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AT&T extends Oracle cloud deal for another five years

US telco AT&T appears to be happy with how its cloud-based IT partnership with Oracle is proceeding.

• 5 days ago

BT to soup up Sellafield nuclear site’s network in £32 million deal

Telco group BT has signed a five year, £32 million deal with Sellafield Ltd, which runs the UK’s largest nuclear power site to upgrade and run the company’s entire network services.

• 6 days ago

Seacom recruits BT to expand African enterprise business

UK telecoms group BT will provide Seacom – which claims to own Africa’s most extensive ICT data infrastructure – services to secure its own infrastructure and deliver new enterprise services.

• 7 days ago

FBI calls in Verizon to beef up its network

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation will dish out $400 million to US operator Verizon to modernize and expand its network infrastructure, data and voice solutions.

• 20 Jul 2022

Ericsson finally gets US green light to complete Vonage acquisition

The day after disappointing investors once more, Swedish kit vendor Ericsson delivered news it hopes will cheer them up a bit.

• 15 Jul 2022

BT looks to India to plug digital skills gap

UK incumbent BT has launched a recruitment drive for its fledgling Digital division that will grow its headcount by 2,800 people, with only the minority being UK-based.

• 13 Jul 2022

Vodafone and Google’s new mega AI is the best of big tech and telco collaboration

AI Booster can handle thousands of machine learning tasks a day and will ‘have a considerable impact on people’s roles, learning, and ways of working’ at UK operator Vodafone.

• 06 Jul 2022

Telekom Malaysia and Cisco partner on 5G-as-a-service

Malaysia has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to 5G, but incumbent Telekom Malaysia (TM) has struck a deal that could help it recover some lost ground.

• 05 Jul 2022

5G and edge computing: the winning formula to deliver private networks

Telcos are now looking to private 5G deployments to accelerate their return on investment (ROI) in the network, bringing the technology closer to those that can consume it.

• 04 Jul 2022

Cisco to pull out of Russia and Belarus for good

Having stopped operations in Russia and Belarus in the early stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in March, US networking outfit Cisco has decided to withdraw permanently.

• 24 Jun 2022

BT is building out ‘self-healing’ capabilities to its tech estate

UK telco group BT has drafted in Dynatrace to upgrade its service management stack with AI and automation fault detection tools, ahead of a larger deployment of ‘self-healing capabilities’.

• 23 Jun 2022

Ericsson, TIM and Comau build experimental ‘factory of the future‘

Italian operator Tim, kit vendor Ericsson and automation/robotics firm Comau promise ‘innovative solutions for Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing’ thanks to some 5G network slicing.

• 16 Jun 2022

Nokia teams up with LS Electrics to build new industrial smart stuff

Kit Vendor Nokia has teamed up with South Korean firm LS Electronics – which specialises in fields such as automation, smart power and smart transportation – to come up with new industrial tech.

• 16 Jun 2022

Telefónica creates platform for second-hand network kit

Spanish operator group Telefónica wants other telcos including its own operating companies (opcos) to reuse its network equipment.

• 16 Jun 2022

UK government invokes Thatcher to push new digital strategy

The UK government has published its latest Digital Strategy which, as usual, is more about ambition and buzzwords than it is action.

• 13 Jun 2022

Telefonica forms Spanish solar energy JV with Repsol

Spanish telco group Telefonica is getting into the solar self-consumption game through a joint venture with compatriot Repsol.

• 13 Jun 2022

Telefónica jostles for position in the metaverse

Telefónica Chairman José María Álvarez-Pallete says ‘the metaverse will be the most profound change the Internet has undergone’ – but is it time the telecoms sector got specific as to what its place is in all this?

• 09 Jun 2022

TIM job cuts could ultimately save a fortune

TIM has reportedly reached agreement with workers unions that will enable it to shed as many as 1,200 jobs, a move that will help it to shave a significant sum from its domestic staffing costs.

• 08 Jun 2022

BT beefs up its Industry 4.0 toolkit with Ericsson deal

UK telco group BT has signed a new deal with Finnish kit vendor Ericsson which will provide it with new private 5G network services for factories, warehouses, retail and others industry customers.

• 31 May 2022

Amdocs to acquire Mycom OSI for $188 million

Israeli telecoms software firm Amdocs has agreed to buy UK based Mycom OSI, which specialises in cloud-native assurance applications for 5G networks and wireline operator networks.

• 25 May 2022