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Bharti Airtel, which currently ranks as India’s largest telecommunications services provider, will acquire the Tata Teleservices’ Consumer Mobile Businesses (CMB) and its operations across India in nineteen circles, representing the bulk of India’s population and customer base. The deal is described as a merger that will be conducted on a debt-free and cash-free basis pending […]
AT&T said damage caused by recent hurricanes and the earthquake in Mexico will decrease its Q3 2017 consolidated revenues nearly $90 million and its reported pre-tax earnings about $210 million, or $0.02 per diluted share. In an SEC filing, AT&T said it continues to assess damage to its network and that further charges in Q4 […]
China Unicom officially opened a subsidiary in Brazil. This marks the second overseas subsidiary of China Unicom International following the previous establishment of a local operating company in Russia. China Unicom’s network operates in 31 nations and has 70 overseas POPs. The opening ceremony was attended by Consul General Chen Peijie, Consul General of the […]
AT&T was awarded the 2017 Sustainability Initiative of the Year title by The Business Intelligence Group. The award recognized AT&T for its 10x Carbon Reduction Goal. The only other tech company winning an award this year was Oracle, which was commended for its California Water Conservation Project. AT&T Aims for Carbon Savings 10X By 2025 […]
On Friday, GSMA issued a statement confirming that the 2018 edition of Mobile World Congress will take place in Barcelona from 26 February to 1 March 2018, as previously scheduled. An agreement is in place designating Barcelona as Mobile World Capital and host city of the GSMA Mobile World Congress through 2023. GSMA said it […]
IBM is joining forces with Google to create and open source the Grafeas project, which is an open source initiative to define a uniform way for auditing and governing the modern software supply chain. Grafeas (“scribe” in Greek) provides a central source of truth for tracking and enforcing policies across an ever growing set of […]
A10 Networks launched its most powerful DDoS protection to date with a solution that can manage 500,000 flows per second — more than double the performance of the nearest competitive flow-based DDoS detection system, according to the company. The A10 Thunder Threat Protection System (TPS) Detector is now available as a virtual machine on the […]
ADTRAN introduced environmentally sealed, 10G-EPON virtual Remote-OLTs (virtual R-OLTs) that provide cable MSOs the ability to further execute on their 10Gbps FTTH and SD-Access strategies, while seamlessly integrating into existing DOCSIS back office provisioning and operational systems. The new virtual R-OLTs support DOCSIS provisioning of EPON (DPoETM), native SDN integration and remote outside plant packaging, […]
INEX, the Internet exchange for the island of Ireland, has deployed the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform in its backbone network. INEX is located in six data centres in the Dublin region and opened its first regional Internet exchange in Cork in 2016. INEX currently has over 1 terabit of connected capacity with approximately […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft announced a new deep learning library, called Gluon,for prototyping, building, training and deploying sophisticated machine learning models for the cloud, devices at the edge and mobile apps. “The potential of machine learning can only be realized if it is accessible to all developers. Today’s reality is that building and […]
EE, which is now part of BT Group, deplyed a Helikite ‘air mast’ at a Red Bull Foxhunt downhill mountain biking event in Wales. Specifically, the EE air mast was flown 300 feet above Machynlleth, on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, to boost 4G coverage and capacity for the Red Bull mountain biking event. […]
Citing weakness in cloud sales, Juniper Networks trimmed its financial outlook for Q3 2017, saying it now expects revenue to be in the range of $1,250 million to $1,260 million, below the company’s previous guidance of $1,290 million to $1,350 million. Juniper now expects non-GAAP net income per diluted share of $0.54 to $0.56, compared […]
CableLabs has completed its Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 specification, significantly increasing upstream capacity and enabling symmetric multi-Gigabit services over existing hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) technology. Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 technology builds on the DOCSIS 3.1 specification, which made deployments of 10 Gbps downstream and 1 Gbps upstream broadband possible. Full duplex communication enables upstream and downstream […]
