Mary Lennighan, Author at Total Telecom

Orange launches in Sierra Leone

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 18, 2017 | TECHNOLOGY, 5G, FTTX, AI, Cloud, IoT, Open RAN, Security, Middle East & Africa, News

Operator group introduces its brand to the Sierra Leone business it acquired last year

A1 Telekom Austria CEO quits

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 18, 2017 | Skills, Diversity & Inclusion, People, COMPANY NEWS, SOCIETY, Europe, News

Margarete Schramböck leaves Austrian incumbent after just 18 months in top job

Italy uses golden power to control TIM

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 17, 2017 | COMPANY NEWS, Governance, Europe, News

Rome stops short of asking for separation of telecoms incumbent’s network assets

NBN connects 3m premises, addresses litany of complaints

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 17, 2017 | Subsea, INFRASTRUCTURE, Satellite, Towers, Data Centres, Networks, Wholesale, Asia-Pacific, Virtualisation, News

Australian broadband network company says it is working hard to improve customer experience, communications with retail partners

AT&T linked with Mexican fixed-line firm buy

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 17, 2017 | Investment, Subsea, M&A, INFRASTRUCTURE, Satellite, COMPANY NEWS, Towers, Data Centres, Networks, Wholesale, Virtualisation, Latin America, News

Axtel has hired bankers to explore possible sale, sources say

AT&T to get Brazil watchdog OK for Time Warner deal

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 17, 2017 | TECHNOLOGY, 5G, Industry 4.0, Public Sector, AI, Digital Divide, COMPANY NEWS, Products & Services, Customer, Cloud, SOCIETY, Governance, IoT, ENTERPRISE, Latin America, News

CADE due to issue ruling on mega-merger on Wednesday, according to local press

UK govt pledges £25m for 5G trials

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 16, 2017 | Investment, TECHNOLOGY, 5G, M&A, FTTX, COMPANY NEWS, AI, Cloud, IoT, Open RAN, Security, Europe, News

U.K. calls on interested parties to submit proposals for £5-million blocks of funding

Tata, Bharti exploring TV merger

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 16, 2017 | Industry 4.0, TECHNOLOGY, 5G, Public Sector, AI, Digital Divide, Products & Services, Cloud, SOCIETY, Customer, IoT, ENTERPRISE, Asia-Pacific, News

Merged entity would become Indian DTH market leader, according to local news report

Bharti, Millicom close Ghana deal, name new CEO

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 16, 2017 | Skills, TECHNOLOGY, 5G, Diversity & Inclusion, FTTX, COMPANY NEWS, People, AI, SOCIETY, Cloud, IoT, Open RAN, Security, Middle East & Africa, News

Tigo Ghana chief executive to lead merged entity, which becomes market’s number two player

Sprint, T-Mo gearing up for regulatory battle

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 16, 2017 | Investment, TECHNOLOGY, 5G, FTTX, M&A, AI, COMPANY NEWS, Cloud, Governance, IoT, Open RAN, Security, North America, News

U.S. telcos will not include proposed asset sales in merger agreement, sources say, but regulators will likely ask for spectrum divestments

TIM makes golden power notification

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 13, 2017 | COMPANY NEWS, Governance, Europe, News

Italian telco says it is merely seeking to comply with the law; it does not believe it is required to make any such notification

A man walks into a bar…A tale of telecom investment woes

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 13, 2017 | Investment, Subsea, M&A, INFRASTRUCTURE, Satellite, COMPANY NEWS, Towers, Data Centres, Governance, Networks, Wholesale, Virtualisation, Europe, News

Telcos, policymakers and industry watchers come together to debate the investment and regulatory climate facing European operators. Ultimately, fair regulation is in the eye of the beholder

Europe could learn from India on spectrum allocation – Vodafone

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 13, 2017 | TECHNOLOGY, 5G, FTTX, COMPANY NEWS, AI, Cloud, Governance, IoT, Open RAN, Security, Europe, News

Telco highlights fragmented nature of European telecoms market; calls for longer licence durations to enable operators to have the confidence to invest in 5G

Bharti buys Tata’s mobile operations

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 12, 2017 | 5G, Investment, Skills, TECHNOLOGY, FTTX, M&A, Diversity & Inclusion, COMPANY NEWS, AI, People, Cloud, SOCIETY, IoT, Asia-Pacific, Open RAN, Security, News

Indian mobile heavyweight to subsume Tata’s customers, spectrum across 19 circles; Tata considering merging enterprise and fixed ops with other group businesses

SDN will bring Doom for consumers and revenues for telcos

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 12, 2017 | TECHNOLOGY, 5G, Subsea, Industry 4.0, INFRASTRUCTURE, Satellite, Public Sector, AI, Towers, Digital Divide, Products & Services, SOCIETY, Customer, Cloud, Data Centres, IoT, Networks, ENTERPRISE, Wholesale, Virtualisation, Europe, News

Telecoms operators should be preparing their networks for multiple 4K screens per household and new bandwidth business models based on SDN, according to Adtran exec

AT&T warns of earnings hit, video customer losses in Q3

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 12, 2017 | TECHNOLOGY, 5G, Investment, Industry 4.0, M&A, Public Sector, Products & Services, AI, Digital Divide, COMPANY NEWS, SOCIETY, Customer, Cloud, IoT, ENTERPRISE, North America, News

U.S. telco reports further video customer losses, says recent hurricanes will impact on third and fourth quarter numbers

European telcos ‘ready’ for 5G, but financial questions remain

Posted by Mary Lennighan | Oct 11, 2017 | TECHNOLOGY, 5G, Subsea, INFRASTRUCTURE, FTTX, Satellite, AI, Towers, Cloud, Data Centres, IoT, Networks, Open RAN, Wholesale, Security, Virtualisation, Europe, News

Portugal Telecom warns of need to amortise 4G assets, Telefonica addresses density of IoT devices, and Tele2 predicts 5G will bring further consolidation in European telecoms industry