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Press Release Juniper Networks, a leading provider of secure, AI-driven networks, today announced that its customer and partner, Granite Telecommunications, a $1.8 billion provider of communications and technology solutions, has expanded its service offerings to include Juniper Networks’ full-stack of campus and branch services, including Wired Access, Wireless Access and SD-WAN, all driven by Mist AI™. This move will enhance Granite’s ability to support its customers’ unique verticals, such...

News The initial public offering (IPO), set to take place in September, would be the largest US IPO in nearly two years This week, Arm has made its first public filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its IPO, preparing to sell billions of dollars-worth of shares on the Nasdaq market. The filing indicates that SoftBank has acquired full control of Arm, having purchased the 25% stake in Arm held by the SoftBank Vision Fund for $16.1 billion. As a result, Arm likely has...

News The changes include the onboarding of Google Cloud’s ex-head of telecoms, Amol Phadke, as chief technology officer (CTO) Today, Norwegian telecoms group Telenor has announced a number of changes to its leadership structure, aiming to bolster growth as part of the company’s 2025 strategic plan. The reshuffle includes what is essentially a job swap for the heads of its Nordic and Asia business units, with Jørgen C. Arentz Rostrup taking over the role of EVP and Head of Telenor Nordics from...

Some 51,000 premises across the East Lothian settlement of Musselburgh in Scotland, including the surrounding area, will soon benefit after Netomnia, supported by UK ISP YouFibre, started a £15.3 million project to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network across the location. At present Musselburgh itself is only home to a […]

Mobile operator SMARTY, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s national network, will sometime this morning launch a refreshed range of 4G and 5G capable Pay Monthly mobile plans that give new customers a bigger mobile broadband data allowance for less money. Not all of SMARTY’s packages are changing today, with […]

News A forecast by GlobalData suggests fixed wireless access (FWA) technology will more than double its subscription market share among US broadband technologies Since the onset of the 5G era roughly three years ago, success stories for the new technology have been few and far between. In fact, one of the biggest successes of 5G is not using the technology in conjunction with a smartphone at all, but rather using the more powerful mobile network to provide home broadband services in the form...

Customers of broadband and energy provider Shell Energy may like to know that the ISP, despite recently being placed up for SALE by its parent (here), has still found time to introduce a new Wi-Fi 6 capable router that is made (casing) from 100% recycled plastics. A Wi-Fi6 capable signal booster device is also being […]

News The pair’s latest trial offered users the chance to try mobile cloud gaming using a dedicated 5G standalone (SA) network slice Could 5G standalone be a gamechanger for mobile cloud gaming? Vodafone and Ericsson think so, with their latest combined trial showing that 88% of gamers ranked their experience as 8/10 or above, compared to just 13% using non-optimised connectivity. The trial, conducted at Coventry University, saw an undisclosed number of trialists invited to play cloud-based...

News The move is the latest in a string of AI-related investments from the South Korean telco, reflecting its ambitions of becoming an ‘AI company’ This week, SK Telecom (SKT) has announced that it has become the third-largest shareholder in Persona AI, a South Korean AI technology firm focussing on AI contact centre (AICC) solutions. Persona AI has developed a natural language processing engine capable of voice recognition and sentence analysis that can directly handle customer interactions....

Mobile operator Vodafone UK and network supplier Ericsson have today announced that they’ve concluded a successful trial of cloud-based video gaming on their new 5G Standalone (SA) network, which delivered big improvements in gaming performance via mobile broadband (i.e. download / uploads speeds, latency and jitter). Unlike existing Non-Standalone (NSA) based 5G networks, which dominate […]