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Byline: AnimationXpress Team Sony has reportedly entered into final negotiations with AT&T to acquire the US-based anime streaming service Crunchyroll in a deal more than 100 billion yen ($957 million). [...]

In September, General Motors (GM) 'crossed a new milestone as the first automaker with more than 1 million subscribers to its Wi-Fi-enabled data services,' provided by AT&T (T), GM announced. [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Back in August, the US State Department expanded what it calls the ‘Clean Network’ initiative, a far-reaching network security strategy that would see Chinese companies [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Ubiquity Management, LP, which invests in critical communications infrastructure throughout the United States, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Millennium Telcom, LLC [...]

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is eyeing the smart electricity meter market and plans to leverage its Jio business to offer meter data collection, communication cards, telecom and cloud hosting services [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Aria Systems, the provider of helping enterprises grow subscription and usage-based revenue, has announced that the company has joined the ServiceNow Partner Industry Solution Program, [...]

Warner Bros. studio, part of AT&T, is postponing the release of its Wonder Woman sequel, 'Wonder Woman 1984,' to a date later in the year and scrapping plans to open [...]

The company states: 'AT&T plans to launch an advertising-based version of HBO Max and continues to look for opportunities to leverage the platform to identify both new content distribution opportunities [...]

Hi and welcome to the Insider Advertising, weekly edition, where we break down the big recent stories in media and advertising. Reminder: Sept. 11 is the nomination deadline for our [...]

AT&T (T) is exploring the potential sale of its digital advertising operations, The Wall Street Journal's Drew FitzGerald and Patience Haggin report, citing people familiar with the matter. AT&T acquired [...]

Telecom Italia (TIAOF) has begun the separation of its landline network, taking the first step toward realizing Italy Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's plan to establish a single network company in [...]

Barclays analyst Maurice Patrick upgraded BT Group to Equal Weight from Underweight with a price target of 130 GBp, up from 115 GBp. The analyst says the company's plans to [...]

Byline: posted by Indigo Telecom Group Fuelled by the accelerated global deployment of next-generation networks, Indigo Telecom Group is planning a new phase of growth through further acquisition and workforce [...]

Verizon (VZ) has successfully tested an 800 Gbit/s connection across 400 miles of its ultra-long-haul fiber route between Dallas and Atlanta using ICE6 equipment from Infinera (INFN), Light Reading's Mike [...]

Verizon (VZ) and IBM (IBM) are entering into a collaboration to work together on 5G and edge computing innovation. The companies plan to collaborate on solutions combining Verizon's 5G and [...]

Verizon, which said it 'remains committed to ensuring customers stay connected now and moving forward,' announced plans to continue to help low-income consumers through Verizon's low-income Fios Internet program. 'New [...]

Byline: Firoz Khan India may advise local telecom operators to shun equipment made by ChinaÇÖs Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., people with knowledge of the matter said, as relations [...]

India is shooting through the roof with COVID cases, and the situation is becoming worse every day. The India-China border clash is expected to play havoc with the telecom industry. [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Like every industry around the world, the telecoms industry has had to pivot rapidly to face the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. A near universal [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Singtel has today announced its role in a consortium of Asian telcos set to build a new APAC submarine cable. The Asia Direct Cable is planned [...]

Byline: CT Bureau Whereas TRAI is biding their time till after the lockdown opens, and NITI Aayog reversed its stance after recommending that a floor price is not needed, CCI [...]

Byline: Sharon Fisher A North Idaho telecommunications company is expanding into Washington with a purchase of another telecommunications company. Intermax Networks, based in Coeur d'Alene, is buying Tel-West Business Communications, [...]

Byline: CT Bureau When our engineering team helped found the open source Airship Community in May of 2018, the goal was to deliver an Open Infrastructure Project that would enable [...]

Byline: Ben Munson AT&T's Audience Network has been scheduled for demolition since earlier this year and now the company says both the linear and streaming channel will shut down on [...]

Byline: Total Telecom Staff Belgian telecom operator Proximus launched its 5G telecoms services today, the first operator to do so in the country, while also announcing plans to cut its [...]

Byline: Editor Team Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom has selected Ericsson and Nokia as 5G RAN vendors. It plans to launch commercial 5G service in July based on the non-standalone (NSA) [...]

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company made several key announcements regarding its proactive plans to limit the exposure of COVID-19 for all of Shentel's key stakeholders and to temporarily increase broadband internet data [...]

Sophie Jackman and Nour Al Ali of Bloomberg wrote earlier that the Japanese Olympic organizing committee, plans to bring up a proposal in March to postpone the 2020 Tokyo games [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) and Deutsche Telekom have announced the companies are collaborating on an open and intelligent virtual RAN (vRAN) platform, based on O-RAN standards, [...]

Byline: CT Bureau AT&T confirmed plans to continue to expand its 5G device lineup with the addition of the LG V60 ThinQ 5G in the coming weeks. 'AT&T is building [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Since the weekend, a whole host of companies dropping out of MWC over fears of the coronavirus.  Perhaps the headline cancelation is Tier One operator NTT [...]

Byline: CT Bureau FCC Chairman Ajit Pai earlier today announced a bold plan to hold an auction for 280 Megahertz of 'C-band' spectrum before the end of the year. The [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Increased competition and uncertainty has slowed the growth of some of Europe’s largest telecoms companies. Nonetheless, at an Orange Europe event in London yesterday, a [...]

Byline: CT Bureau Verizon CEO, Hans Vestberg, asserted that climate risk is business risk, as he reaffirmed Verizon's commitment to taking steps toward its goal to be carbon neutral in [...]

Byline: CT Bureau SK Telecom announced that it has successfully accomplished the world's first standalone (SA) 5G data session on its multi-vendor commercial 5G network. With this major breakthrough in [...]

Byline: CT Bureau KT Corporation, Korea's largest telecommunications company, and the Samsung Medical Center (SMC) announced last week that they have jointly developed an innovative, 5G-powered medical service as an [...]

Byline: Editor Team * BSNL will provide the requisite space and power connections for installing the battery swapping infrastructure * EVIT would install charging infrastructure at 5,000 locations of BSNL [...]

Byline: Special to the RBJ Nearly two years ago, T-Mobile and Sprint announced plans to join forces and bring more competition to the wireless industry. Two federal agencies and dozens [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Ofcom announced today they are planning to ban mobile firms selling ‘locked’ phones. The decision follows reforms introduced in July that mandated the removal of [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Samsung Electronics announced on Friday that it will be supplying Videotron with dual-band radio and massive MIMO stations that support LTE connectivity in the first [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom India's third largest mobile network operator, Bharti Airtel, has announced plans to raise over $3 billion, as it looks to begin making payment of outstanding [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2019 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Sojitz Corporation, NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), NEC Corporation and NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation (NESIC) jointly have announced a plan to upgrade communications [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly Mobile subscribers in India could be about to see their monthly tariffs skyrocket as all three of the country’s mobile network operators revealed plans to increase their [...]

Byline: Editor Team * Wipro plans to expand its 5G labs throughout 2020 globally * It will build an optimized operations model, using hyper automation through Wipro Holmestm AI and [...]

Element 1 Corp reported that CO-WIN Hydrogen Power Company Limited (COWIN) has incorporated e1's methanol-based hydrogen generation technology into a fuel cell system providing backup power to a 5G China [...]

AT&T management said that its HBO Max streaming service that will launch in May 2020 is anticipated to reach 75M-90M subscribers worldwide by 2025, with roughly 50M subscribers coming from [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has confirmed that it will hold an auction for low and mid band 5G spectrum in the spring of 2020.The [...]