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Telecom sector enabling 35% of India’s GDP in...
As the telecom players ensured their networks were up and running to meet the unprecedented surge in demand during lockdown times, the sector is currently enabling 30-35 per cent of the GDP in the COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing...
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Alibaba to invest $28bn in cloud amid Covid-19...
Alibaba Group has announced of one of the single largest expansion projects in the history of cloud with plans to invest 200 billion yuan (US$28.29 billion at the time of publishing) in cloud infrastructure amid rising usage of services...
Enterprise IT
Qatars telecom, utilities sectors remain immune to COVID-19...
Utilities and telecom are the least affected sectors in Qatar in the COVID-19 pandemic impact. Consumer and health sectors were barely affected, according to KPMG.
KPMG, in its report 'COVID-19: Valuations in the current environment named energy, financials and industrials...
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Frances Covid-19 Contact Tracing Strategy In The Hands...
France’s contact tracing strategy to combat the spread of Covid-19 has been thrown into question after the country admitted the impact of an under-development app could be limited due to privacy protections implemented by Google and Apple.
The country is...
Cloud
Globe Telecom pays US$4 million to boost cloud...
Globe Telecom has agreed to pay US$4 million to “acquire substantially” all of the assets of US-based Cloud Consulting Companies, Cascadeo Corporation and Cascadeo Partners as part of its strategy to supplement telecoms operations with a suite of cloud-native...
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Irish telecoms providers commit to new Covid-19 measures
Irish telecoms providers have agreed to engage with customers who are struggling to pay their bills to help keep people connected.
Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton, TD, announced that Ireland’s major telecoms providers have committed...
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Ericsson and U.S. Cellular increase mobile broadband capacity...
U.S. Cellular with Ericsson support, began boosting mobile broadband capacity to customers in parts of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, New Hampshire, Maine and North Carolina, due to increased demand for data usage during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’ve seen an increase in...
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