US chip-maker Silicon Labs has said it has shipped four million Wirepas sub-GHz RF mesh IoT units for India’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) initiative, to go in smart electricity meters. The Indian government set new rules in 2021 to reduce losses and improve operational...
India-based health-tech company LifeSigns has announced 4G/5G-based IoT hardware and airtime tie-ups with India-based IoT solutions provider Hetrogenous and London-based IoT airtime provider FloLIVE to launch a connected ambulance solution in the country. The LifeSigns product, called LifeConnect, uses medical sensors and live video...
Located in India's western state of Maharashtra, the chip plant will produce analog circuits and wafers
Israel's Tower Semiconductor has partnered with Indian conglomerate Adani Group on a $10 billion project to build a new chip facility that the pair said will bolster India’s position...
The Indian government is to build a total of 12 new industrial smart cities in various states to drive domestic manufacturing in the country. These join eight urban manufacturing centres that are already under development. The department of industry and trade revealed progress with...
Nokia saw its (“comparable”) operating profit slide by 32 percent in the second quarter of 2024, finishing at €423 million, versus €619 million a year ago. Sales fell alongside, down 18 percent at €4.466 billion in the quarter, from €5.438 billion. It put the...
India-based IT consultancy and system integrator Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched a generative AI aggregation platform for enterprise customers and a new IoT lab in the US, with a stated remit to support sensor deployments feeding into developing industrial AI projects. It has...
Satellite IoT operator Kinéis has a deal with Hyderabad-based space engineering solutions provider Dhruva Space to produce compatible devices and solutions to grow low-power satellite IoT applications in India. Kinéis will have a constellation of 25 nanosatellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) by early 2025....
Nokia has signed a research and development (R&D) deal with the Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya university in India, formerly the country’s National Rail and Transportation Institute, to develop 5G and 6G solutions for the country’s transport and logistics sector. Their joint work will address solutions...
France-based low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, is working with Italian IoT provider Urbana Smart Solutions to “overhaul” and extend Italy’s IoT infrastructure. The deal will see Urbana manage the rollout of LoRaWAN infrastructure “throughout Italy”, and the integration of combined...
Airtel is training more than 300 experts on Google Cloud services at a managed services center in Pune
Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced today a long-term partnership with Google Cloud to develop and provide cloud and generative AI products to its existing business customers, which...
Nvidia CEO said India 'possesses size, data, and skill' necessary to be a leader in AI
Nvidia announced new partnerships with Indian conglomerates Tata Group and Reliance Industries to develop language models for business and consumer AI applications, cloud infrastructure and generative services in...
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Consolidated Comms sells...
Proximus Opal provides cloud-based telecom platforms for enterprise customers such as Salesforce and TikTok creator Bytedance
Proximus Opal, a unit of Belgian telecom service provider Proximus Group, announced plans to buy an almost 58% stake in cloud communications platform-as-a-service company Route Mobile, to the tune...
Vodafone Idea also said it has concluded device testing of all major OEMs on its upcoming 5G mobile broadband network
Indian operator Vodafone Idea confirmed “advanced talks” with a number of vendors in order to define its final strategy for the deployment of 5G in...
Cellular IoT module shipments rose by 14 percent in the 12 months to the end of 2022, with China leading the way for regional shipment volumes India leading the way for regional shipment growth, NB-IoT leading the way for low-power IoT volumes, LTE CAT1.bis...
TIP OpenWiFi is an open source-based Wi-Fi architecture that leverages open-source development and automated testing
Indian managed service provider Spectra has expanded its deployment of Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenWiFi solutions to cover more of its Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) and enterprise customers.
TIP OpenWiFi is an...
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US companies partner...
Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...
Hyderabad joins Mumbai as AWS expands its Asia Pacific presence
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Monday the general availability of its second region in India. The new Hyderabad region, located in the state of Telangana, is called ap-south-2 and has launched with three Availability Zones.
Regions...
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The new factory will be built in the Indian PM’s home state of Gujarat
Taiwanese semiconductor giant Foxconn and Indian mining conglomerate Vedanta have announced a deal with the Indian government to build one of the first semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the country. The $19.5...
A look inside the companies’ three-prong strategy with IBM’s head of cloud, 5G, and edge
IBM on Wednesday announced a partnership with Indian telco Bharti Airtel to bring forth a massive edge computing project that will include 120 network data centers across 20 cities in...
The company is also working with Google on an “ultra-affordable” 5G handset, said its chairman
With its 5G spectrum auction behind it, the government of India is putting the pressure on regional Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to quickly spin up 5G service for Indian consumers...
Further, 48% intend to upgrade to 5G 'as soon as possible,' Ookla reported
India recently concluded a 5G spectrum auction in which the country’s operators spent a total of total $19 billion for spectrum across 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz,...
