The new head of Canada’s biggest telecommunications firm said Huawei Technologies Co.’s equipment is “top notch” and he’d like the option of working with the Chinese company as it rolls out a next-generation 5G network.
Just after the agreement on Sprint and T-Mobile’s merger, shares of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group witnessed an important soar of 12%, especially Softbank being a major shareholder of Sprint.
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. has a new 100G capable wavelength route from Montreal, Quebec to Albany, New York. The new route will provide multiple terabits of long haul transport capacity between Montreal and major northeast U.S. markets and is expected to be in service by January 2020.
The FCC has concluded an agreement to be bought out by global investment firms Digital Colony and EQT Partners. The deal, approved by the FCC, includes Zayo Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries Zayo Group, Electric Lightwave, and Allstream Business US. The control of the companies will be transferred to FrontRange TopCo, a company set up for the purposes of the buyout.
Verizon’s 5G Ultra-Wideband and low-latency Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) infrastructure, combined with HERE Technologies’ highly precise mapping and advanced edge AI perception, are coming together to reimagine a future of enhanced road safety and precise localization for navigation.
Mario di Mauro was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Sparkle in March 2019. Telecom Review recently visited with Mario to get his views on the connectivity marketplace. We have provided his insights below:
When disaster strikes, keeping first responders and other customers connected is a priority – and the specific mission of AT&T’s Network Disaster Response (NDR) team. Unwavering commitment, continuous improvement, and deploying the latest in technology solutions for restoring service fast, has been the hallmark of the program since it began in 1992.
Orange proceeded to land Google’s transatlantic Dunant cable in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, in the Vendée region of France, first and terrestrial stage of the laying of this cable.
StrataNet puts great effort in putting the right team in place in order to ensure a continued growth of the company and become the Telecom Infrastructure Company of the future. That is why, for its next phase of growth, it has appointed three well-known industry veterans to the senior executive team. The new appointments strongly position StrataNet to execute on the array of opportunities the business has developed over the past 2 years in Asia and beyond.
ZTE has responded to reports it faced a bribery investigation in the US, with a claim it had not received any official notification and would seek more details from authorities.
