Industry news

Cisco, a tech company has signed a contract to acquire IMImobile, a cloud based communications software for $721 million in a move to help firms keep track of their users and interact with them.

The CEO of Cisco, Chuck Robbins is hoping to revamp the company to become more centred around networking software and service providers. 

The deal with IMImobile is aimed to help them use AI software in order to automate the outreach process more efficiently. For example, providing their customers with a generic way to communicate with people in which they prefer, so either video calls, texts, social media...

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Telco company Three is continuing to roll out their 5G network with the launch of its first Ecrisson 5G sites.

Three first launched their 5G network in Central London in 2019 after they partnered with Ecrisson. Now customers in Manchester, Glasgow and Reading can also access their 5G network.

This has enabled Three to provide 5G to customers in over 154 towns and cities. 

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Amazon have announced that they will be bringing their company, AWS cloud to Apple’s new M1 Mac mini. 

AWS is Amazon Web services, a cloud based infrastructure. This move will allow developers to build across Apple goods whilst using Amazon cloud.

Amazon is using their experience in logistics to boost their cloud offering for the next generation of factories.

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Salesforce, a cloud computing software company are planning to acquire Slack, an app facilitating chat for $27.7bn in order to compete with Microsoft.

In 2016, Microsoft was going to acquire Slack for $8bn, however, they acquired LinkedIn instead.

This move by Salesforce comes as demand for digital services to enable working from home in the pandemic has increased massively.

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Telco company, Orange is planning to roll-out commercial 5G to 15 municipalities in France from the 3rd of December.

Stéphane Richard, Chairman and CEO of the Orange Group said “the deployment will be done gradually and in a constructive dialogue with all local authorities, in parallel with our efforts to expand coverage of the French territory in 4G,” said Stéphane Richard, Orange Group chairman and CEO.

Orange plans to switch their existing 4G to 5G by the end of the year. They hope that this will give France more power for competition in things like AI.

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The UK Government are banning telecom providers from installing Huawei Technology 5G equipment from September 2021.

This comes as many countries enforce regulations on Huawei due to spying and data privacy concerns.

A 5G supply chain diversification strategy has been published to ensure that the UK aren’t dependant on a couple of telecom providers.

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The UK Government is investing more than £3 million into “The Engineering Hub” which will allow UK companies to use 5G and satellite technology.

The engineer hub will be a centre for researchers and businesses to look at the benefits of 5G and satellite technology. The hub will also develop software that allows satellite networks.

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French authorities have warned US tech firms like Amazon that they will have to pay the new digital service tax.

Many mark this as the end of the commitment between Washington and Paris which was formed in January to extend the period for meetings regarding tax.

The US trade department are supposedly now implementing tariffs of up to 25% on French goods. 

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Vodafone UK has partnered with IoT.nxt to offer consumers everything IoT solutions has to offer and to remove barriers between IoT and business adoption. 

Vodafone will provide IoT sensors, devices and create a data management platform. The aim is to consolidate multiple processes into one platform to increase business adoption. 

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SK Telecom, a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator has announced that they have developed a cloud network system with Samsung that will deliver better 5G services to consumers. 

This cloud core network system will be the first in the industry to meet all the regulations and perform with 5G.

SK Telecom and Samsung only signed a contract earlier this year in order to provide 5G solutions and 6G development.

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