This week's roundup looked at the top news stories from the Global B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including: Aerospace, Open RAN, Data Breach, 6G, Edge, Data Centres, Satellites, Fibre and Internet.
Here are our highlights:
Monday _____________________________
Rolls-Royce tests a jet engine running on hydrogen
In a windswept corner of a military site on Salisbury Plain a small aircraft jet engine is undergoing tests that could one day lead to huge changes within the aviation industry. The engine itself is almost completely conventional. It is a Rolls-Royce AE-2100A gas turbine, a design used widely on regional aeroplanes around the world.
Read the full story here:https://bbc.in/3GRLE0Q
Orange signs roaming agreement with 1&1
Orange has concluded a long-term agreement for the provision of international roaming services with Germany’s 1&1 mobile network. 1&1 has already launched Europe’s first fully virtualised mobile network based on the Open RAN technology and will now add roaming services to its repertoire.
Read the full story here:https://bit.ly/3GMo3i2
Tuesday_____________________________
EU HITS META WITH €265M FINE OVER GDPR BREACH
The €265 million fine comes in response to a data breach that Meta announced in April last year, which immediately sparked an investigation from DPC, the regulatory body in charge of overseeing Meta’s EU operations.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3FkDddn
Nokia to open 5G and 6G R&D centre in Portugal
Nokia plans to open a new 5G and 6G research and development centre in Amadora, Portugal. The centre will create 100 new jobs within the next two years and will advance research in technologies that are vital components of current 5G and future 6G networks.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3VCsjVm
Wednesday___________________________
Vodafone Opens UK’s First Edge Innovation Lab
Vodafone has opened a new Edge Innovation Lab in MediaCity, Salford – the first of its kind in the UK. The lab will support the development of Manchester, and the surrounding region, into a Northern digital powerhouse.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3VERAyo
Iron Mountain Data Centers Expands EMEA and North America footprint
The first investment saw Iron Mountain acquire of XData Properties, one of the largest data centre parks in Madrid. The site has enough power to develop 79MW over the coming years. In addition to the existing 3MW data centre on site, the first 20MW data centre is due to be completed by 2024.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3GXA4kB
NTT DOCOMO CALLS IN SAMSUNG FOR OPEN RAN
Samsung Electronics today announced the company is supplying a variety of 5G radios to support NTT DOCOMO’s Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) expansion. Samsung will now provide a range of Open RAN-compliant 5G radios covering all of the Time Division Duplex (TDD) spectrum bands held by the operator.
Read the full story here:https://bit.ly/3imHR1b
SpaceX plans giant satellite antenna to enable cellphone services
SpaceX is strengthening its programme to introduce satellite-to-cellphones services by stepping up recruitment. The Elon Musk company, which is building the Starlink network of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, is advertising for mechanical engineers to help develop “the largest deployable antenna array designed at SpaceX to date”. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3ioFqLE
Friday______________________________
Fibrus: Belfast broadband firm wins major GB contract
The Belfast-based broadband company Fibrus has won its first major contract in Great Britain.
The £108m scheme will upgrade broadband for more than 60,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across Cumbria in north-west England.
It is part of the UK government's Project Gigabit, which aims to improve broadband across the UK.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3VO7mHl
2.7bn people still shut off from online world, says ITU
The price of internet access is going down, but 2.7 billion people – roughly one-third of the global population – remain unconnected to the internet.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations agency, says the global median price of mobile-broadband services dropped from 1.9% to 1.5% of average gross national income (GNI) per capita.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3VpcQbK
