Chilean Operator Entel announced this week that it has activated the first 5G connection in Antarctica, benefiting 191 residents of Villa Las Estrellas, as well as visitors who travel to the settlement. Villa Las Estrellas is one of the Chilean settlements located at the President Eduardo Frei Montalva base on … Read More
American company EchoStar announced this week that the Department of Defense (DoD) Office has extended its contract for the continued deployment of standalone 5G networks at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) in Hawaii and at the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) in Washington State. The contract extension builds on … Read More
British telecommunications company Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced the rollout of its gigabit broadband services to over 13,000 homes and businesses in York. Customers in York can now access Gig2 broadband, offering speeds of up to 2 Gbps, which are 30 times faster than the local average, Virgin Media … Read More
Cloud Computing Platform Vultr has announced a partnership with Singapore-based telecommunications company Singtel to expand its capacity of NVIDIA GPUs in Singapore and across Southeast Asia. This collaboration aims to advance AI factories for model training and inference through Vultr’s cloud GPU platform, powered by NVIDIA, integrated with Singtel’s Paragon … Read More
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry body for Wi-Fi standards and services, announced the successful completion of an advanced public Wi-Fi OpenRoaming proof-of-concept (PoC) in Shoreditch, London. This achievement comes through collaboration with CIN, a provider of streetside telecoms infrastructure assets, Colt Technology Services, and GlobalReach Technology. The PoC … Read More
CMC Networks has announced the addition of Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), and Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite connectivity to its portfolio of solutions. This multi-orbit approach addresses the diverse connectivity needs of remote regions and challenging environments across Africa and the Middle East, CMC Networks said on … Read More
Telia Estonia announced plans to continue the expansion of its fiber-optic network in 2024, bringing ultra-fast internet connectivity to 9,000 homes. The company will continue to actively expand and modernise the fixed internet network this year, with network developments carried out in more than 20 regions across Estonia. Also Read: … Read More
Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) announced today that it has successfully deployed 4G and 5G smart poles on top of its existing fiber network in the UK. This trial, conducted in collaboration with Liberty Global, involved installing new smart poles beside the operator’s existing national fiber network cabinets. The poles, which … Read More
Edotco Bangladesh has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) to construct an advanced eco-friendly telecommunications tower made of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics (FRP). Edotco said the MoU signing was held at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona. Edotco said through this collaboration, it will become the … Read More
Indonesian telco XL Axiata has completed a five-year project with Nokia to modernise its network across Central Java. XL Axiata said that around 4,400 of its existing sites in Central Java have been modernised by replacing the existing network and adding new sites. The telco used Nokia equipment to activate … Read More
Optical networking solutions specialist, Infinera, has announced the launch of a high-speed module for optical transport within data centers based on monolithic indium phosphide (InP) photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology. The company claims this module will enable connectivity at speeds of 1.6 terabits per second (Tb/s) at reduced cost and … Read More
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, has announced that Nilesat, a satellite operator in the MENA region, has purchased a Hughes Jupiter System Gateway and will use Hughes Jupiter terminals for its Nilesat 301 satellite. The implementation will begin in Q2 and is expected to be complete by the end … Read More
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