Companies
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Orange has partnered with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune their open source AI models to support regional languages in Africa, including Wolof and Pulaar. -
The latest court filings in Elon Musk’s existential AI lawsuit against OpenAI revealed more fascinating insights, including a discussion about potentially acquiring sizable semiconductor firm Cerebras and Musk’s desperation to be CEO.
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MasOrange, Telefónica, and Vodafone Group have teamed up with the i2CAT research centre to launch a multi-operator Open Gateway API lab in Europe.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is working with GoTo to launch an open source language model designed for local Indonesian languages.
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Engineers at Vodafone are working with AMD to design mobile base stations capable of supporting AI workloads in addition to traditional network operations while using less power.
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Dell has expanded its AI for Telecom offerings, bringing new hardware support and a variety of new use case-focused solutions designed to help operators augment their edge operations using AI.
Forthcoming events
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AST SpaceMobile has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Saudi Telecom Company (stc), on collaborative projects.
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Orchest Technologies has entered into an expanded network services agreement with Seaborn Networks.
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Scala Data Centers has appointed Mark Sanchez as its new senior director of data centre deployment.
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Equinix is to install a quantum computer in Tokyo and make it available to businesses worldwide.
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Gold Data is in the midst of a comprehensive expansion in Mexico. Rafael Vanegas, the company’s CFO, joins Capacity to talk about the business’s future and about his wide-ranging role at the company.
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Elea Digital is to house Angola Cables’ point of presence (PoP) in Brasília, Brazil.
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CloudHQ commences work on its first 200,000 sqm data centre campus in Brazil.
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UAE operator Etisalat – now officially Etisalat by e& – is offering 5G coverage by satellite.
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Data centre company EdgeCore has appointed Lee Kestler as its new CEO, effective immediately.
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High altitude platforms (HAPs) and satellites have been promising to revolutionise mobile connectivity for at least 30 years. HAPs such as drones, aerostats and balloons have been suggested for spot coverage, emergency use and more recently projects such as Google Loon tried balloons to deliver connectivity in Africa. Starting with Iridium, satellite operators have tried to connect to handsets since the late 1990s. Yet I doubt that many cell phone users have ever made a call, or connected, via anything other than a terrestrial base station.
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etisalat by e& will use IBM sustainability software to support the company's environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.
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A1 Group confirms the acquisition of €109 million in radio frequency spectrum as part of its investments in broadband and 5G.
