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AWS regional outage cripples Amazon and hosted services

AWS's biggest global region was unresponsive for several hours on Tuesday following an "impairment of network devices."

Vestberg’s vision for ’22 and Verizon’s ‘vectors of growth’

Hans Vestberg on 5G mobile edge: 'We're probably two years ahead of anybody else in the market, in the world even' Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg presented at the 2021 UBS Global TMT Conference earlier this week, where he touched on the company’s five “vectors of...

University of Glasgow to set up facility to test 6G communications systems

The University of Glasgow recently confirmed it aims to set up a facility to test future "6G" communications systems, after securing a £2.6 million equipment grant. In a statement, the University said that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have backed its plans...

Mitto AG boss accused of secret phone surveillance

A report says Swiss telecom service provider Mitto AG's COO covertly sold surveillance access to customer phones using an SS7 exploit.

Can mmWave handle the comeback of congestion? RootMetrics says yes

"Mid-band and especially low-band 5G solutions may not be enough to deliver a smooth experience in crowded situations," RootMetrics says The omicron variant notwithstanding, crowds are gathering once again across the U.S.: In stadiums, at concerts and theaters, at airports and in city centers. With...

Deutsche Telekom’s 5G network reaches 87% of Germany’s households

German carrier Deutsche Telekom said over 87% of the country's households can now access its 5G network. In a release, the telco said it has built up 5G capacities at 756 mobile sites across Germany over the past twelve weeks. It has also deployed Dynamic...

Virgin Media O2 finishes gigabit broadband upgrade

Virgin Media O2 has announced the completion of their nationwide gigabit broadband buildout with the connection of 15.5 million homes.

Alaska Airlines picks T-Mobile as preferred carrier

Alaska Airlines has picked T-Mobile as its preferred wireless provider and will migrate most of its wireless business to the Un-carrier.

Samsung surprises with massive leadership, business unit restructuring

Samsung is replacing all three of its CEOs and is merging its mobile and consumer electronics and IT units On Monday, Samsung Electronics revealed a company restructuring that involves a shake-up of its leadership team and the merging of its mobile and consumer electronics and...

French operators had almost 31,000 authorized 5G sites at end-November

France had a total of 30,963 authorized 5G sites as of December 1, of which 20,954 were declared technically operational by the local mobile carriers, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. ANFR said that the number of authorized 5G sites...

How does Wi-Fi 6, 6E adoption compare to Wi-Fi 5?

It appears that how the adoption rate of Wi-Fi 6 compares to previous generations of Wi-Fi technology is a matter of perspective According to data published by research and advisory firm The Logistics IQ, by 2026, there will be more than 13 billion devices shipped...

BAI Communications buys Vilicom, expanding in Europe

Telecom infrastructure provider BAI Communications is expanding in Europe and the U.K. with the acquisition of wireless infrastructure design, installation and management company Vilicom. BAI is headquartered in Toronto and majority owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Earlier this year, BAI bought privately...

Japan to carry out 5G O-RAN tests in 2022: Report

Japan is expected set up a wide-area experimental network as early as 2022 to experiment with 5G O-RAN networks, Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported. According to the report, the initiative will be led by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Japan's leading communication companies....

AWS touts efficiency, performance of new AWS-powered EC2 instances

Amazon's said its new chips powering its latest EC2 instances offer customers big performance gains and greatly improved energy efficiency.

China Telecom told to cease US operations next month

A federal appeals court last week declined China Telecom’s emergency bid to halt a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order withdrawing its capability to provide telecommunications services in the United States. According to a Reuters report, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Columbia...

NTIA to hold ‘listening sessions’ on new broadband programs

Public sessions to gather stakeholder input will begin next week The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is tasked with turning $65 billion in funding into programs that will make broadband services available and affordable to all Americans, plans to hold a series of public...

AWS Cloud WAN simplifies SD-WAN

AWS Cloud WAN consolidates the previous "patchwork" of SD-WAN tools into a single dashboard, providing customers with policy-driven security.

Test and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz works with Audi on C-V2X testing

Rohde & Schwarz said this week that it has worked with Vector Informatik to provide a cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) testing solution that enabled automaker Audi to run realistic traffic scenarios with multiple simulated vehicles, both in the lab and on an automotive proving ground....

Picocom hits the ‘sweet spot’ with new small cell SoC for Open RAN

The PC802 SoC is a purpose-designed SoC for 5G NR/LTE small cell disaggregated and integrated RAN architectures Picocom has introduced the PC802 SoC (system on chip), a flexible, low power device that the company claims “empowers the innovation of a new breed of 5G NR...

DoD kicks off 5G DSS experimentation at Hill Air Force Base

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officially announced the deployment of a private 5G cellular network at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Led by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) and managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL),...

Telenet to start gradual deployment of 5G in Belgium next week

Belgian operator Telenet said it will start the gradual deployment of its 5G network in the country on December 6, the carrier said in a release. Telenet, which is controlled by U.S. company Liberty Global, said that the first 5G zones will be located around...

FTC sues to stop Nvidia’s Arm acquisition

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing Nvidia Corp. to stop its US$40 billion acquisition of UK-based Arm Ltd. from Japan's SoftBank.

Google Cloud expands global infrastructure, underscores sustainability, human rights

Google Cloud expands its global infrastructure with new regions in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and United States.

AWS spurs Machine Learning research with free lab, $10M scholarship

AWS is promoting Machine Learning (ML) by giving away free SageMaker Studio Lab access and $10M in scholarship money for underserved students.