30 January 2023 – Orange Belgium and Telenet have signed two commercial fixed wholesale agreements, which is subject to the completion of the transaction related to the acquisition of 75% minus one share of VOO by Orange Belgium. The agreements will provide access to each other’s fixed networks for a 15 year period and cover both current Hybrid Fibre Coaxial and future Fibre to the Home technologies in both network areas. Orange Belgium believes these agreements will foster investment, benefit the customer and competition in the Belgian telecom market. (more…)
February 6, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Netmore continues the expansion of the European LoRaWAN network and begins the rollout of LoRaWAN infrastructure in France. Commercial market development has already started to establish collaborations with important partners. The infrastructure roll-out will begin in the first quarter of 2023. (more…)
February 3, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Lumos, a 100% Fibre Optic Internet company, to announce a new ultra-high-speed Internet plan aimed at digital equity that, when paired with the Affordable Connectivity Programme (ACP), a federal initiative that also gives qualifying families a $30 (€27.46) discount on their monthly Internet bill, will be free for eligible families. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Boomi, an intelligent connectivity and automation provider, has announced that Geekplus Co., Ltd., which has held the top market share in Japan for four consecutive years in automated guided vehicles (AGV), has selected the Boomi AtomSphere Platform to automate its next generation smart logistics platform. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Broadband operators have been advised to use existing infrastructure when installing ultra-fast broadband to flats following a change to UK Law. According to InCoax Networks, this is a crucial opportunity to use existing coaxial infrastructure when responding to a tenant’s request to upgrade their broadband connection. (more…)
February 1, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Washington, United States – Comcast has announced a partnership with the National Skills Coalition (NSC) to educate local, state, and national decisionmakers about the benefits of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to promote digital equity and opportunity nationwide. The initiative aims to help close the digital skill divide that is currently limiting educational and employment opportunities for nearly 50 million Americans. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
QA Cafe, a provider of network test solutions and analysis tools, has announced a partnership with Amarisoft, a provider of affordable and high-quality 4G/5G testers to the wireless industry, to offer comprehensive fully-automated testing of 5G and LTE fixed wireless broadband gateways. (more…)
January 31, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
When a crisis hits, we all know what to do: Call 9-1-1. That’s why 9-1-1 call centres need to be dependable and prepared for circumstances that might interrupt their data connections. For the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board, that means ensuring the state’s 118 primary public safety answering points (PSAPs) or 9-1-1 call centres have backups in place in the event their primary fibre connections are disrupted for any reason, says Jim Bugel, president of the FirstNet Program, AT&T and Curtis S. Sutton, executive director, Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. (more…)
January 30, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
San Diego – Nextivity, a provider in intelligent cellular coverage solutions, has announced the acquisition of Assured Wireless Corporation, a provider in high power user equipment (HPUE) technology. The acquisition enables Nextivity to serve the first responder sector with FirstNet coverage portfolio: indoors, outdoors and at the edge of the network. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Wilmington, United States –Â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, has announced Apache NuttX 12.0, the release of the real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded microcontroller applications. NuttX is used in appliances, wearables, satellites, drones, connectivity, rapid prototyping, industrial IoT, and much more, with support for numerous microcontroller architectures from 8-bit to 64-bit. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar