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5G Fixed Wireless Rides Pandemic-Related Shift

ABI Research expects global 5G fixed wireless access to exceed 58 million residential households by 2026, while Mobile Experts predicts 66.5 million customers by that same year. Read more.

Netskope SASE Adds Cloud Firewall, Native Isolation Tech

Fresh off its $7.5 billion valuation, the cybersecurity unicorn built a cloud-delivered firewall and integrated recent acquisitions for new remote browser isolation and SaaS security posture management. Read more.

US Operators Increase First-Half 2021 Capex by 7.2% to $38.5B

"The big three operators that account for nearly 70% of total U.S. capex — AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile — spent just over $26 billion, up 61% from the first half of 2020,” GlobalData's John Byrne wrote. Read more.

CSO Urges Companies to Think Like Cybercriminals

“We see a lot of weak credentials and unpatched systems. It's the combination of those things that really drive susceptibility,” Black Kite CSO Bob Maley said. Read more.

Intel Chips Power Latest AWS EC2 Instances

The move comes a year after AWS rolled out its first round of sixth-generation EC2 instances, which were powered by AWS-designed Graviton2 processors. Read more.