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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Starlink, Tesla, X and xAI will have a role in the upcoming second Trump administration, having been appointed to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). -
BT has reportedly put its global division up for sale as part of the company’s ongoing attempts to shave costs
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Veon Group shareholders have expressed concern to the board about the company’s current strategy, citing the underperformance of its share price.
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Singtel has agreed to sell its stake in cybersecurity firm Trustwave for US$205 million.
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Since returning to telecoms in June 2020 as Ribbon Communication’s EVP and CFO, Miguel ‘Mick’ Lopez has had a lot to deal with. He talks to Saf Malik about how the company adapted and stabilised its operations during the pandemic.
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Cellnex Telecom is talking to Deutsche Telekom about taking over its tower business, the CEO confirmed at a meeting of investors and analysts.
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Vodafone Group (Vodafone) has agreed to transfer its 55% shareholding in Vodafone Egypt to Vodacom Group (Vodacom), its sub-Saharan African subsidiary.
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Southeast Asia’s internet economy is on track to reach $1 trillion by 2030 according to an industry report commissioned by Google.
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Nokia has revealed that it will supply its 400GE IP edge routing platforms for LINX.
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Italian investment bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and Australian private investment company Macquarie are rumoured to secure approval for its Open Fiber deal.
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Colt has announced that it will offer connectivity to Oracle Cloud for businesses in Singapore.
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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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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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Savills has launched its EMEA data centre advisory team, headed by former Digital Realty exec Scott Newcombe.
