DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Telecoms & Connectivity Channel
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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T-Mobile US expands AI network service
AutoPilot aids T-Mobile's self-organizing network efforts
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Vocus to build 4,000km fiber link between Brisbane and Darwin
The route aims to support growing demand from hyperscaler, neocloud, and enterprise customers
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Keppel, StarHub confirm talks over M1 deal in Singapore
Will the talks lead to consolidation in the market?
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SFR workers in France strike over proposed takeover
Thousands of the company's employees have taken industrial action amid uncertainty over job security
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Boldyn Networks picked to deploy private network at Ontario International Airport in California
The private network will support security operations at the airport
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Southern Water deploys Lightsonic water-leak technology using Openreach's fiber infrastructure
As the water company seeks to monitor leaks
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T-Mobile seeks to test 2.7GHz and 4GHz ahead as preparation for 6G spectrum ramps up
Just days after Verizon
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China's S-AIDC orbits Supercomputing-1 satellite to cut Earth observation processing times
Chinese private companies continue to invest in STEM-led space compute capability
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Ericsson, Vodafone demo AI-enabled instant call translation
The pair also showcased AI-based noise cancellation
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Samsung to fuel Korean robot ambitions as exclusive AI network provider
AI-RAN, 5G SA partnership with KT and SK Telecom to guarantee Korea's 6G and physical AI foothold in the 2030s
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Australian Senate calls for nationalized Triple Zero service following several high-profile outages
Telstra operates the system that connects Australian phone calls to 000
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Airspan snaps up fixed wireless assets from stricken broadband firm Cambium
Company says more than 135 Cambium employees will join its team
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Australia's Optus expands 5G network to Moree, New South Wales
Optus' 5G coverage now reaches 94.5 percent of country's population
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Meta plans Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity
Connecting the US to France
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Comms circuit failure and backup fiber cable cut blamed for Monday's major Northeast US airport disruption
Services have since been restored after the double failure
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Lumen launches Intelligent Internet for scalable enterprise experience
Solution designed to help enterprises move data at AI speeds
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SoftBank presses on with blimp-based base station plans
Laser-tracking tests showcase possibilities for quite literal cloud connectivity
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BDx breaks ground on AI Campus 2 in Jatiluhur, Indonesia
The first 120MW building is set to go live in early 2027
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Orange drops MásOrange brand in Spain following full takeover
The carrier is now known as Orange España
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Irish gov't sets out national roaming agreement for Ireland's emergency services
eir, Three Ireland, and Vodafone have signed the agreement
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AT&T seeks to lease more 3.45GHz spectrum
The carrier is after more midband spectrum, this time from N Squared
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T-Mobile, Reliance Jio claim world's first 5G Standalone roaming connection
Connection was enabled by Syniverse
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Orange inaugurates first Telesat Lightspeed gateway in Europe at Bercenay-en-Othe, France
Telesat expands its influence on the ground, targeting defense and government markets
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Nokia ramps up AI-RAN momentum
As the vendor strikes further carrier partnerships
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Flag to deploy Ciena's Waveserver platform on Echo subsea cable
This will enable Flag to launch new 400GbE and 800GbE services along the route
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Virgin Media O2 extends small cells rollout to Tonbridge, Kent
Five small cells have gone live in Tonbridge
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Verizon requests approval from FCC to test 4GHz band for 6G
Carrier seeks to test the spectrum for potential use cases
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Eutelsat buys another 229 satellites for OneWeb from Airbus for ~€1bn
Satellite operator doubles down on LEO proliferation, champions IRIS² at Paris Summit