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Smartphone shipments stutter as tariff impacts loom

The tech sector shock looks set to rumble on as supply chains realign and European companies rethink cloud suppliers

NorthC acquires six Colt data centres in Germany and the Netherlands

The transaction includes data centres in key metropolitan regions including Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Düsseldorf and Amsterdam

On-prem cloud: reconciling cloud benefits with data sovereignty

Partner content: Operators face cyberattacks, more regulation, the rise of AI and network APIs, while legacy infrastructure has reached its limits – the cloud conversation is increasingly urgent

Telco to techco: Vodafone is deploying agentic AI to boost its network now

Inês Matos, Head of Network Data Science & AI at Vodafone and Celfocus' André Vieira discuss the business case, real-life implementation and the operator's ongoing AI strategy

Telco to techco: What is a telco for – is differentiated connectivity the answer?

Our opening panel of senior execs from BT Business, Orange Business and CEO of MGMN Alliance tackled this tricky, multi-layered question, moderated by TM Forum's Mark Newman

Raxio secures $100m to expand African data centres

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) loan will help to operator expand its footprint in sub-Saharan Africa

Iliad completes hyperscale deal with InfraVia

Europe now has a new sovereign “made in Europe” competitor to the US hyperscalers

Pulsant acquires two edge data centres from SCC

The UK edge DC company continues to expand its footprint with the acquisition of SCC data centres in Birmingham and Fareham

Are we past peak data centre as Microsoft reportedly pulls out of leases?

Pullback apparently follows the tech giant's decision not to take on additional training workloads for OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT in which Microsoft has invested almost $14bn

BT sounding out Orange and AT&T as potential partners for global ops

The move, reported by Bloomberg News, is no big suprise given BT Group's strategy to focus on home market and explore options for its global infra

Cassava to upgrade data centres with NVIDIA super computers

The firm says data centres will allow Africa to develop its own AI technologies, boost productivity, protect data within its own boundaries and support businesses

Webscale capex surpassed telco capex in 2024 – MTN

Not even DeepSeek’s market reality check has dampened the hyperscale data centre industry as fear of missing out replaces market reality in some cases

Telenor and Jotta merge their cloud storage businesses

Data sovereignty in Europe is inevitably going to get redefined in the current geopolitical climate

A1 Austria’s Exoscale migrates 21TB of data in a week 

Now, just two A1 Austria engineers manage the large 30 node-cluster of 21TB storage as the telco moves systems to the cloud

Google shrugs off antitrust worries with $32bn Wiz acquisition

The proposed deal is Google’s largest ever and eclipses the $23bn offer it made for the cybersecurity company under a year ago
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