Rogers and Microsoft partner for Azure Programmable Connectivity 5G developer platform

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Rogers and Microsoft have joined forces to announce an exclusive Canadian partnership for the private preview of Azure Programmable Connectivity. This new solution is for developers to build 5G network-aware applications.

Through this platform and partnership, select developers specializing in business and enterprise applications will gain secure access to location-based API on Rogers' national 5G network. Rogers and Microsoft want to create apps that can offer business solutions for purposes like improving the supply chain in the manufacturing and retail sectors. 

Rogers worked with Waterloo-based fleet and asset tracking company CloudHawk to develop this API that will give developers unique secure, scalable, real-time capabilities to build applications that will help transform industries.

This partnership builds on Rogers' ongoing work to foster a made-in-Canada 5G ecosystem, including 5G research partnerships with the University of British Columbia and the University of Waterloo. Rogers boasts that this partnership is supported by Canada’s largest 5G wireless network, which now reaches over 1,900 communities.

Developers interested in the platform can apply for the Azure Programmable Connectivity private preview here. 

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