Microsoft has signed a deal to sell its networking business Metaswitch to Utah-based cloud communications provider Alianza. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025; the fee has not been disclosed. Microsoft only acquired Metaswitch in 2020, as part of...
As referenced amid a bunch of stats in the preamble to RCR’s new editorial report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 (see image below), market research firm SNS Telecom & IT, based out of Dubai, has said the private 5G market is one of...
Vodafone Idea said it will initially offer 5G services in Delhi and Mumbai
Indian carrier Vodafone Idea expects to begin rolling out commercial 5G services by March 2025 across 17 priority circles across the country, starting with Delhi and Mumbai, according to local press reports.
Vodafone...
We’re playing this one straight. Kentucky-based industrial fan manufacturer Big Ass Fans is working with US printer company Lexmark, which has a sideline in IoT management software, and IT and cloud service provider Microsoft to produce an “IoT-powered comfort ecosystem” to monitor people and...
The investment will also provide digital and AI skills training to more than 1 million Italians by the end of 2025, said Microsoft
Microsoft announced this week a $4.7 billion investment to expand Italy’s hyperscale cloud and AI datacenter infrastructure. The investment will be doled...
Microsoft said that the generative AI tool will be implemented across Vodafone with the aim of improving productivity, innovation and digital efficiency
U.K.-based telco Vodafone has extended its strategic deal with Microsoft to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot AI software to up to 68,000 Vodafone...
Prompted by some late opportunism by Spain-based Telefónica, which has just issued a press note (widely covered) to declare itself the best telco-born ‘techco’ in Europe, six months after the research was first released, RCR Wireless has returned to the original assessment by analyst...
Telstra is extending AI infrastructure from Microsoft throughout the footprint of its Intercity Fibre Network project
Australian operator Telstra is extending Microsoft’s AI infrastructure throughout the footprint of its Intercity Fibre Network project as part of an extended strategic partnership between the two companies. The...
In all the to-and-fro last week about how to size the private 4G/5G market, mostly following the quarterly results from Ericsson and Nokia, an email exchange with the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), which seeks to keep score of it, threw certain perennial aspects...
Some quick thoughts on the big IT outage today, which grounded planes, trains, banks, hospitals, shops, telcos, and broadcasters around the world. Reports on the radio this morning – when the story was breaking, as I drove the kids to school – led on...
As with every tech show at the moment, there was a deal of evangelical fervour at Digital Enterprise Show in Málaga last week about the potential of AI to super-charge enterprises and economies, and maybe to save the planet along the way. But, to...
AI will bring both good and bad — the trick is managing both sides well
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming on strong but is a double-edged sword. OpenAI started a chain reaction more than a year ago with ChatGPT. Suddenly, AI is perhaps one of...
KT and Microsoft plan to jointly develop AI, cloud and IT services specifically tailored for the Korean market
South Korean carrier KT has formed a strategic alliance with U.S. tech giant Microsoft with the aim of collaborating on artificial intelligence, cloud and information technology initiatives.
The...
Following hard on the heels of a similar-sounding deal with Google Cloud, Hitachi has announced a three-year partnership with Microsoft with a major focus on generative AI (gen AI) for its own staff and services, as well as for enterprise customers, notably in the...
Telefónica Tech has announced a global deal with Microsoft to offer an expanded roster of cybersecurity services to enterprise customers. The deal includes artificial intelligence (AI) solutions related to enterprise cybersecurity, the Spain-based telecoms operator said. It is a global arrangement, pitched to enterprises...
The investment from Microsoft will go towards building infrastructure, workforce training and support for French start-ups
Microsoft has pledged to inject $4.3 billion into its French cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) operations by the end of 2027. The plan involves building advanced infrastructure, AI training...
The AI data center will result in 2,300 union construction jobs and around 2,000 permanent jobs over time, said the White House
President Joe Biden announced this week Microsoft’s plans to build a $3.3 billion artificial intelligence (AI) data center at the failed Foxconn site...
The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft are stealing copyrighted articles without permission and without payment
Eight daily newspapers, including The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the pair are “purloining millions of the Publishers’ copyrighted articles without...
Note, this article is a continuation of a previous post, which can be found here.
Funny thing about telecoms, and telcos specifically, so often derided in the Industry 4.0 market for not ‘getting’ enterprise, is that they have listened and changed, arguably, and are selling...
The investment will strengthen the two companies’ collaboration on bringing the latest Microsoft AI technologies to the UAE
Microsoft has announced an investment of $1.5 billion in G42, an UAE-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology holding company.
The investment will strengthen the two companies’ collaboration on bringing...
Hardly a surprise, but German industrial technology juggernaut Siemens has said it will go big on AI at Hannover Messe next week. In truth, quite how big is unclear, but it has stuck out a press notice with AI in the headline, and details...
When news broke in January of Vodafone’s double deal with Microsoft to dichotomize and nebulise its airtime service operations, so its ancillary IoT unit is spun-off as a joint venture and its mainstream 5G business is reprogrammed in the cloud, there was lots of...
The US and Japan have signed two new university research partnerships to collaborate on the technical and ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI). They have received $110 million in combined private sector investment from Amazon, Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Softbank, plus “nine Japanese companies”....
Siemens and Microsoft will converge two different digital-twin programming languages as a “unified standard” in order to simplify and scale IoT projects. They are working with the W3C standards organization to make Microsoft's open-source Digital Twin Definition Language (DTDL) compatible with the W3C’s emerging...
