TELECOM – THIS WEEK (2431)
1.???? Don't expect 5G-Advanced to fuel a RAN resurgence
5G-Advanced won't do much to advance the state of the ailing RAN market, Dell'Oro Group warned. Dell’Oro Group’s Radio access network (RAN) maven analyst Stefan Pongratz said that network upgrades to 5G-Advanced will not cause a major RAN revival. Even though the move to 5G-Advanced will require some global operators to upgrade to a true 5G core, rather than the 4G-based non-standalone (NSA) core some 5G networks still run, it will not require a wholesale update of the existing 5G RAN infrastructure.
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2.???? AT&T's spending to hit six-year high as it ramps Ericsson 'open RAN'
AT&T didn't lie when it said it would reduce its exposure to vendor financing, a curious practice whereby a telco supplier loans money for the rollout of its own products. In the first quarter of 2023, vendor financing accounted for nearly a third of the $6.4 billion AT&T poured into capital investment, or $2.1 billion. But the contribution shrank to $1.6 billion in the subsequent three-month period and had dwindled to just $600 million in the recent second quarter, the operator's latest results show. Unfortunately for vendors, AT&T has not made up the difference.
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3.???? Worldwide Spending on Public Cloud Services is Forecast to Double Between 2024 and 2028: IDC
Worldwide spending on public cloud services is forecast to reach $805 billion in 2024 and double in size by 2028, according to the latest update to the International Data Corporation (IDC)?Worldwide Software and Public Cloud Services Spending Guide. Although annual spending growth is expected to slow slightly over the 2024-2028 forecast period, the market is forecast to achieve a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.4%.
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4.???? Vertiv launches high-density prefabricated modular datacentre solution
With demand for AI-ready data centre capacity outstripping supply, developers and operators are focused on bringing new capacity online as quickly as possible. To support this goal,?Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today launched the?Vertiv MegaMod CoolChip, a liquid cooling-equipped prefabricated modular (PFM) data centre solution engineered to enable efficient and reliable AI computing. The solution can be configured to support the platforms of leading AI compute providers and scaled to customer requirements. By bringing together the quality and process efficiency enabled by offsite fabrication with best-in-class AI-ready technologies, MegaMod CoolChip can reduce the time to deploy AI critical digital infrastructure by up to 50%.?
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5.???? Vonage launches intelligent SIP capabilities
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation and a part of Ericsson, has announced the launch of intelligent SIP capabilities for?SIP Trunking?customers. With just a few clicks, developers and enterprises can easily deploy elastic SIP trunks globally, and access rich, AI-powered voice engagement solutions via pre-built code and low-code/no-code applications.
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6.???? stc Group and Ericsson achieve a world first for a 5G Advanced capability
stc Group, a leading digital enabler and Ericsson have achieved a groundbreaking milestone, deploying the world's first implementation of Automated Radio Resource Partitioning (RRP) on a 5G standalone network slice. Automated RRP is a cutting-edge software feature, based on intent-based automation, that involves the dynamic and intelligent allocation of radio resources to different configured slices to optimize network performance.
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7.???? Europe's inaction on Huawei may have come at the worst 5G time
As China's invasion fleet charges into the seas of the Taiwan Strait, and the US is sucked into its long-dreaded Asian conflict, NATO comes under immediate pressure to lend support. China moves preemptively, ordering Huawei, its biggest 5G kit vendor, to activate sleeper bugs implanted deep within basestation software still used by networks in Germany and other NATO countries. A devastating communications blackout follows, taking millions of Europeans and critical systems instantly offline.
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8.???? Clamping down on scam calls from abroad
A common tactic used by criminals to defraud victims is to imitate - or ‘spoof’- phone numbers from a trusted person, organisation, or Government department, so their calls are more likely to be answered. Fraudsters based abroad often spoof UK numbers, knowing people are more likely to pick up these calls than if an unknown international number is displayed. Following a consultation, we are further strengthening our guidance in this area. Phone companies will now have to identify and block calls from abroad which falsely display a UK telephone number as a ‘Presentation Number’, except in a limited number of legitimate cases.
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9.???? Evergent Digital Commerce Bridge accelerates revenue expansion opportunities for CSPs
Evergent, a customer management and monetization leader for telecommunications and digital subscription businesses, announces Digital Commerce Bridge to enable communication service providers (CSPs) to rapidly launch highly flexible, digital-first services across entertainment, healthcare, finance and beyond without the expense and disruption of updating their existing BSS infrastructure.
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10.? SK Telecom expands ‘X Caliber’ veterinary diagnosis assistant to three major south-east Asian markets
SK Telecom announced today that it has signed agreements to supply its artificial intelligence (AI)-based veterinary diagnosis assistant, ‘X Caliber’, to three major Southeast Asian markets, including Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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11.? Docomo and NTT Com demonstrate practicality of Docomo's new multi-platform cloud-rendering tech
NTT DOCOMO, INC. and NTT Communications Corporation jointly announced today that they have conducted a test to successfully demonstrate the new multi-platform cloud-rendering technology developed by DOCOMO, which enables tablets and smartphones to easily access real-time three-dimensional (3D) video in outdoor and other environments.?
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12.? Amazon sues cloud partner Nokia for pilfering its cloud patents
In Germany, AWS and Nokia look as well synchronized as an Olympic rowing team, jointly powering cloud core technologies for Telefónica, one of the country's biggest mobile operators. But thousands of miles from the event, one rower is beating the other with his oar. Claiming Nokia ripped off its cloud patents, the intellectual property that underpins the Telefónica service, AWS parent Amazon is seeking damages in a Delaware court.
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13.? Wildanet forms new Nokia partnership
Wildanet has partnered with Nokia to accelerate the roll-out of its new gigabit-enabled Full Fibre network for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
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14.? Private 5G takes the gold in the Paris Olympics
In the late 18th Century, the ?Paris Catacombs?were used to move the contents of older cemeteries 20 meters underground without disturbing City of Light's living denizens. Similarly, Parisiennes today are largely oblivious to the private networks filling the air above the city to serve the needs of broadcasters for the summer Olympics of 2024. TV broadcasters in Paris and beyond are using private 5G networks in a box, which combine a radio access network (RAN) with a 5G mobile core in a moveable case.
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15.? Measuring the cost of the CrowdStrike outage
There are a few different ways to size up the outage’s financial impact. The first, and probably most straightforward, is to look at CrowdStrike’s stock. As Futuriom’s?Scott Raynovich?noted, the value of CrowdStrike's shares fell dramatically in the wake of the incident. Raynovich put the lost value at 50%, but by Fierce's calculations the share price fell just over 30% from $377.37 on July 15 to $263.91 on July 22. ?
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16.? 5G-powered public buildings could save UK taxpayers ￡580m
New modelling for Vodafone UK reveals the significant cost and energy savings enabled by 5G-powered technologies across public buildings like schools, hospitals and leisure centres.?The modelling, by WPI Strategy, reveals how installing digital twins, IoT and smart sensors could save the average town of 40,000 residents up to ￡350,000 every year on energy bills. Across the UK, these savings amount to ￡580 million a year across public buildings.
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17.? Telefónica to offload Colombia unit to Millicom for $400m
As part of its ongoing efforts to right-size its operations in Latin America,? Telefónica has entered into a non-binding agreement to sell Telefónica Colombia (Coltel) to Millicom for $400m: The Spanish giant referenced the deal in its investor presentation as it reported its second quarter financials on Wednesday morning, while Millicom issued a statement to its investors about the planned deal.?
VP - Strategic Alliance & KAM for Google @ Ericsson, with Telco Cloud and management consulting expertise
7 个月Archan, if i had a predictable schedule on when you publish, I would stop reading several other industry “news” publications :). You are doing a tremendous job of collating the essential news. Thank you