BROWSING: Thales

SK Telecom said the innovation consists in upgrading the cryptography used to anonymize the user digital identity on the 5G network SK Telecom (SKT), the largest mobile operator in Korea, and Thales have partnered to test advanced quantum-resistant cryptography, or Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). Based on...

Arcep said it has awarded a total of 81 trial licenses since March 2022 French regulator Arcep said it will extend an ongoing trial platform in the 3.8 – 4.0 GHz band for manufacturers and market players wanting to experiment and test new 5G use...

Market research firm Kaleido Intelligence has reviewed a bunch of cellular IoT providers for the supply of connectivity management platforms (CMP), eSIM connectivity, and eSIM subscription management – and ranked Vodafone, Eseye, G+D, and Thales as the best in the business. Vodafone was rated...

Bit late, but important to report: US-headquartered IoT module maker Telit Cinterion announced at the start of the month (July 3) that it has agreed to sell its cellular IoT automotive business to German IoT and IT electronics manufacturer Kontron for €24.5 million. The...

Cellular IoT module shipments rose by 14 percent in the 12 months to the end of 2022, with China leading the way for regional shipment volumes India leading the way for regional shipment growth, NB-IoT leading the way for low-power IoT volumes, LTE CAT1.bis...

Samsung Electronics has announced its first ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset, the Exynos Connect U100, for use in mobile, automotive, and IoT devices. The new hardware solution offers precise distance measurements, down to “single-digit centimetres”, reckons the South Korean firm. It has introduced the U100 as...

IoT chipset hardware firm Sequans has worked with digital security outfit Thales to release a new integrated SIM (iSIM) solution, with support for the latest GSMA SGP.31/.32 eSIM IoT specifications, on Sequans’s dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT Monarch 2 chip. The new version of the...

In July 2022, Telit and Thales agreed that the latter will take a 25% stake in the expanded Telit business   IoT module maker Telit announced the conclusion of its acquisition of the cellular IoT unit of French aerospace, defense and security company Thales, the former...

French aerospace and security company Thales is working with Belgium-based carrier services company BICS to simplify embedded SIM (eSIM) usage in the IoT market, the pair have said. Basically, Thales has engineered a new eSIM activation solution for IoT devices, and notably IoT devices...

Italian-American IoT module maker Telit has followed up its deal for the cellular IoT division of French firm Thales with the purchase of California-based custom IoT solutions startup Mobilogix for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition has closed already, said Telit. Mobilogix will make Telit...

The IoT hardware market has, suddenly, shrunk – in order to expand, and to rebalance the western power-play. So say market watchers, reacting to the twin acquisitions this week by US-based chipmaker and Semtech, which has confirmed a deal to splurge $1.2 billion on...

There were two high profile pieces of M&A news in the IoT hardware space in the last week. First up, on Friday 29th July, Telit and Thales announced that they were combining the assets of Telit with those of Thales’ IoT hardware business into...

Italian-American IoT module maker Telit is to acquire the cellular IoT unit of French aerospace, defence, and security company Thales in return for a quarter-share of its expanded industrial IoT business. Thales will take a 25 percent stake in the expanded Telit business, headquartered...

Global revenues from cellular IoT modules increased by 58 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with the year-ago period, with more than 40 percent of the total revenue in the period in China. 5G-based IoT modules contributed to nearly a quarter of...

Hitachi Rail purchasing Thales' Ground Transportation Systems business for approximately $2 billion Japanese industrial heavyweight Hitachi Rail has entered into exclusive negotiations with French multinational Thales Group to purchase the former's Ground Transportation Systems business unit with an initial enterprise valuation just less than $2...

Global cellular IoT module shipments increased by 14% in 2020, reaching 303 million, according to a recent Berg Insight report. Even though the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt by the industry, the result represents a new record level of shipments. In 2019,...

Électricité de France (EDF) has appointed Thales and Ericsson to design and supply private industrial-grade LTE networks at all of its nuclear energy sites in France. The company has 56 nuclear power reactors in the country, and the stated schedule is to connect “two-to-four”...

The FiRa Consortium, the organisation looking to build the IoT market around the burgeoning ultra wideband (UWB) technology, is taking on new members at a decent rate. Germany-based wireless test company Rohde & Schwarz is the latest to sign up, as an associate member....

Qualcomm has confirmed the releases of a new single-mode LTE-based Cat NB2 chipset for cellular narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) communications, which offers world-beating power efficiency, according to the San Diego firm. NB2 is standardized in the 3GPP Release 14 as an enhanced version of NB-IoT, and...

Every time I take a flight, I cringe over how bad the Wi-Fi experience will be. Years ago, I got excited when airlines started to offer Wi-Fi connectivity for the flying public. However, after using the service, I quickly learned it was too slow...

Most people in Britain would support regulated usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for critical services and industrial enterprises, according to a report by Vodafone. Eighty per cent of the British public would support their adoption if better safety, security and monitoring measures...

Keysight acquires Thales Calibration Services Keysight Technologies has purchased Melbourne-based Thales Calibration Services and says the buy means that Keysight is now the largest calibration and support services organization in Australia. Keysight said that the Thales commercial calibration facility  is "the largest commercial non-electronic metrology lab...

Ericsson, Ciena, IBM, Thales and CGI involved in 5G project ENCQOR, Evolution of Networked Services through a Corridor in Québec and Ontario for Research and Innovation, is the public-private partnership focused on 5G technology and use case development backed to the tune of $400 million...

Thales outbids Atos for Gemalto French aerospace specialist Thales outbid Atos for Dutch cybersecurity provider Gemalto. The company has agreed to purchase Gemalto for $5.6 billion, surpassing Atos’s bid valued at $5.06 billion. Gemalto is considered the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards and credit cards....