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    LINX expands African footprint with new Ghana and Kenya interconnects

    Cloud/NFV
    The London Internet Exchange (LINX) targets east and west Africa where more subsea cables are landing
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    Council of State backs Arcep over €26 mln fine for Orange

    Access
    France’s Conseil d’État validates the regulator’s decision imposing a penalty on Orange for failing to meet its “AMII area” fibre rollout commitments
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    Mobily’s first subsea cable is first to directly link Saudi and Egypt

    Optical/IP
    The new cable will be wholly owned by Mobily and pass through the Red Sea with landing stations at Sharm El Sheikh and Duba
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    EXA enters Finland, opens transatlantic route avoiding FLAP

    Optical/IP
    Integration with the Havfrue Transatlantic system offers direct route to the US avoiding the datacentre clusters around Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris
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    Mobily adds Sparkle to connect Europe, the Middle East and SE Asia

    News
    The two will create 'a new digital corridor' linking Italy to Singapore through Mobily's terrestrial network and the AAE1 cable in Jeddah
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    Colt links London, Chicago in 800GbE optical and IP trial

    Optical/IP
    Nokia and Windstream Wholesale partnered the B2B operator in testing the potential capacity, speed and low latency on this transatlantic route
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    Worldwide telecom equipment sales fell 17% in H1 of the year

    Financial/Regulation
    Dell’Oro says the slump that characterised the second half of 2023 continued into this year across the six sectors it tracks
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    LINX extends Kenyan interconnect with PAIX Data Centres 

    Access
    LINX Nairobi provides peering services and more utilising a neutral, multi-site interconnection fabric
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    Swedish Bahnhof enters Danish broadband market with Norlys 

    Access
    Connection comes through Denmark’s open access wholesale platform OpenNet
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    Bayobab completes new East Africa fibre route 

    Access
    Region is benefitting from several fibre developments including Google cable to Australia
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    Light at the end of the tunnel for routers, optical kit and mobile core nets?

    Optical/IP
    Don’t bank on it. In three Q2 reports by Dell’Oro there is much talk of “cratering” and “worst for a decade”
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    Business & Technology: a masterclass on the multi-faceted business of telecoms

    5G & Beyond
    Mobile Europe's live, in-person event in central London was bursting with insights and inspiration; watch videos of all the sessions now
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    Sparkle adds PoP to Aruba’s Rome data centre campus 

    Cloud/NFV
    Rome wants to be a global connectivity hub between Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia but there’s plenty of competition
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    Google Fiber trials 50G PON with Nokia 

    Access
    Trial builds on previously announced 25G PON deployment, giving GFiber the flexibility to add future 50Gbps broadband services using the same fibre
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    Spain’s broadband market pricing pressures ease 

    Access
    Ahead of changes in Autumn, Pay TV is providing bundle price stability for telcos despite new fibre customers picking and choosing services
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