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European labs to receive billions in chip funding

The funding will support a NanoIC pilot line hosted at imec’s facility in Leuven, Belgium Research labs in Europe will receive 2.5 billion euros ($2.72 billion) in funding under the European Chips Act, announced in 2023. The funding, according to Belgium's nanoelectronics R&D hub imec, is...

FCC requests more rip-and-replace funding

The FCC now estimates that $4.98 billion is needed to fund rip-and-replace efforts The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week asked for more funding to support communications providers' "rip-and-replace" projects for Huawei and ZTE equipment, which has been banned by Congress for use in U.S....

Vodafone Idea successfully closes FPO to fund 4G, 5G rollouts

Vodafone Idea recently said it expects to use the equity and debt funding to deploy its 5G service within six to seven months of securing the funds Indian operator Vodafone Idea said it has concluded its $2.16 billion follow-on public offer (FPO), which closed successfully...

UK government explores plan to open $204 million satellite fund

The government said that this satellite fund would be complemented by a range of live 5G integration projects The U.K government said it is aiming to boost broadband and 5G coverage in the country with a potential plan to launch a £160 million ($204 million)...

France and Germany to support joint private 5G projects

France and Germany have pledged a total of 17.7 million euros ($19.95 million) in support of four projects on 5G applications, the two countries' governments have said in a joint release. The aim of the joint initiative is to deliver innovative solutions that will...

FCC details second wave of emergency funding for education

To date, the emergency funding has provided 5,420,473 devices and 2,700,834 broadband connections, impacting nearly 8 million students In its recently approved second wave of emergency connectivity funding, the Federal Communications Commission is committing $1,159,681,350.34 for 2,471 schools, 205 libraries and 26 consortia. All those...

FCC approves network funding to ‘storm-harden’ PR, US Virgin Islands

FCC funding will provide mid- and long-term support to deploy fast, resilient and reliable networks The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved $950 million in funding to improve, expand and harden communications networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after communications infrastructure on the...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: What’s so good about PPP? (2/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Five ways to fund a smart city

The scramble for technology to create cleaner, safer, richer cities has intensified as funding models have started to take root. The fashion for smart city pilot tests has finished. The technology works, we are told. The last challenge is how to pay for them,...

5G accelerators: The Fabric weaves in former Cisco, P&G execs

Five-year old accelerator The Fabric focusing on cloud, IoT, 5G continues to build. Two advisors are joining The Fabric, the five-year old Mountain View, Calif.-based startup fund and “co-creation foundry." The new advisors are Pankaj Patel, former EVP and CDO with Cisco, and Alan Boehme,...

Brussels wants “hard cash” for digital change to keep pace with US, China

The European Commission (EC) has called for both national governments and private enterprises to contribute to the region’s digital transformation programme from 2021. If new finances are not secured from regional administrations and private sources, the progress the region has made with data privacy...