Vi connects India’s first underwater rail customers

05 April 2024

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has completed its network deployment to provide connectivity across Kolkata’s underwater metro rail service – also India’s first underwater metro rail service.

Customers traveling via the metro service will now be able to experience network connectivity across the entire 16.6km route of the Green Line metro.

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Telecom Egypt taps Tejas Networks for local capacity

26 March 2024

Tejas Networks has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telecom Egypt, NTI (National Telecom Institute) and ITIDA (Information Technology Industry Development Agency) to replicate its experience implementing the BharatNet project in rural India and NKN (National Knowledge Network) projects in Egypt.

Tejas Networks said that other broad areas of cooperation will include building local manufacturing and R&D facilities for Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) products, capacity building of Egyptian engineers and technicians on state-of-the-art telecom and networking technologies, and setting up technical support services in Egypt, both for customers in the country as well as for the broader African and Middle East region.

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Nokia and STL partner on enterprise connectivity

11 March 2024

Nokia has partnered with STL to develop enterprise and government-focused connectivity solutions.

The companies are aiming to serve the emerging enterprise need for data centre and hyperscale solutions. For this purpose, both companies will focus on use cases for multi-service premise edge connectivity, intelligent premises, and predictive operations.

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Smartfren adopts Baicells tech for private networks

05 March 2024

Baicells has signed a partnership agreement with Smartfren Telecom to supply 4G and 5G network solutions for private networks in Indonesia.

Under the partnership, Baicells will deliver turnkey network solutions to Smartfren for digital industrialization, automation, and private wireless offerings it plans to launch this year, starting with a private LTE network serving large heavy mining environments outside of Jakarta.

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