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GSMA says telcos are getting stiffed on network infrastructure costs

The telecoms industry body and organiser of MWC throws its weight in on the question of who pays for the internet?

• 10 hours ago

Google sprinkles AI on everything at I/O

As well the new gadgets that were paraded out on the catwalk of Google I/O yesterday, there were a myriad of other updates to Google’s ludicrously wide product set, usually involving AI enhancements.

• 3 days ago

Telia teaches 2000 employees how to use AWS

Swedish operator group Telia has brought in Amazon Web Services to upskill 10% of its workforce to use cloud technologies over the next 3 years.

• 5 days ago

Telefónica Tech bolsters Microsoft relationship with BE-terna buy

Telefónica has high expectations this year for its acquisitive Tech division, and Microsoft looks set to play an important role in fulfilling them.

• 7 days ago

Vodafone creates pan-European data hub to fuel AI analytics engine

UK MNO Vodafone brought in Google Cloud and Cardinality.IO to help it build out a pan-European cloud software project called United Performance Management.

• 05 May 2022

BT floats further into the cloud with new AWS deal

Ditching physical infrastructure will save UK telco group BT £2 billion a year and allow it to innovate more quickly, it claims.  

• 04 May 2022

KT Cloud could be worth $2 billion

KT is reportedly mulling selling off a chunk of its recently-created cloud business, a move that could value the unit as a whole at US$2 billion.

• 28 Apr 2022

Bell launches AWS-powered edge services

Bell’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnership reached a new milestone this week with the commercial launch of multi-access edge computing (MEC) services.

• 28 Apr 2022

VMO2 launches TV streaming device

UK converged operator VMO2 has launched a device called Stream for its broadband customers, which aggregates content from multiple TV services and allows billing for them to be controlled in one place.

• 26 Apr 2022

Google wants to cache in on the CDN hype

The content delivery network (CDN) market is getting more attention thanks to the hype around edge, and now Google wants in on the action.

• 26 Apr 2022

Netflix is losing significant numbers of users for the first time

The streaming services blames password sharing, inflation the Russia-Ukraine war and inflation for a 200,000 drop in subscribers in Q1, as shares plummet around 25%.

• 20 Apr 2022

UK streaming subscriptions fall amid household budget crunch

New research has revealed that the number of UK homes paying for streaming services fell in Q1 2022, with 1.5 million total cancellations in that period.

• 19 Apr 2022

Nokia gets SaaSy with its customers

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has commissioned some research that CSPs can save 25% over five years if they move their software from on-premise to the SaaS model.

• 19 Apr 2022

Snapchat tops list of UK’s most deleted apps

For every 100,000 UK Snapchat users, 971 are searching how to delete the app, according to a new bit of research.

• 14 Apr 2022

AT&T’s WarnerMedia exit merger with Discovery completes

AT&T and Discovery have closed the transaction to merge Warner Business Media with Discovery to create a new entertainment entity leveraging all the properties owned by both firms.

• 11 Apr 2022

The Telecoms.com Podcast: decentralization, deglobalization and Huawei

We’re delighted to welcome special guest Maria Lema of Weaver Labs this week. Maria’s company develops software designed to decentralize the whole process of accessing network services, using some of the principles and technologies associated with the evolution of Web3, which prompts lots of conversational tangents. They eventually get around to a couple of items from the week’s news, specifically the affect of the use of sanctions on globalization and Huawei’s recent annual report.

• 04 Apr 2022

Nokia and Meta partner with… who?

The company formerly known as Etisalat has partnered with the company formerly known as Facebook, essentially to highlight the significance of its recent rebrand.

• 01 Apr 2022

Vodafone launches collaborative road safety platform

UK operator group Vodafone has unveiled a new connected vehicle platform, which is designed to enable real-time info sharing between drivers and transport authorities.

• 30 Mar 2022

Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm, delves deeper into both the evolution and future of 5G, and highlights the connected intelligent edge as a key component for success

As Qualcomm continues to increase its stake in the 5G game, Enrico Salvatori, , SVP & President, Qualcomm Europe/MEA QUALCOMM Europe, Inc. Italy Branch Office, discusses how Qualcomm will be focussing on phase two of 5G’s evolution. Now that objects can be interconnected, true evolution and digital transformation requires intelligence to be given to the devices, with end-to-end connectivity of applications and services to the cloud – otherwise known as connected intelligent edge. Edge itself will be a critical to achieving low latency, real-time and security.

• 23 Mar 2022

TIM bids for Italian cloud project as Iliad tears up its mobile market

TIM and its partners have submitted their bid in the tender for Italy’s cloud hub project, and it’s a tender they are likely confident of winning, given that they essentially designed it.

• 22 Mar 2022