Technologies
-
Colt Technology Services has successfully completed a trial of quantum-secured encryption across its fibre optical network. -
After a rough start to the year, Nvidia has come out swinging, unveiling a slew of updates aimed at solidifying its position as one of the world’s top AI firms.
-
Japan’s MUFG Bank, in collaboration with NTT DATA and NTT WEST, has successfully tested an ultra-low latency, high-bandwidth data centre interconnection using the IOWN All-Photonics Network (APN).
-
Italian supercomputing centre Cineca has unveiled an agreement with IQM Quantum Computers to deliver Italy’s most powerful quantum computer, the IQM Radiance 54.
-
Finland has launched its first 50-qubit superconducting quantum computer, developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in collaboration with IQM Quantum Computers.
-
Quantum Industries, an Austrian firm developing quantum secure communications technologies, has secured $10 million in seed funding.
Forthcoming events
-
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd is to provide backhaul services for "one of the world's largest MNOs", allowing it to deploy 4G voice and data services over LTE.
-
A Canadian management consultant has highlighted the fact that the country is one of the most expensive in the developed world for mobile data.
-
Cinia has teamed with Far North Digital to build a fibre optic cable station that will link Europe and Asia through the Arctic.
-
Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband satellite project is giving faster speeds than fixed broadband from local telcos, according to research from Ookla.
-
BT and other wholesale partners of satellite company OneWeb will start testing services in January, Capacity understands, with commercial services likely to be on offer several months later.
-
Deutsche Telekom is aiming for a €20 billion valuation for Deutsche Funkturm, its German tower unit, in a 2022 sale.
-
Calls to and from Telefónica’s mobile customers in some parts of rural Germany are now being backhauled by satellite, following a deal with Intelsat
-
The US government last week recommended that Google and Meta’s undersea data cable to Asia should be approved for use.
-
Southern Cross Cable Network (SX) has completed the marine lay portion of its new Southern Cross NEXT (SX NEXT) cable branch into Kiritimati, Kiribati.
-
Airtel Africa confirms that Chimera Investment has investment $50 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC BV), through shares from one of its subsidiaries.
-
The viability of Dito, the new mobile competitor in the Philippines, is threatened by the US decision to ban China Telecom, says one of the country’s leading politicians.
-
Spanish tower company Cellnex has expressed its dismay at the UK competition regulator’s opposition to its latest takeover plan.
