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Samsung announced on Tuesday that it had pushed a total of 8.5Gbps to a pair of mobile phones under lab conditions. The test used 800MHz of millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum and carrier aggregations with MU-MIMO (multi-user multiple-input multiple-output) to deliver approximately 4.3Gbps to each of the devices. Samsung said the test showed mmWave was capable […] More
Like many large, well-established companies, Verizon at the start of this year had a business continuity and disaster recovery (BD/CR) plan in place that could see it through just about any kind of calamity. “Our company’s been around for quite a long time, so we’ve seen the SARS epidemic, H1N1, MERS, we were around for […] More
Cisco announced Tuesday that it’s launching a $2.5 billion financial relief program to help its customers and partners mitigate the economic challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new financial program — offered through Cisco Capital, the vendor financing business within Cisco — features a 90-day payment holiday that allows customers to defer 95% of […] More
With Teams video usage exploding across the world because of the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown, Microsoft has decided to accelerate the rollout of some much-needed features to help remote workers and schools hold better video calls. Microsoft has responded to calls from Microsoft Teams users who want to see more than just four participants on the […] More
Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet It shouldn’t be surprising that some people eventually read so many conspiracy theories on social media that they decide to attack, possibly over 20 times, what they see as a great intrusion and potential killing machine — the machine in question goes by the name of 5G. The crackpot theory that mobile […] More
Microsoft has revealed it took five hours to acknowledge lengthy disruptions affecting European customers in late March because the task of informing customers relied on a US-based incident manager, who was asleep at the time. Working from home: The future of business is remote From Fortune 500 enterprises to very small businesses, most every organization […] More
The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network across Australia has been testing the propagation of waves using spectrum in the 26GHz and 28GHz bands across distances of around 10 kilometres. “Our studies, and those of our technology partners provide high levels of confidence that the long-range use would allow NBN to have significant […] More
Image: Chorus New Zealand broadband wholesaler Chorus has said it now has 105,000 users on 1Gbps connections, which it will wholesale for NZ$60 per month. During its third quarter, the company added 18,000 extra 1Gbps plans, and said the new total represents 15% of its fibre connections. Across all fibre connections, it added 32,000 customers […] More
