Vancouver-based Helios Wire is ploughing $4 million in additional funding to go towards the launch of two specialist satellites for Internet of Things connectivity. “The funds from this round of financing will be put toward the launch of our first satellite this Christmas, as well as the two other satellites scheduled to be launched during […]

In the first half 2017, the Kudelski Group, a provider of media content protection and value-added service technology, grew consolidated revenues by 12.7 per cent reaching $545.7 million, while delivering $6.7 million operating profit, a decline of $27.3 million compared to the first half 2016. The structural change of the markets in which the Group is […]

Vodafone has committed to launching consumer IoT this autumn, with the solution being trialled by the Group’s CEO Vittorio Colao as its Q1 results were revealed. The operator first promised a consumer IoT play last November. Vodafone will be relying on the experience of its enterprise IoT solution, which registered a 15.1 per cent year-on-year […]

Ericsson will no longer search for business beyond the telecoms sector and will refocus on selling networks to mobile phone companies in a move to cut costs and halt a dramatic fall in its share price. Its shares have fallen 30 per cent in two years. In 2014 Ericsson announced it would diversify so that […]

Nokia says new IP technology launches are designed to prepare businesses and operators for a complete rethink of how their internet infrastructure is set up. It unveiled three pieces that aim to keep networks up to speed amid what it predicts will be a more than doubling of IP traffic – to 330 exabytes a […]

Viavi Solutions has released an updated version of Gigabit Monitor, the company’s visual database referencing current and planned gigabit deployments around the world. Analysis of deployments reveals that 219 million people globally now have gigabit internet available to them, equating to roughly 3 per cent of the global population. There are currently 603 gigabit internet […]

The potential of the IoT market has been overblown and will account for just seven percent of global IT spend in 2025, new research has forecast. Strategy Analytics said claims that the IoT had become mainstream were wide of the mark and that the market had “a credibility problem”. The IoT accounted for 3.8 percent […]