By Jonathan Easton Media solutions provider Globecast has announced a partnership with Viaccess-Orca and MainStreaming. The new coalition of vendors will see the creation of a new end-to-end OTT platform, app and associated backend infrastructure. The companies have created an initial demonstration version of the app for live content. Globecast...

By Josephine Akaerr, Special Correspondent How do I give my child the best start in life? It is a question that mothers ask themselves in the first 1,000 days of a baby’s life - an important window of opportunity for good nutrition and healthcare. Goodlife Pharmacy has partnered with THINKMD...

By Oystein Bergmann, Correspondent Scandinavia Nokia, Ericsson, II-VI, Lumentum and Sumitomo Electric have published a joint technical paper making the case for reducing the wide choice of Mobile Optical Pluggables (MOPA) used to connect cell sites to fiber networks. The two telco equipment makers and three optics suppliers behind the...

By Oystein Bergmann, Correspondent Scandinavia Nokia, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and UScellular have announced that they have achieved a world record extended range over mmWave of more than 10km utilizing its 5G extended-range millimeter Wave (mmWave) solution on a commercial network. This milestone paves the way to bring extended range 5G...

By Celestine Okorie, Correspondent South Africa A  leading insurance technology solutions provider for the global insurance market, Beyontec and an application software and services provider in Zimbabwe, Ethics Consultancy (ECB) have  announced a strategic partnership. This partnership will bring together Beyontec’s end-to-end insurance technology solutions and ECB’s in-depth knowledge and...

By Stuart Thomson Wireless technologies specialist Plume has struck two new partnerships that grow its presence in the German-speaking region. Deutsch Glasfaser, a fibre-optic service provider focusing on rural Germany, will launch a new bundle of digital subscriber offerings to its residential broadband customers. Plume has also entered into a...

By Jonathan Easton Swiss cable operator sasag Cable Communication has announced a multi-year partnership with TV-as-a-service platform Zattoo. The partnership will see Zattoo relaunch sasag’s five year-old IPTV service with its white label TV platform. The Zattoo platform promises to deliver sasag with greater interactivity and personalisation and a consistent...

India’s top telcos Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea (Vi) along with the likes of Tata Teleservices are focussing on the medium and small-scale enterprises (MSME) as these businesses get digitised and become better revenue options than the larger established corporates with fixed network service providers. India’s top telcos Reliance...

Satellite-based narrow-band IoT (NB-IoT) solution company Skylo Tuesday said it has partnered with Inmarsat to use its satellite capacity backbone to deliver IoT solutions for machines and sensors. The solution will be delivered in India through the state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), while further expansion plans will be...

By Francois Giudice, Correspondent France With nearly €500 million(US$609.54million) of consumer credit expected to be generated in France in 2021, Orange Bank is extending and marketing  its personal loan and assigned credit offers to new customers. By choosing to work with Younited, a Next 40 fintech, Orange Bank is joining...