President Biden outlined the details of his executive order designed to prevent shortages of critical elements like chipsets across industries including telecom.
Judge s ruling in California could clear way for other states to follow suit ahead of expectations that the FCC will pursue new rules that were rolled back during the Trump administration.
It was only a matter of time.
A shortfall in the global supply of chipsets that has been affecting technology industries ranging from automotive to video games has now expanded directly into the telecom industry.
Optical networking company Infinera said the situation could cost it up to $10 million over the next three months.
During the company s earnings call with analysts, Infinera CEO David Heard said the company expects to score between $320 million and $340 million in revenue in its upcoming quarter, but those figures include a $10 million risk due to semiconductor shortages that are not unique to our industry. We are actively working every single day to mitigate that risk, explained CFO Nancy Erba, according to a Seeking Alpha transcript of the event. Teams are working really hard to do that. So we ve got it built into our outlook, and we re doing our best to mitigate it.
Also in today s EMEA regional roundup: French village says non to Starlink ground station; KPN buffs up green credentials; MVNO specialist returns to Three UK.
Telefónica has notched up 600G and 800G transmission speeds on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) photonic meshes in a pilot with Huawei in Madrid. The tests used Huawei OSN 9800 devices over the 47km network. Telefónica intends to begin implementing 400G speeds this year and subsequently tweak its Fusion IP network to meet the need for higher capacity and even faster speeds.
In related news, Telefónica UK (O2) has bagged the Best Network for Coverage gong in the Uswitch Broadband and Mobile awards for the fourth year in a row. O2-owned MVNO Giffgaff also landed Network of the Year in the awards, which are based on a survey of more than 10,000 people.
Solving the digital divide in the US has gained a lot of attention in the past year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced much of the country to work and study from home as a way to contain the spread of the virus. But the pandemic also underscored the need for accurate broadband data maps because, without accurate data, it s nearly impossible to determine where the country lacks competitive services.
The FCC s Technological Advisory Council Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (WGAI) may provide some solutions to this dilemma. A white paper the group submitted in January details how the WGAI believes AI can help the FCC in a number of ways, and included specifics on how AI could help close the digital divide. The group called AI a game changer for the industry and recommended the FCC create a task force on AI and also conduct a request for information (RFI) in this area to determine more specific examples of how AI can be used for broadband mapping.