AI
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Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands. -
SK Telecom has unveiled plans to build an “AI infrastructure superhighway” which includes constructing gigawatt-scale data centres across Asia and the Pacific.
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To challenge Google's search dominance, telecom giants like Telefónica, SoftBank, and Deutsche Telekom threw their weight behind Perplexity, the conversational AI search startup. Their bet, however, appears under threat — as OpenAI has entered the arena.
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At the 10th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2024) in Istanbul last week, Bob Chen, president of Huawei’s optical business product line, emphasised the pivotal role of artificial intelligence (AI) in transforming the telecoms industry.
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Ericsson has unveiled a range of 5G-focused software products designed to support operators improve network efficiency and performance.
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BT has expanded its Carbon Network Dashboard, enhancing business customers' visibility into electricity consumption and carbon emissions for more effective infrastructure optimisation.
Forthcoming events
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With the coronavirus forcing countries around the world to go into lockdown, Capacity Media is releasing a diverse range of podcasts and webinars covering the global telecoms market. David Tran spoke to Technology Research Institute’s Dan Baker about one of the most popular telecom fraud scams most prevalent today - Wangiri.
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The Telecoms and Regulatory Authority of Oman, TRA-Oman, is to offer licensees additional frequency bands without obtaining a radio licence, while providing additional C-band spectrum as required.
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China Mobile has awarded contracts valued at US$5.2 billion to Huawei, ZTE and Ericsson for the build out of 232,143 base stations to support the ongoing roll out of its 5G network.
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As part of its overall global strategy, RETN has expanded its Middle East presence to establish new points of presence (PoPs) in Georgia and Armenia.
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New legislation passed in Ethiopia will allow telecommunications companies to step into the non-bank financial services space by bringing basic services to mobile customers through their devices.
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A series of carrier partnerships will see Azure Edge Zones debut in Los Angeles in late spring, with the rest of the portfolio available “to mutual customers” later this year.
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The events which are unfolding globally due to the COVID-19 outbreak have demonstrated the criticality of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) infrastructure, including applications, clouds and networks.
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The “brand value” of global telcos has declined 11% year on year according to new analysis, however the industry remains on track to weather the economic storm caused by Covid-19.
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World’s largest service providers publish an open letter to call on governments in all jurisdictions to assure ICT infrastructure and communications services are classified as “essential services” for COVID-19 response.
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Ericsson took the opportunity to calm shareholder nerves at its AGM in Stockholm yesterday, with group president and CEO Börje Ekholm using the meeting to highlight the firm’s business as usual approach during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Chairman (FCC), Ajit Pai, has unveiled a multi-million-dollar scheme to support the US health sector to procure the necessary infrastructure to deliver services during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
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In 2015, Russia introduced a data localisation law designed to protect the data held on its citizens.Specifically, the regulations were designed to ensure that any recording, systematisation, accumulation, storage, refinement and extraction of personal data of Russian citizens, was done so using only databases located in Russia.
