Saturday, April 23, 2022

AT&T posts growth in postpaid mobility and fiber

AT&T reported Q1 2022 revenue of $38.1 billion versus $43.9 billion in the year-ago quarter, down 13.3% reflecting the impact of divested businesses, mainly U.S. video in the third quarter of 2021 and Vrio in the fourth quarter of 2021, as well as lower Business Wireline revenues. The decreases were partially offset by higher Mobility revenues and, to a lesser extent, higher WarnerMedia, Consumer Wireline and Mexico revenues. Excluding impacts...

Amazon Aurora Serverless delivers fast scaling for databases

Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next generation of Amazon Aurora Serverless capable of scaling database workloads to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second. Instead of doubling capacity every time a workload must scale, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 continuously monitors database activity and adjusts capacity in fine-grained increments to provide just the right amount...

Oracle Cloud boosts its VMware Solution with AMD EPYC

The latest release of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI's) VMware Solution, which is targeted at leading enterprises in finance and banking, retail, telecommunication, manufacturing, government, and global systems integrators, is adding the following features:New E4 Dense bare metal AMD EPYC processor powered Compute shapesSupport for OCI File Storage as secondary storage that scales to 8 exabytesShielded VMware Instances to prevent ransomware attacksIntegration...

Aligned opens massive data center campus in Chicago

Aligned Data Centers completed first-phase construction of a new hyperscale data center campus in ChicagoThe new facility, Aligned ORD-01, is a 220,000 square-foot, 48 MW data center (expandable to ~60 MW) and is strategically positioned at the convergence of more than 12 metro, long haul and international fiber networks. The company also announced groundbreaking for a second, adjacent facility on the same 18.5-acre campus. The announcement...

U.S State Department revises its subsea cable licensing procedure

The U.S. State Department has revised the procedures for its review of submarine cable landing license applications.The State Department’s review will begin after the the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector completes its national security and law enforcement review of an application and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) notifies the Commission...

SpaceX signs first airline for Starlink

 JSX, a U.S. regional airline operating a fleet of Embraer jets from private terminals, will be the first to offer Starlink satellite service as an onboard amenity.The service is expected to launch this year.https://www.jsx....