Capacity’s James Pearce went to this year’s Farnborough airshow to hear about the role the space industry will play in next generation of communications

New satellite services will be essential to the success of 5G, if operators of the new mobile generation are to achieve complete coverage. Gareth Willmer talks to the space people

Software-defined networking remains a principal topic of telecoms conversation. But what has been its impact so far on the business of wholesale telecoms? Guy Matthews reports

Huawei will be hosting its annual Operations Transformation Forum on 3 and 4 September 2018 in Munich. Liang Hua, chairman of the company’s board of directors, introduces the issues that will be discussed

Investment in metro fibre is building up, as delegates to September’s Metro Connect Europe will discover. But don’t expect Europe to be like the US metro market, conference speakers tell Alan Burkitt-Gray

The Mexican market is open for investment, said the undersecretary for communications during his keynote at Mexico Connect. James Pearce reports

Five years after Myanmar’s telecoms sector liberalised, outsiders are still investing. James Pearce looks at the opportunities offered in the former Burma

The new government of ethiopia, which came into power in April, is poised to liberalise the market, opening up huge growth. Analysis by James Pearce

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Marseille is an interconnection hub; its vast number of subsea cable landings, its strategically located data centres and its favourable regulatory environment make it so. It was also the home to Capacity’s Subsea EMEA event.

As telecoms operators look for new routes with lower latencies, the idea of a cable running through the Arctic to connect west to east is being revisited. Quintillion’s Fiber System and the hotly anticipated Artic Connect are leading the way in the region.

The internet of things will create a need for a tight mesh of data centres to deliver low latency for autonomous vehicles, according to speakers at this week’s Capacity Europe East.