Montreal and Sunnyvale — July 15, 2021 — Bell Canada and Google Cloud today announced a strategic partnership to power Bell’s company-wide digital transformation, enhance its network and IT infrastructure, and enable a more sustainable future. This new, multi-year partnership will…
AT&T said today that it will use Google Cloud services to support two key AT&T edge computing offerings. These include AT&T Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) with Google Cloud and AT&T Network Edge (ANE) with Google Cloud. The announcement is the…
Google said that it is working with AT&T to make Messages by Google the default messaging app for all U.S. customers using Android operating system-based devices. The goal of the move, according to a Google blog post, is to accelerate…
Google Cloud and SpaceX are partnering to deliver data, cloud services and applications to customers at the edge of the network. The new capabilities are expected to be available in the second half of this year. The announcement comes only…
A dispute between Roku and Google over placement of the YouTube TV app on the Roku platform is the latest reminder that legacy content skirmishes from the linear TV world are still present in the new streaming world. According to…
T-Mobile and Google have announced a big deal involving video, messaging, storage, smartphones, 5G and more. Perhaps the biggest news is Google’s YouTube TV streaming service will become T-Mobile’s premium TV offering, with streaming service Philo offered as its new…
Citing the inability to drive costs low enough to create a “long-term, sustainable business,” Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth announced the end of the project in a blog post late last week. Project Loon, which was spun out of Google’s Alphabet…
OCTOBER 08, 2020 — LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Windstream Enterprise (WE), a managed communications services provider, has added new Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa voice command features to its industry-leading SD-WAN solution, enabling network administrators to work more efficiently. WE…
A redacted FCC document reveals a request for a massive and secretive Google 6 GHz Wi-Fi testing program. Google cites the “highly sensitive and confidential” nature of this program that aims to leverage unlicensed wireless spectrum that the FCC has…
Verizon and Google are piloting artificial intelligence-based contact center technology that potentially could ease customer interactions with the carrier. Google Cloud Contact Center Artificial Intelligence uses natural language recognition, faster processing and real-time access to customer insights and product information…
Google Fiber is coming to Iowa, thanks to the city of West Des Moines. It’s a tad surprising, given Google Fiber’s fairly low key nature in the past few years. West Des Moines has approved a measure to build an…
BELLEVUE, Wash. — May 26, 2020 — T-Mobile is typing… Five years ago, Un-carrier customers were the first in the U.S. to enjoy enhanced texting capabilities with Rich Communications Services (RCS), so they could share high-res pics and videos, see when someone’s…
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