Telecom

IBM said it signed a multi-million-dollar five-year agreement with Vodafone Idea Limited in India for customer services and IT management.

Union Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said there is need to nourish local telecom manufacturing, dubbing it as a ‘must’ for attaining the cherished goal of sensitive data security in the country.

The industrial IoT (IIoT) will be characterised by sites with a high volume of connected devices and sensors – such as processing plants, mining and oil exploration, shipping ports – which require always-on cellular connectivity.

With 5G technology taking centre stage. BSNL has amplified its effort. It has signed 5G agreements with Ericsson, Nokia and Cisco to create use cases for 5G in India.

Limelight’s content delivery technology will be deployed on the Ericsson UDN Edge Cloud Platform to expand its global delivery capabilities and increase delivery capacities.

Basil Partners announced the closing of their third fund, which has been formed through a complex restructuring and secondary acquisition of a portfolio of seasoned digital services companies.

GSMA report predicts that there will be around 200 million 5G mobile connections in the USA and Canada by 2025, representing 49 per cent of the projected total market by that point.

The number of 5G connections globally will reach 1.3 billion by 2025, covering 40 percent of the world’s population or approximately 2.7 billion people.

The three-day show will focus on key themes in the wireless industry, including 5G network build-outs and go-to-market strategies as well as innovations that are advancing the Internet of Things (IoT).

Despite the government amending the license conditions to make internet telephony rules more liberal but, such calls saw a sharp decline of around 20% in Jan-March 2018.