After a long summer delay, the Telecoms.com podcast returns refreshed and ready for action, albeit minus one podder. Scott and Iain start as they left off a couple of months ago by looking at the latest drama around the hounding of Huawei by the US. They move on to chart the rapid progress being made by the OpenRAN movement, thanks largely to Rakuten and conclude by considering the prospects for Mobile World Congress 2021.
Synchronoss, a specialist in digital products for the operator channel, has brought attention to itself for all the wrong reasons once more.
Telcos that want to play the so-called ‘trusted partner’ role in digital transformation have got a newly-emboldened rival to contend with.
With COVID-19 forcing the majority of staff in many companies to work remotely for months on end, there is huge pressure on IT and network professionals to assure all corporate business and collaboration applications run as they should to meet employee and customer needs and expectations. Embracing digital innovation and leveraging cloud capabilities has become even more critical to address today’s new business demands.
Enterprises are looking to shore up the game by equipping themselves with intelligent, secure and more reliable network connections that meets their requirements. SD-WAN (“software-defined wide area network”) is the leading solution nowadays for this. While enterprises could choose to build their own SD-WAN by combining equipment, software and access technology by themselves, a growing number of organizations are turning to a more flexible and efficient solution: to buy the service from communications service providers (CSPs) as a “network as a service” (NaaS) solution.
18 million of Deutsche Telekom’s fixed-line voice customers will soon have their service transferred to a new cloud-based telephony platform.
Ajit Pai and his commissioners hosted an online forum on 5G Open Radio Access Network to promote the technology as an opportunity for American companies to regain leadership in the mobile market.
Telcos are staring at a potential $150 billion revenue opportunity if they can tap into growing demand for cloud gaming over 5G.
Forty-one percent of those answering a Telecoms.com survey said the new technology has either met or exceeded their expectations.
The increasing complexity of telecom networks and services and the exponential growth in the amount of data generated have gone beyond the capacity of manual calculation. Telecom operators therefore are increasingly compelled to embrace AI to help them properly manage their networks, services, and customers. This Telecoms.com Intelligence monthly briefing aims to separate noise from truth about AI and discuss how the communications industry can benefit from AI while avoiding potential pitfalls.
A bunch of operators and tech players have come together to try to accelerate the development of open, software-driven radio access network technology.
Open-source SDN startup Lumina Networks has thrown in the towel, citing slower than hoped open-source adoption, thanks in part to COVID-19.
Following up the beginning of a new partnership between AWS and Bharti Airtel in India, the cloud giant and Verizon have announced 5G mobile edge compute is live in Boston, USA.
TikTok has seemingly taken Huawei’s position as the primary focus of US aggression in recent weeks, though the social media app is planning a data centre investment to ease European concerns.
South Korean operator SK Telecom will officially launch cloud gaming for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users on its networks, riding on the operator’s 5G cloud infrastructure.
As investors continue to warm to the cloud computing market, Rackspace has announced details of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) coming in at the low-end of the target range.
The European Commission has opened an investigation to see whether Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit is fair game under competition and merger rules.
Amazon grew revenues by 40% and doubled net profit during the second quarter, while large parts of the world were in lockdown.
Google Cloud and Orange are the latest telco-cloud duo to announce a partnership focused on capitalising on edge computing enthusiasm.
If there was ever such a thing as a sure bet, Microsoft benefitting from the COVID-19 enforced lockdown period is as close as you could get.
Slack has filed a lawsuit with the European Commission which could offer hope to niche cloud service providers as supply chain rationalisation hovers on the horizon.
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26 September 2020 @ 06:06:06 UTC
The @telecoms podcast is back from hiatus with @Huawei, Open Ran and #MWC21. Watch or listen to the full episode he hhttps://t.co/IunLo7M5tg
25 September 2020 @ 15:00:14 UTC
Huawei insists UK telecoms taskforce is nothing personal https://t.co/qJt7GYOr7f #5G #Regulation
25 September 2020 @ 13:58:33 UTC
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