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Alkira promises its new Cloud Area Networking platform will help free enterprises from legacy technical debt and other burdens.

Canadian communications companies Rogers and Shaw plan to sell Freedom Mobile to Quebecor to appease Canada’s competition manager.

Telus said it has acquired LifeWorks, a developer of a cloud-based employee assistance program and benefits administration platform.

Data center capex growth hit a three year peak and will continue to grow, but at a limited rate thanks to supply chain issues, says Dell’Oro.

Telefonica Tech has rebranded Cloud Garden to Red Hat OpenShift Service, embracing hybrid and multi-cloud app deployment trends.

Rogers Communications says it’s the first Canadian telco to deploy midband 5G beginning in BC and moving east from there.

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

LMT and RBF are collaborating to bring maritime 5G to ships in the Gulf of Riga, and eventually elsewhere in the Baltic Sea.

EXFO says its full-stack 5G service assurance helps operators detect, correlate and resolve problems, regardless of the fault’s location.

After testing CBRS-based 5G data with Ericsson, Verizon said it’s ready to expand its use of CBRS spectrum to bolster 5G performance.

Dish Wireless confirmed Wednesday that its 5G greenfield network now reaches 20% of the U.S. population, meeting an FCC-imposed deadline.

AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 will test satellite broadband to regular cell phones when it launches on a SpaceX rocket this August.

Nokia said it has set aside 25 network in a box FTTH kits with everything rural broadband operators need to hook up to 1,000 homes.

The UK’s antitrust authority accuses Apple and Google of market restrictions and anticompetitive behavior in their mobile ecosystems.

Qualcomm said Monday it acquired CHIME developer Cellwize to help bolster its Open RAN playbook. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Ericsson North America boss Niklas Heuveldop said there’s still a lot of work to do but points to early 5G successes to predict the future.

Chinese vendor ZTE, together with China Telecom Chengdu Branch and other partners have been working in the so-called “5G Joy City” project in Chengdu, China, with the main goal of …

Hybrid cloud and AI will drive the next wave of technology and productivity, says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna.

In April, Broadcom announced it was sampling a complete end-to-end chipset offering for the Wi-Fi 7 ecosystem, further solidifying its early-mover status. Spanning routers, residential gateways, enterprise access points and …

Sony said its newly-minted subsidiary will build equipment to enable laser-based real-time communication for low earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

A month after announcing Google Cloud support for its EVO network management platform, P.I. Works says it also works with VMware’s RIC.

Latvian telco LMT is using Nokia for 5G Standalone (SA) Core technology, the companies announced Monday.

Apple took the wraps off new Macs, a new CarPlay and more at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) this week.

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