Government
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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.
Forthcoming events
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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.
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UK-based full fibre operator CityFibre has hired someone from the government as its chief marketing officer.
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The US Department of Defense, through the NSTXL consortium-based S2MARTS OTA, has awarded Intel the contract to deliver commercial foundry services.
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The UK government has given the industry just over seven weeks to submit ideas for a scheme to put fibres through water pipes – an idea that was firmly rejected nearly 40 years ago.
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Djibouti, the Red Sea country where many subsea cables land, is opening up its state-owned telecoms operator to outside investment.
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Gordon Moir, Partner at Wiggin LLP, explains the vulnerable and challenging situation the UK telecoms industry will find itself in as a result of the new telecommunications (security) bill
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The government of Egypt is coming to the aid of its western neighbour, Libya, in rebuilding its telecoms and IT services.
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The Australian government has unveiled a wide-ranging, AU$1.2 billion scheme to boost the country's digital future.
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The Illinois Capital Development Board (CDB) is to build an $80.5 million data centre and computing facility for the state of Illinois.
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Allan Ruiz, the newly appointed senior advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at Access Partnership, calls for a modern approach to connectivity policies in Central America
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Concerns have been raised after Mexico's revived plans to collect and store mobile subscribers' biometric data, cleared another hurdle.
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After the news that SSE Enterprise Telecoms had rebranded as Neos Networks at the end of March, Capacity caught up with Sarah Mills, Managing Director of Wholesale and Smart Infrastructure, to find out why the relaunch took place and how it ties into the company's ambitious network and product expansion plans.
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Systems integrator Tyto Athene is to buy AT&T’s US government professional services business.
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The UK's first post-Brexit budget has seen the country step away from specific targets around gigabit broadband coverage and instead focus on the concept of the "digital economy".
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As Michael Armitage, CEO of Broadway Partners, writes the UK Government’s 2025 target is as achievable as national and local governments want it to be.
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Industry has until 24 March to comment on proposed changes to the UK's Electronic Communications Code (ECC).
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The UK's national fibre roll out has faced several hurdles but the most recent threatens to hamper rural connectivity. Could wireless provide the solution? Nigel King, CTO at Cambium Networks examines the options
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Israel's Ministry of Communications is working on new legislation that will enhance the country's "import and operation" of advanced technologies, including IoT, for the first time.
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Community Fibre, Voneus and CommScope are just some of the network operators to have voiced concern about changes to the UK’s National Infrastructure Strategy.
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The Chinese semiconductor industry, with government help, is working hard to ensure it has all it needs to survive without foreign support, says a consultant with the China Semiconductor Industry Association.
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Huawei is to spin off its Honor smartphone brand in a US$15.2 billion deal, paving the way for an IPO by 2023.
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Caucasus Online has called on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) to assist after Georgia’s regulator appointed a special manager to the company’s board.
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NTT has launched a buyout bid to take its mobile unit Docomo private, in a move that is likely to support the prime minister's push to reduce phone tariffs.
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The UK’s government statistical authority has admitted that it knows little about what’s happened in the telecoms market over the past few decades.
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New legislation in the UK could see networks operators allowed access to multi-let residential properties to prevent unresponsive landlords from delaying connectivity projects.
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The government has announced a series of multi-billion-pound measures designed to boost Britain’s digital infrastructure, including a guaranteed extension of 4G services in rural areas.
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Cybernetica and Cloud Carib have signed an agreement to implement a secure data exchange based on the Unified eXchange Platform (UXP) for pilot projects in the Caribbean region.
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Norway’s National Communications Authority (Nkom) is set to announce a tender competition this month that will help to fund new subsea fibre cable projects.