Month: February 2025

A couple of items across the news desk this week about non-terrestrial network (NTN; satellite) extensions for cellular 5G-branded IoT connectivity: Luxembourg-based NTN-IoT startup OQ Technology has signed Aramco Digital as a distributor, and Australian NTN-IoT outfit Myriota is working with US satellite broadband provider Viasat to enhance its own satellite IoT proposition. Both services, … Read more

Also in today’s EMEA regional roundup: BT’s Global Fabric goes live; Cellnex earnings; 5G on the railways; sustainable smartphones.

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Considering the chatter about strong password requirements and enhanced cybersecurity measures across most applications, it may seem surprising just how … terrible …. many passwords still are. Yet, that is exactly what NordPass continues to find when analyzing people’s password habits. For the sixth year, the password manager completed a study and found, in its … Read more

Startup DeepSig said its new OmniPHY air interface will use AI for 6G connections. #pressrelease

Legrand, Schneider Electric, Siemens and others said they would promote the new NR+ standard for IoT operations inside buildings, via the DECT Forum. #pressrelease

Ericsson announced a new leadership reshuffling that will include Fredrik Jejdling, head of its networks business, leaving the company. #pressrelease

With amusement I read a note by a cable advocate on spectrum. The note seems to be mostly hung up on the definition of what is low-, mid- and high-band spectrum. It completely ignores the history of the terms and the technical reasons for why these terms are used and how the spectrum bands behind … Read more

UK-headquartered BT Group has signed with US interconnect and data-centre company Equinix to support its Global Fabric offer to multinational enterprises and with Canadian telecoms BSS and cloud services provider Optiva to implement new enterprise services on its application server. Both are expansions of existing supply contracts.  Of most immediate interest, perhaps, the deal with … Read more

AT&T sees organic network expansion, the Gigapower JV and open access deals as key elements of its fiber strategy – no M&A required. ‘We don’t have to do anything and have plenty of room to run,’ CFO Pascal Desroches said.