ITEM: India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has reportedly jumped on the China 5G Paranoia Bandwagon by excluding Huawei and ZTE from its list of companies invited to participate in trials to develop 5G use cases. Read more…
Altaba – the holding company formerly known as Yahoo! – said on Monday it has reached an agreement to settle three lawsuits over two massive cyber security breaches for $47 million. Yahoo! revealed in 2016 Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: robot pants with matching minions; opposition to murderbot ban; SpaceX books first moonshot passenger; a box that Read more…
As you may have noticed, it’s 5G Hype Week, thanks to two industry-related events: MWC Americas in Los Angeles, and the 3GPP Plenary meeting in Australia’s Gold Coast. The former has spurred Verizon, Sprint and Read more…
ITEM: Adoption of various AI technologies is likely to disrupt the global economy in ways that could potentially widen the digital divide unless policymakers, companies and even workers take steps to mitigate such an outcome. Read more…
ITEM: A company called Primalbase is launching blockchain-enabled shared workspaces. Which doesn’t mean what you might think it means. When Primalbase recently sent out a press release announcing that “UK’s first blockchain-enabled shared workspace launches Read more…
Soaring mobile device usage and data traffic are driving unprecedented connectivity demand across India, leaving operators asking whether their networks are ready for the deluge. A new white paper from Ciena explains how Indian operators Read more…
Vocus has confirmed that it has switched on its Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) ahead of schedule – before final tests had been completed – following a major service disruption on the SEA-ME-WE3 (SMW-3) submarine cable Read more…
Hong Kong cellco SmarTone has launched the city’s first live commercial license assisted access (LAA) network, which the operator says supports 1-Gbps download speeds. SmarTone says it has completed installation of LAA small cells in Read more…
ITEM: There are no 5G operators yet – at least not with actual 5G customers using actual 5G devices on the actual 5G parts of the network – but Juniper Research has already started ranking Read more…
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