All Network & Infrastructure articles – Page 5
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodafone goes nuclear with Czech 5G MPN launch
5G SA private network deployed at Czech nuclear power plant, with testing to define future installation projects.
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People
Alpen Glasfaser ‘completes’ management team with A1 CFO hire
Magenta Telekom and Meridiam’s Austrian fibre joint venture hires exec from arch-rival A1 to lead its finance function.
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Strategy & Change
Telefónica CEO pledges commitment to Brazil after meet-up with president
José María Álvarez-Pallete expresses confidence in Brazil’s telecoms market during trip to meet the country’s President.
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Innovation (R&D)
T-Mobile tests wireless lasercomms tech for 5G boost at festivals
Transcelestial says its devices improved connectivity for T-Mobile users at two music festivals.
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Public Affairs
Safaricom ‘calls for’ mandated MNO–SatCo partnerships as Starlink expands in Africa
Reports indicate Kenyan operator is pushing local Communications Authority to consider blocking solo foreign SatCo entrants and oblige them to form partnerships with licence-holding MNOs.
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Network & Infrastructure
euNetworks lands €2.1bn to spend on European data centre comms play
Stonepeak, APG, and IMCO involved as London-based comms infra group completes a revamp of its finance base.
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Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: Openreach simplifies, MAUD levels up, EE adds parental guidance
Latest from BT and its ecosystem, including: content delivery network level-up with Edgio trials; Openreach restructures for complex fibre builds; SWAN passes migration milestone; EE warns of smartphone risks for kids…
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Venturing & Investments
Fibrus bags £100m, eyes positive EBITDA in 2025
Fibrus Co-Founder and CEO Dominic Kearns tells TelcoTitans that the operator is focused on its current build plan, growing its retail customer connections (including off-net forays in NI and Cumbria), and achieving the “milestone” of positive EBITDA in 2025.
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Network & Infrastructure
Italian upstarts Phoenix and Iliad team up on towers
Phoenix Tower scores a hit on larger Italian rivals Cellnex and INWIT through a site management and buildout contract with fourth MNO Iliad.
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People
Openreach simplifies exec team to navigate ‘very complex’ fibre build
Chief Engineer Andy Whale takes on leadership of new Complex Engineering department, bringing together complex fibre and Ethernet build teams.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone firms up 1&1 deal; start of huge user transfer ‘near’
Vodafone Germany to begin carrying 1&1 traffic from later this week, as part of national roaming tie-up announced last year.
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Weekly Briefings
Infrawatch Weekly: CityFibre’s Sky swoop; altnet financial ups and downs; Euro data centre cashouts
Latest from digital infra scene in UK and beyond, including: UK fibre altnets posting substantial losses but building up valuable assets; signs that direction of UK state infra investment may be getting a rethink; European data centre sales plans; latest people moves, and plenty more…
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone linked to 5G SA network plan in Uzbekistan
Local reports suggest Vodafone could lend its know-how and brand to a new 5G SA network in Uzbekistan, and would join partner and shareholder e& in supporting the effort.
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M&A
Telefónica, Asterion ‘pick out top suitors’ for data centre sale
Pair said to have selected Goldman Sachs, Igneo Infrastructure Partners, and Wren House among candidates for purchase of data centre player Nabiax.
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Network & Infrastructure
Magyar Telekom gives 2G a stay of execution through expanded Yettel tie-up
Having shut down 3G in 2022, Hungarian operator looks to have found a solution to the more complex puzzle of 2G asset retirement with a deal to outsource management of its early-generation services to rival Yettel.
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Network & Infrastructure
Ready when you are: Blue Planet’s OSS supergroup
Blue Planet is in no doubt it has the technology to take telcos’ operational systems to the cloud and AI, but considered just as important is confidence in people and commitment to translate capability into meaningful customer benefits.
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Network & Infrastructure
CityFibre adds ‘kingmaker’ Sky in fibre wholesale offensive
UK’s largest altnet signs wholesale deal with Sky, making a dent in Openreach dominance and pushing further the claim of genuine competition to the incumbent. Sky commits to rental economics, while CityFibre leverages Project Gigabit fame to help ISPs to new full-fibre markets…
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M&A
UK’s Arcus buys Polish fibre challenger
London-based infra investor takes control of FixMap, a prolific roller-upper of smaller fibre players in the country, run by a former exec of incumbent Orange Poland.
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Network & Infrastructure
Spain’s Sateliot says space-based IoT platform is ready to go
Barcelona-based New Space startup looks in position to start serving customers, and potentially build on tie-ups with the likes of Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica, after a four-satellite launch.
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Network & Infrastructure
Trooli CEO: UK’s Project Gigabit scheme will ‘come into its own’
Talking to Zen’s Richard Tang, Trooli CEO Andy Conibere praised the work of the government’s BDUK in stimulating an altnet industry.