February 2022

The energy division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has launched a new line of 5G-enabled routers for smart cities, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and utility customers. Its upgraded TRO600 …

Network vendor Nokia is working with New York-based managed infrastructure services provider Kyndryl, separated from IBM late last year, to jointly sell and develop private networking and edge computing solutions …

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Your community suffers from insufficient broadband capabilities, and you are eager to make a difference in closing the digital divide this decade while taking advantage of new available funding. Whether …

Verizon sees 5G fixed wireless access, mobile edge computing, and private networks all driving revenue growth Verizon Business Group CEO and Executive Vice President Tami Erwin this week joined Arden …

Juniper has acquired WiteSand, bolstering its cloud-native zero trust security portfolio with Network Access Control (NAC).

A new report says Kubernetes is becoming invisible as it “moves up the stack” with more mature APIs and hyperscaler-managed services.

T-Mobile US says that it has expanded the availability of its 5G-based home internet service across new locations totaling 62 cities and towns in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. In those …

Preamble puncturing makes it possible to “carve out a thin slice” of spectrum that has interference on it Preamble puncturing is an optional feature introduced in Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax …

Akamai’s $900 million Linode acquisition bolsters its cloud-to-edge services portfolio with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Heads of some of the biggest European telecommunications operators have published an open letter in the Financial Times claiming Europe’s telecoms market risks falling behind rivals, and that big tech …

Juniper Networks announced that it is working with Vodafone and Parallel Wireless, conducting a multi-vendor Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller (RIC) trial for tenant-aware admission control use cases. The trial, …

German telco Deutsche Telekom said that a total of over 63,000 antennas are already transmitting 5G across the country, providing coverage to over 90% of the population. In a release, …

Boston-headquartered carrier services company iBASIS has acquired Dutch IoT platform provider and mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) Simfony for an undisclosed fee. The deal was completed via iBASIS’s highly acquisitive …

The global value of the cellular IoT market will almost double to $61 billion by 2026, from $31 billion in 2022, according to Juniper Research. The growth will be driven …

Carrier says that FirstNet users at the game used twice as much data as fans, on average AT&T says its customers set a new usage record of 13 TB of …

Intel says it’ll buy analog semi foundry Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion in cash, expanding Intel’s capacity to build chips.

AT&T is becoming the provider for the “vast majority” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s telecommunications services, according to the carrier, after being awarded four separate contracts. Those contracts, …

  Global Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider Aeris announced the next generation of its IoT network. In a release, the company said that the new offering includes a suite …

Verizon says its in-stadium fans experienced peak speeds of 3.89 Gbps during the Super Bowl In preparation Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, Verizon invested $119 million …

U.K. operator Virgin Media O2 announced that its 5G network infrastructure in the city of London has reached 64% of the population. In a release, the telco said that the …

Well, the automotive industry has done it again. They shot themselves in the foot more than a decade ago and now they are doing it again. I am talking about …

Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica announced the successful validation of its new Open RAN 5G Standalone small cell. In a release, the European carrier said that the demonstration was carried out …

Telecom networks are at one of their great technology junctures as Communications Service Providers make the leap to end-to-end, Standalone 5G: New, cloud-native networks that demand service assurance that is …

Sumita Gupta Sharma, head of Transmission Networks at Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) speaks to the company’s name change and ambitions around disaggregating its optical networks. She also describes the need for more direct optical routes around the globe.