GSMA says telcos are getting stiffed on network infrastructure costs
Telecoms industry body and organiser of MWC, the GSMA, has got involved in the debate around who pays for the internet. The GSMA has released its 2022 Internet Value Chain…
Google sprinkles AI on everything at I/O
As well the new gadgets that were paraded on the catwalk of Google I/O yesterday there were a myriad of other updates to Google’s ludicrously wide product set, usually involving…
Telia teaches 2000 employees how to use AWS
Swedish operator group Telia has brought in Amazon Web Services to upskill 10% of its workforce to use cloud technologies over the next 3 years. Apparently it’s the largest in-house…
Telefónica Tech bolsters Microsoft relationship with BE-terna buy
Telefónica has high expectations this year for its acquisitive Tech division, and Microsoft looks set to play an important role in fulfilling them. The company on Monday announced it has…
Vodafone creates pan-European data hub to fuel AI analytics engine
UK MNO Vodafone brought in Google Cloud and Cardinality.IO to help it build out a pan-European cloud software project called United Performance Management. UPM uses AI to process and analyse…
BT floats further into the cloud with new AWS deal
Ditching physical infrastructure will save UK telco group BT £2 billion a year and allow it to innovate more quickly, it claims. The deal is part of an effort to…
KT Cloud could be worth $2 billion
KT is reportedly mulling selling off a chunk of its recently-created cloud business, a move that could value the unit as a whole at US$2 billion. The South Korean telco,…
Bell launches AWS-powered edge services
Bell’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnership reached a new milestone this week with the commercial launch of multi-access edge computing (MEC) services. The Canadian telco has been working with the…
VMO2 launches TV streaming device
UK converged operator VMO2 has launched a device called Stream for its broadband customers, which aggregates content from multiple TV services and allows billing for them to be controlled in…
Google wants to cache in on the CDN hype
The content delivery network (CDN) market is getting more attention thanks to the hype around edge, and now Google wants in on the action. The search giant this week unveiled…