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Croatia reels in $56.2M from 5G-friendly spectrum

Hrvatski Telekom biggest spender ($20.4 million) in auction of 700MHz, 3.6GHz and 26GHz frequencies (and Croatia says hello to EOLO).

• 13 Aug 2021

Eurobites: MegaFon extends VoLTE services across Russia

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Inmarsat accelerates the L-band; Finnfund boosts connectivity in Africa; it’s time we took a ‘woliday’.

• 13 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom raises full-year guidance on back of Q2 uplift

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Eir plans gigabit expansion in Ireland; MTN enjoys mixed H1; Nokia in smart grid trials.

• 12 Aug 2021

TIM and Vodafone allegedly settled decade-long disputes

An Italian newspaper reported the two telco giants reached an out-of-court agreement to settle all disputes running back to 2012.

• 11 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Poland’s Nexera bags €73 million EU loan for fiber rollout

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Virgin Media O2 grows its gigabit network, recruits field engineers; Spain’s La Liga may stream itself; Telefónica combines with STC on cybersecurity.

• 10 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Iliad gets on board with FiberCop in Italy

Also in today’s EMEA regional roundup: former Royal Mail boss in line for BT chairman role; Nokia wins at Delta Fiber; Brexit’s roaming ramifications.

• 09 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Telecom Italia orchestrates quantum comms demo at G20

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Paramount+ streaming service heading for Sky platforms; Saudi Telecom Company’s Q2 impresses; Virgin Media slide-tackles BT and Sky over TV soccer coverage.

• 06 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Amazon’s Prime Air programme enters tailspin in UK – report

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Sparkle turns to Infinera to power 400G services; auctions ahoy in French overseas territories; EE puts on its headphones and Hawaiian shirt in the cause of 5G.

• 04 Aug 2021

Lumen offloads consumer ops for $7.5 billion

Lumen has brokered a US$7.5 billion deal with Apollo Global Management that will see it part with its legacy consumer operations in 20 states across the Midwest and Southeast of the US.

• 04 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Ethiopia to re-open bidding on second operator licence

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.

• 03 Aug 2021

Iliad-UPC tie-up will make Poland a market to watch

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.

• 03 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Musk sets up Isle of Man beachhead for UK broadband assault

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.

• 02 Aug 2021

Virgin Media O2 goes all-in on fibre and mulls broadband wholesale market

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.

• 29 Jul 2021

Nokia reports a strong Q2 21 on the back of fixed-line infrastructure growth

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.

• 29 Jul 2021

Lumen could raise $5 billion-plus from asset sales

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.

• 15 Jul 2021

Combo PON OLTs are Here Now: Radisys Offers Next Gen Solutions for Agile, Programmable and Innovative FTTx Networks

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.

• 13 Jul 2021

US accuses Broadcom of abusing STB and broadband chip monopoly

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.

• 05 Jul 2021

Openreach, BT move to cut cost of FTTP in the UK

The cost of fibre broadband is coming down in the UK, or so we’re led to believe.

• 01 Jul 2021

Netflix ordered to pay for network usage in Korea

A South Korean court has ruled against Netflix in a case over its payment – or lack thereof – of network usage fees.

• 29 Jun 2021

Openreach fleshes out UK fibre push

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.

• 25 Jun 2021