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T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider Lumos, forming a joint venture set to bring full-fibre broadband to homes across the US.
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A new era is underway at Intel as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan took to the stage at the company’s Vision 2025 event, delivering a candid and defiant keynote that laid bare the stark challenges ahead and his commitment to overcoming them.
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AMD has sealed its £4.9 billion ($6.3 billion) purchase of server maker ZT Systems to accelerate its AI and data centre solutions strategy.
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Vivendi has agreed to sell a 15% stake in Telecom Italia (TIM) to the Italian postal service provider, Poste Italiane, in a deal worth around €684 million.
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Singtel-owned technology services firm NCS is expanding its Asia Pacific footprint, launching a joint venture with Globe Telecom in the Philippines.
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Oman’s data centre market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.6% during 2022-2028.
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it is "unlikely" that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approve a Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) takeover of CityFibre according to Jerry Dellis, equity analyst at Jefferies Equity Research.
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NSSLGlobal has signed a three-year contract with MOL LNG Transport to roll out its new cyber and IT managed services.
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Lumos is making a US$100 million investment in South Carolina’s Richland and Lexington Counties, to bring ultra-high-speed 100% fibre optic services across the greater Columbia area.
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Alibaba says it will invest US$1 billion in Turkey for a logistics hub at Istanbul’s airport and a data centre near the Turkish capital of Ankara.
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Bristol University is leading a new 6G R&D consortium that has been granted £12 million and involves the likes of Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia.
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BT’s procurement arm, BT Sourced has placed over £2.5 million of third-party spend on Globality’s intelligent sourcing platform.
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Orange will continue its heavy investment in Romania, following the completion of the spectrum auction organised by the country’s regulator ANCOM.
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Partners Group has acquired EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure and will invest up to US$1.2 billion to fund the acquisition and buildout of existing and future data centre sites.
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Vodafone has agreed to sell its Hungarian business in a deal worth US$1.8 billion, the company announced today.
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Liberty Global, Telefonica and InfraVia Capital Partners have formed a joint venture (JV) that will build a new fibre network in the UK via a £4.5 billion cash injection.
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Veon has completed a US$15 million investment as part of a Series A round of funding for Dastgyr, a Pakistani-based B2B e-commerce marketplace platform.
