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Using Google, Anthos to deliver 5G services will help CSPs save money and reduce complexity, said Mavenir Mavenir announced Friday plans to make its 5G solutions available on Google Cloud. The move will help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) deploy Mavenir’s cloud-native 5G products and apps...

Core network provider Athonet has expanded its fledgling private 5G vendor club to include a broader cross-set of companies to promote and deliver new cellular systems for enterprises. The new joiners are Airspan, Ambra, Imagine Wireless, Integra Network Solutions, Itatel, RippleLink, Teal Communications, and...

Optiva counts an unnamed Canadian telco among its customers for the new service OSS/BSS software developer Optiva has announced that its Optiva Charging Engine is now available through Google Cloud Marketplace. The company claims it to be the first 5G telecom charging solution to be made available...

The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) is running a “short-term, rapid-engagement” pilot to develop a blockchain-based peer-to-peer IoT network for the marine industry. The work will engage various IoT, digital twin, and blockchain elements, to deliver fleet management, tracking, and security, including boat-to-dock payments, maintenance...

The new partnership will accelerate 5G core and 5G SA MEC adoption, said Casa’s CEO Editor's note: Comments from Casa Systems CEO Jerry Guo were added after this article was posted. 5G network solutions provider Casa Systems said this week that it’s partnering with Google Cloud to develop...

Google Cloud plans to shut down its Cloud IoT Core service, which was touted as a fully managed IoT connectivity service, in one year. The company's primary public statement thus far has been a notice posted on its IoT Core website that reads: "Google Cloud...

The APAC expansion complements Google Cloud’s AMEA and LATAM buildouts Google Cloud announced this week plans to set up new regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. The expansion will help to address burgeoning cloud demand in those countries and will address data residency and compliance standards,...

Search and Cloud are driving the business, said execs Alphabet, Google’s parent company, on Tuesday posted second-quarter earnings that narrowly missed Wall Street estimates. The company reported $69.69 billion in revenue, 13% higher year over year, mostly in line with estimates. Net income was $16...

The third Latin America region will join Santiago and São Paulo Google Cloud has announced plans to open a new Mexico region. The effort is part of the company’s $1.2 billion, five-year planned expansion throughout Latin America. When the new Mexico region launches, it will Google’s...

Deutsche Telekom will trial Google Cloud’s data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions German carrier Deutsche Telekom and Google Cloud announced a new expanded partnership to define a joint roadmap for bringing cloud products and services closer to mobile and connected devices...

The government of Ukraine has awarded peace prizes to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle for their emergency digitalization efforts.

Vodafone and Google Cloud announced AI Booster, a new machine learning platform Vodafone will use to improve customer experience.

Some 55% of survey respondents said they are seriously considering an O-RAN strategy Research by U.S. manufacturing services company Jabil has found a growing interest by companies to adopt an Open RAN (O-RAN) approach. A survey of 193 companies conducted for Jabil by SIS International Research...

Google Cloud promises more transparent and complete climate emissions data to help its customers navigate sustainable digital transformation.

With Milan active, Turin is next for Google Cloud's local partnership with TIM, which describes it as “strategic infrastructure” for Italy.

Google Cloud has followed hyperscale mega-rivals Microsoft and AWS into the private 5G market with a bunch of specialist vendor and channel partners, starting with Betacom, Boingo Wireless, Celona, Crown Castle, and Kajeet. It said it is offering “turn-key” private 5G with the option...

Public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) revenue grew 41.4% percent in 2021, led by Amazon, Microsoft, and Alibaba.

French energy firm Engie is using Google Cloud AI to predict wind energy power commodity prices, the company said.

Google Cloud has opened a new region with three zones in Columbus, Ohio, delivering on an earlier promise. Next up is a Dallas, Texas region.

Vodafone's newly-announced UPM is network performance platform aimed at furthering its ambitious pan-EU 5G telco cloud ambitions.

Kubernetes-based open-source effort spearheaded by Linux Foundation, Google Cloud The Linux Foundation and Google Cloud announced this week the formation of Project Nephio. The new open-source effort aims to deliver carrier-grade network function automation using Kubernetes.  “Building, managing and deploying scalable 5G networks across multiple edge locations...

Google promises to help enterprises get big data costs and security under control with BigLake, its BigQuery-based data lake storage system.

With telco cloud, "It's no longer a technology conversation" Operators are, at varying speeds, embracing the scale, speed and economics of telco cloud as they look to make the most of 5G network investments. In the first part of this piece, we heard loud and...

Google has acquired cybersecurity firm Mandiant for $5.4 billion. Mandiant's Advantage SaaS XDR platform will become part of Google Cloud.