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Internet-from-space service Starlink will see its speeds double this year, says SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Its average speed will reach approximately 300 megabits per second, with its latency dropping to around 20 milliseconds "later this year," he said in a Twitter exchange. Ultimately, says the company, speeds will hit 10 gigabits per second. Full speed ahead: SpaceX Falcon 9 take off carrying Starlink satellite payload – according to a Tweet from Elon Musk, Starlink speeds are doubling. The sat...

Google announced another partnership – this time with Intel – to bolster its Anthos for Telecom product launched last year. Telecom "is a pretty big area of investment for us," explained Shailesh Shukla, VP and general manager for Google Clouds networking effort. And despite its mammoth size, Google doesnt think it can tackle the industry alone. "We are bringing together an entire ecosystem," Shukla added. Shukla explained that there are three main elements to Googles new partnership with Int...

Optiva, a leader in providing communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide with cloud-native revenue management software on the private and public cloud, is pleased to announce the appointment of Matthew Halligan as Chief Technology Officer.

Political candidates in America, prevented by coronavirus from knocking on doors, texted instead. And political traffic contributed $22.7 million to the revenue of SMS cloud platform Twilio. New York City said in late May it was using Twilio to power its contact tracing initiative. Lots of businesses were contributors, too. Using its Twilio Flex programmable platform, the company built a coronavirus contact center so that patients and their known contacts could be called, messaged and emaile...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 2/17/2021 SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) today announced the release of Prisma Access 2.0 to securely enable work-from-anywhere with the industrys most complete cloud-delivered security platform. As work continues to change and needs to be done securely everywhere, with no compromise on speed, security or performance, Prisma Access 2.0 introduces critical enhancements, including self-healing inf...

All smiles? Despite cracking results, RingCentrals investors still werent happy. The US-based company, which launched its own jauntily named, Zoom-like video service called Glip in December last year, has just revealed its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020, a period described as "outstanding" by Vlad Shmunis, RingCentrals founder, chairman and CEO. Its tough out there Nevertheless, as noted by Barrons, despite the good results RingCentral was gently punished by the market for no...

Sinch said it will purchase Inteliquent, which provides voice communications in the US, for around $1.14 billion.

Also included in our late afternoon summary of news and comment: stats from the Super Bowl of Wi-Fi and DellOro projects growth for the CBRS RAN market.

Nearly 61% of organizations are currently using or piloting hybrid clouds, according to a new report by NTT.

However, there are a number of caveats to the agreement. First, the companies announced only a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for Ligado to use the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). Specifically, the companies agreed to "collaborate to create a blueprint for Ligados 5G mobile private network solution." They added that they will "commence efforts in Q1 2021 with ecosystem partners and vendors to establish a timeline for the implementation of network trials and blueprint for solutions." E...