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.
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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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
BT makes some promises to business customers in new ‘charter’
BT has unveiled a new ‘charter’ for business customers, which is a grand way of saying it has published a series of intentions regarding research investment and commitments to roll out new services in the future.
Ericsson doubles down on enterprise with $6.2 billion acquisition of Vonage
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has made its biggest ever acquisition in the form of cloud unified communications provider Vonage.
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.
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.
NTT unveils “global” private 5G network
Japanese telecoms group offers cross-border 5G network-as-a-service platform but keeps schtum on ecosystem partners.
Samsung and IBM team up to tap private 5G opportunities
The two tech giants are collaborating to develop new edge computing, cloud, and private 5G solutions targeted at the enterprise market.
Rakuten defends its record and promises more disruptions
Japan’s disruptive greenfield operator has defended its underwhelming subscriber growth and declared it is prepared to disrupt more markets.
NBN treads on big telco toes with business fibre offer
NBN Co has unveiled a new A$700 million investment plan to provide fibre to businesses that could shake up competition in the Australian enterprise services market.
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.
Telstra: COVID-19 is forcing companies to become cloud-first
Cloud computing was a major trend prior to COVID-19, however 93% of IT decision makers are accelerating cloud adoption programmes as a result of the pandemic.
Facebook reignites the fires of its Workplace unit
Facebook has announced its challenge to the video-conferencing segment and a reignition of its venture into the world of collaboration and productivity.
Taste of remote working whets employee appetites for more – O2
Research from O2’s enterprise business unit suggests the UK’s eyes have been opened to the benefits of working from home and employees want the temporary measures to remain, post-coronavirus.
CSPs are being cut out of enterprise 5G projects – study
A new bit of research conducted by Omdia and BearingPoint//Beyond has found that only a small proportion of B2B 5G deals are being done by operators.
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