Companies
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Orange has partnered with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune their open source AI models to support regional languages in Africa, including Wolof and Pulaar. -
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MasOrange, Telefónica, and Vodafone Group have teamed up with the i2CAT research centre to launch a multi-operator Open Gateway API lab in Europe.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is working with GoTo to launch an open source language model designed for local Indonesian languages.
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Engineers at Vodafone are working with AMD to design mobile base stations capable of supporting AI workloads in addition to traditional network operations while using less power.
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Dell has expanded its AI for Telecom offerings, bringing new hardware support and a variety of new use case-focused solutions designed to help operators augment their edge operations using AI.
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Bharti Airtel (Airtel) is partnering with Bridgepointe Technologies (Bridgepointe), a tech advisory firm, to enable US enterprises expand into India and Africa to using Airtel’s digital infrastructure solution.
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Virtus Data Centres (Virtus) has announced plans to expand into continental Europe with the construction of its first data centre campus in Berlin.
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center3 and Meta confirm the landing of the 2Africa subsea cable at two of the planned four landing points in Saudi Arabia: Jeddah, and Yanbu.
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EdgePoint Infrastructure (EdgePoint), via its subsidiary, EdgePoint Towers (EdgePoint Philippines) is partnering with Globe Telecom on bolstering in-country connectivity.
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Rogers Communications has partnered with Lynk Global to test and deliver satellite-to-phone connectivity across Canada.
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wingu.africa (Wingu) has signed several new strategic customer partnerships, facilitated by the addition of colocation whitespace across all its facilities.
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LiquidStack, a provider of liquid immersion cooling for data centres, has received an investment from Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator.
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atNorth confirms that its long-standing customer, BNP Paribas, continues to move portions of its workloads to the Nordic region.
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Lefdal Mine Datacenter has added 60MW power capacity to its underground data centre campus in Norway.
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Rai Way has announced Rai Way Edge, a new Italian infrastructure of interconnected data centres.
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Conapto, the Swedish data centre operator backed by Marguerite, has secured a SEK 400 million ($38.6 million) term loan to finance the construction of a new data centre in South Stockholm.
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Salute Mission Critical has launched its due diligence framework, designed to streamline and customise the due diligence process for data centre assets.
