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UK energy regulator Ofgem has greenlit five new subsea energy links in the North Sea. -
Ofcom has revealed the UK’s next spectrum auction will take place in 2025, offering mmWave band licences in the 25.1-27.5 GHz and 40.5-43.5 GHz bands.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) says it is the first UK operator to have switched on 5G standalone (SA) small cells in Birmingham city centre.
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In a major collaborative effort, GSMA and UK Finance have united leading UK mobile operators and banks to launch Scam Signal, a new tool designed to tackle Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud.
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BT has reportedly put its global division up for sale as part of the company’s ongoing attempts to shave costs
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued provisional approval for Vodafone and Three’s planned merger, indicating that the proposed £15 billion joint venture could proceed if certain conditions to protect competition and consumers are met.
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Ofcom, the UK regulator, has appointed career civil servant Melanie Dawes as its next chief executive, replacing Sharon White, who left late last year.
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Cellnex Telecom has signed an agreement with Altice Europe and Belmont Infra Holding to acquire all of OMTEL’s towers and sites in Portugal for €800 million.
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3i Infrastructure plc has agreed to sell its 93% stake in Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) to Brookfield Infrastructure.
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China Mobile International has opened its latest data centre in the UK, the company’s first facility in Europe.
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Vodafone Business has today announced that it will be the first telco to introduce Amazon Web Services (AWS) Wavelength to Europe.
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The UK’s Nextgenaccess has agreed an exclusive 20-year concession for the deployment of full fibre infrastructure along the High Speed 1 (HS1) railway link.
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UK alternative provider of wholesale full fibre infrastructure CityFibre has today announced that it has made its full fibre products available to Digital Wholesale Solutions (DWS) in 27 cities.
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Equinix’s latest Global Interconnection Index (GXI) predicts private connectivity at the edge will grow by 51% CAGR and exceed a total bandwidth capacity of more than 13,300Tbps, equivalent to 53ZB of data exchanged annually.
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Beeks Financial Cloud Group, a low-latency infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider for financial markets, is partnering with global managed hybrid IT solutions provider, NYI, to launch a new location in New York.
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CityFibre, the UK’s alternative provider of wholesale full fibre infrastructure, is set to undertake an industry-wide consultation on the role of alternative full fibre infrastructure builders in helping to switch-over customers from legacy copper networks.
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US private equity firm KKR has entered the UK market for the first time after acquiring a majority stake in full-fibre provider Hyperoptic.
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Digital Realty has officially opened Cloud House, the latest facility in its Digital Docklands campus of highly-connected data centres in London's Docklands area.
