NTT hopes to succeed where Google Loon and Facebook Aquila failed
Offering connectivity from balloons and drones is proving a tough nut to crack, but NTT has lined up some partners that it hopes will deliver a breakthrough.
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NTT unveils “global” private 5G network
Japanese telecoms group offers cross-border 5G network-as-a-service platform but keeps schtum on ecosystem partners.
NTT to launch data centres into space within five years
NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT have announced plans to work together to build an integrated computing network in space that will include, among other things, space-based data centres.
NEC gets a piece of the UK’s 5G bonanza
The door is officially open for Japanese tech company NEC to participate in the UK’s 5G rollout, as part of the post-Brexit free trade agreement between the two countries.
NTT makes $40bn bid for mobile arm DoCoMo
Japanese telco group NTT has launched a ¥4.25 trillion ($40 billion) offer for the shares in mobile unit DoCoMo it doesn’t already own.
NTT invents distributed machine learning for the edge
Japanese heavyweight NTT has come up with a way to carry out coordinated machine learning on multiple edge servers.
NTT buys 5% NEC stake to add more momentum to ‘open’ ecosystem
NTT has announced a joint research programme with NEC, while also purchasing a 5% stake in the network infrastructure vendor.
NTT kicks-off 5G foray at Rugby World Cup
There might be more attention given to the rugby than mobile networks in Tokyo right now, but the World Cup is giving NTT Docomo a pleasant opportunity to test out its 5G smarts.
NTT invests in the UK by combining several companies into NTT Ltd
Japanese telecoms and IT giant apparently didn’t get the memo that the UK isn’t worth investing in anymore because it’s basing an $11 billion business here.
Ericsson reckons it has finally got the hang of this partnership business
Ericsson’s partnership with Juniper is actually producing results, which makes it a distinct improvement on previous efforts.
A new consortium appears to lay another massive cable
A horde of big names has come together to build a high-capacity cable system that will connect Maruyama and Shima in Japan with Los Angeles in the USA and Daet in the Philippines.
NTT and Toyota get join forces to create broad connected car platform
Japanese telco giant NTT is getting together with the world’s largest car company Toyota to develop a broad range of technologies designed to enable the connected car era.
Ericsson reckons most operators are already doing 5G stuff
Ericsson clearly saw the stellar work being done by Telecoms.com, with our Road to 5G Outlook, by releasing its own update on how ready the telecoms community is for the arrival of 5G.
NTT and KT flex their 5G muscles with impressive update on progress
Operators NTT and KT have given an update on their 5G strategies, with each giving an insight into their current progress and targeted milestones along the way.
Operator investment demonstrates growing drone momentum
Two major global operators are among the backers of a drone-based data analytics firm, which recently received $18million in venture capital funding.
Ericsson, NTT and Verizon among eight new Cloud Foundry members
Open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) initiative Cloud Foundry announced the addition of eight new members this week. Ericsson, NTT and Verizon are among those looking to contribute to and benefit from the initiative, which is indicates how seriously telcos are looking at digging deeper into the cloud stack.
EU and Japan team up to develop network technologies
The European Commission is teaming up with Japanese government and industry to redefine internet architectures to increase the efficiency of networks in carrying data.
Seven operators join forces on M2M
Seven mobile operators across the world have teamed up to create an alliance to collaborate in the M2M space. KPN, NTT Docomo, Rogers, SingTel, Telefónica, Telstra and Vimpelcom have agreed to cooperate to address the complex and fragmented nature of the M2M market.
NTT buys Dimension Data; NSN eyeing Motorola, report suggests
Japanese carrier NTT on Thursday made a £2.1bn offer for all of South Africa-based global IT services firm Dimension Data.
NTT profits off 10%
Japanese ex-incumbent NTT today announced a 10 per cent cut in operating profits in the quarter to the end of June. Profits were Y359.18bn (£1.6bn) on revenues of Y2.62tn, with the lion’s share-65 per cent-contributed by the mobile division, NTT DoCoMo. By contrast, the fixed-line group lost 960,000 PSTN customers in the three months to […]
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