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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

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