Semiconductors, 6G and biopharma: Samsung’s $206bn 3-year plan
Samsung Electronics has outlined its key areas for investment over the next three years
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Djibouti Telecom upgrades DARE1 cable with Ciena tech
Deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme solution should double line rates to 400 Gbps
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SoftBank invests in booming Africa-focussed fintech company OPay
OPay’s latest round of financing values the company at over $2 billion, just three years after the company’s launch
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Telia and Ekobot team up for 5G farming robot
The autonomous robots will eliminate weeds on agricultural land, reducing the reliance on chemical herbicides
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“Harvesting good ideas”: Connected Britain’s Local Authority Forum
We spoke to Paul Armstrong, Head of Digital Innovation at North Tyneside Council, to discuss the upcoming Local Authority Forum and why an open discourse is so vital to digital success
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The CMA has “serious concerns” over Nvidia–Arm merger
The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) says the deal “raises serious competition concerns” and warrants a more details investigation
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APT teams up with Ericsson for Taiwan’s first 5G multi-operator core network
The move will significantly modernise Asia-Pacific Telecom (APT)’s network infrastructure, allowing it to dynamically operate between 4G and 5G networks
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Is SpaceX’s Starlink constellation on a collision course?
New research suggests that Starlink satellites are involved in around 50% of all close encounters between spacecraft every week, a figure that will surely increase as the constellation continues to grow
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FTC again aims at breaking up Facebook’s social network monopoly
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has refiled an antitrust complaint against the social media giant, claiming it resorts to unlawful measures to maintain its market dominance
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GM to produce 5G-connected cars in 2023 with AT&T
General Motors (GM) are expanding their partnership with AT&T, bringing “5G cellular connectivity to millions of GM vehicles coming off the assembly line over the next decade”
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Vocus completes Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable with latest subsea link
The Australian fibre specialist says the new connection will establish Darwin, the Northern Territory capital, “as Australia’s newest entry point for international data connectivity”
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Subsea cables and data centres: An evolution in interconnection
We spoke to Mike Hollands, Senior Director Market Development at Interxion: A Digital Realty Company, about recent trends in the submarine cable and data centre industries and what we can expect from the future
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Telstra offers employees A$200 to get fully vaccinated
Telstra CEO Andy Penn announced the incentive to staff in an email on Monday, saying that the company had an “important nation-building role to play”
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AT&T partner University of Tennessee for 5G and edge research
The new partnership will establish a 5G test bed on the campus, aiming to tackle real-world problems like rural 5G deployment
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Scottish govt retenders WAN contract worth £350m
The new procurement contract for the Scottish wide-area network (SWAN) will begin in 2023
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Qualcomm launches 5G drone platform
Qualcomm’s new Flight RB5 5G platform will use 5G and AI to enable customers to process drone-derived data at the edge of the network
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Etisalat reaches 53% stake in Maroc Telecom in $505m deal
The deal increases Etisalat’s stake in the Moroccan operator from 48.4% to 53%
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Facebook and co to add additional branches to 2Africa cable system
Facebook has announced plans to add four new branches to the pan-African submarine cable system, which is already one of the largest in the world
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T-Mobile latest telco to suffer mammoth data breach
The operator says it is still investigating the severity of the data breach, with reports suggesting that data from more than 100 million customers could have been compromised
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Syniverse SPAC merger will see firm go public
The merger with the blank check company gives the company an enterprise value of $2.85 billion
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