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The UK government has opened a consultation into potentially allowing copyright materials to be used by developers building AI models as training materials — a move that could have massive ramifications for both innovators and creatives. -
Verizon Public Sector has won a 15-year infrastructure contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worth over $2 billion.
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The UK government has appointed a physicist, engineer and champion of diversity and inclusion (D&I) as the new chief scientific adviser to the Department for Business and Trade.
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An Ark Data Centres venture has won a seven-year deal to provide hybrid private cloud services for the public sector in the UK.
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Tencent and China Unicom have received regulatory approval to set up a joint-venture (JV) according to a government announcement.
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Four Malaysian mobile operators say they have agreed to use the government’s state-owned 5G network, paving the way for an increased rollout in the country.
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The government of Zanzibar has signed an MoU with Oman Data Park to establish, manage and operate a data centre in Zanzibar.
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A former marketing executive with satellite network Sky and with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has become the twelfth minister in charge of the UK’s digital policy in 12 years.
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After the UK government announced it would take no further action on Altice’s increased BT stake, a full takeover cannot be ruled out.
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A public tender to operate Macao’s 5G mobile network has been launched.
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The Altice acquisition of 6% of shares in BT has been called in for a “full national security assessment”, the UK government has today announced.
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The UK government has approved plans to fund a new organisation dedicated to boosting innovation in the country’s telecoms supply chain.
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OneWeb has announced that the US government has approved its appointment of three former senior US national security officials to serve as members of its proxy board.
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Macquarie Telecom Group is partnering with Blacktree Technology to deliver defence-ready data co-location services.
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Mike Foster, the former CEO of Fujitsu A/NZ has been named as the new director of the strategic growth, defence and national security portfolio at Macquarie Government.
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Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract in a move that will bring speeds of up to 100Gbps to the legacy network operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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T5 Data Centers is planning a 140-acre, 200 MW government and enterprise cloud data centre campus in Augusta, Georgia.
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The UK government has hired a London innovation centre to find ways of diversifying the telecoms market, especially in private 5G networks.
