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Ericsson autorisé en tant que fournisseur 5G en Roumanie

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Azercosmos et Signalhorn vont stimuler les télécommunications par satellite en bande C sur l’Afrique

L’opérateur de satellites Azercosmos et l’installation de téléportation et de centre de données Signalhorn ont conclu un accord de partenariat pour fournir ce qui est décrit comme des services par satellite ininterrompus, sécurisés et de haute qualité dans toute l’Afrique via la capacité de la bande C sur le satellite Azerspace-1.

En utilisant la technologie du fournisseur de solutions de technologie et de communication par satellite ST Engineering iDirect, Azercosmos et Signalhorn affirment qu’ils seront en mesure de contribuer à une connectivité de pointe et efficace via le téléport de Signalhorn Leuk, ce qui se traduira par un haut degré de flexibilité et d’agilité opérationnelles.

Signalhorn indique que son installation de Leuk en Suisse a une visibilité sur des dizaines de satellites de 55W à 70E avec une protection en bande C contre les interférences 5G par les régulateurs suisses des télécommunications ainsi qu’une protection naturelle supplémentaire sur toutes les bandes de fréquences en raison de la topographie locale.

Grâce à ce partenariat, Azercosmos et Signalhorn affirment qu’ils fourniront une connectivité Internet de haute qualité et offriront ainsi plus d’opportunités pour l’aide humanitaire ainsi que de plus grandes options de connectivité à travers l’Afrique.

Commentant le partenariat, Mark Guthrie, Directeur commercial chez Azercosmos, a déclaré “  » Notre collaboration avec Signalhorn renforce notre présence dans la région africaine et apportera une plus grande connectivité à cette région avec des solutions avancées, fiables et flexibles.”

Les récentes annonces d’Azercosmos concernant le marché africain incluent le partenariat de novembre dernier avec la société de communications mobiles par satellite Kymeta et InterSAT, un fournisseur de services VSAT en Afrique, pour fournir des services de communications mobiles par satellite sur tout le continent.

Le même mois, un accord a été annoncé avec l’opérateur malaisien Measat Satellite Systems, en vertu duquel Azercosmos utilisera toute la capacité en bande C d’Azerspace-1/AFRICASAT-1a pour fournir des services par satellite dans toute la région africaine.

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Western Union et Zain Cash apportent des transferts d’argent transfrontaliers vers la Jordanie

Zain Jordan a annoncé le lancement des services de transfert d’argent numérique Western Union via le portefeuille mobile Zain Cash.

Il y a plus de 250 000 utilisateurs de Zain Cash en Jordanie, et l’intégration de Western Union leur permettra d’envoyer jusqu’à 10 000 JOD (14 000 USD) de leurs portefeuilles d’argent mobile vers des comptes bancaires ou des portefeuilles mobiles dans plus de 130 pays et territoires. Dans 100 d’entre eux, les destinataires recevront les transferts d’argent en temps réel.

Les clients peuvent approvisionner leurs portefeuilles à partir de leurs comptes bancaires en Jordanie ou par recharge en espèces dans le réseau de points de vente de Zain à travers le Royaume. L’argent peut être transféré vers des agences Western Union dans le monde entier, et dans les mois à venir, les utilisateurs du portefeuille mobile Zain Cash pourront également recevoir des transferts d’argent du monde entier.

Jean Claude Farah, Président de la région EMEA/APAC de Western Union, a déclaré “  » Le soutien et les efforts considérables de la Banque centrale de Jordanie ont accéléré l’évolution de l’argent mobile, permettant au pays de surmonter les obstacles traditionnels au développement et d’accélérer la croissance économique.”

Selon la Banque mondiale, la Jordanie figurait parmi les principaux pays destinataires des envois de fonds au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord en 2021. Les envois de fonds représentaient environ 8% du PIB du pays. Les envois de fonds sortants s’élevaient à environ 575 millions de dollars américains en 2019.

Sultan Kashoura, Directeur général de Zain Cash Jordan, a déclaré: “Les envois de fonds sont essentiels au développement de l’économie, des entreprises et des personnes, et grâce à cette collaboration avec Western Union, nous offrons à nos clients la fiabilité et la commodité des transferts d’argent fluides. Notre objectif collectif sera, bien sûr, de conduire la transformation numérique et d’adapter ensemble nos plans futurs pour fournir des services financiers numériques personnalisés aux clients.”

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Pourquoi la résilience du réseau deviendra plus importante que vous ne le pensez cette année

Ce point de vue de l’industrie a été rédigé par Jay Cadman, SVP Enterprise, IQGeo

Au fil du temps, le très haut débit est passé d’un luxe à un service essentiel pour le bien-être social et la prospérité économique. La pandémie a créé un besoin accru pour ce niveau de connectivité à mesure que la main-d’œuvre se dispersait et que les discussions entourant la « sixième génération » de haut débit les réseaux cellulaires augmentant, il est clair qu’il continuera d’être une priorité clé pour la société. … [visitez le site pour en savoir plus]

UK govt announces new Open RAN guidelines

The government’s commitment to Open RAN has been growing steadily in recent years. The technology first appeared to come to their attention while the government was mulling whether to designate China’s Huawei a ‘high risk’ vendor and order its removal from UK networks back in early 2020. At the time, Prime Minister Boris Johnson notably called upon the telecoms industry to “tell us what the alternative is” and, since then, it appears that the answer has increasingly been ‘Open RAN&’…

The government’s commitment to Open RAN has been growing steadily in recent years. The technology first appeared to come to their attention while the government was mulling whether to designate China’s Huawei a ‘high risk’ vendor and order its removal from UK networks back in early 2020. At the time, Prime Minister Boris Johnson notably called upon the telecoms industry to “tell us what the alternative is” and, since then, it appears that the answer has increasingly been ‘Open RAN’.

By the end of 2020, the government had announced its 5G Diversification Strategy, aiming to expanding the UK’s telecoms equipment supply chain by removing barriers for entry while keeping security as a top priority. The initiative was backed by an initial £250 million investment. 

Just a year later, in December 2021, the government went on to announce a joint ambition with the nation’s operators, aiming to carry 35% of mobile traffic over Open RAN architecture by the end of 2030.

Now, it seems that the government is taking an even more proactive role in the country’s Open RAN development, announcing a new set of Open RAN principles that they hope will guide the technology’s evolution and deployment to “work in the interests of British citizens and business”.

“With so much momentum behind Open RAN, now is the right time to set these principles so industry and governments can take a common approach to developing and deploying this technology, so it delivers on its promise to disrupt the market and spark a wave of innovation and competition in telecoms,” said Minister for Digital Infrastructure Julia Lopez.

The document outlines four key principles for Open RAN’s development: 

1. Open disaggregation, allowing elements of the RAN to be sourced from different suppliers and implemented in new ways.

2. Standards-based compliance, allowing all suppliers to test solutions against standards in an open, neutral environment.

3. Demonstrated interoperability, ensuring disaggregated elements work together as a fully functional system — at a minimum matching the performance and security of current solutions.

4. Implementation neutrality, allowing suppliers to innovate and differentiate on the features and performance of their products.

The document also advises network operators and vendors to avoid fragmentation of specifications; prioritise optimisation of the requirements and priorities of mobile operators; create an open, transparent and inclusive approach, compliant with World Trade Organisation rules, to allow greater access to Open RAN technology once developed; create neutral testing environments for the technology; and ensure that the market remains transparent, particularly with respect to accessing relevant essential intellectual property.

Security, naturally, remains a major priority of expanding the ecosystem through a greater adoption of Open RAN technology. 

“Open RAN promises to make our networks more resilient and futureproof, but this market change must be managed carefully to deliver on that promise whilst maintaining security and performance levels. These Principles set a clear direction of travel for the industry to build secure and resilient networks for 5G and beyond,” said Ian Levy, Technical Director at the National Cyber Security Centre.

Despite the increasing support from the UK government, deployments of Open RAN technology in live networks are still few and far between, with most operators still conducting tests to ensure the technology’s interoperability. Vodafone is perhaps the leading proponent of the technology in the UK, having activated a small number of 4G Open RAN sites in 2021, as well as turning on the UK’s first 5G Open RAN site earlier this year. 
 

What role will Open RAN play in reshaping the UK’s telecoms industry? Find out from the operators at this year’s live Connected Britain event 

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Airtel launches 5G connected ambulance

Today, Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced it has collaborated with Apollo Hospitals and Cisco to demonstrate the potential of 5G-connected ambulances to support patient care during transit to medical facilities.
 
The 5G Connected Ambulance demonstration, which took place in Bengaluru, was specially built including various patient monitoring applications, medical equipment and other devices, aimed at relaying vital patient information back to the hospital in real-time over 5G. 
 
The set up also includes various onboard cameras and wearable cameras for the paramedics…

Today, Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced it has collaborated with Apollo Hospitals and Cisco to demonstrate the potential of 5G-connected ambulances to support patient care during transit to medical facilities.

The 5G Connected Ambulance demonstration, which took place in Bengaluru, was specially built including various patient monitoring applications, medical equipment and other devices, aimed at relaying vital patient information back to the hospital in real-time over 5G. 

The set up also includes various onboard cameras and wearable cameras for the paramedics.

This will allow doctors back at the hospital to make remote diagnostic decisions and direct the paramedics to perform emergency procedures if required. It will also allow the hospital staff to be better prepared to for the patient’s arrival at the medical facility.

According to Airtel, in the years to come virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications will ultimately allow doctors to virtually guide the paramedics in delivering care.

Beyond transmitting patient data directly, Airtel suggests that the 5G network will also allow for more optimised callouts; the low latency connectivity will allow for more accurate geolocation for ambulances in the field, therefore allowing the nearest ambulance to respond to emergencies.

« Apollo Hospitals have been evangelists of connected ambulances and using these to reduce mortality and utilize the Golden Hour to the benefit of patients. The criticality of the ‘Golden hour’ is well known. It can mean the difference between life and death for seriously ill or trauma patients in an emergency,” explained Dr Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director at Apollo Hospitals Group. “The Golden hour is impacted by the facilities in an ambulance and the distance from the Hospital. Studies show that an increased journey distance to the Hospital is associated with an increased risk of mortality, with a 10-km increase in straight-line distance associated with around a 1% absolute increase in mortality. Studies also indicate that pre-hospital time management should become a management objective. These insights propelled us to collaborate with Airtel on the 5G connected ambulance project and use 5G in order to utilise the disruption-free, lag-free connectivity it provides.”

This is not the first time that we have seen connected ambulances touted as a major use case for 5G. The UK, for example, BT first demonstrated a remote diagnostic procedure using a 5G connected ambulance all the way back in 2019, and since then we have seen similar projects rolled out in numerous markets. However, it should be noted that many of these applications, excluding VR and AR, do not necessarily need 5G to be effective and would function adequately over LTE.

It is also worth remembering that India has yet to officially auction 5G spectrum, having seen numerous delays to the process caused by both the coronavirus pandemic and disagreements over pricing between the government and operators. This week, India’s telecommunications minister announced that the 5G auction process would go ahead in June, despite ongoing disputes. 

This ambulance trial, along with numerous others being carried out by the Indian operators, is being done using temporary licences granted by the government last year. 

Given the delay in rolling out 5G infrastructure across the country, it will be a long time before 5G coverage is ubiquitous enough to make 5G-connected ambulances a mainstay of Indian healthcare. Nonetheless, this is an important trial in showcasing the ways in which 5G can potentially improve patient care and provides much-needed exposure to the benefits of the technology to the sprawling Indian healthcare system, which often relies on largely outdated communications technologies.


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Lucid Drone Technologies partners T-Mobile to enable cleaning drones

T-Mobile has announced that Lucid Drone Technologies has chosen the Un-carrier to be the exclusive provider of IoT connectivity and management for their fleet of industrial spraying drones. Together, Lucid Drone Technologies and T-Mobile are collaborating to put maintenance teams and exterior cleaning companies out of harm’s way using drone technology for high-risk facilities maintenance work like exterior soft-wash cleaning and high-rise window washing. The companies also plan to leverage T-Mobile’s industry-leading 5G network in the future to fly drones beyond line…

T-Mobile has announced that Lucid Drone Technologies has chosen the Un-carrier to be the exclusive provider of IoT connectivity and management for their fleet of industrial spraying drones. Together, Lucid Drone Technologies and T-Mobile are collaborating to put maintenance teams and exterior cleaning companies out of harm’s way using drone technology for high-risk facilities maintenance work like exterior soft-wash cleaning and high-rise window washing. The companies also plan to leverage T-Mobile’s industry-leading 5G network in the future to fly drones beyond line-of-sight and power more data-intensive capabilities like video streaming.
 

A game changer for safety of maintenance teams

Commercial property management firms and developers make significant investments to keep maintenance teams safe. Expensive liability insurance premiums and equipment fees have facilities leaders looking for new and cost-effective solutions. Enter industrial spraying drone pioneer Lucid Drone Technologies and the Un-carrier to deliver a game changer — drones equipped to clean exterior building surfaces and windows.

The next generation of Lucid Drone Technologies industrial spraying drones, powered by T-Mobile for Business, can perform exterior washing for commercial building surfaces and windows, including outdoor stadiums and arenas, hotels, and university structures. That means maintenance teams can steer clear of some high-risk tasks, keeping them safer and focused on other mission critical work.
 

IoT driving the future of industrial spraying drone technology

T-Mobile’s network powers critical capabilities for Lucid Drone Technologies industrial spraying drones such as real-time sharing of flight data, battery utilization information, hardware diagnostics, and delivery of firmware and software updates. Additionally, T-Mobile Control Center will give Lucid Drone Technologies the ability to view and manage the connectivity of their industrial spraying drones. With the automation and provisioning capabilities of T-Mobile’s IoT platform, Lucid Drone Technologies can easily accelerate deployment of their growing fleet. Lucid Drone Technologies will have near real-time visibility to all their industrial spraying drones with the ability to monitor network conditions and device behavior with T-Mobile Control Center.

Initially, T-Mobile for Business will deliver 4G LTE connectivity to Lucid Drone Technologies industrial spraying drones, providing a reliable connection nationwide. Lucid Drone Technologies expects to utilize the Un-carrier’s 5G network in the near future for advanced use cases such as network operations center access, live streaming video and remote piloting. As Americas largest and fastest 5G network, T-Mobile is poised to push IoT to its full potential and catapult adoption — paving the way for new drone applications that rely on low-latency, high-speed data, and real-time location and proximity-based services.

« At Lucid Drone Technologies, we are committed to providing robotic solutions that allow our customers to complete jobs that were once dull, dirty, and dangerous in a safer, faster, and smarter way,” said Andrew Ashur, CEO, Lucid Drone Technologies. “T-Mobile not only allows us to provide our customers with the highest quality of real-time support and connectivity today, but they also have impressive 5G capabilities that allow us to push the frontier limits of responsible robotics. »

“Lucid Drone Technologies is a great example of a customer using originality and new technology to solve complicated problems,” said Callie Field, President, T-Mobile Business Group. “It’s not very often that you get to collaborate with these kinds of thinkers, and we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to offer our technology to help bring their vision to life.”
 

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