The partnership involves two edge solutions: AT&T Multi-access Edge Compute and AT&T Network Edge with Google Cloud
Last week, AT&T and Google announced an expansion to a 5G and edge collaboration, initiated March 2020, that involved new solutions across AT&T’s 5G and Google Cloud’s edge...
T-Mobile doubled its lead in 5G download speed over the competition, according to OpenSignal
OpenSignal’s latest 5G user experience report concluded that T-Mobile US, for the third time in a row, had the fastest download speed during the time period measured. In fact, the carrier’s...
The global pandemic spurred increased connectivity and a 30% increase in data traffic, according to PwC report
The media and entertainment industry is seeing major shifts as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, with connectivity, mobility and on-demand flexibility emerging as primary consumer desires, according...
The University of Texas (UT) has teamed up with tech companies Qualcomm, Samsung, AT&T, NVIDIA and InterDigital to establish a new research center, dubbed 6G@UT, to lay the groundwork for 6G.
“The advances in both wireless communications and machine learning over the past decade have...
As part of the deal, Microsoft will require AT&T’s carrier-grade Network Cloud platform technology
AT&T and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership that will see the carrier’s 5G mobile network moved to the Microsoft cloud and provides a path for its traffic to be managed...
Those interested in throwing a 5G-themed dinner party, may already be aware of the “exquisite” Torres 5G Garnacha red wine from Spain. T-Mobile US, however, has given us yet another option to serve our thirsty guests, and unlike the Torres winemakers, T-Mobile is in...
IBM has said it is undecided, as yet, about whether to offer 5G network management services to enterprises, despite commentators repeatedly suggesting the New York firm might yet shape up as a prime candidate to handle the ‘run’ phase of new private cellular deployments.
The...
AT&T has won contracts to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security modernize its networks, and the agency will gain access to FirstNet services as well.
AT&T snagged four task orders from DHS to modernize and transform the agency's telecommunications infrastructure with IP-based networking...
AT&T Business CEO: '5G is going to be a game-changer for the healthcare industry'
AT&T is deploying a private 5G network, as well as Multi-access Edge computing (MEC), at the University of Southern California's (USC's) Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine to support cancer...
T-Mobile users connected to 5G nearly one-third of the time, according to OpenSignal report
Since the release of OpenSignal’s previous report in January, the availability of 5G under all three major U.S. carriers increased. T-Mobile US maintained its lead when it comes to 5G speed,...
AT&T and UConn will complete the private 5G network by summer 2021
AT&T is deploying a private 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) network and Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) technology at the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) Stamford campus to help “advance academic programs that will explore new use cases...
AT&T, SK Telecom, Verizon, Vodafone all working with Intel on 5G network transformation
This week Intel touted its 3rd generation Xeon scalable processor and, in a virtual track focused on telco applications and complementary products, carrier executives discussed their work with Intel around virtualization of...
This conversation will form part of the narrative in the forthcoming Enterprise IoT Insights report on industrial 5G SLAs, out at the start of April (to be available here). A webinar on the same subject is available here, with panellists from ABI Research, EXFO,...
Mid-March greetings from Charlotte/ Lake Norman/ Davidson, where we prematurely celebrated National Poires Belle Helene Day (which is March 15). Like many of you, the COVID-19 pandemic has broadened our culinary skills. We are looking forward to enjoying this and other tasty desserts at our favorite...
Deutsche Telekom has said it is now offering NB-IoT connectivity in 20 countries and LTE-M in 10 countries. The company has outlined new cellular IoT contracts for water irrigation with Spanish manufacturer Hidroconta, in-building lighting with German lighting specialist Fischer Akkumulatorentechnik, storm damage monitoring...
Verizon, AT&T and Comcast are among the telecom companies freezing political donations
As the U.S. struggles to make sense of the violent events that unfolded last week in Washington D.C. when a mob, incited by President Trump, stormed the Capitol building while lawmakers sought to...
All this talk about a (industrial) revolution, and sometimes stuff gets left out. Scratching around for news last week, looking through half-written pieces from last year, this jumped out; about the Industry 4.0 market’s struggle to knock heads together in the name of ‘co-creation’,...
Despite mid-60s degree temperatures, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Davidson (pictured are the Giving Trees on the Village Green). They have been a tradition for decades - a highlight of our most unusual Holiday season.
We are going to start looking...
AT&T has extended its agreement with Nokiato use the Finnish firm’s worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) solution to offer enterprise customers IoT connectivity at home and abroad. Nokia’s WING service affords operators a way to offer cellular IoT services without having to invest in...
New IBM hybrid cloud offering geared toward enterprise adoption of 5G and edge computing
For operators investing billions in building 5G networks, the real revenue opportunity is not in selling enhanced services to consumers but, rather, in standing up differentiated service offerings geared toward the...
AT&T is considering the sale of a "significant minority stake" in its DirecTV, AT&T Now (formerly DirecTV Now) and U-verse television operations, according to CNBC. The outlet, which cited anonymous sources familiar with the matter, said that the deal would value DirecTV at about...
Accenture exec: 'Cloud is cool, but without an advanced network, it can't deliver the value'
Mobile service providers are spending billions of dollars building out nationwide 5G networks and are touting the benefits of the new services in TV and internet ads, but according to...
Wi-Fi 6 and software-defined LAN capabilities are driving digital transformation, says AT&T
The Wireless Broadband Alliance held its Wireless Global Congress this past week where speakers discussed a number of critical topics relating to Wi-Fi and the future of wireless connectivity, such as OpenRoaming and...
AT&T and Cisco have signed a new, multi-year agreement that expands their collaboration around enterprise IoT device management, with an AT&T Control Center powered by Cisco offering that they say enables "near real-time visibility" of all devices on a business' network.
The two companies already...
