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…
Streaming TV provider Sling TV and TV industry veteran TiVo have come together to offer an integrated streaming device. Sling will be the featured live TV streaming service on TiVo’s new TiVo Stream 4K device. TiVo has long since pivoted…
Google Global Mobile Edge Cloud, announced today, targets telecom providers as they deploy 5G networks. Those networks are designed for low latency, but maximizing their potential is likely to depend on edge computing. By moving the cloud toward the network…
Video is dominating mobile Internet use, according to a new Sandvine mobile video report. Video is 60% of downstream traffic and 62% of traffic overall, according to the report, titled Sandvine Mobile Internet Phenomena Report. Sandvine dug into the details…
Amazon’s Ring accounted for four out of every ten video doorbells installed by 1,096 respondents to new Strategy Analytics research. Video doorbells are one of the hottest sub-categories in the broader smart home category, an area seeing strong growth and…
New Google Fiber customers no longer will be able to subscribe to the company’s linear TV service known as Google Fiber TV. As an alternative, Google is offering customers fuboTV, a streaming video service. In addition, customers can opt for…
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