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Verizon partners with Airtel to launch BlueJeans in India

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Bharti Airtel announced on Tuesday it has partnered with Verizon* to launch BlueJeans video-conferencing service in India to serve business customers in the world’s second largest internet market. The video conferencing service, branded as Airtel BlueJeans in India, offers “enterprise-grade security” (which includes encrypted calls, ability to lock and password protect a meeting and generate […] Continue reading Verizon partners with Airtel to launch BlueJeans in India→

Verizon wraps up BlueJeans acquisition lickety split

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When Verizon (which owns this publication) announced it was buying video conferencing company BlueJeans for around $500 million last month, you probably thought it was going take awhile to bake, but the companies announced today that they has closed the deal. While it’s crystal clear that video conferencing is a hot item during the pandemic, […] Continue reading Verizon wraps up BlueJeans acquisition lickety split→

Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend

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It would be easy to assume that Verizon’s purchase last week of video-conferencing tool BlueJeans was an opportunistic move to capitalize on the sudden shift to remote work, but the ball began rolling last June and has implications far beyond current work-from-home requirements. The video-chat darling of the moment is Zoom, but BlueJeans is considered […] Continue reading Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend→