Deutsche Telekom hits 5G target, repeats itself on fibre
Deutsche Telekom is rounding out 2020 with an upbeat announcement on its achievements and ambitions in 5G and FTTH. The trouble is, we already knew most of it.
Deutsche Telekom is rounding out 2020 with an upbeat announcement on its achievements and ambitions in 5G and FTTH. The trouble is, we already knew most of it.
18 million of Deutsche Telekom’s fixed-line voice customers will soon have their service transferred to a new cloud-based telephony platform.
Nokia has landed another optical transport networking deal with the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the world’s biggest power company.
The Canadian government has completed a review of wholesale rates instigated by the country’s main fixed-line providers and it looks like they are coming out on top.
Altice has struck a deal with US investment bank Morgan Stanley which will see its Portuguese unit create a nationwide wholesale business.
Vodafone has lodged a complaint with the Competition Appeal Tribunal, challenging new rules which it believes will give Openreach too much opportunity to abuse customers.
UK fixed-line wholesaler Openreach has launched an industry consultation into the switch to ‘full fibre’, which would involve retiring the legacy copper one.
Ofcom has started including Vodafone’s broadband and landline services among its complaints data and they top both categories.
Some UK officials had a bit of a think about telecoms infrastructure and were so pleased with the outcome they wrote it down and published it.
Six months after proposing a compromise between full dark fibre access and full managed service, Openreach has formally launched ‘virtual dark fibre’.
Networking vendor Nokia is increasingly starting to look like a chipset company, with its third major chip launch in the past year.
Telecom Italia has announced it will start reviewing a potential spin-off of its fixed-line business to address concerns of the Italian government and offer more freedom in the content game.
Having successfully resisted pressure to provide full dark fibre access to high bandwidth customers, Openreach is proposing a managed but scalable alternative.
CK Hutchison, parent company of British serial moaner Three, has agreed to sell its fixed network in Hong Kong in order to focus more acutely on the mobile space.
Nokia seems to have decided that the best PR strategy for Mobile World Congress is to issue at least one press release a day for the whole of February.
China Unicom has reported a mixed back of results for the first six months of 2016, with strong performances relating to 4G, data centres and ICT, however profit declined by 79% year-on-year.
Private equity fund TPG Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire broadband providers RCN Telecommunications and Grande Communications for $2.25 billion.
Operator Vodafone has made a major play for the UK consumer fixed line market by announcing the abolition of line rental charges on its fibre broadband service.
Telcos have accounted for roughly 50% of growth in the media and communications industry, which stood at a £0.4 billion increase to £56 billion, a rise of 0.9%.
The European Commission has approved the creation of a joint venture in the Netherlands by mobile telecom operator Vodafone and cable company Liberty Global.
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