TELECOM – THIS WEEK (2426)
1.???? China has started testing 6G in space
While much of the planet is still seeing the rollout of 5G, China Mobile recently launched a satellite designed to test a first 6G connection from space. A true terrestrial network, however, is not expected to be in operation before 2030.
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2.???? Malaysia Airlines partners Huawei to expand outbound travel market in China
Malaysia Airlines and Huawei have entered a strategic partnership aimed at revolutionising the national airline’s digital landscape through Huawei Consumer Cloud Services’ advanced digital solutions. This collaboration will enable Malaysia Airlines to gain deeper insights into traveller preferences and effectively analyse market trends, thereby enhancing its customer-centric service approach.
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3.???? Dubai's Du plunges on rights issue; mkts fall
Dubai-listed Du?made its largest decline for 19 weeks on Monday after the telecoms operator unveiled a $272 million rights issue, dragging the emirate's index <.DFMGI> to a month-low. Other Middle East markets also fell as Friday's fraud charges against Goldman Sachs?rattled regional and global stocks.
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4.???? Cloud Native IMS Market with Tremendous growth by 2031 – Ericsson, Nokia, Mavenir
Cloud-native IMS enables CSPs to evolve existing voice and messaging services as they transition to the 5G era. Simplify the evolution of voice and messaging services from 2G to 5G and ensure a consistent user experience across technology generations.
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5.???? Nokia Considering Shifting Most Of Its Design Work To India?
Finnish telecom giant Nokia is reportedly considering shifting a large part of its global design capacity to India. The move can be attributed to the presence of large designing talent in India.
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6.???? Comviva introduces CNPaaS for advanced monetisation with network APIs
Comviva, the global leader in customer experience and data monetization solutions, announced a landmark enhancement to its CPaaS solution for Telecom providers– NGAGE. This strategic enhancement elevates NGAGE to a CNPaaS (Communication Network Platform as a Service) solution, that shall empower enterprises with advanced 5G network capabilities such as on-demand quality of service (QoS), precise device location, and network slicing, alongside robust 4G functionalities.
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7.???? Indonesia’s telcos hold back on 5G rollout plans
Despite growing demand for digital services and enhanced connectivity, network operators in Indonesia are delaying the large-scale deployment of 5G amid financial constraints and a lack of immediate demand, which is having an impact on the nation’s readiness for next-generation applications.
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8.???? Vertiv and Ballard announce strategic technology partnership
Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, and PEM fuel cell market leader, Ballard Power Systems, have entered into a strategic technology partnership with a focus on backup power applications for data centres and critical infrastructures, scalable from 200kW to multiple MWs.
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9.???? Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules
Apple will delay launching three new artificial intelligence features in Europe because?European Union?competition rules require the company ensure that rival products and services can function with its devices. The features will launch in the fall in the US but will not arrive in Europe until 2025.
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10.? 5G’s deep freeze hits Samsung network division
Samsung Electronics is cutting jobs in its network division, shifting about 700 people out of its 4,000-employee network group and into other departments, according to media reports. The move, made June 17 and reported last week in?Business Korea, is in response to the cyclical nature of the global telecom market, which is going though a “5G winter” period that affects the entire industry.
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11.? Singtel and Hitachi Digital partner to accelerate industrial AI solutions
Singtel, a leading communications technology group in Asia, and Hitachi Digital, representing Hitachi’s broad end-to-end digital transformation services and technology capabilities, today announced a new collaboration that will pair Hitachi’s deep AI expertise with Singtel’s Paragon platform, the all-in-one orchestration platform for 5G, edge computing and cloud.
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12.? EE launches UK’s first broadband package build for next-level gaming
EE today launched a new nationwide home connectivity bundle made exclusively for gamers. EE Broadband Made for Gamers includes the UK’s fastest widely available download speeds, as well as Game Mode, designed to allow gamers to maximise their in-home WiFi connection - providing a truly next-level gaming experience.
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13.? Will GPUs dominate future telco infrastructure?
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are all the rage these days and have helped to make Nvidia one of, if not the, most valuable company in the world, depending on what day of the week it is. But will GPUs become the norm and be at the heart of all future network platforms, managing multiple workloads including those related to communications networking and services?
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14.? Nokia and Claro deploy Colombia’s largest 5G network
Nokia and Claro today announced the successful completion of the first stage of Colombia’s largest 5G deployment covering over 1,000 sites nationwide. The project, which was completed only four months after Colombian authorities issued 5G licences, will provide state-of-the-art radio, core, and transport technologies delivering best-in-class coverage and connectivity. The deal will lay the foundations for future innovation across industries such as transport, mining, energy and oil and gas amongst others.
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15.? Ericsson unveils new solution for intelligent use of energy in network sites
Much of society runs on networks. This makes it vital to ensure that networks are efficiently powered while using existing energy infrastructure. The new Site Energy Orchestration solution from Ericsson acts as an intelligent bridge between the radio access network (RAN) and power grids, optimizing operations to boost energy cost savings, reduce carbon footprint and open new revenue streams.?
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16.? Exclusive: US probing China Telecom, China Mobile over internet, cloud risks
The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access to American data through their U.S. cloud and internet businesses by providing it to Beijing, three sources familiar with the matter said.
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17.? GenAI spurs quest for alternative renewable power sources
The astonishing speed of the global spread, and the increasing use, of generative AI (GenAI) is spurring the construction of many new datacentres, big and small and the amount of electricity required to keep those datacentres in operation is putting so much pressure on power grids that some are already close to collapse.?
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18.? Telefónica and Nokia to boost adoption of network APIs leveraging 5G SA
Telefónica and Nokia today announced an agreement to jointly explore new opportunities leveraging 5G Standalone (SA) capabilities for network APIs to support developers in creating new use cases for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers.
19.? Microsoft and Proximus Group sign a new strategic partnership for collaboration on digital communications and cloud
Microsoft and Proximus?Group have formally signed a 5-year strategic partnership, allowing both companies to strengthen their digital lead and accelerate their innovative offerings to business and residential customers in Belgium and abroad. Both Proximus and Microsoft will reinforce their leadership positions thanks to this partnership. Microsoft will strengthen its use of the best-in-class products of Proximus' international affiliates BICS, Telesign and Route?Mobile, while Proximus will benefit from Microsoft's Azure?Cloud, leveraging all innovative AI & Data evolutions.