Virgin Media O2 announced a multi-year partnership with Starlink Direct to Cell, marking the first initiative of its kind in the UK aimed at extending mobile coverage to rural areas and improving customer connectivity. Through the collaboration, Virgin Media O2…
AI threats outpace security expertise
Vanta released its third annual State of Trust Report, an in-depth analysis uncovering trends in AI, security, compliance, and trust from a survey of 3,500 IT and business leaders across the US, UK, France, Germany, and Australia. Today, 69% of…
Skydweller Aero & Nokia Federal Solutions awarded U.S. Navy contract
Skydweller Aero, in partnership with Nokia Federal Solutions Inc., has been awarded a U.S. Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to demonstrate an airborne 5G communication hub capable of delivering secure, resilient networks in contested environments. The initiative, officially…
Bellrock hires Mark Evans to lead engineering services sales drive
Facilities management firm Bellrock has appointed industry veteran Mark Evans as Director of Sales, Engineering Services, as the company looks to accelerate growth across its technical and engineering divisions. Evans, who has more than two decades of experience in the…
MikroElektronika launches LoRa-based connectivity board for industrial IoT applications
MikroElektronika, the Serbian embedded solutions manufacturer, has launched a new low-power wireless connectivity module aimed at accelerating the development of Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) applications. The new LR 16 Click board, released in October, is based…
Zscaler launches new tools to speed fault detection and cut downtime
Zscaler, the US-listed Cloud security group, has unveiled a suite of upgrades to its Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) platform, designed to help enterprises detect and fix network and application issues more quickly, in a move aimed at reducing costly digital…
NVIDIA and Nokia forge $1 billion AI-RAN partnership
NVIDIA and Nokia announce a strategic partnership to integrate NVIDIA-powered, commercial-grade AI-RAN products into Nokia’s RAN portfolio, paving the way for communication service providers to deploy AI-native 5G-Advanced and 6G networks on NVIDIA platforms. As part of the agreement, NVIDIA…
eSIM only: a structural shift operators can’t ignore
Apple’s iPhone 17 launch in September 2025 cements the shift to eSIM-only connectivity, writes Jeevithan Muttu, Vice President, Product & R&D at Motive. With the eSIM-exclusive iPhone Air and global expansion, physical SIMs are becoming obsolete. Apple’s RCS entitlement requirements…
Nordic Semiconductor unveils first open-source Android app for Bluetooth Channel Sounding
Nordic Semiconductor has become the first company to bring Bluetooth Channel Sounding to an open-source Android app, marking a significant step in the rollout of the new Bluetooth LE feature that enables highly accurate distance measurements between devices. The Norwegian…
Anritsu unveils Cloud-based network testing tool for AWS environments
Japanese communications testing specialist Anritsu has unveiled a new software-based network measurement system designed to assess the quality of communication in Cloud and virtualised environments. The Virtual Network Master for AWS (MX109030PC) operates within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and enables…
