Verizon and AWS expand their mobile edge to 13 metros

Verizon and AWS are now covering 13 of top 20 U.S. metro areas with mobile edge computing.Verizon 5G Edge, a real-time cloud computing platform, with AWS Wavelength brings AWS compute and storage services to the edge of Verizon’s wireless network. In addition, Verizon is now offering a 5G Edge Discovery Service that seamlessly discovers the optimal MEC location for any Verizon mobile client. “Companies in every industry are finding exciting...

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Frontier accelerates fiber buildout

 Frontier Communications has set a new objective to reach 10 million total fiber locations by the end of 2025. Frontier made significant progress toward this objective in the second quarter of 2021, building fiber to approximately 157,000 new locations. Frontier now expects to reach 600,000 new locations in 2021, resulting in approximately 4 million fiber locations passed by the end of the year.Nick Jeffery, President and Chief Executive Officer...

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Verizon builds its fixed 5G Business Internet service

Verizon Business is continuing to expand its rollout of fixed 5G for delivering business Internet service.Five more U.S. cities have been added to the footprint,  bringing the total number of cities with 5G Business Internet service to 47. The company will continue to expand 5G Business Internet into new cities on an ongoing basis as it readies deployment of its recently acquired C-Band assets.Verizon Business is also incorporating video collaboration...

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Qualcomm launches $4.6 billion bid for Veoneer

Qualcomm launched a bid to acquire Veoneer for $37 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $4.6 billionQualcomm said the proposal reflects its commitment to bring advanced technologies to the automotive industry and represents a natural extension of Qualcomm's digital chassis solutions. The company continues to see traction in automotive, with a revenue-design win pipeline of approximately $10 billion."As the automotive industry...

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Taiwan Mobile aggregates 700MHz (n28) and 3500MHz (n78)

Taiwan Mobile (TWM) announced that it has achieved the world’s first New Radio Carrier Aggregation (NR CA) by combining spectrum in the 700MHz (n28) and 3500MHz (n78) bands. The trial, which took place in a 5G standalone (SA) network environment, was performed with Nokia’s AirScale 5G SA architecture in TWM’s commercial 5G network and combined two spectrum bands, frequency division duplex (FDD) in 700MHz (n28) and time division duplex (TDD)...

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Cloudflare hits Q2 revenue of $152 million, up 53% yoy

Cloudflare reported Q2 revenue of $152.4 million, representing an increase of 53% year-over-year. Non-GAAP net loss was $7.3 million, compared to $9.6 million in the second quarter of 2020. GAAP net loss per share was $0.12, compared to $0.09 in the second quarter of 2020. Non-GAAP net loss per share was $0.02, compared to $0.03 in the second quarter of 2020.“We had our strongest quarter ever as a public company, and our revenue growth continued...

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Australia's TPG deploys Nokia’s Integrated Passive Active Antenna

TPG Telecom has deployed Nokia’s integrated 5G Interleaved Passive Active Antenna (IPAA) at a site in Brisbane, Australia.Nokia's Twin Beam IPAA provides operators the ability to add 5G to an existing site without increasing the number or the size of the existing antennas on the site, but also doubles the range and greatly increases the capacity of all technologies deployed on existing mid band (e.g. 1800, 2100 and 2600 MHz) frequencies by up to...

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Ekinops selected by Michigan school district for WDM network

Michigan's Grosse Pointe School System (GPSS) has selected the Ekinops360 optical transport system to build a new wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network in its district.The network serves a community of 14 public schools consisting of approximately 1,000 teachers and administrators and over 7,000 students.  Its existing managed lit services from its local service provider were costly to operate, required a long lead-time to upgrade and...

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