Whats Up With… Huawei, Mediacom And Nokia, Totogi
In today's industry news. Huawei is taking legal action to stay out of the Portuguese 4G/5G infrastructure market Other cable operators choose FTTP over DOCSIS; TelcoDR's Totogi provides carriers with alternative APIs to Twilio; and more
Huawei has filed a lawsuit in a Lisbon court challenging the findings of a report published earlier this year that would force the Chinese supplier out of the Portuguese mobile network infrastructure market, where it has been a successful global supplier for decades, Reuters reported. . . A report published in May by the Portuguese Security Assessment Committee, under the auspices of the country's Cyber Security Council, advises companies based in countries outside the European Union that are not members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) . or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( . Treaty Organization) should not be allowed to supply network equipment to Portuguese mobile operators as they pose a significant threat to national security. The recommendation does not mention Huawei or any other company, but advises Chinese vendors, including ZTE, and its partners not to use the technology. The Chinese technology company told Reuters this information. "Huawei Portugal wishes to protect its legitimate interests and legal rights as a duly registered company in Portugal" and hopes that the court will "correct the numerous violations of its rights".
Totogi , a developer of public cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for telecom operators, Whoosh! introduced an application-to-person (A2P) application programming interface (API) suite designed as an add- Turn on. Twilio 's APIs, according to Totogi CEO Daniel Royston, hope to disrupt the current communications platform as a service (CPaaS) industry model . Wow ! The APIs are available through a different engagement model than Twilio's, which Totogi says could help telcos generate additional revenue for their A2P API demand that Twilio currently has . To learn more about this engagement model, see this announcement from Totogi . "This is the wake-up call operators have been waiting for," said Daniel Royston, founder of TelcoDR and interim CEO of Totogi. Twilio might win the first round, but hey! tie the game We provide 100% Twilio-compliant A2P APIs that make it easy for developers to make changes. It is time for operators to take advantage of this critical moment and strategically position themselves with companies Client Earlier this year, Skyvera acquired telecom software company TelcoDR, Candy Communications , a leading player in the CPaaS industry over the past decade that owns multiple vendors, and Candy's assets are Hush Power. Read more
We've recently reported on cable operators moving away from traditional DOCSIS broadband technologies and increasingly relying on FTTP , and today we've brought you another example of that trend. Mediacom , the fifth largest cable operator in the United States, providing broadband service to 3.3 million homes and businesses in 22 states, will use Nokia's XGS-PON systems and equipment to deliver new broadband to rural communities. "Nokia today offers Mediacom systems that deliver PON speeds of up to 25 Gbps," said Mediacom Senior Vice President of Technology JR. Walden. "Their platforms effectively support our services and enable future growth and expansion, which will help Mediacom remain the market and industry leader in high-performance data services." Read more
Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel will participate in renewable energy project companies formed by Continuum Green India Pvt Ltd and Vibrant Energy Holdings Pte Ltd as part of its plan to buy 23,000 MW of renewable energy in the fourth quarter of this fiscal. (until March 2024) for its data center company Nxtra. The renewable energy "will be procured through an open access route, and Airtel will acquire a stake in Continuum Green, which will supply green energy from solar and wind projects to its terminal data centers in Madhya Pradesh," Airtel said. Statement: " Airtel is also for its terminal data center in Vijayawada Entered into a capital purchase agreement with project developer Vibrant Energy to supply solar power. ” The operator added, “With the addition of these new capacities, Nxtra's total combined renewable capacity. The data centers will exceed 274,000 MWh, which is on track to become a leader in building green data centers.”
A new study by Juniper Research shows that the number of online token transactions, including mobile payments and Internet of Things (IoT)-based transactions, will grow nearly 190% over the next five years, from 140.3 billion to 400 in 2023. . Billions worldwide. Until 2028. According to Juniper Research, "Network tokenization, the process of replacing card payment data with network-issued tokens, can balance security and communication more effectively than other solutions and is a major concern in the e-commerce market. The use of network tokens when a consumer's payment information Said to provide it reduces the number of... thus improving limited connectivity. Read more .
Maveni CEO Pradeep Kohli shares his thoughts on the industry and current challenges on LinkedIn. In that article, he said that 5G has increased costs but not revenues for telecommunications companies ; "This is the first recession without revenue and customer growth," he lamented. In this publication , after two days of meetings with his large team, he came to the following conclusion: Industrial costs have fallen in almost all countries. Customers are increasingly cost-conscious and want to "do more with less"; "It's reinforcing the industry's willingness to adapt to innovation and transform itself." Of course, Kohli suggests that the way out of the industry's current slump and to reverse the "slowdown" is for network operators to invest in open software-based systems, such as those developed by Mavenir Networks. Backbones are architectural elements for telecom operators that help them become more efficient and economically efficient and move away from proprietary network technologies. This change may happen over time, but it is happening more slowly than Mavenir and other software system providers had hoped. The current recession means Mavenir, which invests most of its sales in research and development, is bleeding cash, a situation that has led to it. Credit rating downgraded by Moody's . It is concerned with "extremely high management risk of pursuing an aggressive growth strategy with significantly negative free cash flow resulting from very high R&D spending (more than 50% of revenue) for vendors and private equity backers despite forecasts", and implies Mavenir's EBITDA. . Improvements are expected despite lower revenues, thanks to a major cost-cutting program
Following the announcement that the UK will host the first global AI Security Summit to be held in Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, UK from November 1-2, the government announced five goals and objectives for the conference. These goals are: an improved mechanism for international cooperation in AI border security, including how best to support national and international frameworks; Every organization needs to take appropriate measures to improve AI border security; Potential areas of collaboration in AI security research include evaluating modular capabilities and developing new standards to support governance; And show how the safe development of AI will allow it to be put to good use globally. The AI Security Summit , hosted by UK Prime Minister and AI enthusiast Rishi Suna , will "bring together key countries, leading technology organisations, academia and civil society to focus on rapid national and international action at the frontiers of AI development.", the British government. See this announcement for details .
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