Tillman FiberCo, LLC, a leading provider of fiber optic broadband infrastructure, has announced a significant expansion of its 100% Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) network in Florida. The expansion aims to cater to the growing demand for high-speed internet access in various regions across the state, including Tampa Bay, Panhandle, South and Southwest Florida, and several major cities like St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, Naples, Pensacola, Miami, Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, and Kissimmee.
In a stark warning delivered at a regional investment banking conference in Tallinn, Estonia, Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm highlighted Europe’s precarious position in the global telecom arena. Emphasizing the urgent need for regulatory reform and innovation prioritization, Ekholm cautioned that Europe’s telecom industry is trailing far behind its counterparts in the US, China, and India.
Amid the AI giants like Google and Microsoft, stands Amazon with its prolific investment of $2.75 billion in San Francisco’s AI startup, Anthropic. This strategic venture is Amazon’s biggest external contribution since its establishment. In return, Anthropic pledges to use Amazon Web Services as its chief cloud solution, employing AWS’s state-of-art infrastructure for their AI models. With $7.3 billion funding recently, Anthropic is galvanizing investors globally.
In a strategic move aimed at bolstering its foothold in the competitive telecommunications arena, US telecom giant AT&T has unveiled its Internet Air service for business customers, marking a significant shift in its approach to 5G fixed-wireless access (FWA).
In an unexpected strategy shift, VEON is offloading its stake in Beeline Kyrgyzstan to CG Corp Global’s associate. The monumental telecom deal, setting the business’s value over three times its forecasted EBITDA for 2023, awaits regulatory approval. Amidst this change, Beeline Kyrgyzstan forges ahead in growth, promising patrons sustained exceptional digital solutions.
BT and Global have entered a 10-year collaboration to modernize UK’s traditional payphones and expand digital hubs in local communities, fostering enhanced connectivity and local advertising opportunities. A major highlight includes the transformation of BT’s iconic payphones, expected to develop into a progressive stride towards telecommunications future.
Sinch, which powers meaningful conversations between businesses and their customers through its Customer Communications Cloud, today announced it has been recognized as 2024 Adobe Digital Experience ISV Resell Partner of the Year. Adobe’s Digital Experience partner awards honor companies that have made leading contributions to Adobe’s business and have had a significant impact on customer success.
Vodafone Germany is set to reduce its workforce by 2,000 in the next two years as part of a cunning organizational restructuring strategy. These significant shifts aim to transform the telecom titan into a “simpler, faster, leaner, and more powerful” operation.
Seven Chinese nationals are under legal fire, suspected of masterminding an international hacking operation. Imagined to be APT31 Group members, they have allegedly dispatched 10,000 harmful emails, targeting critics of the PRC regime and stealing trade secrets.
Juniper Research, in partnership with VOX Solutions, delves into the increasingly critical issue of Artificially Inflated Traffic (AIT) and SMS Trashing impacting the global business messaging sector. The report divulges disconcerting figures, with fraudulent activities such as AIT significantly bolstering operational costs and potentially costing enterprises an alarming $60 million annually.
