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Nokia’s Infinera acquisition cleared by EU

The green light means Nokia can get on with growing its data centre business in addition to getting more North American customers

DT uses drone as flying base station for Ski coverage

While having favourable weather conditions was key, this type of base station will offer new coverage scenarios in emergencies or disasters

T-Mobile turns to Red Hat for telco cloud across core and ‘far edge’

Vendor says with OpenShift Platform Plus, T-Mobile can automate operations, support cloud-native 5G applications and "unlock new opportunities" in edge, private networks and IoT

Bitkom and VATM produce base station power guide for grid firms

The two German associations have identified power connections as a bottleneck for operators trying to meet Federal Network Agency’s (BNetzA) spectrum obligations

Microsoft to invest $80 billion on AI-enabled data centres

The figure is only for FY25 and comes at a time when the public is finally noticing the industry’s impact

Focus of EU edge and cloud initiative shifts to industrialisation

Italian academia and industry collaborate on 8RA, part of the Important Project of Common European Interest or IPCEI programme

Berg estimates private LTE/5G market will reach $8.9bn in 2029

There were 4,700 such network deployments, and a market value of $1.8 billion, in 2024; a 38% CAGR is expected over the next five years

TIM invests €130m in cloud and new data centre

Operator looking to capitalise on a solid performance in cloud services (up 22% YoY), following a boost from Italy’s National Strategic Hub

Swisscom and Ericsson launch 5G mobile private network service

If Ericsson and Swisscom were a couple the new service portfolio is equivalent to renewing their vows

WBA proposes a ‘zero-touch’ onboarding for IoT via Wi-Fi

The Wireless Broadband Alliance wants a ‘zero-touch’ seamless and secure onboarding process for Internet of Things (IoT) wi-fi devices

Boldyn launches managed private 5G services with four-tiers

The company has broad ambitions to deploy secure, high-performance private networks to critical industries

Hyperscalers map out AI clusters and networking at Open Compute Project

Nvidia and Meta add in modular server and rack kit, establishing new multivendor AI cluster supply chain

Broadcom launches ‘first merchant silicon 50G PON’ to distribute AI workloads

Alphabet soup aside, the speed boost is impressive, but arguably the most important development is embedding processing for AI workloads at the edge

Soracom backs GSMA’s eSIM standard for its connected car strategy

The global IoT player, majority owned by KDDI, wants to help unify the fragmented connected car sector through standards for activating and managing SIM profiles

GSMA Intelligence predicts $400bn B2B market for telcos by 2030

For first time, survey shows operators seeing enterprise connectivity and services as the primary goal of their B2B strategy, ahead of enterprise connectivity
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