Peter Cohen

Canonical’s Charmed OSM is helping VMO2 to rapidly onboard new telco cloud network functions Ubuntu maker Canonical announced Thursday that U.K. Communication Service Provider (CSP) Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has chosen Canonical’s Charmed OSM as the…

Apple this week announced three new security features for users of its products Apple this week announced three new security features for users of its products. The company said it is immediately expanding the scope of end-to-end encryption used to…

Vodafone is bringing Open RAN out of rural areas for the first time, with 16 masts in Exmouth and Torquay, England Vodafone announced this week that it is deploying Open RAN in a live urban environment in Europe. Specifically, the company said it…

Beefier antennas purportedly more than doubles range over small cell deployments, said Qualcomm Hoping to address the range and cost deployment issues that surround outdoor mmWave deployments, Qualcomm on Tuesday announced its Compact Macro 5G RAN…

Meta’s 2Africa Pearls will connect to Airtel’s landing in Mumbai, extending the world’s longest subsea cable Even as Indian telco Bharti Airtel continues its aggressive 5G rollout across the country, the company is looking for other ways to expand…

Manon Brouillette is headed out the door as the head of Verizon’s consumer business, after less than a year on the job Verizon announced Monday the departure of Manon Brouillette, the CEO of Verizon Business. Her duties have been assumed by Verizon…

CFO Margherita Della Valle takes over the top role as interim CEO while the board looks for a permanent replacement Multinational telco Vodafone announced Monday that its CEO of four years, Nick Read, will step down at the end of the month. CFO…

Vodafone, Intel and others showcased new solutions leveraging AWS technology Amazon Web Services (AWS) held its annual re:Invent event in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. The week-long fête spanned the depth and breadth of the myriad services AWS offers,…

The federal agency sharply curtailed the number of satellites Starlink sought to launch, citing orbital safety concerns The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday granted private space firm SpaceX partial permission to get started…

Together, they will help drive Industry 4.0 transformation Private networks are providing enterprises with more reliable and pervasive connectivity than was previously available. What’s more, private networks can provide a simplified infrastructure…

The new offering will provide businesses with pre-configured service chains and on-demand infrastructure Verizon Business has announced a partnership with Wipro Limited to offer Network as a Service (NaaS) to its customers. The new multi-year, global…

The telco hopes to spur local MEC innovation in partnership with Kyndryl and Amazon Vodafone this week announced the opening of its Edge Innovation Lab in Salford, England. The company is collaborating with Kyndryl and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to…

The new rules bring the FCC in compliance with the 2021 Secure Equipment Act, the agency said The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Friday new rules that prohibit communications and video surveillance equipment made by Chinese…

FortiGate CNF reduces security operations workload with a simplified interface and no security infrastructure to manage, claims Fortinet Fortinet on Monday announced the release of its FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF) on Amazon Web Services…

Hyderabad joins Mumbai as AWS expands its Asia Pacific presence Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Monday the general availability of its second region in India. The new Hyderabad region, located in the state of Telangana, is called ap-south-2 and…

The ten-year initiative will invest tens of millions of pounds and employ 20 dedicated researchers, the company said Ericsson announced Tuesday a ten-year investment initiative in the UK focused on 6G research and development. The company said it…

Ericsson is already working with TIM competitor WindTre on 5G SA efforts Ericsson noted Friday that Italian telco TIM has selected Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G core for its forthcoming 4G and 5G core modernization efforts. TIM will use Ericsson’s…

Funded by the Japanese government, Rakuten’s new lab should be open in March 2023 Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony UK announced Monday plans to open what they’re calling an Open RAN Customer Experience Center in the U.K. It’s coming to Rakuten…

Direct-to-satellite service tests are planned for the remote mountains on Japan’s northernmost island Rakuten Mobile announced this week that it has obtained preliminary licenses from Japanese regulators to begin testing direct-to-mobile satellite…