Vodafone NZ has announced plans to upgrade its mobile network to support NB-IoT, a recently standardised variant of cellular technology designed to enable mobile networks to support IoT applications.
Standards for the next generation of cellular technology that will support multigigabit bandwidths are yet to be finalised and commercial deployments in Australian networks are unlikely before 2021, but Ericsson has announced upgrades to 4G networks that will enable network operators to offer some 5G features from 2017.
A report benchmarking the mobile networks in Australia has given high ratings to the country's three telco network operators with Telstra once again rated the best performer.
Telstra managed yesterday to hit speeds of up to 590 megabits per second using LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation on its network, the telco's group managing director for networks, Mike Wright, said today.
Pertino - a 3-year-old California startup -- rolled out AppScape, a portal to access apps that run on that network, including a location-monitoring application and another one that tracks usage of a customer's devices on the networks.
Telecom New Zealand, which has been in the process of transforming selected public phone boxes into Wi-Fi hotspots, will have 700 of them live by October 7, with 2000 hotspots expected to be live by mid 2014.
The combination of highly virtualised environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations of existing networks, and driving the need for a new era of dynamic and scalable networks of the future, IDC researchers said in a panel discussion at Interop this week.
Juniper Networks this week unveiled software-defined networking products for service providers, designed to enable them to more quickly scale capacity and provision services.
Building strong mobile networks and identifying alternative sources of energy are just some of the lessons Japanese authorities have learned in the wake of the deadly tsunami on March 11 this year.
Telstra's plan to significantly upgrade its wireless internet services is clearly intended to maintain its mobile network advantage over its rivals, according to industry analyst, Ovum.
Australia’s major telcos today said they were unperturbed by the launch of mobile provider Amaysim, despite the telco offering lower prices and local customer service.
Optus has begun delivering real-time traffic conditions information using live data collected from the Optus mobile network.