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FiberSense a deep technology fibre sensing company and  the European network provider Sipartech, have today announced their partnership to deliver the world leading DigitalAsset™️ monitoring and protection service on key parts of the Sipartech network across Europe. DigitalAsset delivers enhanced network security and availability. The state-of-the-art service provides 24×7 monitoring and real-time detection and localization of a variety of threats to fibre networks, providing total “always on”...

Overview When you think of smart wearables, you might picture a sleek smartwatch or a fitness tracker, but this industry is evolving far beyond the basics. An increasing interest in wearable technology is seen from the astounding 21% of adults worldwide who own a smartwatch. Let’s take a closer look beyond the basics and see the forces shaping the smart wearable device industry, what’s driving its growth, and the trends. Brief history and evolution of the wearable tech industry Smart wearables...

London, 15 October 2024 Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, and Mobily, a leading innovator in the Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT) sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a new route to connect Europe to South-East Asia and thus meet the growing demand for secured and diversified connectivity between the two continents. Under the MoU, signed during the Capacity...

Neterra, a leading provider of global telecommunication services, is excited to announce the appointment of James Knowles as its new Chief Product Officer. Bringing over two decades of experience in the telecom and technology industries, James has a proven track record of leadership and product innovation, and will now help drive Neterra’s mission to deliver cutting-edge solutions to its global customer base. James Knowles has held senior leadership roles at prominent organizations, where he...

News  The deal is set to drive cloud innovation across the Middle East  UAE based operator e& has announced a $1 billion strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive cloud innovation across the Middle East. The collaboration follows AWS’s launch of its second Middle East cloud region in 2022, which was backed by a $5 billion investment. The partnership combines AWS’s sovereign cloud infrastructure with e&’s network, catering to the public sector and regulated...

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today announced that they’ve started to deploy their 1.8Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the south coast city of Portsmouth (Hampshire, UK), although it’s unclear exactly how many premises will benefit, but it is “expected to reach the majority” of properties. The work, which is expected to take around 2 years to complete, forms part of the operator’s wider deployment of full fibre connectivity, which has...

News Kia’s new Connect 2.0 platform will leverage Airtel’s IoT technology and its extensive network across the country This week, a new partnership between Kia India and Airtel Business will see the car manufacturer begin embedding Airtel’s IoT tech within their connected vehicles Kia’s vehicles – both with traditional internal combustion engines and electric motors – will be embedded with Airtel eSIMs, allowing the vehicles to connect to Airtel’s mobile network, as well as to the operator’s...

News  The company is joining the race for AI uptake to boost revenue and operational efficiency  At the company capital markets day last week, Deutsche Telekom announced new targets for 2027, aiming to boost growth by using more AI and benefiting from its global scale. The company expects its revenue to grow by an average of 4% per year, with adjusted EBITDA AL increasing by 4-6%. It also projects free cash flow AL to reach around €21 billion by 2027.  “We are taking the next step,” said Tim...

The Connecting Cambridgeshire project, which is led by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, has today issued a progress update on their “Dig Once” policy and efforts to accelerate the roll-out of gigabit broadband across the county, with 21.6km of new fibre ducting already installed or soon to be deployed. Both Cityfibre and Gigaclear have now harnessed this. Just to recap. The programme’s “Dig Once” policy was one of the first to include fibre ducting in new transport...

Broadband ISP connections on CityFibre’s UK full fibre (FTTP) network in Glasgow have been knocked offline after a potential fire caused damage to the operator’s local Fibre Exchange (FEX) last night, which took down their core link (gla1215). But unusually they’re having to pull in a specialist electrician from Portsmouth as they don’t have any in Scotland. The outage, which affected 1,936 of the provider’s local FTTP customers, appears to have started around 11:30pm following an “alert...