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Microsoft CEO says tech sector is ‘unforgiving’ in culling 10,000 staff

Employees at Microsoft this week learned a harsh lesson from CEO Satya Nadella about the fickle nature of the tech industry.

• 19 Jan 2023

Lights out for Lumen in EMEA

UK-based Colt Technology Services this week agreed to pay $1.8bn for US counterpart Lumen’s Europe, Middle East and Africa business.

• 03 Nov 2022

The Telecoms.com Podcast: 5G, Vodafone/Three and Orange

We’re delighted to welcome special guest Gabriel Brown to the pod this week. He is an analyst at Heavy Reading, specialising in mobile infrastructure, so the guys take the opportunity to pick his brains about the latest developments in 5G. They move on to dissect the big news story of the week – the potential merger of UK mobile operators Vodafone and Three – before finishing with a quick recap of Iain’s recent trip to France with Orange.

• 05 Oct 2022

T-Mobile US introduces off the shelf 5G solutions for industry niches

US operator T-Mobile has launched a suite of ‘ready-to-deploy’ solutions for smart cities and businesses operating in the retail, manufacturing, and logistics sectors.

• 29 Sep 2022

Deploying private networks: 3 challenges for enterprises

All of a sudden, we’re asking enterprise’s IT departments to understand how mobile network technology works, when in reality, telco and IT are two different languages.

• 20 Sep 2022

Bharti Airtel taps up IBM for enterprise edge compute services

As India finally enters the 5G era, Bharti Airtel is keen to push on with an accompanying edge deployment.

• 14 Sep 2022

TalkTalk bolsters wholesale ops with two new divisions

Following its recent shopping spree, UK ISP TalkTalk is having a reshuffle in an effort to tap growing demand for high-bandwidth fibre and Ethernet services.

• 13 Sep 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

‘Staying afloat’ is the priority of a quarter of UK SMEs – Vodafone

Far from setting their sights on world domination, a survey by UK operator Vodafone asserts that the thing many small businesses in the UK are most focussed on currently is simply not going out of business.    

• 23 Jun 2022

Seven in 10 UK businesses reckon 5G will help them compete

The telco industry’s incessant 5G marketing efforts appear to be winning the hearts and minds of enterprises, if the results of a new survey are to be believed.

• 23 Jun 2022

Five trends defining enterprise 5G in 2022

The world of industrial 5G faces significant challenges, despite healthy levels of investment and interest in emerging use cases across industries.

• 20 Jun 2022

BT partners with MTN to offer business services across Africa

UK operator group BT has embarked on a rare foreign adventure by partnering with the B2B arm of pan-African operator group MTN.

• 27 May 2022

Ericsson, Nokia and Dell help T-Mobile US tap 5G enterprise opportunity

T-Mobile US has launched a raft of new enterprise 5G services in partnership with some big industry names, aiming to capture the much-hyped revenue opportunity in this space.

• 24 May 2022

Nokia expands enterprise offering with new 5G gizmos and digital twin product

The Finnish kit vendor has unveiled a new spread of 5G enabled industrial equipment and an accompanying Nokia Network Digital Twin service to create virtual replicas of workspaces.

• 24 May 2022

Telefónica Tech and Oracle strike global cloud deal

The stars of telecoms and public cloud continue to align, as Spanish telecoms group Telefónica took its partnership with Oracle to the next level.

• 11 Feb 2022

DT and Ericsson launch new 5G SA campus offering

Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have partnered on a new standalone 5G private campus network offering, aimed at on-site business communication infrastructure.

• 31 Jan 2022

Samsung starts commercial 5G trials in Vietnam

Tech giant Samsung and operator Viettel have begun 5G commercial trials in Da Nang, central Vietnam.

• 13 Dec 2021

China to bolster chip self-sufficiency with new Shanghai facility

China’s biggest chipmaker will be part of a joint investment of $8.87 billion to build a new fab facility in Shanghai to reduce the country’s reliance on overseas foundries.

• 06 Sep 2021

Verizon launches private edge compute platform with Microsoft, as promised

Verizon is furthering its push into the private mobile networks space by making available a private mobile edge cloud computing solution to businesses.

• 01 Sep 2021

Comcast Business gets a leg up with Masergy buy

Comcast Business has agreed to buy SDN and cloud specialist Masergy for an undisclosed sum, a move that should give it a lift in the enterprise services space.

• 26 Aug 2021