North America
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AT&T has agreed to pay US$13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023.
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Macquarie Asset Management and PSP Investments will sell their 88% stake in AirTrunk to a Blackstone-led investor consortium.
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Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with AT&T to deploy next-generation fibre access technology.
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iBASIS has appointed Patrick George as its new CEO, following renewed backing from its existing financial investors including lead investor Ciclad.
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Nvidia will beat previous results when the chipmaker publishes its earnings later today.
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Italy’s Aruba S.p.A (Aruba) has implemented liquid cooling within the data centre campus in Ponte San Pietro (BG), near Milan.
Forthcoming events
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IQ Fiber has completed its Phase 1 network deployment with service now available to more than 60,000 residential addresses in the Jacksonville metro area.
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Tillman FiberCo (Tillman Fiber), a provider of fibre optic broadband infrastructure, has confirmed the expansion of its fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network in Florida.
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Pioneer Consulting has been selected to provide initial engineering and design services for the FISH in SEAK submarine cable system (fibre internet serving homes in Southeast Alaska), an early-stage submarine cable which complements the FISH in AK project (fibre internet serving homes in Alaska).
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Sabey Data Centers will be expanding into Umatilla, Oregon and will develop a 100+MW data centre campus after purchasing 60 acres.
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Digital Realty and TPG have established a joint venture in which TPG will acquire a majority stake in three hyperscale data centres in Northern Virginia.
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The Next G Alliance wants to shape 6G’s development to meet the ‘unique needs’ of the US. Ken Wieland investigates how it can do this while being committed to a single global standard.
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Pharrowtech has announced its expansion into North America with the creation of its new subsidiary, Pharrowtech Inc.
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Dartpoints, a provider of colocation, cloud and cybersecurity services for edge markets has acquired Louisiana’s Venyu – a data centre infrastructure and cloud services provider.
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Rogers Communications has partnered with Lynk Global to test and deliver satellite-to-phone connectivity across Canada.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted an order that will continue to bolster mobile and fixed voice and broadband services throughout Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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Rogers Communications has agreed to acquire BAI Communications’ Canadian Operations (BAI Canada), which holds exclusive rights to build the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) wireless network.
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Equinix has confirmed plans to build an International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Montreal.
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Aruba has bolstered its renewable energy capacity with the acquisition of two new hydroelectric power plants in Bergamo, near Ponte San Pietro.
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EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure will expand its presence in Northern Virginia via a partnership with Penzance, a Washington DC-based real estate developer.
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CyrusOne and Aruba have each successfully adhered to terms of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP).
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Optical networking company Adtran has delivered data at 800Gbps over a New York state educational network.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is expanding its connected edge-to-cloud offering with the acquisition of Athonet, a private mobile network technology provider.
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North American data centre leasing reached record levels and vacancy fell to a record low in 2022 according to CBRE.
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The North Pole has now got fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) thanks to Alaska Communications, but not the North Pole that everyone understands by the term.
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The island of Bermuda is to get a new mobile competitor, that will be fully cloud-based.
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The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) in the Caribbean has started the process to build a national fibre ring that will link with the sole subsea cable that connects it to neighbouring islands and to the US and South America.
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The new 15,840km Southern Cross Next cable from Australia and New Zealand to the US, is now offering Ethernet services at 400Gbps.
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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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DataVerge, which operates a carrier-neutral interconnection facility in Brooklyn, has hired Hunter Newby to join its board of directors.
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Communications infrastructure provider Bluebird Network has announced its intent to acquire the middle-mile fibre network assets from Missouri Telecom (MTI).
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1547 has partnered with investment management firm Harrison Street to buy Chase Tower in McAllen, Texas, one of the most important internet exchange locations for traffic between Texas and Mexico.
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Four leading English-speaking economies have aligned their strategies for secure mobile infrastructure, continuing from the 5G era into 6G.
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FirstLight has confirmed that it is building out its fibre broadband network in parts of Maine.
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Aruba has raised €500 million in funding for the expansion of its Global Cloud Data Center (GCDC) campus.
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Far North Fiber’s Ethan Berkowitz tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that Japanese, US and European businesses have teamed up to build the first cross-Arctic cable, which will cut latency between Europe and Japan by 100ms
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ZenFi Networks is now part of BAI Communications following a deal agreed in July 2022.
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Satellite company OneWeb has partnered with Greenland’s largest telecoms company, Tusass, to bring connectivity to the island – the world’s largest.
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Harbor Link has begun construction on a new fibre optic infrastructure build connecting Alexandria to Ashburn, Virginia.
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The Canadian government is trying to block Rogers Communications’ attempt to buy rival Shaw Communications ahead of negotiations with the country’s Competition Commissioner.
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Customers of FirstLight in 13,000 North America locations can now connect with DE-CIX New York at 325 Hudson Street (pictured).
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Three companies, in Europe, the US and Japan, have formally created the company they hope will build the first Arctic cable.
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Data centre managers are facing profound difficulties. Aruba’s Giancarlo Giacomello talks to Saf Malik about how he meets these challenges proactively and trends to watch for
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DataBank has announced the opening of its latest Salt Lake City data centre, SLC6 – Granite Point.
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Zayo is strengthening its infrastructure between the US and Mexico, with an extension to the Texas border cities of McAllen and Laredo.
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DRFortress, the largest carrier-neutral data centre and cloud marketplace in Hawaii has begun construction to expand its data centre campus in Honolulu.
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AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a US$23 million fine after attempting to bribe a politician in the state.
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Liberty Broadband’s Alaskan operation, GCI, is expanding its fibre operations in the Arctic state with the aid of US$73 million in government grants.
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GCI says it has made the final subsea fibre splice for its AU-Aleutians Fiber Project, which connects a string of islands south-west of Alaska.
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The US government is giving the Alaska Telephone Company US$33 million to expand fibre connectivity in rural south-east Alaska.
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T5 Data Centers will build a 54MW data centre campus at its Hillsboro, Oregon location, as part of a long-term lease and built-to-suit project with Flexential.
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Nokia is extending its industrial portfolio of the user equipment to facilitate private wireless network connectivity in North America.
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Virginia still has more hyperscale data centre capacity than both Europe and China, a new report from Synergy Research Group has revealed.
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IQ Fiber has activated the first portion of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Jacksonville.
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Exa Infrastructure has announced the appointment of Frank de Fremery as its head of data centres and colocation.
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Rogers Communications will invest C$10 billion into improving the reliability of its network, after one of its biggest network outages to date.
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Italian data centre company Aruba is building a 30MW data centre campus in Rome, due to be completed in the first quarter of 2023.
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This year will see Chinese and North American mobile operators at their peak for buying radio access network (RAN) equipment, says a report today.
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Emerging broadband service provider LiveOak Fiber has received a US$150 million investment from Infrared Capital Partners to build a fibre network in Glynn Country, Georgia and Okaloosa Country, Florida.
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Spark New Zealand has sold a 70% interest in its TowerCo business to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers) for $900 million.
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Aligned Data Centers has confirmed it will construct a third hyperscale data centre at its existing campus in Salt Lake City, Utah, called SLC-03.
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Rogers Communications’ plan to buy rival Shaw Communications faces more uncertainty following continued opposition from Canada’s antitrust regulator.
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The international division of Canadian telco Telus will be selling business services to enterprises if its agreed C$2.3 billion bid for LifeWorks goes ahead.
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Everstream has announced plans to quadruple its investment across Columbus, Ohio.
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NTT Ltd has bought land in Prince William County, Gainesville, Virginia from Lerner Enterprises, one of Washington DC’s largest private developers, to build a new large-scale data centre campus.
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Brightspeed has announced plans to deliver over 60,000 new fibre passings by the end of 2023, as part of the first phase of its fibre network build in Virginia.
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Veon has sold its operations in the eastern European nation of Georgia to its former local partner for just US$45 million.
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Ocean Networks has been selected by the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH)to conduct research on fibre optic cable routing and site locations for new cable landing stations.
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As Canada finally followed its Five Eyes allies in banning Huawei and ZTE equipment, diverse supply chains become essential to ensure telcos are not reliant on a small handful of operators.
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Verizon has pledged an additional $149 million to Florida to meet increasing demands on its network.
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Texas carrier Logix Fiber Networks plans to speed up network build following private equity investment of US$100 million.
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Rogers Communications remains defiant in its pursuit to acquire rival operator Shaw Communications despite opposition from Canada’s Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell.
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This is the 15th ITW, but how did it start? Alan Burkitt-Gray was there at the first, and tells the fascinating story
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Maple Leaf Fibre, the planned inter-city Canadian link between Toronto and Montréal, has dropped its plan for an underwater segment and will be entirely terrestrial for the whole length.
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The government of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean has commissioned a feasibility study into the need for a new subsea cable.
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The board of directors of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) has authorised Lleida.net to provide seven certified electronic communication services.
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Rogers Communications has launched the first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network in Canada.
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Aligned Data Centers is planning to develop to new data centre on its hyperscale campus in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Meta is to invest more than US$800 million in a new data centre that it said will be the "first of its kind in Missouri".
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Verizon Connect’s fleet management software platform has been integrated into Amazon Web Services as a result of a new partnership between the companies.
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QTS Realty Trust will expand its connectivity ecosystem after unveiling a long-term agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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DataBank will expand its San Diego data centre facility, SAN1 the company has announced.
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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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Rogers and Microsoft have announced a five-year deal to help small and medium business customers accelerate digitization through Microsoft Azure.
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A Canadian offshoot of Kyndryl, the IBM infrastructure spin-off, is to use the OneWeb satellite network to offer internet access in remote part of the country.
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Rakuten Symphony snaps up Robin.io and telco cloud IP
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Türk Telekom has deployed Red Hat OpenShift to transform its business to from core to edge, while Elisa has partnered Google Cloud on cloud transformation.
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Intelsat has completed a demonstration of a 'first of its kind' private mobile network with Microsoft.
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DE-CIX is to expand its carrier and data centre neutral IX platform into multiple EdgeConneX data centres as part of its continuous work to scale its interconnection capabilities.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tower sales to contract announcements and the use cases for 6G.
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DigitalBridge Group has published its fourth quarter (Q4) and full year (FY) 2021 financial results
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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China Telecom has taken the latest step to exit the US following its ban by the US regulator.
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Vertical Bridge has appointed Ronald G. Bizick, II as its new president and chief operating officer (COO).
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Satellite operator Intelsat has emerged from bankruptcy with its debt cut from US$16 billion to $7 billion, and with $6.7 billion in new finance.
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Tillman Infrastructure, a US-based tower company, has appointed Todd Smith as the firm's new chief financial officer (CFO).
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Kyndryl and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are partnering to help customers transform their businesses with enterprise cloud services and solutions.
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IBM has increased its investment in Quantinuum, a US$300 million joint venture formed last year by Honeywell and Cambridge Quantum Computing.
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Dell Technologies has introduced new telecoms solutions and services to bolster open telecom network ecosystems.
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Cohere Technologies has closed its Series D funding round with a US$46 million raise as it brings an enhanced version of its Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) to the market.
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US cable TV operator Cox Communications is to upgrade its customers’ home connections to 10Gbps
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Satellite company Iridium has reduced its quarterly loss to US$5.9 million, compared with $7.9 million in the previous year, and $107.9 million in the same quarter the year before.
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The US financial regulator has made South Korean telco KT pay a total of US$6.3 million for bribing politicians in South Korea and Vietnam.
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Capacity shares five key stories to watch from around the world today.
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The world’s largest bank has teamed up with Ciena and Toshiba to develop quantum technology that can deliver 800Gbps channels and a total speed of 2.4Tbps.
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Capacity shares financial results from key players in the telecoms space.
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DE-CIX has deployed a switch in Cyxtera’s 350 East Cermak Road data centre in Chicago.
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Global 5G IoT satellite operator, OQ Technology, has been granted a patent for its IoT ‘wake-up’ technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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Telco supplier TEOCO has announced the acquisition of Software Synergy Inc (SSI).
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A New York-based company that is working with Telefónica says it has developed a quantum-based key system that is available in the cloud.
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Intel Corporation (Intel) is to acquire Tower Semiconductor (Tower), an Israeli manufacturer of analogue semiconductor solutions, for approximately $5.4 billion.
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Capacity is now accepting entries for its annual 20 Women to Watch power list!
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Windstream Wholesale will connect its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to the AUBix LLC data centre near Auburn University.
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400Gbps technologies are expected to drive service provider router market growth, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group.
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Syniverse this morning dropped its plan for a US$2.85 billion reverse takeover that would have seen the company listed.
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Global management consulting firm Bain & Company has published its 2022 Global M&A report which found that telecoms M&A experienced a dramatic rebound during 2021.
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A very British approach to regulation; altimeter checks in Norway and the cold side of quantum computing
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AT&T has agreed to use Inteliquent's Internet Protocol (IP) voice traffic exchange services.
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Arelion, the former Telia Carrier, has upgraded its network capacity and capabilities at 1623 Farnam’s interconnected edge data centre in Omaha.
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Lumen Technologies will expand its Quantum Fiber fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network over 2022, CEO Jeff Storey said last night, as he announced the company’s results.
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Direct Internet Access (DIA) is hot on the heels of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), which has experienced a sharp decline, with 42% of average sites running the product in 2021 according to TeleGeography.
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SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
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DE-CIX New York has announced it is now consistently exceeding one terabit per second (Tbps) peak internet traffic across its NY/NJ internet exchange platform.
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A US-based company is claiming success in its trials of using satellite to connect mobile phones.
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A venture capital investor has pumped US$50 million into a space start-up founded by Greg Wyler, previously of O3b and OneWeb.
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Young women aspiring to a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are able to access a new scholarship, courtesy of Telesat.
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Norwegian regulator Nkom has conducted tests to determine whether 5G could interfere with altimeters in helicopters.
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IBM has teamed with the Government of Quebec to launch the new Quebec-IBM Discovery Accelerator.
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DE-CIX Frankfurt and DE-CIX New York have achieved two data records at its respective Internet exchange facilities.
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Veon is moving its group parent company from Bermuda to London, saying it wants to be in “a jurisdiction with high standards of corporate governance”.
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Activist investors; shareholding U-turns; and STL's Ankit Agarwal
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Rogers Communications has appointed Glenn Brandt as its new chief financial officer (CFO).
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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CommScope has become the latest name to join Meta Connectivity's Evenstar initiative, which is working build general-purpose RAN reference designs for 4G and 5G networks in the Open RAN ecosystem.
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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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Canadian carriers Metro Optic and Crosslake Fibre are to work together to expand their services to hyperscale users in Canada and the US.
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As the connected future dawns, telcos and network operators will collaborate in even more complex supply chains and ecosystems. Daniel Bar-Lev, VP strategic programs at MEF, explains how simplicity is still possible
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service is offering a faster service, at 150-500Mbps, with deliveries starting in the second quarter of this year.
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Network connectivity specialist Connected2Fiber has today changed its name to Connectbase.
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Telesat is to deploy Cobham SATCOM 3-axis TRACKER 4000 terminals for its Lightspeed landing station network.
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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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DataBank has purchased the data centre it leases in the Centennial municipality in Colorado, allowing it to expand the campus onto an adjacent plot and create Centennial Campus.
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ColoHouse has opened its third data hall in Miami, providing more than 500kw of power and an additional 6,000 square feet of space.
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The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) has launched the Women in Fiber Committee to advance the role of women in the fibre broadband industry.
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AT&T has changed its position again on its WarnerMedia stake – by deciding to offload all of its remaining shares to shareholders.
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Syniverse has concluded a significant deal with Verizon, just a week before its shareholders consider a US$2.85 billion reverse takeover bid.
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T-Mobile has achieved its plan to source 100% of its total electricity usage with renewable sources.
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Dark Fiber and Infrastructure (DF&I) as deployed a new fibre route between Ashburn, VA and Linthicum Heights, MD.
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Mox Networks has promoted one of its VPs, Allen Meeks, to be COO.
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DartPoints has unveiled a solution suite comprising cloud, interconnection, colocation, and managed services that it has packaged for enterprises, carriers, and cloud and content providers.
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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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Analysis from GlobalData claims that initial public offerings (IPOs) in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) space increased 72% last year when compared to 2020.
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Vodafone will work with IntelCorp and other silicon vendors to design its own chipsets in OpenRAN technology.
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T-Mobile will fire corporate employees who are not full vaccinated against Covid-19 by April 2, the company announced in an internal memo.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued an order revoking China Unicom Americas authority to provide telecoms services in the US.
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Reconnecting Tonga; rebuffing KKR; digital investments down under; and BDx's Braham Singh
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I Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment manager, has made an investment in 1NCE, a connectivity and software IoT provider, for a global flat rate.
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AT&T and Verizon have released their most recent financial results, covering the full year 2021 and fourth quarter.
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Syniverse is collaborating with AT&T on the development of a solution that preserves inbound voice roaming after AT&T phases out its 3G network in February.
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Harbor Link has revealed it has broken ground on the construction of a new 60-mile, diverse conduit route set to enhance connectivity between Baltimore, Maryland, Washington DC and Northern Virginia.
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Telecoms fraud expert Jaime Zetterstrom has joined Somos, the company that runs North American numbering.
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Ericsson, IBM and Jio have all released their latest financial results in recent days, kicking off the latest reporting season.
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ColdQuanta, the quantum company that Zayo founder Dan Caruso led for a time, has set up a partnership to make real-life quantum computing solutions.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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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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Developer and operator Prime Data Centers, is to develop a four-storey data centre in Silicon Valley.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from iSIMs to aviation dramas.
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SoftBank is raising 30 billion yen (US$263 million) to fund its work in high-altitude mobile services from the stratosphere.
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Capacity shares five key stories make headlines around the world today.
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DE-CIX has confirmed just how much data passed through its exchanges last year – and it comes as little surprise that the figure has set a new record.
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Rounding up the latest data centre industry developments from around the world.
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The 5G revolution may have started to arrive on Europe’s shores in terms of licences, network infrastructure, devices and services – but I can’t be alone in feeling a sense of déjà vu when reflecting on the current state of the rollout.
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Kicking off the quarterly financials, Tata Communications and Syniverse have published their latest results over the last 24 hours.
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The appetite for private-equity investment is seeing a new peak with both the private-equity owners of Zayo setting record targets for their latest funds.
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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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CyrusOne has sold four of its data centres in the Houston, Texas, metro area to the DigitalBridge-owned DataBank for $670 million.
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The US aviation industry has warned of the "catastrophic" consequences of 5G network deployments using C-Band spectrum.
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New York-based tower company Tillman Infrastructure has appointed Suruchi Ahuja as CEO.
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The US state of Utah has a (relatively) new, high bandwidth dark fibre connection – and a new data centre model – with a little help from Zayo.
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Capacity shares five key data economy stories to watch for today.
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Harrison Street has embarked on a new joint venture (JV), this time with American Real Estate Partners (AREP), and with Data Center Alley in crosshairs.
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Capacity shares the latest 5G spectrum news in the USA and Belgium.
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TIM's CEO tango; Colt's data centre drive; a cable called Medusa; and Host in Ireland's Garry Connolly
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US cable company and telco Comcast says it has taken the next step in its ambition to upgrade its customers to 10Gbps technology.
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Capacity shares the key appointments in the telecoms industry over the last few weeks.
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Comviva has announced it will collaborate with IBM to deliver its next-generation BlueMarble Solution on the IBM Cloud for telecoms.
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Despite rising Covid-19 infection rates around the world, DE-CIX says its infrastructure remains well prepared for the new wave of the pandemic.
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Zayo Group has acquired QOS Networks to bolster its edge and SD-WAN capabilities.
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AFR-IX has confirmed plans to build a new subsea cable system called Medusa for approximately €326 million.
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ColoHouse has snapped up cloud, bare metal, and data centre provider Steadfast, inclusive of three colocation facilities, enterprise-class cloud and hosting solutions.
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Capacity shares the key appointments in the telecoms industry over the last few days.
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Major satellite operators have confirmed new reach for their coverage over recent days, which will benefit the industrial and logistics sectors, while claiming a world first for IoT connectivity.
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Frontier Communications, the US company that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, says it has added 45,000 fibre broadband customers in a single quarter.
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Enterprise video conferencing provider Pexip has turned to Equinix to solve its multicloud connectivity needs and scale its global business, which saw growth of seven times its traffic peak in 2020.
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Strategic Wireless has acquired 11 cell towers and an easement, located in various regions across the US, for an undisclosed sum.
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More than two-thirds of malware downloads came from cloud applications in 2021 according to research from Netskope.
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GI Partners has secured a $389 million loan from Goldman Sachs to refinance One Wilshire, one of the largest internet exchanges in the world and the most interconnected terrestrial facility in the Western US.
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Stack Infrastructure has confirmed it will develop a new 216MW campus in Ashburn, VA, set on a new 80-acre site in Loudoun.
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T-Mobile US achieved its highest ever post-paid net customer additions and post-paid account net additions for full-year 2021.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from Subsea cables to roaming charges and satellite launches.
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Adtran's stockholders have approved the ongoing $1.2 billion merger with Adva Optical Networking SE, by an overwhelming majority.
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SK Telecom and Qualcomm have discussed the possibility of working together at CES 2022.
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Zayo has hired Lynn Tinney, formerly of Cisco and Brightcove, as its senior VP for channels and partnerships.
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Telcos themselves are providers and as such can create outages, so they need to use automation tools and strategies when deploying new applications and provisioning new infrastructure to properly mitigate risk. Kris Beevers, CEO, NS1 explains
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T-Mobile US and Crown Castle International have signed a new 12-year agreement to support the build-out of T-Mobile's US 5G network.
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Iridium Communications has appointed Manjula Sriram as the company's new vice president & chief information officer (CIO).
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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited has acquired Polish multi-asset digital infrastructure platform Emitel, along with certain assets belonging to the New York-based DataGryd.
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DISH Network has a new president and COO, following the promotion of John Swieringa.
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AT&T has partnered with NVIDIA to offer 5G GeForce NOW subscriptions to its customers.
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DC BLOX has opened a new multi-tenant data centre in South Carolina, USA.
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The latest news from STC, Involta, atNorth, DEWA and WISeKey
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#ICYMI - Capacity shares five key telecoms stories that were making headlines in December!
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IHS Towers has appointed Bill Bates as its senior vice president and chief strategy officer.
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Capacity shares five key 5G stories to know for January 4, 2022.
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A Canadian management consultant has highlighted the fact that the country is one of the most expensive in the developed world for mobile data.
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AT&T has offloaded its advertising platform, Xandr, to Microsoft, marking another stage in its withdrawal from the media world.
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NEC has announced it has successfully demonstrated OpenRAN capabilities for the Global Plugfest event at five of its venues.
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BT and other wholesale partners of satellite company OneWeb will start testing services in January, Capacity understands, with commercial services likely to be on offer several months later.
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ColdQuanta, the quantum security and computing company led by Zayo founder Dan Caruso, has appointed heads of research and of engineering.
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Telecom Italia’s (TIM) former CEO Luigi Gubitosi has stepped down from the company’s board as the search for his successor continues.
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The US government last week recommended that Google and Meta’s undersea data cable to Asia should be approved for use.
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IBM and Samsung Electronics have hailed a breakthrough in semiconductor design using a new vertical transistor architecture.
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Verizon and Google Cloud are partnering to bring the cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of Verizon's network.
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GTT has announced that the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has approved the company’s Prepackaged Plan.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today.
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Equinix has announced a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq to scale the Equinix NY11 data centre in Carteret, New Jersey in support of Nasdaq’s cloud infrastructure.
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Global Cloud Xchange, which is about to be bought by 3i Infrastructure, says it has reported strong financial results for the half-year ending 30 September.
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The Ohio Internet Exchange (Ohio IX) has deployed new network switch platforms from Arista Networks.
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The broadband access equipment market surged to $3.9 billion in Q3, 2021 according to a report from Dell'Oro Group.
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Mary Clark, former chief marketing officer of Syniverse and then Synchronoss, has been appointed CMO of Brivo, a cloud-based building technology company.
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Telstra is expanding its network infrastructure in the US by increasing its footprint at a primary data centre in Ashburn, Virginia, by almost a third.
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Ookla, the company that runs the Speedtest.net service that fills troubled internet users with despair, has acquired RootMetrics, which collects mobile network performance data.
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Global investment firm IPI Partners (IPI) confirms that one of its affiliates has acquired a carrier hotel and data centre in the Western US region, for an undisclosed sum.
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Capacity shares five things key stories from around the world making headlines today.
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Boomi, the Cloud technology, connectivity and automation provider, confirms that its board of directors has appointed David Meredith as chief executive officer.
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H5 Data Centres has announced the acquisition of 925 Dalton Avenue, a 107,000 square-foot data centre in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Cologix and Console Connect by PCCW Global confirm that the Console Connect Software Defined Interconnection platform is now available at Cologix’s MTL7 data centre in Montréal through a new point of presence (PoP).
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Next generation networks are tipped to transform industry and gaming – but when it comes to sport, 5G, private networks and enhanced broadcasting tech are creating new business cases for network operators. Melanie Mingas explains why it’s a match made in heaven
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DDoS attacks are on the rise – and telcos are being targeted in new ways. Explaining the latest data from Black Lotus Labs, Mark Dehus tells Melanie Mingas what it means
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A private equity company has bought TeleGeography, the US company that publishes the industry’s interactive submarine cable map.
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Vexus Fiber has announced plans to build a Fibre to the Home (FTTH) network in Laredo, Texas.
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Netrality Data Centres (Netrality) confirms the acquisition of 7801 Nieman Road in Shawnee, Kansas, with plans for a new data centre facility.
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Iron Mountain has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ITRenew, a provider of data centre lifecycle management solutions, for $925 million.
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Zayo Group (Zayo) has announced the investment and expansion of network infrastructure in Toronto, Ontario.
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Colt Group has announced it has gained a Gold rating from sustainability rating provider EcoVadis for its environment, social and governance (ESG) performance and a B rating from the Climate Disclosure Project (CDP) for company environmental performance.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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IBM has unveiled its IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center, a digital front door to a vast array of tools, training, resources and ecosystem partners.
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The United States Senate has voted by a large majority to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the Federal Communications Commission for the next five years.
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Cambium Networks, a wireless networking solutions provider, confirms the availability of a 5G-based fixed wireless access solution.
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Schneider Electric has released what its describes as a 'comprehensive novel framework' for environmentally sustainable data centres.
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Windstream Wholesale confirms that it will connect its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to the EdgeConneX data centre in Tempe, Arizona.
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Fujitsu and a company working with the International Space Station have been named as among the first users of Quantum Origin, what’s claimed to be the world’s first commercial product built using quantum computers.
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AI software-as-a-service provider Actifai has announced it has teamed with regional telco Cincinnati Bell to drive subscriber growth.
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Stephanie Gilbert has retired from AT&T after 28 years, most recently as area VP and general manager for wholesale sales in the Greater Philadelphia area.
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Telecom Italia’s largest investor Vivendi could be open to a deal that sees the telco become controlled by the state.
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The latest opponent to Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm is a powerful agency of the US government.
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China Telecom must cease all operations in the US by early January, after it lost a bid to appeal against revocation of its licence.
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AWS has announced a WAN network service that will make it easier to connect geographically complex networks to the cloud.
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Proximus is reportedly contemplating selling a minority stake in its subsidiary TeleSign by merging it with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
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Zayo Group Holdings is boosting its network in the Seattle-Tacoma area of Washington with a 400G upgrade and new product offer.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Canadian infrastructure company BAI Communications has bought Vilicom, a UK-based private network supplier.
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Telia Carrier has launched a point of presence (PoP) at Digital Realty’s campus in Richardson, Texas.
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OTTs, 2022 trends and BT's Andrew Lord on QKD and hollow core fibre
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CTI Towers, a provider of wireless towers in the US, has named telecoms industry veteran David Bacino, as its interim CEO.
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In news that will surprise almost nobody, Meta has confirmed it will continue to use AWS as its long-term cloud provider as it scales R&D, drives operational efficiency... and looks for more acquisitions.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Tests on the use of Wi-Fi 6E in residential environments have proven the benefits of using enabled devices over the 6GHz band rather than 5GHz.
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Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) revenue generated in North America will reach $15 billion by 2026 up from $3.7 billion in 2021, according to a study from Juniper Research.
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The serviceable addressable market (SAM) for global satellite broadband over geostationary (GEO), medium earth orbit (MEO), and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites will stand at 330 million homes by 2026.
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The merged quantum computing company bringing together Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum will be called Quantinuum, the two said yesterday.
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Predictions from Deloitte have revealed that the games console market will generate £60.6 billion globally and the wearable market will ship 320 million devices worldwide.
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Sustainability is often a focused on operations, but what if construction could be greener, too? Saf Malik reports
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Emerging quantum company SpeQtral has announced that it has successfully closed an $8.3 million financing led by Xora Innovation.
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Windstream Wholesale's advanced optical solutions are now available from NTT’s data centre campus in Sacramento, as part of Windstream's new Sacramento-to-Portland route.
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Blocked from a growing number of telecoms networks, Huawei is changing its business model to focus on new revenue streams. Saf Malik reports.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Earlier this week, US hedge fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) launched a €10.8 billion ($12 billion) takeover bid for Telecom Italia (TIM) in an attempt to take the company private.
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EllaLink's new connection and KKR's latest spending spree
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Mavenir's 4G Open RAN small cell for outdoor deployments is now commercially available.
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PCCW Global has adopted the culture of Console Connect, the platform it acquired in 2017, CEO Marc Halbfinger tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited achieved a 9.5% return for its investors in the first nine months of the year, exceeding its stated target by 0.5%.
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A European team of scientists have bounced a LoRa (long-range) message off of the moon for the first time.
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KKR is among a few companies contemplating bidding for data centre company Global Switch Holdings.
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Rogers Communications (Rogers) met with Canadian telecoms regulator CRTC to make its case for its $26 billion merger with Shaw Communications (Shaw).
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Fibre and data centre specialist Bluebird Network has delivered a new, carrier-grade fibre internet connection to the SubTropolis Technology Center (STC), the world’s largest underground business complex, located in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Research by Inmarsat has found that despite the accelerating speed of Internet of Things (IoT) adoption during the Covid-19 pandemic, poor or unreliable connectivity is a key barrier.
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Fourteen months and more than $6 billion later, TracFone Wireless is now part of Verizon.
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New standards are required to stimulate the deployment of "cyber-physical systems" in agtech to feed a fast-growing global population.
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Telesat has announced it is now a public company and will begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (NASDAQ) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).
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GTT Communications (GTT) has deployed a new centralised platform that supports its Access Services Request (ASR) order management and ticketing resolution system.
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Verizon and America Movil's TracFone Wireless are a step closer to closing on their merger after gaining another regulatory approval.
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Subspace, the dedicated network for real-time services, has launched its global private network for real-time applications.
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Digital Fortress has launched a new, redundant fibre network connecting its Richmond campus (pictured) in Virginia to Ashburn and Virginia Beach.
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DISH is to turn to Equinix for its interconnection requirements as it builds out the first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network in the US.
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AT&T and Microsoft have partnered to deliver a private preview of the first Azure Edge Zone in Atlanta.
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The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has launched a new project group that will broaden its focus to cover the access, broadband and service gateway technologies operators need to build and operate their fixed line networks.
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Telecoms was one of the three most targeted verticals in the latest quarterly DDoS report from Lumen as the threat landscape continued to evolve.
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Viasat has appointed Kevin Harkenrider as its new chief operating officer (COO).
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DE-CIX and H5 Data Centers are joining forces to bolster data centre and connectivity services – more than seven years after DE-CIX New York joined H5's 325 Hudson facility.
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Tony Staffieri has been appointed interim president and CEO of Rogers Communications, following the departure of Joe Natale on 16 November.
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance is extending its relationship with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to "maximize the full benefits" of 6 GHz Wi-Fi – today Wi-Fi 6E, and the near future, Wi-Fi 7.
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Zayo Group Holdings (Zayo) is continuing its investment and expansion of network infrastructure in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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The LINX NoVA interconnection facility has named its first peering and interconnection partner, from its latest point of presence (PoP) at QTS Data Centers, Ashburn VA
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KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have entered a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of CyrusOne for approximately $15 billion.
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Shaw Communications is expanding its underground LTE connectivity, boosting service provision for Shaw Mobile and Freedom Mobile customers travelling on the SkyTrain system.
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American Tower Corporation (American Tower) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CoreSite Realty Corporation (CoreSite) for approximately $10.1 billion in cash.
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ADIPEC, IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to support the oil & gas industry accelerate it energy transition.
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NTT DOCOMO has collaborated with Airbus to trial solar-powered Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) for wireless connectivity and, based on the results, will assess the application of HAPS "in 5G evolution and 6G".
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Telesat, which is planning to build a satellite network, Lightspeed, to rival OneWeb and SpaceX’s Starlink, will complete its merger with Loral Space & Communications next week.
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Kyndryl, the managed services business recently spun off from IBM, has landed its first major deal since its IPO earlier this month.
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Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point of presence (PoP) at the Connect Des Moines Data Center.
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Satellite buys; presidential visits; and Capgemini's Shamik Mishra
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New satellite internet concepts are moving ahead but are some types of companies better positioned to succeed in this growing market than others? Chris Daehnick, associate partner at McKinsey & Company, explores the prospects
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Satellite operator Intelsat has demonstrated 5G mobile from space, working with a German research institute and a US antenna specialist.
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Washington law firm Wiley has appointed Jennifer Hindin as co-chair of its telecoms, media and technology (TMT) practice.
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William Natta, communication officer at Télécoms Sans Frontières, outlines the importance of connectivity in education – and how the NGO supports children in crisis
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AT&T has announced the expansion of its global managed Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) portfolio.
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Colohouse has acquired Quonix in a deal that includes its Data102, and Turnkey Internet data centres.
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Enterprise colo provider DataBank is boosting its presence in Data Center Alley with a new facility it said will double its colocation footprint in the area.
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US satellite company Viasat is to buy its UK-based rival Inmarsat for US$7.3 billion, the companies announced this morning.
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To keep up with exploding demand for bandwidth, broadband operators are spending significant amounts of money on their networks. Of course, they want to see a healthy return on that investment, but with traffic growing many times faster than revenues, that can be a challenge. How do you close the gap? Where do you invest to increase revenues or reduce cost
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A former Google employee who led staff protests about alleged sexual assaults is to join the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as its artificial intelligence (AI) expert.
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Project Kuiper launch dates; telco negotiation tactics; and GSMA's Stephanie Lynch-Habib
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Boeing Co’s application to launch and operate 147 satellites to provide high-speed broadband internet access.
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XConnect, a London-based numbering specialist, has launched a service that can save carriers dollars per minute in wrongly identified calls.
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IBM has completed the spin-off of Kyndryl with the business trading on the New York Stock Exchange, from today.
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China’s information ministry has said that it “resolutely opposes” The US’ decision to revoke China Telecom’s license to operate in the USA.
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Cloud company Platform9 has hired Bhaskar Gorti, formerly of Oracle and Nokia, as CEO.
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Global spending on cloud services reached a new record in Q3 2021, to hit US$49.4 billion, however the impact of the global chip shortage on the data centre industry is "imminent".
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Canadian-owned data centre provider eStruxture is adding a second facility in Calgary, planned for the second half of 2022.
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fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty – aka 1547 – has acquired four new facilities for an undisclosed sum from one its JV partners, CIM Group.
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SpaceX has formally completed its takeover of nano-satellite company Swarm, whose co-founders have taken senior positions with Elon Musk’s operation.
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EQT confirms that the EQT Infrastructure V fund has held its final close at €15.7 billion in 'fee-generating assets'.
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Netflix has entered the mobile gaming space with the launch of five free games on Android devices.
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Communication service providers believe that AI software is key to reducing network energy demand and emissions, according to research from Nokia and GSMA Intelligence.
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GTT Communications has formally started its restructuring, by filing for bankruptcy protection under chapter 11 of the US law.
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Zayo has announced the investment and expansion of its network infrastructure in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Arizona’s Maricopa and Pinal Counties, and the Denver area.
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Here are the five things you need to know for 3 November 2021, from around the world.
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Gigabit Communications, LLC has joined the DE-CIX transport partner program by establishing a Layer 2 Network to Network Interface (NNI) connection with DE-CIX Dallas.
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Telstra is to enhance its Telstra Octagon financial services solution through a collaboration with data centre giant, Equinix.
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Digital Realty has added to the remit of its long-standing CFO, by appointing him to the newly created position of company president.
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Amazon will launch its first two Project Kuiper satellites at the end of 2022, in preparation for its new 400Mbps network.
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Ericsson has recruited one of the world’s top mobile telecoms academics, Mischa Dohler, as its new chief architect, to work on the next generation of wireless.
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Facebook is to add two new buildings to the Los Lunas Data Center, New Mexico, and initiate new wind, solar and water restoration projects in the state to offset its impact.
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Vodafone Foundation has launched an international search for climate change research partners to help expand the focus of its DreamLab smartphone app.
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Only four telcos from around the world have signed Amazon’s Climate Pledge, which the data centre, streaming and delivery company started in 2019.
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The FCC has revealed it has granted 20 additional 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses to Alaskan communities.
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The value of the global cloud market increased 37% in Q3 compared to the same quarter last year, reaching values of US$45.4 billion.
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Verizon is poised to become the anchor tenant of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network, with a deal to use it for 4G and 5G distribution.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from geopolitics in TMT to sustainability in Poland.
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IBM has published the results of its latest global study on cloud transformation which has found that there is drastic shift in business needs positioning hybrid cloud as the dominant IT architecture.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Samsung Electronics (Samsung) and Ciena have entered into an agreement to deliver 5G network solutions.
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Jessica Rosenworcel’s first task after her official nomination as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been to implement a Trump-era policy to ban China Telecom from the US.
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NJFX confirms that Canadian telco Eastlink has deployed its fibre optic network ring at its NJFX cable landing station (CLS) campus.
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Telesat has announced two new leadership appointments with Glenn Katz joining as chief commercial officer (CCO) and Tom Eaton promoted to president of Telesat Government Solutions.
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President Joe Biden is due to nominate Jessica Rosenworcel, the acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to serve another term and appoint her as permanent chair.
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Digital Realty has entered into two new partnerships with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund that will see it take PlatformDIGITAL to new African markets.
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FirstLight Fiber has promoted Katie Brandl to become the company’s VP of carrier and wholesale sales.
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Telia Carrier has expanded into Switch's data centre campus in Las Vegas, adding a new Point of Presence (PoP) and providing new connectivity options in the region.
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As reporting season kicks off for the latest quarter, AT&T, Tata Communications and Zain KSA have all posted their latest earnings.
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The first community in the US to install a OneWeb satellite terminal for broadband is Akiak in southwestern Alaska.
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DataBank has announced that its KC3 facility in Kansas City will expand its footprint and capabilities to meet growing demand.
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Zayo is in talks to buy two other US carriers, Uniti and Windstream, according to an unconfirmed report.
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Connections to 5G networks worldwide remain on track to triple this year to 637 million and more than double in 2022 to 1.34 billion according to predictions from CCS Insight.
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Windstream Wholesale has partnered with II-VI Incorporated (II-VI) to co-develop next-gen transceivers to streamline the deployment of 400 gigabit services.
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AT&T will invest “tens of millions of dollars” to harden its network in Louisiana against the impact of hurricanes and tropical storms.
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The 17th annual Global Carrier Awards (GCAs) was back live in London during this year's Capacity Europe conference.
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Data released on 20 October by British regulator Ofcom confirmed that 44.6 million adults in the UK were targeted with scam calls and texts over the summer.
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In a two-part panel session DOCOMO Digital's Filippo Giachi and Rahul Mughal unpack the booming sector that is cloud gaming, to mixed views.
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HGC Global Communications Limited and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) are working together to enhance services for customers in Chicago and the Bay Area.
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Nominations are now open for next year's Datacloud Awards, scheduled to return to Monaco in April.
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Increasing 5G capabilities will bring the annual spending of private cellular networks on hardware and services to almost $12 billion by 2023, a report by Juniper Research has revealed.
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PacketFabric has confirmed the acquisition of RStor Inc, a privately held cloud-based provider of data mobility solutions.
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Meet Subspace, the ambitious start-up that aims to optimise the internet for real-time services. Natalie Bannerman speaks to its co-founder and CTO, William King, on how the idea for the business came about, and what it means for telcos and the gaming sector
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Ernie Ortega, CEO of GTT, seeks return the company to profitability post infrastructure sale, as he transforms the business into the new GTT 2.0
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Marynet Bassily, director of procurement and supply chain, EMEA at Vantage Data Centers, explains how she has overcome many obstacles to establish a career spanning construction and telecoms – and how she is encouraging her company and the wider industry to focus on inclusivity
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Omar Qaise, founder and CEO of OQ Technology, on how the company is merging the world of cellular connectivity and satellite
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iBasis has revealed that its FraudLock iQ360 solution has blocked 191 million "wangiri" fraud calls in H1 2021.
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The world needs to increase food production by up to 70% in less than 30 years. It’s a significant challenge which, if not overcome, could push millions into famine. The answer involves IoT and, as Melanie Mingas finds out, a vast web of edge infrastructure that many other industries could tap
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Capacity's annual State of the Industry survey for 2021-22 is now live.
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A company run by public cloud evangelist Danielle Royston has raised US$1 billion to support the acquisition, development and cloudification of software products for the telecoms market.
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Exa Infrastructure, the company that last month took over GTT Communications’ infrastructure, has upgraded two-thirds of its network to 400Gbps.
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The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) has published the names of the organisations that have been confirmed as being compliant with the GLF Code of Conduct (CoC).
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Hurricane Electric has expanded its global network to Providence, its first location in Rhode Island and its fourth in New England.
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As digitalization progresses, new technologies and new scenarios — such as 5G, cloud computing, IoT, and industrial Internet — are booming, and network connectivity has never been so important.
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AtlasEdge has confirmed a new strategic partnership, a new equity investment and the appointment of a new CEO.
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DigitalBridge closed its acquisition of a controlling stake in Vertical Bridge.