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Breathe London: Vodafone’s IoT to to help monitor London’s air quality

Total Telecom

Vodafone will use its global Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to enhance the efficiency and reach of Breathe London. The programme will provide resources and support to enable hospitals, schools, and local authorities to use air pollution data to take essential action for clean air.

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Telecom Egypt and KareXpert Partner to Launch AI-Powered Digital Healthcare Platform

Telecom Talk

The collaboration integrates artificial intelligence ( AI ) technologies into a unified system designed to enhance hospital efficiency and patient care. The secure local hosting ensures sovereignty over health information, while the cloud infrastructure allows future scalability to incorporate AI and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

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Strengthening America’s Digital Backbone: Why We Need a Cybersecurity Reset

US Telecom

Healthcare System Disruptions: When ransomware locks up a hospital system, patients could lose access to critical care. Transportation and Communication Chaos: Communities could lose trust in 911 access or utility services when foreign adversaries manipulate internet routing systems, causing outages.

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Telecom Industry Launches Coalition to Push Congress on USF Fix

Broadband Breakfast

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2025 – With millions of Americans at risk of losing access to affordable phone and internet service, a coalition of major telecom industry groups has launched a new effort to pressure Congress to act on the Universal Service Fund before it collapses. million students.    Additionally, 7.6

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FBA Survey: Many Smaller ISPs Opt to Own Middle Mile

Broadband Breakfast

The report , released at the association’s annual conference here this week, said 70 percent of the surveyed ISPs owned and operated their own middle mile infrastructure from internet exchange points to their central offices, with the rest leasing capacity from another provider.

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The Timberjay looks at impact of federal broadband changes in NE MN

Blandin on Broadband

It began with efforts to wire up schools and hospitals in the late 1990s and eventually evolved into programs like the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund and BEAD, which emphasized fiber as the preferred long-term solution.

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Ultra-secure quantum messages sent a record distance over a fiber optic network

IEEE ComSoc

Its an impressive, quite beautiful demonstration.Working at these types of distances, Awschalom said, means that quantum information could be sent across entire metropolitan areas or between nearby cities, making it useful for hospitals, banks and other institutions, for which secure communications are paramount.