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Alaska Airlines chooses T-Mobile US as preferred wireless provider
“ As two Pacific Northwest-based companies , innovation is in our DNA ,” said Alaska CEO Ben Minicucci . “ We are excited to partner with T-Mobile to create a more seamless travel experience using T-Mobile ’ s next generation mobile solutions . The sky is the limit on what we will be able to create together for Alaska ’ s guests and employees .”
Alaska Airlines has chosen T-Mobile as its preferred wireless provider .
Under the new agreement , Alaska Airlines ( Alaska ) will go all-in on T-Mobile by migrating the majority of its mobility business – including data and voice lines to the Un-Carrier .
Alaska will leverage T-Mobile ’ s nationwide 5G network to enhance the travel experience for millions of customers who fly Alaska every year .
With air travel starting to return to normal , Alaska is looking to take advantage of the high-bandwidth , low latency capabilities of 5G to optimize every aspect of the customer experience – from ticketing to check-in , on-time departures and arrivals and baggage tracking .
“ Alaska is a lot like T-Mobile in some really important ways . Besides both being based in Seattle , Alaska and T-Mobile have a long history of challenging conventional thinking in our industries and pioneering new ways to use technological innovation to put customers first ,” said Mike Sievert , CEO of T-Mobile .
“ T-Mobile has always fixed customer pain points in the wireless industry , and it ’ s inspiring to help translate that to other industries with likeminded partners like Alaska .”
Gartner predicts 30 % of critical infrastructure organizations will experience breach by 2025
By 2025 , 30 % of critical infrastructure organizations will experience a security breach that will result in the halting of an operations system or mission-critical cyber-physical system , according to Gartner .
Critical infrastructure security has become a primary concern for governments around the world , with the US , UK , EU , Canada and Australia each identifying sectors deemed ‘ critical infrastructure ’, for example , communications , transport , energy , water , healthcare and public facilities .
In some countries , critical infrastructure is state-owned , while in others , like the US , private industry owns and operates a much larger portion of it .
“ Governments in many countries are now realizing their national critical infrastructure has been an undeclared battlefield for decades ,” said Ruggero Contu , Research Director at Gartner . “ They are now making moves to mandate more security controls for the systems that underpin these assets .”
A Gartner survey showed that 38 % of respondents expected to increase spending on Operational Technology ( OT ) security by between 5 % and 10 % in 2021 , with another 8 % of respondents predicting an increase of above 10 %.
However , this may not be enough to counter underinvestment in this area over many years , according to Gartner .
“ Besides the need to catch up , there is a growing number of increasingly sophisticated threats ,” Contu said . “ Owners and operators of critical infrastructure are also struggling to prepare for the coming increased oversight .”
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