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M&ABids expected for Telxius subsea cables
Telefónica debt reduction strategy set to extend to submarine infrastructure as buyers are sought for 100,000km cable network. Reports indicate that an agreement is wanted by mid-2021, with rough valuations standing around the €2bn mark.
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Network & InfraT-Mobile Netherlands bulks up on fibre via new KKR venture
Dutch NatCo builds on Primevest investments as first anchor tenant of Open Dutch Fiber. New fibre venture taps former CEO and CCO of Vodafone Germany partner Deutsche Glasfaser. Move raises further questions over Group plans for its Dutch business.
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B2BBT Enterprise eyes 2023 for 5G lift-off
Spencer says better performing 5G standalone networks needed to kick-start market. Operator inexperience in provisioning spectrum for private networks another brake on enterprise adoption. University Hospitals Birmingham and Belfast Harbour again hailed as BT’s main B2B 5G success stories.
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PremiumTelefónica joins talks on EU’s €10bn cloud project
Brussels seeks industry support and investment for federated cloud plan. New alliance to focus on edge computing and industrial data spaces. Telefónica among telcos expected to play a role. Project to work with GAIA-X, avoiding duplication.
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PremiumSpain ties up 3.5GHz loose ends
Telefónica, Orange each acquire 10MHz concession for €21m reserve price. After elongated allocation process stretching over five years, Telefónica ends up with 100MHz of 5G-friendly 3.5GHz spectrum, second only to Orange (110MHz). Timelines fuzzy for auction of 700MHz and 26GHz frequencies, two other bands long identified by Madrid as ...
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PremiumTelefónica España plans 400Gbps IP Fusión upgrade
Pilots with Huawei and Nokia reveal optical transport capacity potential. 400Gbps rollout to start this year in Spain. Huawei technology achieves 600Gbps and 800Gbps in optical mesh tests.
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PremiumO2 UK secures more 5G spectrum
Ofcom raises a total of £1.4bn in principal auction stage — several hundred million pounds less than expectations. Regulator has now opened the first phase of negotiation period that should enable operators to build contiguous blocks in the 3.4GHz–3.8GHz band. Lower spend on licences (so far) should provide an ...
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PremiumHeadline data: COVID covered
COVID-19 impacts figures but massively outweighed by Sprint deal and tempered in Europe by NatCo resilience. Group juggernaut rolls on as all key forecasts comfortably surpassed. Höttges goes NSFW to stress DT’s outsized strength versus atrophying European rivals.
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PremiumVi keeps tight rein on spectrum spending
As expected, Indian JV is by far the lowest spender in India’s recent multi-band spectrum auction. All three operators shun 5G-friendly 700MHz spectrum because of high reserve price.
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PremiumVodafone UK secures mid-band 5G spectrum
OpCo decides against buying low-band airwaves as it intends to refarm 900MHz for 5G. Total amount raised is below expectations, indicating lack of appetite among operators for bidding war.
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Suppliers & SCMVodafone Romania picks ADVA, Edgecore for DCSG
OpCo completes “open IP routing” trial across seven sites. CTO hails pilot a “smooth introduction” to disaggregated networks.
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Network & InfraVodafone launches Ireland’s first private 5G network
State-funded research group ties with VfIr to explore potential of emerging technologies on behalf of Irish manufacturing sector. Like other Vodafone deployments, 5G install uses hardware from Ericsson.
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PremiumColao proposes 1Gbps for all Italians by 2026
Minister for Innovation and Digital Transition Vittorio Colao outlines his ambitions for Italy’s economic recovery. Rapid roll out of gigabit broadband is essential to the plan. But the stalled national broadband network plan must be resolved soon.
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Products & ServicesVodafone Germany builds up smart-home portfolio
German OpCo launches Building Connectivity 4.0 for central smart home management. UPLIFT startups tapped for periphery IoT products. Sustainability credentials touted again.
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Network & InfraSafaricom partners Huawei, Nokia for 5G trials
Kenyan operator becomes the first East African telco to launch commercial 5G services in a limited rollout. Huawei and Nokia named technology partners, with local communications authority giving full backing to the China vendor’s security credentials.
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Suppliers & SCMEricsson joins team on Safaricom’s backhaul refresh
Deal sees Safaricom expanding focus on E-band microwave for bandwidth boost. Ericsson joins Aviat Networks in declaring participation in Safaricom’s 5G-era network programme.
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PremiumDT eyes new tower markets amid domestic hurdles
TowerCo downgrades site-rollout target in Germany. Jacobfeuerborn, Illek hint at domestic M&A, expansion abroad. Group prowl for investor partners through DIV fund set up in collaboration with Cellnex. Deutsche Telekom wraps up Austrian tower spinout, adding another building-block added to multi-layered platform Group is building in European tower space. ...
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PremiumQ4 FY20: New Telekom CEO wants to muscle-up on fibre
Gopalan gets top-level billing in Q4 session as leadership shows confidence in new CEO to up DT’s domestic game. Group resets fibre mega-project goals. Apparently more sustainable FTTH plan puts ultrafast as central plank of future go-to-market strategy. New entity GlasfaserPlus emerges within Gopalan toolset. First signs emerge of ...
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PremiumTDE moves into next phase of 5G journey with SA call
Telekom Deutschland conducts 5G SA video call between antenna-site near Munich to Bonn. Recorded latency times of 13ms. Nemat views the tech as essential if network slicing and edge computing are to realise full 5G potential.
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PremiumSievert, Ray gloat after C-Band auction
Execs claim AT&T and Verizon still playing 5G catch-up after “spending tens of billions of dollars they didn’t have”. NatCo’s Virtual Analyst Day emphasises much higher deployment costs facing rivals if aiming for “meaningful nationwide coverage” with newly-acquired 3.7GHz assets. Ray estimates TMUS’s cost per 5G GB could be ...