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Big five UK ISPs test social housing broadband scheme

Partnerships & Alliances

O2, Telekom go ‘live’ with grey spots cooperation

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Power outages see mobile networks falter in South Africa

Strategy & Change

BT Sourced prepping for range of ‘disruptive scenarios’

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NGMN Industry Conference and Exhibition 2022

NEC flags open RAN “caution” among brownfield operators

2022-09-21T14:38:00+01:00

Senior exec blames open RAN timidity on “delayed validation”.

DT “walks the talk” on supply chain emissions

2022-09-16T15:54:00+01:00

NGMN IC&E 2022: sustainability requirements introduced for largest suppliers in June.

NGMN conference puzzles over 6G

2022-09-16T09:00:00+01:00

Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks at TU Dresden believes talk of cellular generations is for “dinosaurs”.

MOWEA kicks off deployment in Germany

2022-09-14T16:11:00+01:00

NGMN IC&E 2022: Vodafone partner to start installing micro wind turbines on German towers in September.

DT weighs in on disaggregation pain points

2022-09-13T16:20:00+01:00

NGMN IC&E 2022: integration, operating model, and skills seen as top challenges.

BT’s Howard Watson: ‘we have work to do’ on disaggregation

2022-09-12T10:37:00+01:00

CTO flags interoperability, integration, and security issues at NGMN IC&E 2022.

Featured Premium Insight: Q1 FY22-23

BT Q1 FY22–23: ‘Green shoots’ emerging from B2B rubble but investors take fright

Positive headline numbers do little to mask atrophy at Enterprise and Global. City investors badly spooked before and after, despite arguably positive tone and maintained forward guidance.

Vodafone Q1 FY22–23: overall resilience masks in-country patchwork and continuing M&A hiatus

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BTwatch

Network & Infrastructure

Don’t bank on the big two for buyouts, Brit altnets warned

As UK Infrastructure Bank highlights challenge of financing fibre rollout at pace, a report from Communication Chambers warns altnets to consider consolidation plans carefully.

BT forms new unit to monetise UK’s ‘best mobile dataset’

BT taps Orange exec to lead life sciences unit

Microsoft veteran to bring AI expertise to BT board

BT and Atos aim to unblock Digital Vision

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New _VOIS premises for the “Bride of the Mediterranean”

New space to provide 1,000 new jobs.

Vodacom edges closer to Vodafone Egypt buyout

Dimitrova in, O’Leary out for Vodacom directorate

Truphone switches CEO amid takeover probe

SpaceX supports launch of SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3

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