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MTN Group, Airtel Africa to share networks in Uganda and Nigeria

Access
This could be just the first such agreement between the two and could be extended to the RAN and fibre, but the partnership does not exclude deals with other parties
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Arcep sees first evidence of EU Digital Markets Act working

5G & Beyond
Despite the plaintive cries from big tech, the French regulator reports that users are seeing browser choices on handsets
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e& UAE partners Motorola Mobility to provide enterprise solutions like MDM

5G & Beyond
The operator will used Motorola’s mobile device management for businesses large and small
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Satellite and mobile: not a match made in heaven…yet

5G & Beyond
MWC2025 finally had some strong interest from operators about non-terrestrial networks in general, and direct to device in particular, but which way will the market go?
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Open Fiber extends Intracom FWA partnership

5G & Beyond
Promising up-to-gigabit speeds for Italy’s National Gigabit to the Home network
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EQT acquires Crown Castle’s small cells business for $4.25bn

5G & Beyond
The deal by the Swedish asset owner bags 115,000 small cells on air or under contract spread across 43 US states
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Orange says oui to multi-year Telesat LEOsat partnership

5G & Beyond
A further deal with Space Norway shows that while Telesat is behind competitors, it has a big advantage in that it isn’t from the US
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Vodafone UK, Ericsson trial lowers 5G radios’ energy use by up to 33%

Sustainability
The trial was run in London using machine learning and other kinds of AI to automatically achieve the balance between energy savings and performance
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MWC: Orange’s CTO calls AI RAN “futuristic” as he outlines AI infra plans

RAN
In this interview with Mobile Europe, Orange's Laurent Leboucher, explains why he is watching AI RAN's progress with interest, and in particular, the business case for it
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MWC: Telefónica advances cloud for 5G RAN – the ‘final frontier’

RAN
Operator collaborated with Nokia and AWS to validate 5G Cloud RAN's performance, scalability and operational efficiency – work is ongoing
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MWC: Aduna adds 3 operators, Jio Platforms adds AI, global AI Alliance appeals

Automation/AI
Malaysia’s CelcomDigi joins Aduna, India’s Jio Platforms announces AI platform, while global alliance seeks more, diverse members
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MWC: Vodafone to create European satellite-to-mobile provider 

5G & Beyond
The operator has deepened its relationship with AST SpaceMobile and will create a jointly-owned European wholesale satellite service business
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MWC: Nokia powers up for AI-RAN push, military-grade 5G as Lundmark bows out

RAN
Nokia got the ball rolling with its Infinera deal officially complete and new partnerships in key growth areas of AI RAN and defence communications
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MWC: DT partners Google Cloud for better RANops using a network AI agent

Automation/AI
In addition to Gemini 2.0 in Vertex AI, the RAN Guardian uses CloudRun, BigQuery, and Firestore for autonomous monitoring and proactive network optimisation
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DT uses drone as flying base station for Ski coverage

5G & Beyond
While having favourable weather conditions was key, this type of base station will offer new coverage scenarios in emergencies or disasters
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