Europe
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Germany’s competition watchdog has accused Vodafone and Vantage Towers of anti-competitive behaviour, alleging the pair have deliberately obstructed rival operator 1&1 from accessing antenna sites they were contractually promised in 2021. -
Türk Telekom International (TTI) has integrated BroadForward's Signaling Transfer Point (STP) and Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) technologies to enhance its network infrastructure.
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St Helens Borough Council has contracted Elevate to build a full-fibre internet network for the town centre as part of its Digital Infrastructure Programme.
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The EU is set to unveil an ambitious, multi-pronged blueprint it believes will help guide the bloc to become a global AI leader.
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Northern Irish broadband provider Fibrus has signed a five-year agreement with Nokia to deploy the firm's Deepfield network analytics solution across its expanding network.
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Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has unveiled plans to develop four new data centres in Germany.
Forthcoming events
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Space Norway is set to launch a new high-speed connection from the Norwegian mainland to Jan Mayen and Svalbard in what would be one of the world's northernmost subsea cable systems.
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The Italian state will retain a 70% stake in subsea firm Sparkle after Telecom Italia signed off on the €700 million (USD$733 million) acquisition bid from Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance and Asterion subsidiary Retelit.
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United Group BV, a leading telecommunications and media provider in Southeastern Europe, has agreed to sell key Serbian assets, marking a strategic shift towards EU markets.
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As the 2025 AI Action Summit begins in Paris, discussions surrounding AI are set against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions and high stakes for the future of global AI governance.
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France is challenging the US's OpenAI-led Stargate project with President Emmanuel Macron announcing €109 billion (USD$112 billion) in AI infrastructure investments.
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Russia's state-controlled telco Rostelecom said one of its subsea cables in the Baltics has been damaged by “an external impact”.
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Investment firm Brookfield is set to invest €20 billion to build out AI infrastructure in France.
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Deep in the Earth, mere metres away from a picturesque Norwegian fjord sits the entrance to a facility that’s the size of 25 football fields, with the access tunnel alone akin to almost five laps around an Olympic running track: The Lefdal Mine Datacenter.
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The Iliad Group has unveiled a €3 billion war chest to invest in AI infrastructure, including new data centres and GPUs to power AI workloads.
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Mistral AI, Europe’s leading answer to OpenAI, unveiled plans to build its first AI cluster in France to further power its training efforts.
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Brussels is falling behind in the race for high-quality 5G, according to new data from MedUX, which benchmarked network performance across the Belgian capital.
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Virtus Data Centres has unveiled plans to launch its first facility in Italy as part of its continuing European expansion.
