In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including cloud, 4G, 5G, fraud, IoT connectivity, fraud, mobile and startups.
Here are our highlights:
monday:
e.on establishes towerco subsidiary to build 4g, 5g mobile masts on electrical pylons and other assets
German energy provider E.ON, has plans to convert electrical power pylons across Germany into radio masts for the 4G and 5G network. The company plans to use its existing infrastructure with over 100,000 high and medium voltage masts that can also be used as radio masts.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3mX7KDu
oracle opens first underground facilities in israel
Oracle has become the first global cloud provider to have an active cloud region in Israel after its launch on 13 October. Oracle's new cloud area offers Oracle Autonomous Database, Kubernetes services and Oracle's cloud applications, Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3vmarCk
tuesday:
Ericsson, deutsche Telekom demo 5g e2e network slicing
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom have successfully demonstrated 5G end-to-end network slicing enabling a ‘performance on demand’ model for video streaming, unlocking new 5G service opportunities where customers can control and alter their service automatically, based on performance quality needs.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2Z8J1nF
ibasis fraudlock blocks 191m fraud calls in six months
iBasis has revealed that its FraudLock iQ360 solution has blocked 191 million "wangiri" fraud calls in H1 2021. The company says this is the result of its major two-year portfolio expansion to enhance operators’ ability to fight wangiri/robocalling and other growing forms of fraud.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3aQ5Nmz
Wednesday:
vodafone introduces recycled eco-sims
Vodafone Group has announced that it will begin offering half-sized Eco-SIM cards made from recycled plastic to their customers. The Eco-SIM should eliminate the need for 320 tonnes of virgin plastic to be produced every year, which, in turn, should remove around 1,280 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3E17FW2
distec partners with teltonika networks to enhance secure iot connectivity offering
Through this partnership, Distec will be able to offer a wider range of modems, gateways, routers and ethernet switches to complement its existing product portfolio.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2Z43ZV3
thursday:
nearly 45 million received scam calls in three months, Ofcom says
A survey of 2,000 adults in September found that almost a million people had been misled by a message or a call which they received. Text scams are most common among 16 to 34-year-olds, with two-thirds receiving one between June and August.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/2Z8Ujb8
smartphones: the royal mint to extract gold from old phones
Gold and precious metals are to be extracted from old phones and laptops by Britain's coin-maker. The Royal Mint plans to introduce a world-first technology to the UK to recycle gold from electronic waste. Less than one fifth of electronic waste ends up being recycled, estimates show. The mint's chief executive Anne Jessopp said the technology would help to "make a genuine impact on one of the world's greatest environmental challenges".
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3B2Udzk
friday:
google in talks to invest in Facebook-backed India social commerce meesho
Google has held discussions to invest over $50 million in Indian social commerce startup Meesho, which recently secured $570 million in a financing round.
Read the full story here: https://tcrn.ch/3njUCIB
private cellular networks spend to reach $12b by 2023
A new report by Juniper Research has found that the enhanced capabilities of 5G are driving enthusiasm and awareness of private cellular networks; bringing annual spend on network hardware and services to almost $12 billion globally by 2023, growing 116% from the $5.5 billion expected for 2021.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3pr9R5t
