The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) revealed that the country’s telecommunications subscriber base grew marginally to 1.19 billion by the end of November 2021. Reliance Jio also overthrew BSNL as the top provider of fixed broadband services and is leading the segment with 4.34 million customers, dominated by public telecommunications since its inception 20 […]
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Orange and Engie said they have teamed up to convert Groupement Orange Services (GOS), Orange’s primary data center in Africa, to solar power, helping to cut the carbon footprint in Cote d’Ivoire. As such, the GOS will provide the eighteen Orange Middle East and Africa (OMEA) subsidiaries with combined hosting and infrastructure operation services, platforms, and IT. […]
Norwegian cell phone operator Telenor announced Monday it is selling its stake in a digital payment service in Myanmar in the wake of the military coup in the Asian country. As such, Telenor’s planned sale of its 51 percent stake in Myanmar’s Wave Money, a digital payment service provider, for $53 million to a subsidiary […]
The Telecommunications Bureau changed its telecommunications license on Monday to enable service providers to roll out machine-to-machine communications. This service is considered the main driver of 5G adoption. M2M is a critical factor in 5G adoption, while the change has been made to all levels of telecom service licenses. As TSPs offer such M2M communication […]
Mobile number portability was activated in Uruguay early last week, after several months of delays due to legal uncertainty and technical issues. Uruguayan mobile users can maintain their number when switching to another company, doing it under the new MNP system, with mobile operators Antel, Claro and Movistar required to port numbers within a maximum […]
Megaport announced Monday plans to expand to Mexico through a partnership with the country’s largest data center operator KIO Networks. According to the company’s press release, “customers are expected to be able to access Megaport’s services from KIO’s Mexico City and Queretaro data centers as early as March 2022. Meanwhile, businesses will be able to connect to Microsoft Azure, […]
The Indian government intervened to issue guidelines addressing the problems related to installing mobile phone towers in airports and around them in order to ease up the process. The letter was written by Senior Deputy Chief Wireless Adviser at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), LD Meghwal, and marked to the Secretaries-General of the States and Union […]
France based -cloud provider OVHcloud generated revenues of $200 million for the fiscal quarter that ended on 30 November, up 13.9 percent year-on-year on a reported basis. After the growth rate reached 13.5 percent when excluding the impact of the fire incident at OVHcloud’s data center in Strasbourg and adjusting for scope/currency movements, the company said that its performance met expectations […]
Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Private) Limited and its infrastructure partner edotco Services Lanka (Private) Limited (edotco) launched an Open-RAN trial to reduce the cost of GB data further and thus pass the cost-benefit to its customers. The trial Open-RAN site was deployed in Polatthapitya in the Kurunegala district. The traditional mobile radio networks were supplied by a single vendor in […]
Auto parts maker Aptiv PLC said on Tuesday it would buy software developer Wind River for $4.3 billion in cash to strengthen its offerings as the auto industry accelerates spending on self-driving and electrification. The deal is Aptiv’s most extensive arrangement since Delphi Technologies spun off in 2017. It will also help it capitalize on the shift to software-oriented […]