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Alibaba has also decided not to sell its cloud business because of tighter AI export control which the US announced in October. “We believe that these new restrictions may materially and adversely affect Cloud Intelligence Group’s ability to offer products and services and to perform under existing contracts, thereby negatively affecting our results of operations and financial condition. We believe that a full spin-off of Cloud Intelligence Group may not achieve the intended effect of shareholder value enhancement,” Alibaba said. Amazon’s Project Kuiper has bagged its first clients in APAC: NTT Docomo (and subsidiaries) and SKY Perfect JSAT. The Japanese firms will use Kuiper’s LEO satellite broadband network to support a broad range of applications, including internet of things, predictive…

In a turbulent week, Nokia’s share price has unsurprisingly suffered – falling some 15.43 percentage points on the previous week, in the wake of the AT&T news. Using the adjusted average prices, the Vendors segment fell some 2.31% this week, with the Operators down 3.08%. For the wider market, the Indexes tracked upwards by 1.41%. Diving into the individual averages, the actual average performance of the Vendors this week was a decline of just 0.35%, with the Operators up 1.28%, and the Indexes up 0.83%. Nokia was by far the worst performer in the Vendors, but it was a bad week for silicon slingers – with AMD at 96.43% of the previous week, Broadcom at 94.66%, Intel at 96.16%, and…

Spanish satellite IoT provider Sateliot has teamed up with UK based IoT monitoring technology firm t42, to offer global tracking of containers throughout transit. This builds on earlier deals to assemble the required components, including eSIM based roaming services, and the satellites themselves, as well as terrestrial mobile networks. The overall platform is not confined to shipping but open to any enterprise requiring remote coverage that can stray beyond the reach of terrestrial cellular networks. This includes power grids, energy companies, and environmental modelers. The system uses the cellular NB-IoT (Cat-NB) LPWAN protocol set, based on specifications covered by 3GPP Release 17 under 5G NR. The two companies say they have already deployed “thousands of 5G-IoT sensors” in shipping containers…

At first sight, the partnership just announced between AWS and cloud communications platform vendor Alianza is not directly relevant for mobile services. Yet it is driven by growing use of mobile communications within the enterprise customers of telcos that in turn will be served by the new alliance. The collaboration concerns replacing legacy equipment both for telcos themselves and their enterprise customers, centered around traditional voice and office collaboration applications. The two companies have positioned their new multi-year agreement as combining their respective cloud infrastructure and cloud-native software offerings to help CSPs (Communications Service Providers) develop and market the latest voice and communications products. A key part of this is to help telcos compete with providers of OTT (Over the…

Three snippets have appeared in financial reports, in the past few weeks, which suggest that the IT backbone that supports operator networks could be slowing down significantly. In October, Spirent issued a profit warning for its test and measurement business, citing slowing operator spending, swiftly followed by similar words from Cisco, and now HPE has said server sales are down 31% in Q4. The Compute division, which is its largest and which houses the server business, declined 31% year-over-year, sitting at $2.59 billion – up 1% compared to the previous quarter. Senior VP and interim CFO Jeremy Cox said that “de-elongation and customer digestion had continued to be most prevalent in Compute,” and that “declining average unit prices from a…

One of the biggest challenges for Open RAN has been its inability to support very high-performance 5G radios to the same standard as traditional integrated architectures. Given a choice between supporting Massive MIMO (mMIMO) radio/antennas for high-traffic urban 5G sites, and implementing virtualized and open networks, most operators would choose the former, leaving Open RAN confined to less demanding environments such as rural or enterprise networks. Recent additions to the O-RAN Alliance’s Open Fronthaul (OFH) specifications provided hope that this critical barrier to adoption would soon be lowered. But Verizon, one of the most significant investors in trials of virtualized RAN, remains unconvinced that the cloud-based networks can match integrated RAN in support for Massive MIMO. This is a blow,…

Spectrum got a shout-out in the recent UK government’s Autumn Statement with talk of ‘regulatory sandboxes for spectrum sharing.’ Regulator Ofcom has been floating the idea of spectrum sandboxes since 2022, but we haven’t seen much come of it yet. UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt promised many nuggets for the tech space, including flashy ‘Quantum Missons’ and AI investments, and in the mix we found the unusually titled ‘sandboxes for spectrum sharing’. This may sound novel but it’s not new; Ofcom has been promising this for nearly two years. A regulatory sandbox is a live testing scenario for new products or services in a controlled environment. It is a “safe space” for business, as the regulators may or may not permit…

News that Brazil’s big three telcos have joined the GSMA’s Open Gateway API initiative has set hearts fluttering with the promise of service revenue growth. Is this development a meaningful sign for a limp telecommunications sector, or are we getting carried away? Last week, the GSMA proudly announced that Brazilian mobile operators Claro, TIM Brazil and Telefonica’s Vivo have launched three network application programmable interfaces (APIs) focused on digital security. The three apps are Number Verify, SIM Swap and Device Location. The announcement follows the GSMA’s grand reveal of its Open Gateway initiative at MWC Barcelona back in February – a common open framework between operators to make it easier for developers and cloud providers to build apps and services…

For years now, the largest tower operators in the world have been looking for business models to drive their next wave of growth, especially in markets where infrastructure build-out, combined with scaling-up through consolidation, are suffering from laws of diminishing returns. In-building infrastructure, shared small cell RAN, edge compute, fiber and private networks have all been on the agenda, but some of the most active towercos in exploring new markets are now retreating to their core business. This was seen at Cellnex, Europe’s largest pure-play towerco, at the turn of the year, while its major rival, Vantage Towers, has also stopped talking up diversification plans. Now, under pressure from activist investors, the USA’s Crown Castle also seems to be rowing…

In a still-developing story, Nokia has been excluded from a $14 billion Open RAN procurement round from AT&T, with arch-rival Ericsson securing the five-year contract at the expense of Nokia. AT&T has said it plans to use Open RAN to handle 70% of its traffic by 2026, which suggests quite a rapid upgrade cycle. This came after a week where rumors began trickling out that AT&T was considering replacing Nokia as a RAN supplier. Here, the speculation was that AT&T was unhappy with the performance of Nokia’s first generation ReefShark-powered mMIMO units. This was based on undisclosed sources, reported by EJL Wireless (more on that later). Nokia then published a somewhat cryptic comment on AT&T’s plans, before the news had…