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CityFibre challenges Ofcom ruling on Openreach FTTP pricing

CityFibre wants Ofcom to backtrack on its decision to let Openreach offer lower prices and long lock-in periods for its wholesale FTTP services.

• 09 Dec 2021

South Korea nudges UK government on behalf of Samsung Networks

Samsung’s effort to challenge Ericsson and Nokia in Europe might get a helping hand from the UK government.

• 30 Nov 2021

US puts smartphone spyware company NSO on its entity list

NSO Group’s Pegasus software is accused of enabling phone hacking by certain regimes, so the US has decided to try to drive it out of business.

• 04 Nov 2021

Global 5G connections set to break the billion mark next year

5G connections will reach well over 1 billion next year, despite the threat of component shortages hitting the supply chain this Christmas, according to new analyst forecasts.

• 21 Oct 2021

Orange has to spend more to boost loss-making banking business

Orange is taking sole control of its banking endeavour as well as feigning enthusiasm for ploughing extra cash into the outfit.

• 04 Oct 2021

Are big Internet events getting you in trouble? Flow Analytics to the rescue!

This Vendor View is sponsored by Benocs Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever done a great job on something, only to be blind-sided with blame when something unexpected or out of your control goes wrong? Then perhaps you could relate to this story. As a part of their job, Network Engineers are […]

• 01 Oct 2021

Liberty LatAm spends $200m on America Movil’s Panama ops

Liberty Latin America has agreed to acquire America Movil’s operations in Panama for US$200 million, boosting its existing presence in the country.

• 17 Sep 2021

Facebook launches a pair of spy shades

Internet giant Facebook has teamed up with Ray-Ban to launch a pair of shades that not only hide your eyes but enable you to surreptitiously record video.

• 10 Sep 2021

Veon flogs its Russian towers for nearly $1 billion

Netherlands-based operator group Veon has joined the broader trend by selling its mobile towers in Russia to passive infrastructure specialist Service-Telecom.

• 06 Sep 2021

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• 01 Sep 2021

Smartphone growth returns after Covid blip

Global smartphone shipments are set to increase by 7.4% this year, marking a return to growth after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the industry in 2020, according to new analyst figures.

• 31 Aug 2021

US government co-opts big tech into cybersecurity initiative

Google, Microsoft, AWS, Apple and IBM have all pledged to collaborate with the US government to improve cyber security.

• 26 Aug 2021

5G smartphone share of global total set to double this year

New research from analyst firm Omdia reckons the 5G smartphone installed base will approach half of the total by the end of this year.

• 24 Aug 2021

SK’s ‘Square’ spin-off targets semiconductor M&A

SK Telecom has named its planned spin-off company SK Square and provided some additional detail on the new venture, chief among which is its intention to invest heavily in the semiconductor space.

• 17 Aug 2021

Vodafone on the front foot with new UK 5G standalone pilot

A year after it claimed a UK first with a 5G standalone network trial, Vodafone has announced that it is running a commercial pilot of the technology in three major cities.

• 24 Jun 2021

Insurer Aviva gets in on UK autonomous vehicle project

Aviva is joining a UK autonomous vehicle project in a bid to capture data that will enable it to insure such driverless vehicles when the time comes.

• 04 Jun 2021

American Tower does €1.6 billion deal with CDPQ to fund Telxius buy

American Tower has agreed to sell a big chunk of its European business to Canada’s CDPQ to help it fund the acquisition of Telefonica’s towers business.

• 06 May 2021

New telecoms infrastructure investor spends £300m in Czech Republic and Norway

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched investment trust, has picked up its first two investments, a mobile towers business in the Czech Republic and a fibre network in Norway.

• 05 May 2021

FTC finally throws in the towel over Qualcomm antitrust case

The US Federal Trade Commission reckons Qualcomm’s licensing practices are anticompetitive, but not much of the legal profession agrees.

• 30 Mar 2021

Pension fund backs KPN’s €1.2 billion fibre plan

KPN has unveiled a new plan to roll out fibre to the best part of 1 million premises in underserved areas at a cost of €1.2 billion, but will share the financial burden with pension fund APG.

• 23 Mar 2021