World Communication Awards 2026: Your chance to celebrate excellence
For more than two decades, the World Communication Awards (WCAs) has set the global benchmark for excellence, innovation, and leadership across the telecoms industry.
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VMO2’s outlines new ‘Responsible Business Plan’
This week, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has revealed its ‘Responsible Business Plan’, its ESG blueprint for the next half of the decade.
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Meta failed to prevent under-13s from accessing Instagram and Facebook, EU finds
The European Commission accused Meta of “failing to diligently identify, assess and mitigate the risks of minors under 13 years old accessing their services”
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EE upgrades Scam Guard with AI Triple-Lock Protection
EE has today unveiled an all-new and upgraded Scam Guard, its most powerful and comprehensive fraud protection service to date.
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Indosat going ‘all in’ on AI as a transformative force for Indonesia
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison CEO Vikram Sinha is positioning the company as a key enabler in the island nation’s AI renaissance
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VMO2’s AI flags over 1bn scam calls to O2 customers
Virgin Media O2 has reached a major milestone in its fight against fraudsters, after using AI to successfully label more than 1 billion suspected scam and spam calls to O2 customers.
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Terrapinn acquires FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage
Terrapinn, the global events company, is delighted to announce the acquisition of FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage from Conference Concepts Inc.
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State broadband leaders to gather at Connected America 2026
Brandy Reitter, executive director of the Colorado Broadband Office, will be joined by counterparts Oklahoma and Texas.
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Texas broadband power players will headline at Connected America
An impressive arrangement of local and state broadband leaders from the Lone Star State will take center stage at Connected America in Texas.
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Global tech giants combine to create Trusted Tech Alliance
Fifteen international tech giants have joined forces to lunch the Trusted Tech Alliance, an initiative aimed at promoting transparency and trust across the tech sector.
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Openreach launches app to keep engineers safe from abuse
Openreach has announced the launch of a new worker safety app aimed at tackling the rampant abuse its engineers face while on the job.
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Iran jams Starlink, enters fourth day of internet blackout
News ‘Military grade’ signal jamming is reportedly being used to cripple the satellite...
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ASA bans Vodafone’s ‘Nation’s Network’ ads following EE complaint
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Vodafone’s use of the slogan “The Nation’s Network” in a series of UK adverts was potentially misleading, and has banned the campaign, finding the tagline could be read as an unsubstantiated claim of comparative superiority over rival mobile networks.
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World Communication Award Winners 2025
World Communication Awards Total Telecom is thrilled to unveil the exceptional winners of the 2025...
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Kyivstar, Google to build sovereign Ukrainian LLM
Kyivstar and Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation have chosen Google’s Gemma model and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI to form the technical backbone of a national large language model (LLM) intended to capture the breadth of Ukrainian dialects, terminology, and history.
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Make construction sexy again? One CEO thinks it’s time
Trent Edwards used to climb telephone poles. Now he’s the CEO of TAK Broadband, bringing with him an appreciation for network builders and the often-dangerous work they perform.
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Ofcom fines Virgin Media £23.8m over digital landline migration
Ofcom has imposed a £23.8 million fine on Virgin Media, marking the largest financial penalty the regulator has issued this year, due to the telecoms giant’s mishandling of vulnerable customers during its planned migration from analogue to digital landline services.
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Copper thieves see Optus stung by yet another network outage
Optus has suffered yet another network outage, this time impacting around 14,000 customers in southeast Melbourne.
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Verizon to cut 15,000 jobs
Reuters is reporting that Verizon’s new CEO plans to cut 15,000 jobs at the company, reducing non-union management ranks by a fifth
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Microsoft launches Project Gecko to produce AI systems in low-resourced languages
Microsoft has unveiled Project Gecko, a research-driven initiative aimed at producing cheaper, localised generative AI systems for populations under‑represented in current models , starting with smallholder farmers in Kenya and India.
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