Saudi Telecom Company (stc) and Belgian carrier BICS say they have set up the first-ever intercontinental 5G Standalone roaming connection between two live networks in Europe and the Middle East.
Belgium’s big three mobile operators have shared the spoils in the country’s recent auction of 1400 MHz spectrum, a process that brought in an extra €216.5 million for state coffers.
Belgian operator Proximus is working with investment partners that it hopes will help it spend €4 billion on the roll out of new fibre to premises not covered by its existing plans.
Proximus has announced that it may seek to list TeleSign, as it seeks to drive growth at the business while also keeping control.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Proximus earnings slip in Q2; Sparkle teams up with Google on subsea links; Orange sets targets.
Proximus is taking sole control of international carrier business BICS, 15 years after it created the company via a merger with Swisscom.
Youfone will launch fixed and mobile services in Belgium in April, having brokered a wholesale deal with incumbent operator Proximus.
Nokia has nabbed another 5G contract with Proximus, securing a deal to supply RAN equipment for the operator’s 5G network in Luxembourg, replacing Huawei in the process.
Proximus has agreed to spend €130 million to acquire virtual player Mobile Vikings, a move that will further its strategy of targeting various market segments with multiple brands.
The telecoms kit maker Nokia is chosen by Finnish Shared Networks to deploy 5G RAN in Northern and Eastern Finland, as well as replacing the existing 2G, 3G, and 4G networks deployed by Huawei five years ago.
Today has seen an avalanche of financials fall on the industry, as Orange, Proximus, Millicom, Ooredoo, Swisscom, Telenet and KPN all release earnings statements.
Belgian telco Proximus will halt 5G network deployment in the city of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve to hold a Town Hall to address all health concerns of citizens.
Belgian telco Proximus unveiled its four-pillar transformation strategy at its Capital Markets Day, which will partly be funded by a 20% cut to dividend payments.
The proposed network sharing joint venture between Orange and Proximus has been slowed as the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) launches an investigation.
Dominique Leroy was due to switch from Proximus to KPN but now she’s CEO of neither following an investigation into insider trading.
Dominique Leroy has played Benelux musical chairs by moving from Belgian Proximus to become Dutch KPN’s new CEO.
It might be a management consultant phrase, enough to have some clawing their eyes out, but coopetition is quickly becoming the norm as telcos drive towards the elusive goal of ROI.
Proximus has announced it will be the recipient of a €400 million loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out and upgrading of its fixed broadband infrastructure in Belgium.
Belgian telco Proximus has launched a new market research tool which is bound to irritate data privacy advocates before too long.
BICS, the international wholesale arm of Belgian operator Proximus, reckons it’s successfully launched the first fully end-to-end international VoLTE call between Europe and Asia.
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