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Google lays some cable in Cornwall

US internet giant Google has finished laying an undersea cable that runs from New York to Bude in Cornwall and Bilbao, Spain.

• 4 days ago

NEC and AWS expand partnership to drag 5G even further into the cloud

The two tech heavyweights are expanding their existing collaboration to deliver cloud native 5G, enhanced digital government solutions, as well as hybrid cloud.

• 08 Sep 2021

Colao presents Italy’s plan for cloud autonomy

Italy will launch a tender for the creation of a national cloud hub by the end of this year as part of a project designed to give the country a degree of digital autonomy.

• 08 Sep 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Vodafone, 6G and AWS

After taking the whole of August off in classic Gallic style, Iain, Scott and Pierre roar back into the studio. They start by reflecting on the physical event they’ve attended since the start of the pandemic, at which beers were provided by Vodafone. They move on to examine the increasing prospect of the 6G standard being split due to the US and China’s inability to stop messing with each other and conclude with the latest concerns about relinquishing control to the public cloud.

• 06 Sep 2021

Apple puts plans to scan its users’ photos on hold due to backlash

Last month Apple announced plans to introduce a number of measures to protect children from abuse, which included scanning images stored in iCloud Photos.

• 06 Sep 2021

AWS reportedly planning to increase platform censorship

Dominant public cloud platform AWS is reportedly forming a censorship team that will help it remove more content that violates its policies.

• 03 Sep 2021

Verizon launches private edge compute platform with Microsoft, as promised

Verizon is furthering its push into the private mobile networks space by making available a private mobile edge cloud computing solution to businesses.

• 01 Sep 2021

How 5G networks can become a platform for innovation

5G introduces a range of new functions and network attributes that can be exposed and managed through the BSS.

• 31 Aug 2021

What telcos may learn from banks when migrating to cloud

Findings from a recent Google survey of the financial institutions’ cloudification experience may serve as a mirror held up to the telecoms industry.

• 13 Aug 2021

NTT unveils “global” private 5G network

Japanese telecoms group offers cross-border 5G network-as-a-service platform but keeps schtum on ecosystem partners.

• 12 Aug 2021

Rakuten Mobile loss almost doubled in Q2

Operating loss incurred at Japan’s challenger operator increased by 85% in Q2 to reach $900 million, which the company attributed to aggressive investment in network rollout and rising roaming cost.

• 11 Aug 2021

Huawei revenues dip 29% in third straight quarter of decline

Huawei has had its biggest-ever dip in revenue, from two years into Washington’s sanctions which battered both its network infrastructure and smartphone sales and the company’s crucial access to semiconductors.

• 09 Aug 2021

StarHub the latest to suffer customer data breach

The Singapore telco detected a data dump on a third-party site containing personal information of more than 57,000 of its customers.

• 09 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Ethiopia to re-open bidding on second operator licence

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: MTN warns of H1 earnings fall; Orange combines with SSE Networks for improved maritime connectivity; Brussels looks into latest Facebook acquisition.

• 03 Aug 2021

Google to power new Pixel phones with own chip

Google will use a custom chip designed in house to power the next generation flagship Pixel smartphones, following in the footsteps of Apple and Samsung to rid themselves of the perceived limitations of off-the-shelf offerings.

• 03 Aug 2021

Are we seeing the beginning of the end of big tech’s good pandemic in Amazon’s quarterly?

Amazon has delivered another solid quarter, but the numbers fell short of market expectations. When looked together with the latest financial results from other big tech companies, it is tempting to ask if the pandemic bonus is coming to an end.

• 30 Jul 2021

US tech giants make tons of cash, again

Another quarter, another record haul for America’s technology giants as Apple, Google and Microsoft all report their Q2 numbers.

• 28 Jul 2021

Eurobites: KPN turns a corner in Q2

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: T-Systems heads deeper into the Google Cloud; customer satisfaction (or not) in France; Telefónica Tech takes up with CrowdStrike.

• 27 Jul 2021

Intel vows to regain chip leadership from TSMC and Samsung by 2025

Once dominant chip maker Intel shared its R&D and foundry roadmaps for the next four years, during which it plans to regain the global leader position, and unveiled two marquee customers in AWS and Qualcomm.

• 27 Jul 2021

Bell rings the changes with Google Cloud pact

Bell Canada has become the latest major telecom to announce its latest public cloud deal, this time hooking up with Google Cloud to give its network and IT infrastructure a leg up.

• 16 Jul 2021