Telecoms.com Weekly #43
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The Telecoms.com Podcast: DTW 2023, AI, and China
The pod is delighted to welcome back special guest Jennifer Kyriakakis of MATRIXX Software , who was in town after the Digital Transformation World event. Pausing only to address some robust feedback from someone affiliated to it, they start by reflecting on the show and where it fits into the telecoms mix. The dominant theme this year was AI, so they move on to discuss its implications for the industry, before concluding with a look at Germany’s hardening stance towards Chinese kit vendors.
The European Union this week published its first annual State of the Digital Decade report, which was more a whinge about investment than a study on the current digital landscape.
The overriding message of the report is that EU member states have a lot of work to do to hit the bloc’s various end-of-decade targets. Brussels describes the report as “a call to Member States for collective action to address the current investment gaps...
Rarely one to play it coy, France-based Iliad has announced an eye-catching plan to capitalise on AI hype.
Central to this strategy is the deployment of an AI supercomputer. Iliad has bought itself an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD, which is the chip maker’s turnkey AI data centre solution. It has opted for the top-end version, which comes equipped with Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, designed to support the most demanding...
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Eutelsat and OneWeb have completed their merger transaction, creating a new Eutelsat Group.
The closure of the deal feels like it has been a long time coming, but when the two satellite firms announced their plans in July last year they were shooting for the end of 2023, so clearly it has all gone like clockwork…or as the companies expected, at least. The all-stock merger effectively...
O2 Germany plans to launch a hybrid satellite and terrestrial Internet of Things service in Q1 2024.
It has brought in US-based Skylo to help with the heavy lifting. Rather than operate its own satellite network, Skylo partners with them instead. Acting as a middleman, it offers what is essentially a hotspot that connects to devices over narrowband IoT...
In collaboration with T-Mobile, Fliggs Mobile is pitching itself as the first all-digital Web 3 MVNO, and is apparently all about ‘putting the mobile service provider at the heart of enabling Web 3 mass adoption.’
Fliggs mobile has an integrated a non-custodial wallet in its mobile app, claims to be the first MVNO to provide a decentralized ID, and enables universal access to Web3 and FinTech services, including cryptocurrency payments. It’s built on Moflix, which the release...
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