Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: MTN warns of H1 earnings fall; Orange combines with SSE Networks for improved maritime connectivity; Brussels looks into latest Facebook acquisition.
Iliad is making good on its ambitions to enter the Polish fixed-line market, making an offer for number two player UPC worth the best part of US$2 billion.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: UK government updates on Project Gigabit; Telecom Italia makes quantum leap; O2 turns on 5G street light in Frankfurt.
The newly merged Virgin Media O2 announced its plan to upgrade all its fixed network in the UK to fibre. The operator is also assessing the prospect to become a fixed broadband wholesaler.
All the indicators are moving in the right direction for Finnish kit vendor Nokia, which saw its share price jump after announcing its Q2 2021 numbers.
US B2B comms outfit Lumen Technologies is looking to raise US$5 billion or more by selling certain consumer operations, according to a rumour that emerged this week.
Telecoms.com Editorial Director Scott Bicheno recently spoke with Rajesh Chundury, Vice President – Customer Solutions at Radisys about the introduction of their Combo PON OLT, which supports G-PON and XGS-PON within the same OLT PON port. In this interview Rajesh discusses how white-box Combo PON OLTs allow broadband providers to take advantage of pervasive G-PON technology while giving them a flexible upgrade path to scale up and rollout XGS-PON deployments without costly rip and replace. The Radisys Combo PON OLT is an open, disaggregated, flexible and highly scalable telco-grade cloud native broadband access platform designed to address key service providers’ needs. Watch the interview to learn about the advantages of this hardware option.
The Federal Trade Commission reckons Broadcom has a monopoly in certain types of chip and is abusing that position to impose exclusivity on its customers.
The cost of fibre broadband is coming down in the UK, or so we’re led to believe.
A South Korean court has ruled against Netflix in a case over its payment – or lack thereof – of network usage fees.
Openreach this week announced plans to add a further 5 million homes and businesses to its full fibre footprint in the UK, sharing details of a raft of new towns and cities in which it plans to build.
Test and measurement firm EXFO is excited about its latest UK deal but the real story is happening behind closed doors, as shareholders and directors grapple with an ownership struggle.
UK operator group BT has apparently just realised there are a lot of very small businesses in the UK and has created a new business unit on the back of that revelation.
Having cleared all its regulatory hurdles, the UK’s new converged telco is full of ambition, but going toe-to-toe with BT will be very expensive.
UK fixed line wholesaler Openreach has outlined plans to extend its fibre rollout to three million rural premises.
French rail network operator SNCF has officially launched a new subsidiary that will see it break into the market for wholesale fibre connectivity.
As regulators worldwide prepare for 5G, some operators with enterprise Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services are facing the total loss of their networks, especially in parts of Asia and Africa.
Iliad is upbeat about its progress in Italy, but nonetheless is delaying the launch of its planned fixed-line service in the market.
In 2020 the average download speed of UK residential broadband services increased by 25% from 64 Mbps to 80.2 Mbps, according to new Ofcom research.
UK operator group BT saw its revenues decline by 7% in full year 2020, but there are signs that it’s headed in the right direction.
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