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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

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

US Senators out to tear down the app store walls

A bipartisan Senate bill is introduced to boost competition in the mobile apps market with rules to restrict what Apple and Google can impose on developers and users.

• 12 Aug 2021

Exfo founder boosts offer to take company private

Germain Lamonde, who founded Canada’s communications-sector test, monitoring, and analytics equipment maker Exfo and is its majority shareholder, has boosted his offer to take the company private.

• 10 Aug 2021

Eurobites: BT boosts security offering for homeworker army

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Swisscom on a roll in H1; Brits watching even more telly in lockdown; UK operators get to grips with 5G.

• 05 Aug 2021

Inmarsat orchestrates new hybrid network

Satellite operator to invest $100m in at least 150 LEO satellites to create a multi-orbit constellation combined with a terrestrial 5G network.

• 30 Jul 2021

Lumen flogs its Latin American business for $2.7 billion

US B2B comms company has delivered on its promise to dispose of non-core assets by selling its LatAm operations to hedge fund Stonepeak.

• 27 Jul 2021

BT targets home office market with ‘unbreakable’ wifi

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.

• 07 Jun 2021

Tipping point for the telco sector

The future of enterprise networking is all about cloud, and connectivity is required that fits the bill, mirroring cloud’s ease of deployment and able to adapt to business needs at cloud speed.

• 19 May 2021

The Telecoms Data Imperative – The COVID Effect on the Pace of Change to Digital Transformation

While many things slowed down for businesses during the pandemic, digital transformation was not one of them. A McKinsey Global Survey of executives finds, for example, that companies accelerated the digitization of their customer and supply-chain interactions by three to four years and the share of digital or digitally enabled products by an astonishing seven years.

• 19 Apr 2021

Jeff Bezos signs off with aplomb

In his final letter to shareholders as CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos looked back on the achievements during his tenure, laid out visions on multiple fronts for the company, and defended its track record in labour relations.

• 16 Apr 2021

NEC teams up with Red Hat to deliver cloud native 5G solutions

The Japanese telecoms vendor NEC has brought its partnership with IBM-owned open source software solutions provider Red Hat up to date to deliver multicloud capable 5G solutions.

• 14 Apr 2021

Rakuten receives a $2 billion capital injection

The Japanese digital heavyweight Rakuten has sold 13% share, worth $2.2 billion to new investors to bolster its balance sheet and to finance more aggressive mobile rollout.

• 15 Mar 2021

Deutsche Messe turns to DT and Siemens for mega 5G campus

German operator Deutsche Telekom and industry juggernaut Siemens are going to build two separate private 5G networks on the ground of the Hanover trade fair.

• 18 Feb 2021

Owning the 5G enterprise opportunity

Where new revenue streams associated with 4G were predominantly consumer-oriented, the 5G opportunity is in industry applications.

• 15 Feb 2021

Germany likely to see many more private 5G networks

The German communications regulator has handed out over 70 licences to public and private sector applicants to build 5G campus networks. More applications are on the way.

• 25 Sep 2020

Ericsson drops $1.1 billion on enterprise connectivity provider Cradlepoint

The biggest piece of M&A in the Ekholm era is designed to bolster Ericsson’s direct-to-enterprise offering.

• 18 Sep 2020

Network-as-a-Service: Creating values for all parties

With COVID-19 forcing the majority of staff in many companies to work remotely for months on end, there is huge pressure on IT and network professionals to assure all corporate business and collaboration applications run as they should to meet employee and customer needs and expectations. Embracing digital innovation and leveraging cloud capabilities has become even more critical to address today’s new business demands.
Enterprises are looking to shore up the game by equipping themselves with intelligent, secure and more reliable network connections that meets their requirements. SD-WAN (“software-defined wide area network”) is the leading solution nowadays for this. While enterprises could choose to build their own SD-WAN by combining equipment, software and access technology by themselves, a growing number of organizations are turning to a more flexible and efficient solution: to buy the service from communications service providers (CSPs) as a “network as a service” (NaaS) solution.

• 16 Sep 2020