AT&T and T-Mobile are requiring that employees who return to offices are fully vaccinated. T-Mobile is working to get most employees back into the office by the end of this month.
Partly due to rules on EU data sovereignty, Spanish giant will shift mission-critical OSS/BSS apps from Oracle database systems onto private data centers.
The biggest wireless network operators in the US announced in 2019 that they would jointly launch a Rich Communications Services (RCS) messaging app sometime in 2020.
Under the auspices of their new Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI), the companies said in late 2019 they would use vendor Synchronoss Technologies to handle the technological logistics of the effort. And in May 2020, Synchronoss said we continue to believe the RCS-based advanced messaging service will be launched by the CCMI joint venture in 2020.
But it was not to be. While we re not at liberty to speak on behalf of CCMI and no launch date for the service has been formally announced, Synchronoss is continuing to move forward with preparations and look forward to helping bring RCS-based messaging to US subscribers, the company said in response to questions from Light Reading.
Also in today s EMEA regional roundup: Fastweb taps Amdocs for network inventory upgrade; MTN seeks $5 billion valuation of mobile money unit ahead of stake sale; A1 Telekom Austria brings your package inside.
Telecom Italia (TIM) is congratulating itself on completing its fiber rollout in the north-east Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, using a mix of FTTC, FTTH, FWA and satellite technologies. Those households and businesses connected to FTTH will enjoy downlink speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s; up 200 Mbit/s must suffice for those on FTTC. Across the country, says the operator, TIM s fiber network is now available to 92% of those households that use the fixed network. Earlier this month TIM announced the completion of shareholder agreements with KKR Infrastructure and Swisscom-owned Fastweb that, in theory at least, allow FiberCop, Italy s last-mile network grid, to commence operations. (See FiberCop is go after KKR and Fastweb firm up stakes and Italy s TIM seeks co-investors to
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BELLEVUE, Wash. SiriusXM and T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) today announced that T-Mobile wireless customers will get more with exclusive access to a free, first-of-its-kind Pandora streaming experience with unprecedented listener benefits, including ad-free radio weekends, special Top Tracks music stations powered by popular SiriusXM channels, and early access to SiriusXM original podcasts just for being a part of the T-Mobile family.
Beginning Tuesday, March 23, any T-Mobile customer with T-Mobile Tuesdays can get free access to this special enhanced version of Pandora s classic personalized music experience featuring ad-free radio weekends through March 2022. Pandora and T-Mobile have built on our longstanding relationship to create an exciting new way for T-Mobile customers to discover, share, and enjoy the music and podcasts they love most, said Denise Karkos, CMO of SiriusXM, the