AT&T’s WarnerMedia exit merger with Discovery completes
AT&T and Discovery have closed the transaction to merge Warner Business Media with Discovery to create a new entertainment entity leveraging all the properties owned by both firms.
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The Telecoms.com Podcast: decentralization, deglobalization and Huawei
We’re delighted to welcome special guest Maria Lema of Weaver Labs this week. Maria’s company develops software designed to decentralize the whole process of accessing network services, using some of the principles and technologies associated with the evolution of Web3, which prompts lots of conversational tangents. They eventually get around to a couple of items from the week’s news, specifically the affect of the use of sanctions on globalization and Huawei’s recent annual report.
Nokia and Meta partner with… who?
The company formerly known as Etisalat has partnered with the company formerly known as Facebook, essentially to highlight the significance of its recent rebrand.
Vodafone launches collaborative road safety platform
UK operator group Vodafone has unveiled a new connected vehicle platform, which is designed to enable real-time info sharing between drivers and transport authorities.
Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm, delves deeper into both the evolution and future of 5G, and highlights the connected intelligent edge as a key component for success
As Qualcomm continues to increase its stake in the 5G game, Enrico Salvatori, , SVP & President, Qualcomm Europe/MEA QUALCOMM Europe, Inc. Italy Branch Office, discusses how Qualcomm will be focussing on phase two of 5G’s evolution. Now that objects can be interconnected, true evolution and digital transformation requires intelligence to be given to the devices, with end-to-end connectivity of applications and services to the cloud – otherwise known as connected intelligent edge. Edge itself will be a critical to achieving low latency, real-time and security.
TIM bids for Italian cloud project as Iliad tears up its mobile market
TIM and its partners have submitted their bid in the tender for Italy’s cloud hub project, and it’s a tender they are likely confident of winning, given that they essentially designed it.
EU gives green light to Amazon buyout of MGM
The European Commission has approved unconditionally Amazon’s acquisition of MGM, concluding it ‘would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area.’
BT picks Google for public cloud transformation
UK incumbent BT has become the latest big name to buddy-up with a hyperscaler to overhaul its operations.
DT expands Open Telekom Cloud into Switzerland
T-Systems, a subsidiary of German MNO Deutsche Telekom, has expanded its Open Telekom Cloud platform into Switzerland, opening new data centres in the region.
US internet giants tighten the screw on Russia
As the scramble to be seen to be doing the right thing over the Ukraine conflict continues, Amazon and Google have made significant announcements.
The telecoms industry has an innovation problem – Rakuten
A ‘legacy way of thinking’ is stifling innovation in the telcoms industry, and operators will need to adopt new business models in order to not be relegated to utility providers, claims Rakuten.
Elisa gets further into bed with Google Cloud
Finnish telco Elisa has brought in hyperscaler Google Cloud to build out new public cloud facilitated services.
The Telecoms.com Podcast: MWC 2022 preview
After being blown off course by hurricane Dave last week, the lads return for a special episode devoted to anticipating the major themes of Mobile World Congress next week. Inevitably 5G will dominate, with the pandemic-induced three-year gap between shows offering the opportunity to reflect on progress made over that time. Not many people were talking about OpenRAN and public cloud at MWC 19, but those technologies will be prominent this year, so they anticipate those chats too.
Meta makes a big noise about AI and, of course, the metaverse
US Internet giant Meta/Facebook has launched a barrage of information on AI projects it is working on, including translation systems, virtual assistants and metaverse voice command tools.
AWS continues to expand on multiple fronts
Amazon will launch new AWS Local Zones into 32 metropolitan areas in 26 countries and has teamed up with Salesforce to create a new streaming platform.
Akamai takes on public cloud giants with $900m Linode deal
CDN and cybersecurity specialist Akamai this week made a grand entrance into the public cloud market.
Facebook announces a meaningless roster of ‘new values’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has informed his employees they are now called Metamates, that it’s time for a new cultural operating system at Meta, and more miscellaneous corporate dribble.
Investors are apparently hot for 5G
Technology solutions provider World Wide Technology asked some big shot financial investors where the smart money is in relation to 5G speculation.
Vodafone recruits Oracle cloud platform to bolster 5G core
UK operator Vodafone has signed to deal with enterprise tech giant Oracle to implement its cloud native network policy management platform into its 5G core.
Rakuten Symphony wants to play to a larger audience in Europe
Japan-based Rakuten Symphony doesn’t want to play second fiddle in the European OpenRAN market.
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