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.
Forthcoming events
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Anne Bouverot, former director-general of the GSMA, is to be non-executive chair of tower company Cellnex Telecom.
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AQ Compute, a provider of colocation data centres, has appointed Andreas Myr as its vice president of sales Nordics.
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Mauritius Telecom confirms the installation of its third subsea cable, the T3 cable, in Mauritius.
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Orange Wholesale France (OWF) is partnering with Networth to launch, All Fibre, a VoIP telephony and internet connectivity offer.
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South African operator Cell C is looking for a new CEO following the resignation of Douglas Craigie Stevenson.
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Omantel is partnering with Wingu Group on the expansion of its network, enabling it to forge partnerships with African operators, growing business between Oman and Africa.
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AT&T is to transform its operations by using NVIDIA AI platforms for processing data, optimising service-fleet routing and building digital avatars for employee support and training.
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Astrocast is participating in the European Union (EU)-funded XGain initiative.
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Private equity group Cube Infrastructure Managers is buying control of Glesys, a Nordic data centre company.
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Ubitus and Google Cloud have partnered to develop cloud streaming for the games industry.
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FibreConnect has chosen Exa Infrastructure to build its backbone across Italy to connect key industrial locations and data centres.
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Vodafone Qatar has powered the first “Gigacity” in the Middle East after announcing a new partnership with Nokia.
