News The operator has gained access to all of the spectrum it purchased at auction roughly four months ahead of schedule Back in 2021, Verizon paid a whopping $45.5 billion at auction for 5G spectrum in the C-band, planning on using it at the backbone of their...
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BT and Qualcomm to combine for new 5G lab
News The two firms have been collaborating for over a decade on 4G and 5G innovations BT and Qualcomm Technologies have today announced the continuation of their long-term partnership with the opening of new 5G lab facilities in Qualcomm’s offices in Farnborough,...
Telesat signs historic satellite deal with MDA to build Lightspeed
News Telesat has awarded the contract to build 198 satellites its Lightspeed low Earth orbit (LEO) programme to space technology company MDA The contract is the largest in MDA’s history, being valued at around CA$2.1 billion (USD $1.56 billion), and will include the...
Sky Business considers buying up TalkTalk B2B unit
News TalkTalk’s Business Direct unit serves around 80,000 corporate customers and could carry a price tag of around £150 million According to reports, Sky Business is the latest company to have expressed an interest in acquiring TalkTalk’s B2B arm, TT Business...
Australian govt launches Telecommunications Disaster Resilience Innovation programme
News Grants of up to A$5 million (USD $3.24 million) will be available to projects that help to boost network reliability in the face of natural disasters This week, the Australian government has opened applications for the Telecommunications Disaster Resilience...
SK Telecom to invest $100m in AI firm Anthropic
News The investment is the second SK Telecom investment in the firm this year SK Telecom (SKT), South Korea’s largest telco, has announced that it will invest $100 million in US artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic to develop a multilingual large language...
Friday Financial roundup
News A summary of all the essential financial news in the telecoms world this week Huawei announces half year results In the first half of 2023, Huawei generated CNY310.9 billion in revenue, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%, and achieved a profit margin of 15%. ...
Verizon strikes $2.1bn Managed Network Services deal with HCLTech
News The partnership will see HCLTech become Verizon Business’s “primary Managed Network Services (MNS) collaborator” This week, Verizon Business has announced a major partnership with Indian ICT firm HCLTech that onlookers suggest could be worth up to $2.1 billion....
Cisco to buy-out Telenor from Working Group Two JV
News Cisco is set to pay Telenor $150 million for its 44.6% in the business This week, Cisco has signed a $150 million deal to acquire Norwegian company Working Group Two (WG2) from Telenor Group. Core network software specialist WG2 was spun out as a separate...
Polish operators line up for 5G spectrum auction
News All four of the nation’s mobile network operators – Play (P4), Polkomtel (Plus), Orange Polska, and T-Mobile Polska – have reportedly submitted their initial bids for 5G spectrum licences Polish telecoms regulator, the Office of Electronic Communications (Urzad...
The CHIPS Act one year on: Where are we?
News This week marks one year since President Biden launched the CHIPS and Science Act, which includes investing $52.7 billion into domestic US chip manufacturing Part of the Biden Administration’s $2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan, the funding in US chip...
Charlie Ergen’s Dish and Echostar set to merge
News The merger will see the two firms reunify for the first time since EchoStar was spun off from Dish 15 years ago Reports from the Wall Street Journal earlier today suggesting that US firms Dish Network and EchoStar are close to finalising a merger deal have...
TDS considers ‘strategic alternatives’ for UScellular
News UScellular's owner Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) says it may consider putting the underperforming mobile operator up for auction This week, reports suggest that UScellular’s parent company TDS are considering “strategic alternatives” for the mobile company,...
Rakuten Mobile CEO Tareq Amin makes unexpected exit
News Amin cited personal reasons for his departure in a LinkedIn post The new management structure – effective from yesterday – sees Mickey Mikitani (group chairman and founder) appointed CEO and chairman of Rakuten Symphony. The firm explain in a statement issued...
Pair of subsea cables severed off the west coast of Africa
News The West African Cable System (WACS) and South Atlantic 3 (SAT-3) submarine cables were reportedly damaged by a submarine landslide in the Congo Canyon According to a report from MyBroadband, both the WACS and SAT-3 cables have experienced breaks off the coast of...
Airtel launches first 5G fixed wireless access service in India
News Airtel says the service will provide high-speed internet to areas of the country without access to fibre connectivity This week, Bharti Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos has launched a 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) service called ‘Airtel Xstream AirFiber’. ...
Could triboelectric nanogenerators be key to powering the IoT?
Press Release New study shows that graphene-based triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) could finally unlock nature’s wasted energy Scientists may have finally found a solution to effectively harvesting energy from humans into electrical energy. Researchers...
Three UK hits Shared Rural Network milestone
News The operator has deployed 100 new 4G sites across the UK, helping deliver much needed connectivity to some of the country’s most remote locations Today, Three UK has announced its latest achievement as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN), having now deployed...
Friday Financial Roundup
News A summary of all the essential financial news in the telecoms world this week Three UK publishes half year results In the company’s half-year results, Three saw revenue increase by 4% to £1.23bn due to an increase in the active customer base. Net customer...
O2 Slovakia and Slovak Telekom to share mobile networks
News The two operators say the network sharing deal will help prevent overbuild and accelerate their respective rollouts of 5G Two of Slovakia’s biggest mobile operators have this week finalised a long-awaited network sharing deal, which will O2 Slovakia and Slovak...
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