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Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Back in August, the US State Department expanded what it calls the ‘Clean Network’ initiative, a far-reaching network security strategy that would see Chinese companies [...]

Byline: posted by Indigo Telecom Group Fuelled by the accelerated global deployment of next-generation networks, Indigo Telecom Group is planning a new phase of growth through further acquisition and workforce [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Like every industry around the world, the telecoms industry has had to pivot rapidly to face the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. A near universal [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Singtel has today announced its role in a consortium of Asian telcos set to build a new APAC submarine cable. The Asia Direct Cable is planned [...]

Byline: Total Telecom Staff Belgian telecom operator Proximus launched its 5G telecoms services today, the first operator to do so in the country, while also announcing plans to cut its [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Since the weekend, a whole host of companies dropping out of MWC over fears of the coronavirus.  Perhaps the headline cancelation is Tier One operator NTT [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Increased competition and uncertainty has slowed the growth of some of Europe’s largest telecoms companies. Nonetheless, at an Orange Europe event in London yesterday, a [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Ofcom announced today they are planning to ban mobile firms selling ‘locked’ phones. The decision follows reforms introduced in July that mandated the removal of [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom Samsung Electronics announced on Friday that it will be supplying Videotron with dual-band radio and massive MIMO stations that support LTE connectivity in the first [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom India's third largest mobile network operator, Bharti Airtel, has announced plans to raise over $3 billion, as it looks to begin making payment of outstanding [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly Mobile subscribers in India could be about to see their monthly tariffs skyrocket as all three of the country’s mobile network operators revealed plans to increase their [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has confirmed that it will hold an auction for low and mid band 5G spectrum in the spring of 2020.The [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, for Total Telecom BSNL may turn to the market to borrow 120 billion rupees (US$1.7 billion) to finance a major expansion plan designed to turn around its [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom Alaskan based telecommunications provider, Quintillion, has announced that it will collaborate with AP Telecom to lay a new subsea cable between Asia and North America.Quintillion [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom China Unicom is currently looking at the possibility of entering into network sharing agreements with China Mobile and China Telecom to expedite its 5G rollout [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom Indonesian telco, Indosat Ooredoo, is believed to be in talks to sell off over 3,000 of its telecoms tower assets.According to a report in the [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, for Total Telecom Less than a month after the conclusion of the high-spend German 5G auction, incumbent operator Deutsche Telekom has made its first 5G devices available [...]

Byline: posted by Intracom Telecom Intracom Telecom, a global telecommunication systems and solutions vendor, officially announced the opening of its subsidiary in Italy, true to its commitment and business planning [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, for Total Telecom KPN will not use Huawei, or indeed any Chinese equipment maker, to supply its 5G mobile core network, on security grounds.The Netherlands-based telco said [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom The Philippines' Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has revealed plans to install up to 50,000 telecoms towers across the country, through a series [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total TelecomDeutsche Telekom has suggested a new security certification process for mobile network equipment, which would allow telcos in Germany to continue to use products from Chinese [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total TelecomNorway's biggest telco, Telenor, has announced plans to expand its 5G pilot scheme, ahead of an intended 5G commercial rollout in 2020. The pilot will be conducted [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, for Total Telecom NTT Communications has secured planning permission for a sizeable new data centre in London and plans to start construction next month with a view [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, for Total Telecom Softbank has appointed major international banks to handle the flotation of its domestic operations, which could come before the end of the year.The Japanese [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom The US' second biggest telco by revenue, Verizon, is to make 44,000 people redundant, according to reports in the press.Verizon has offered a voluntary severance [...]

Byline: AT&T AT&T* is expanding AT&T Business Wi-Fi service with plans to add 60 countries, helping businesses stay connected and run critical operations. More countries will be added in the [...]

Byline: Nick Wood, for Total Telecom Orange Business Services (OBS) has added support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its portfolio as part of its ambitious plan to become a [...]

Byline: Nick Wood, for Total Telecom Not satisfied with shaking up India's mobile market, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Thursday confirmed plans to turn his attention to the fixed-line [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom Norwegian telco, Telenor, has been fined $96 million by Norway's national regulator for abusing its dominant market position, according to a report from Reuters.Norway's Competition [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and the soon-to-be-formed Idea Vodafone are set to recruit over 2,000 content specialists to help them monetise India's growing mobile date [...]

Byline: posted by Samantha from Realwire SatADSL, a provider of professional VSAT services via satellite, and Camtel – Cameroon’s national telecommunications provider – today announced a new partnership to provide [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom China's third largest telecoms operator, China Telecom, has posted a 3.3 per cent jump in net profits for 2017, as the company looks to continue [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom Orange is expanding its plan to bring solar energy to a swathe of countries across the African continent. Following successful implementation of the sustainable energy [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, for Total Telecom Charter Communications on Friday tasked Danny Bowman with launching and running the mobile business it plans to bring to market later this year.The U.S. [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom Telefonica is set to invest £5.2 billion (24 billion reals) rolling out full fibre broadband services in Brazil, according to a Reuters report. Telefonica Brasil [...]

Byline: posted by AT&T 2018 will be the year you can experience mobile 5G from AT&T*.We plan to offer mobile 5G to customers in a dozen cities, including parts of [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom BT has announced plans to step up its fight against cybercrime by sharing the data it collects with other internet service providers (ISPs). The UK's [...]

Byline: posted by Samantha from Realwire As the Middle East's equivalent of Silicon Valley, Jordan has been working hard for a long time to become a hub for information and [...]

Byline: Nick Wood, Total Telecom After years of hype about the life-changing possibilities promised by the next generation of mobile technology, it seems that end users' first taste of 5G [...]

Byline: Chris Kelly, Total Telecom Deutsche Telekom is pushing ahead with a plan to bring fibre to the home (FTTH) services to more remote regions in Germany, provided there is [...]

Byline: Nick Wood, Total Telecom Ofcom on Thursday launched a fresh attempt to force BT to offer dark fibre access (DFA).The U.K. telco regulator is also revoking measures it applied [...]

Byline: Nick Wood, Total Telecom A consortium led by Softbank is on the verge of investing as much as $10 billion (€8.59 billion) in Uber.According to a Reuters report on [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Consolidation in the Indian mobile market is progressing according to plan, executives from two of the country's operators said this week.Bharti Airtel will close its [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Telenor's latest Veon share sale sale is underway and will be the telco's last, since it plans to transfer its remaining stake in the telco [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) this week began the process of offloading its operations in Greece, giving would-be buyers two weeks to register their interest in [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Vodafone on Monday unveiled a plan to invest €2 billion in the roll out of high-speed broadband connections in Germany over four years, primarily targeting [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom SK Telecom on Monday took a step forward in its plans to develop real-time services when it announced that it has reduced latency over LTE [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom NBN on Wednesday said it would not consent to Telstra's plan to generate up to A$5.5 billion in cash from its predicted future revenues from [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Elisa on Tuesday detailed plans to roll out a '5G-ready' network covering the city of Tampere over the next six months. The Finnish telco said [...]

Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Comcast's new mobile phone services is now available nationwide, the U.S. cable operator announced late last week.The firm unveiled its WiFi-first mobile offering earlier this [...]