Samsung starts commercial 5G trials in Vietnam
Tech giant Samsung and operator Viettel have begun 5G commercial trials in Da Nang, central Vietnam.
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China to bolster chip self-sufficiency with new Shanghai facility
China’s biggest chipmaker will be part of a joint investment of $8.87 billion to build a new fab facility in Shanghai to reduce the country’s reliance on overseas foundries.
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.
Comcast Business gets a leg up with Masergy buy
Comcast Business has agreed to buy SDN and cloud specialist Masergy for an undisclosed sum, a move that should give it a lift in the enterprise services space.
Eurobites: MegaFon extends VoLTE services across Russia
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Inmarsat accelerates the L-band; Finnfund boosts connectivity in Africa; it’s time we took a ‘woliday’.
US Senators out to tear down the app store walls
A bipartisan Senate bill is introduced to boost competition in the mobile apps market with rules to restrict what Apple and Google can impose on developers and users.
Exfo founder boosts offer to take company private
Germain Lamonde, who founded Canada’s communications-sector test, monitoring, and analytics equipment maker Exfo and is its majority shareholder, has boosted his offer to take the company private.
Eurobites: BT boosts security offering for homeworker army
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Swisscom on a roll in H1; Brits watching even more telly in lockdown; UK operators get to grips with 5G.
Inmarsat orchestrates new hybrid network
Satellite operator to invest $100m in at least 150 LEO satellites to create a multi-orbit constellation combined with a terrestrial 5G network.
Lumen flogs its Latin American business for $2.7 billion
US B2B comms company has delivered on its promise to dispose of non-core assets by selling its LatAm operations to hedge fund Stonepeak.
BT targets home office market with ‘unbreakable’ wifi
UK operator group BT has apparently just realised there are a lot of very small businesses in the UK and has created a new business unit on the back of that revelation.
Tipping point for the telco sector
The future of enterprise networking is all about cloud, and connectivity is required that fits the bill, mirroring cloud’s ease of deployment and able to adapt to business needs at cloud speed.
The Telecoms Data Imperative – The COVID Effect on the Pace of Change to Digital Transformation
While many things slowed down for businesses during the pandemic, digital transformation was not one of them. A McKinsey Global Survey of executives finds, for example, that companies accelerated the digitization of their customer and supply-chain interactions by three to four years and the share of digital or digitally enabled products by an astonishing seven years.
Jeff Bezos signs off with aplomb
In his final letter to shareholders as CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos looked back on the achievements during his tenure, laid out visions on multiple fronts for the company, and defended its track record in labour relations.
NEC teams up with Red Hat to deliver cloud native 5G solutions
The Japanese telecoms vendor NEC has brought its partnership with IBM-owned open source software solutions provider Red Hat up to date to deliver multicloud capable 5G solutions.
Rakuten receives a $2 billion capital injection
The Japanese digital heavyweight Rakuten has sold 13% share, worth $2.2 billion to new investors to bolster its balance sheet and to finance more aggressive mobile rollout.
Deutsche Messe turns to DT and Siemens for mega 5G campus
German operator Deutsche Telekom and industry juggernaut Siemens are going to build two separate private 5G networks on the ground of the Hanover trade fair.
Owning the 5G enterprise opportunity
Where new revenue streams associated with 4G were predominantly consumer-oriented, the 5G opportunity is in industry applications.
Germany likely to see many more private 5G networks
The German communications regulator has handed out over 70 licences to public and private sector applicants to build 5G campus networks. More applications are on the way.
Ericsson drops $1.1 billion on enterprise connectivity provider Cradlepoint
The biggest piece of M&A in the Ekholm era is designed to bolster Ericsson’s direct-to-enterprise offering.
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