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TECHNOLOGY UPDATES SAMENA TRENDS

as small as a bird. The satellite IoT system boats can helps users locate fishermen and Industrial Research Organization,
can be deployed to augment existing IoT and ensure that specific areas are not Microsoft and several universities is
solutions, Tisserant reports. For example, being overfished. The sensor units can employing satellites to protect indigenous
one company that is already using LoRa include a GPS device or use the satellite's lands from destruction by grazing
technology to track containers could own localization with the Doppler effect. animals. Herds of feral cattle and buffalo
choose to add the satellite-based data The latter option, he notes, is lower are causing damage in parts of Australia
when those containers were out to sea. in energy and thus requires a smaller that have great significance to indigenous
The technology is also being used by battery and less frequent recharging. A peoples, both culturally and otherwise. The
governments that are tracking industrial program led by Kinéis, the North Australian animals, in some cases, are rubbing away
fishing boats to save protected sea life. Indigenous Land and Sea Management rock art, trampling important waterways
The data collected by Kinéis's units on Alliance, the Commonwealth Scientific and damaging sacred ceremonial areas.

APT and Nokia Launch Live 5G Service Over Shared Wireless Network

Finnish vendor Nokia has announced that
its 5G Core is serving Asia Pacific Telecom
(APT’s) live 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) and
VoLTE service, using the Multi-Operator
Core Networks (MOCN) capability to share
the 5G RAN. In a press release regarding
the development, the vendor claimed that
– supported by Nokia Cloud Packet Core,
Registers, Signaling, Policy, Charging,
cloud infrastructure, NetGuard security
and NetAct network management – APT
‘can now launch their 5G new services
at ease’. According to Nokia, the 3GPP
standard complied Nokia Core network
software provides APT smooth integration
with the shared radio network and unlocks
full MOCN capabilities. Meanwhile, the full Huang, said of the matter: ‘We are pleased and VoLTE connection, new services, and
cloud-based solution will reportedly pave to work with our long-term strategic premium 5G experience to our subscribers
the way towards zero-touch automation partner Nokia on launching 5G services by across the island, powered by Nokia’s Core
capabilities that drive greater scale and utilizing their 5G NSA Core this year. With and software solutions.’
reliability. APT’s president, Nan-Ren this rollout, we are now serving reliable 5G

Gigabit Speeds Now Available to Almost 87% of All Premises, Nkom Reports

The National Communications Authority With regards to uptake, the Nkom reported up from 54,000 a year earlier. Meanwhile,
(Nkom) has revealed a notable increase that the number of residential fixed and as part of its bi-annual publication of
in the number of homes and businesses fixed-wireless broadband subscriptions communications data, the Nkom also
which have access to gigabit speeds. increased to 2.226 million at the end of issued an update on the availability of
According to the regulator, at mid-2021 June 2021, up from 2.178 million a year 5G, noting that as of mid-2021 outdoor
86.5% of the country’s premises were able earlier, with the lion’s share of those – 1.396 5G population coverage stood at 23.3%,
to sign up for a fixed broadband service million, up from 1.242 million – connecting up from 5.4% a year earlier, while indoor
offering downlink speeds of 1Gbps, up via fiber-based technologies. Cable-based 5G coverage stood at 11.3% at mid-2021
from 52.9% a year earlier. At the lower end broadband subscriptions fell marginally, to (with no comparable figure for mid-2020).
of the scale, meanwhile, 98.3% of homes 557,000 (June 2020: 585,000), while xDSL- There was, though, a notable difference in
and businesses could access downlink based subscriptions continued to decline, accessibility between densely populated
speeds of 30Mbps, broadly unchanged accounting for just 6% of the total (134,000) areas and other parts of the country, with
from 98.2% at mid-2020, while the at mid-2021, down from around 12% a outdoor coverage in the former standing at
percentage of premises with access to year earlier. By comparison fixed-wireless 27.8% at mid-2021, compared to just 4.6%
speeds of 100Mbps stood at 90.4% at 30 broadband subscriptions saw a notable for the latter.
June 2021, up from 88.6% a year earlier. uptick, reaching 104,000 at 30 June 2021,
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