SES pencils in early-2030s for enterprise quantum comms rollout
Subsea cables: Vodafone heads ‘off beaten track’ as hyperscalers muscle in on mainstream
T-Mobile says joint OpenAI platform now live, ‘paying dividends’
New T-Mobile CEO wants to guzzle more gains
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