The Solomon Islands government has awarded a 4G expansion contract to Huawei, rejecting expert advice that the project may not be viable.
Cisco expects its fiscal year 2023 revenues to grow between 4% and 6%, above most analyst expectations of 3% growth. However, the company continues to struggle in areas including increasing software sales.
Continuing its steady rise in wireless, the US cable industry snared about 49.2% of industry net adds in Q2 2022, ending the period with more than 9.1 million mobile lines in service, according to MoffettNathanson.
Nova Labs, the company behind the Helium network, is buying FreedomFi. FreedomFi supplies 4G LTE radios for the Helium network and hopes to begin selling 5G NR radios by next year.
Small ISPs are scrambling to meet a September 1 deadline to submit coverage data to the FCC, or risk being locked out of the $42.5 billion BEAD program.
Chipmaker carried out a trial that it says showcases the possibility to support satellite communications with commercial 5G smartphones.
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Cloud's riding high, says Colt; ITV lands NFL deal; Telkom streamlines business loans.
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Macau's 5G licensing process, one of the last in Asia, has been met with tepid interest from operators, with just two bidding for four licenses.
Mavenir scored another $95 million in funding, but the company is pursuing a strategy that is 'producing very low profitability, negative free cash flows and high leverage,' according to Moody's.
The US is moving toward a smarter grid, supported by efforts such as the cable industry's SCTE 267 standard.
Cisco, AT&T and Twilio are among the latest companies at the center of hacking attacks. Amid those developments, Microsoft said its Azure cloud can help secure open RAN networks.
This week in broadband builds: Charter goes live with RDOF and CARES Act builds; Meta supports DigitalC FWA; Cisco gets in on Neighborhood Wi-Fi; Kinetic and Conexon build in Kentucky; Brightspeed in Arkansas; Glo Fiber in Pennsylvania.
Infinera CEO David Heard said that the US is doing the right thing by committing billions of dollars to semiconductor research and manufacturing. Since chips are such a big part of the price of the end product and the speed of product innovation, Heard said the recently passed CHIPS and Sciences Act could be a watershed moment in optical networking.
…by Ofcom, that is. Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: former regulator bigwig joins MTN; CityFibre heads to Hastings; Virgin Media's Scottish rejig.
The networking company building 'cloud-like' infrastructure for telcos and hyperscalers has raised a $262 million Series C funding round.
The surging demand from Chinese businesses for digital transformation and industrial Internet services has become the chief growth driver for telcos.
Global service provider router and switch market revenues are expected to reach $76 billion by 2026, a 2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), said Dell'Oro Group
Amping up competition with Amazon Prime, the new deal enables Walmart+ to weave in the ad-supported "Essential" tier of Paramount+. The pact also provides a fresh distribution channel for Paramount+.
