Verizon Business announced the expansion of its BlueJeans Partner Program to customers in Latin America with new partners and expanded coverage across Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. This helps broaden the availability of the BlueJeans video collaboration and interactive livestreaming platform through the channel. 

HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC Group) has appointed Anthony Yeung as Vice President – Corporate Business. He will lead the Group’s local ICT corporate business team, including development and implementation of business strategies to further spearhead and facilitate the growth of the business, leveraging HGC’s comprehensive digital infrastructure and solutions portfolio. In his new and elevated role, Anthony and his team will further empower the ICT business and take advantage of the Group’s digital capabilities to expand the market share and cater to the customers’ emerging needs for sophisticated and bespoke solutions in the fiercely competitive digital era.

NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, communications, networking, and biometric solutions, announced Chris Jackson as its new President and CEO, effective in April 2023. He will also continue to hold his position as President and CEO of NEC Europe.

The future of telematics is here, whether in driving your personal vehicle or managing a whole fleet. Exciting areas of telematics innovation now include intelligence data, performance benchmarking and urban analytics for smart cities.

Render Networks (Render) and Irby Utilities announced Bolivar Energy Authority (BEA) leveraged a combined construction and operations solution to move rapidly from deployment to connecting its first customers in just ten weeks. BEA utilized Render's geospatial construction technology and Irby Utilities’ project management and material logistics services to expedite the construction and deployment of the West Tennessee fiber network serving 11,300 rural locations.

MEF, a global industry association of network, cloud, and technology providers accelerating enterprise digital transformation, announced its first annual Global Network-as-a-Service Event (GNE), designed to showcase the latest developments and roadmaps for secure network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings for enterprises and businesses.

A recent survey shows Americans are more unhappy with the customer service they're getting than ever.

Evocative has hired Derek Garnier as Chief Executive Officer. Garnier is a digital infrastructure strategist and operator with more than 35 years of experience. Derek has strong Board support and succeeds the old CEO at an opportune moment.

Frontier Communications Holdings, LLC (the “Issuer”), a consolidated subsidiary of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (NASDAQ: FYBR) (“Frontier” or the “Company”), announced the pricing of its previously announced private offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of first lien secured notes due 2031 (the “Notes”). The Notes will bear interest at 8.625% per year and will be sold at a price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount. The Notes offering is expected to close on March 8, 2023, subject to customary conditions.

Fifty years after the invention of the mobile phone, digital transformation is creating new opportunities for the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry to continue to contribute to social and economic development around the world. Integration and collaboration are the key, according to Yang Jie, Chairman of China Mobile.