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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Rack Centre, the data centre colocation provider in West Africa, has completed the doubling of power capacity at its Lagos, Nigeria campus to 1.5MW.
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A planning application has been submitted for a €1.2 billion Ireland data centre campus in Ennis, County Clare, which promises to create 1,200 construction jobs and 250 data centre jobs.
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The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has announced that Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC has been issued with a final licence. However, over half of the winning consortium's financing could be in doubt due to US sanctions.
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Macquarie Telecom's wholesale data centre business has claimed its largest investment to date as it builds a facility that will house its Sovereign Cyber Security Centre of Excellence.
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Construction project management firm HanmiGlobal is now partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to promote South Korea as the next big data centre hub for Asia, as political uncertainty continues in Hong Kong and building restrictions threaten to curtail growth in Singapore.
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IBM is acquiring Madrid-headquartered Bluetab Solutions Group to extend its portfolio of data and hybrid cloud consulting services across Europe and Latin America.
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Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure have announced an agreement to establish a 50/50 joint venture focused on the development, ownership and operation of “institutional quality” data centres in India.
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Fidelity, which owns Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), has entered into a joint venture agreement with Mitsui & Co to build hyperscale data centres in Japan.
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Any US operator with up to 10 million customers that bought Huawei or ZTE kit before the end of June 2020 is eligible for compensation to replace it.
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Italy’s TIM is to use a community-owned wholesale wireless provider, Eolo, to improve its rural broadband coverage.
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With nominations for the Global Carrier Awards now open, chairman of the judging panel, Carl Roberts, is sharing his tips for those who wish to enter.
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Telstra has appointed Noah Drake as vice president of the customer solutions group for the Americas region.
