BROWSING: United States

'AI is the defining technology of our generation," said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo The U.S. and the U.K. issued a joint statement this week detailing efforts partner on the enhancement of safe development and usage of artificial intelligence (AI). The pair signed a...

The CHIPS Ac was passed in 2022 and set aside $59 billion to bolster semiconductor manufacturing and research in the US Intel is in line to receive up to $8.5 billion in grants from the U.S. federal government as part of the CHIPS Act, which...

The new set of chip restrictions hitting China are designed to close loopholes in existing regulations The U.S. Department of Commerce has escalated its efforts to restrict the sale of advanced chips to China after loopholes in last year’s export restrictions were discovered. This time, the...

Micron failed to pass a cybersecurity review, says the Cyberspace Administration of China Tensions between China and the U.S. escalated over the weekend when the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced its decision to ban Idaho-based memory chipmaker Micron from selling to Chinese companies. According...

The White House is pondering more extensive U.S. limitations on the sale of chips and chip-making equipment to Chinese companies, and those could have substantial impacts on Nvidia's ability to sell to Huawei and a lesser impact on Qualcomm, according to press reports on...

The high-altitude Chinese balloon that traveled over the United States in the past week was equipped to "collect and geolocate" communications signals, according to the U.S. Department of State and published reports. Chinese officials have claimed that the balloon was a "civilian airship" used for...

Accenture and CTIA identified three blocks of lower midband spectrum that they believe to have 'the greatest potential for 5G expansion' Often called the goldilocks of spectrum, 5G midband spectrum delivers better coverage than high-band and higher speeds than low-band. It is widely accepted that...

The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022 United States broadband provider Fastwyre has acquired Moundville Communications, a telecommunications provider in central Alabama, marking the former’s entry into the southern state. American Broadband Holding Company, under the trade name Fastwyre Broadband, provides...

The CHIPS Act proposes $59 billion of funding for semiconductor manufacturing and research in the U.S The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed the CHIPS bill, or the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, which aims to estabish a competitive edge over China...

Verizon, which remained second, saw a strong increase in speeds, likely due to new C-Band deployments Ookla’s latest speed tests concluded that T-Mobile US was the fastest mobile operator in the United States during Q1 2022 with a median download speed of 117.83 Mbps, while...

When it comes to small cell densification in the U.S., markets can be segmented by their current stage of deployment Mobile wireless data traffic in the U.S. hit another record high in 2020, topping 42 trillion MBs, which represents a 208% increase since 2016, according...

Lumen will sell CenturyLink-branded assets to Apollo across 20 states and retain those in 16 states Lumen Technologies has agreed to sell a portion of its incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) operations to Apollo Global Management for $7.5 billion. Lumen will retain the CenturyLink-branded assets in 16...

Verizon Public Sector secured a $495 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency, Layer 2 wide area network services in support of critical research. Verizon’s solutions, which include switch, router, firewall and edge compute capabilities, will connect 200...

The joint document states that suppliers should be assessed for "undue foreign influence" This week, the Czech Republic and the United States signed a joint declaration pledging cooperation on 5G network security and establishing a strict framework for assessing foreign equipment providers. Signed by Czech...

What are the major trends that will shape the next decade of mobile technology? GSMA Intelligence lays out five in a new report. According to the report, those trends include: -Operators will intensify their pursuit of revenues that come from sources other than connectivity, which GSMA...