Europe
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MasOrange, Telefónica, and Vodafone Group have teamed up with the i2CAT research centre to launch a multi-operator Open Gateway API lab in Europe. -
Swisscom is working with Ericsson to offer a standalone Mobile Private Network (MPN) to provide enterprises with private, localised connectivity.
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Engineers at Vodafone are working with AMD to design mobile base stations capable of supporting AI workloads in addition to traditional network operations while using less power.
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UK energy regulator Ofgem has greenlit five new subsea energy links in the North Sea.
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Swisscom’s proposed acquisition of Vodafone Italia took yet another step closer to fruition after Italy's communication regulator gave the deal the go-ahead.
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Investment firm DTCP has backed the new sustainable data centre platform GreenScale, to support its efforts to sustainably support hyperscale and AI workloads.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Silknet, a fixed and mobile operator in the republic of Georgia, has successfully raised US$300 million in a new bond issue.
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Swisscom CEO Urs Schaeppi is to step down from his role, effective 1 June, to "embark on new entrepreneurial activities".
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RCS (Rich Communication Services) subscribers will grow from 1.2 billion in 2022 to 3.8 billion by 2026 according to a new study from Juniper Research.
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Telefónica and the London-based real estate company Pontegadea are to buy out KKR's 40% stake in Telxius Telecom, which has a 94,000km international network of submarine cables.
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The venture arm of KPN has backed UK-based Censornet, which offers what it calls autonomous integrated cloud security.
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Researchers at two European centres for 5G innovation have communicated via video link using the seamless connectivity delivered by integrated terrestrial and satellite networks.
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Telstra and the National Hockey League (NHL) have signed a five-year agreement to distribute up to 1,400 games per year using Telstra’s Global Media Network (GMN).
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Orange is putting its €350 million Spanish spectrum investment to use, pioneering what it describes as the "largest 5G network deployment plan on the 700 MHz frequency band in Spain".
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Vodafone shares rose 4% on Monday after several reports emerged that activist investor Cevian Capital had bought a stake in the company.
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Speaking at the Huawei webinar "5Grows Together: Innovation for a 5Gigaverse Society" on 13 January, Daisy Zhu, VP of wireless marketing, outlined how 5G is rapidly on the rise around the world, growing to over half a billion users since mobile operators started launching the technology two and a half years ago.
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Deutsche Telekom is expanding its collaboration with Google to take RCS messaging and Android-based MagentaTV One across the company’s European markets.
