Communications Infrastructure
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Ukrtelecom, Ukraine's incumbent telco, reports that as of this morning, 75% of its regional hubs remain operational and that its national carrier network is still working -
Ericsson has not commented so far about last night’s publication of allegations about its activities in Iraq
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Telcos support Ukraine as Russian operators face blocks
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OneWeb staff are waiting in Baikonur in Kazakhstan this week with their Arianespace colleagues wondering whether their fourteenth launch will take place.
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Veon CEO Kaan Terzioğlu said this morning it would be “irresponsible” to provide guidance on the effect of Russia’s attack on Ukraine on the company’s performance
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Orange chooses 5G SA network partners in Europe
Forthcoming events
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European telcos plan to invest £16 million in tech and service development over the next three years.
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Africa have increased by 300% this year when compared to 2019 and, according to the firm behind the numbers, the trend "shows no sign of slowing down".
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US satellite company Viasat is to buy its UK-based rival Inmarsat for US$7.3 billion, the companies announced this morning.
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Vodafone has announced a partnership agreement with Telekom Srbija, covering Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina, all parts of the former Yugoslavia that are now independent countries.
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Orca Computing has won £9 million in funding from the UK government to develop what it calls the quantum data centre of the future.
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BT has today announced the opening of a robotics research facility at the BT Labs in Suffolk.
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Freshwave, a UK network service provider, has appointed Tom Bennett as its new chief technology officer (CTO).
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Brazil’s government may reschedule a new 5G spectrum auction to sell batches that did not attract interest according to the country’s communications minister Fabio Faria.
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To keep up with exploding demand for bandwidth, broadband operators are spending significant amounts of money on their networks. Of course, they want to see a healthy return on that investment, but with traffic growing many times faster than revenues, that can be a challenge. How do you close the gap? Where do you invest to increase revenues or reduce cost
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A former Google employee who led staff protests about alleged sexual assaults is to join the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as its artificial intelligence (AI) expert.
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Savills has launched its EMEA data centre advisory team, headed by former Digital Realty exec Scott Newcombe.
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Kao Data and Scan Business have established a dedicated HPC and AI ecosystem for advanced computing users who utilise NVIDIA’s latest generation hardware.
