AI
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ChatGPT developers OpenAI are behind the apparent eight-figure purchase of the chat.com domain. -
Lumen has continued its partnership spree with big-name vendors, striking a deal with Google Cloud to power AIOps and data insight solutions across its network.
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Meta is making its Llama family of AI language models available to US government and defence agencies to power security-related AI applications.
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Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands.
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SK Telecom has unveiled plans to build an “AI infrastructure superhighway” which includes constructing gigawatt-scale data centres across Asia and the Pacific.
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To challenge Google's search dominance, telecom giants like Telefónica, SoftBank, and Deutsche Telekom threw their weight behind Perplexity, the conversational AI search startup. Their bet, however, appears under threat — as OpenAI has entered the arena.
Forthcoming events
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Expand across Asia-Pacific confidently with regional service providers (RSP) who have local ecosystem support and knowledge of the region.
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Sanjay Uppal, VP and GM of the VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud Business Unit, VMware speaks to Capacity about SD-WAN and some of the emerging trends within the market.
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PJ Solomon has appointed Joseph Valenti as managing director to head up the financial advisory firm’s new telecommunications group.
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Equinix’s latest Global Interconnection Index (GXI) predicts private connectivity at the edge will grow by 51% CAGR and exceed a total bandwidth capacity of more than 13,300Tbps, equivalent to 53ZB of data exchanged annually.
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A new agreement between Broadband Forum (BBF) and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is set to ease the path to automated and open virtualised access networks.
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WHO IS TWT? You have always seen TWT’s stand at capacity related to our voice services. This year we are introducing new data services so don’t miss out on meeting our team at booth 97.
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On 6 June 2018, the European Parliament finalised the new telecom regulatory framework of European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) and urged EU member states to update the relevant national laws under the provisions of EECC by 21 December 21 2020.
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At the end of a busy week at ECOC in Dublin, delegates packed into a large room for the opening session of the ON2020 workshop.
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Liberty Latin America (LLA) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AT&T’s wireless and wireline operations in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands for $1.95 billion.
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Juan Carlos Bernal, CCO, Telefonica International Wholesale Services, talks to Jason McGee-Abe, editor-in-chief, Capacity Media, during ITW about Telefonica's digital transformation and some of the current challenges facing the industry.
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Vodafone has initiated the first European trials of Open Radio Access Networks (OpenRAN) in the UK and may extend to more of its markets on the continent.
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UK telecoms provider Onecom has appointed Christian Craggs as its new director of mergers and acquisitions and strategy.
