Airtel lands 2Africa cable in Mumbai, India
Part of the 2Africa Pearls extension
News - Connectivity (EN)
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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MTN Group and Airtel Africa sign network sharing deal for Uganda and Nigeria
Could explore similar agreements in other African markets
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Telus exploring possible tower stake sale in Canada
A sale will help the company pay down some debt
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Nexthop AI launches with $110m funding round
Promises custom networking solutions for hyperscalers
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Viasat selected to design ‘Moonlight’ Lunar orbiting satellite system alongside Telespazio
Ambitious Moon network hopes to pave the way to a Lunar economy
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Ericsson inks 6G, AI partnership with SoftBank
The MoU will run until 2030
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Veon and Airspan partner on Open RAN for Ukraine's Kyivstar
The partnership will leverage Open RAN and air-to-land network solutions
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FCC chair could block telco M&As over DEI policies
Brendan Carr also launches investigation into CCP-linked companies on US Covered List
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Virgin Media O2 pairs with Ontix to deploy small cells in Plymouth, UK
Six new small cells have been deployed across the Devonshire city
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AT&T in talks to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber unit for $5.5bn - report
Carrier is focused on fiber
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Construction begins on E2A subsea cable connecting US to Asia
Will have landing points across Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and California when complete in 2028
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WOM Chile exits Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Chris Bannister returns as CEO again
Bannister to take charge for a third time
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Virgin Media O2 tests Open RAN at Twickenham Stadium
Rugby fans milk VM02's O-RAN COW
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PLDT launches Apricot subsea cable landing station in Digos, Philippines
Will land the Apricot subsea cable when complete in 2027
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Vivendi cuts stake in Telecom Italia to 18.4%
The TIM top shareholder strongly opposed the Italian telco's grid sale
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Indian government to build cable landing station in Puri, Odisha
Part of bid to attract tech investment
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Tele2 mulls Baltics telecom towers sale - report
A sale could raise as much as €500 million
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Switzerland's Sunrise to switch on 5G Standalone across entire network this year
The carrier touts network slicing as a key use case
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Subsea cable repaired after outage in Sitka, Alaska
Problem was flagged before Internet service was interrupted
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FCC outlines actions for the faster removal of copper networks
FCC Chair Brendan Carr wants to reduce the amount of investment being put into legacy copper networks
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Cloudflare adds wave machines to random encryption system in Portugal
Company adds liquid wall of entropy in Lisbon
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BT approaches AT&T and Orange over international unit - report
Could involve a stake sale
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T-Mobile to finally sell 800MHz spectrum after reaching agreement with Grain Management
And in exchange will scoop up Grain's 600MHz spectrum licenses
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Ericsson to support Vodafone Spain's 5G Standalone deployment
Will support Vodafone Spain's aims to cover 90 percent of population with 5G
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ACE Gabon to land Medusa subsea cable in Port-Gentil, Gabon
Medusa Africa expansion announced earlier this month
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Verizon goes live with satellite messaging service for Android devices
The service is available on select devices
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Ukraine's Kyivstar to push ahead with NASDAQ listing
Could become first Ukrainian company to be listed in the US
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Vodafone Idea launches 5G network in Mumbai, India
The operator has finally launched 5G services