will revoke the license of...
Europorte, Kerlink, Kinéis combine on satellite IoT freight tracker
A trio of French tech and logistics firms have combined to develop a new tracking solution for the freight industry which uses both terrestrial...
The ‘nightmare scenario’ – Big Tech, AI and the ‘end of the human race’
As with every tech show at the moment, there was a deal of evangelical fervour at Digital Enterprise Show in Málaga last week about...
AI-native is about AI (obviously), but it’s also about change management
Brownfield operators rejoice!—cloud-native is not a prerequisite for AI-native
We’ve covered in these pages before an idea put forth in great detail by McKinsey and...
The Sunday Brief: What’s artificial about Apple Intelligence?
Father’s Day greetings from Atlanta, Kansas City, and, by the time you read this, Cedar Rapids. Pictured is a long-time colleague and friend Hunter...
e& playing 4-D chess with its ‘AI-forward, AI-first strategy’
In February 2022, Etisalat rebranded to e&; the UAE-headquartered multinational was early in doing the hard work of reinventing from a telco to a...
The three big telco AI use cases—and a lot more sub-use cases
Telco AI forecasted to become a $42 billion business by 2033
While artificial intelligence (AI) hype is running rampant, AI is also bringing real benefits...
Test and Measurement: Anritsu, ETS-Lindgren partner on NTN testing
Anritsu and fellow test equipment company ETS-Lindgren have collaborated on a new Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) testing solution, which combines Anritsu’s MT8821C Radio Communication Analyzer with...
T-Mobile selected by U.S. Navy for $2.67bn 10-year contract
This new contract will give all Department of Defense agencies the ability to place orders for wireless services and equipment from T-Mobile for the...
Vodafone Spain plans 1,200 job cuts following acquisition by Zegona
Vodafone Spain blamed the job cuts on economic, production and organizational hardships
Vodafone Spain, now owned by Zegona Communications as of a month ago, has...
Liberty Global takes controlling stake in electric car race series
Liberty started investing in Formula E a decade ago when the race series first emerged
Telecom provider Liberty Global is taking a majority stake in...