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FT reports continuing drama at Telecom Italia with predicted €449m shortfall

It seems not all is well in the wake of Europe's biggest ever private equity deal as management's earnings forecasts don't line up with the business case for the NetCo

BT extends global NaaS infra by expanding partnership with Equinix

Operator says new deal will offer 74% direct coverage of hyperscalers' clouds and pre-provisioned connectivity to more than 700 data centres

MasOrange, Cellnex reshape hosting deal to match merged operator’s strategy

The two parties have signed an agreement that runs until 2038, with the option to extend for another 10 years at the end of the initial contract

Europe’s smartphone market grew 5% in 2024 

This is good and bad news for operators who must invest ever more in mobile network capacity if more capable handsets consume even more data

Could this be you? CTO of the Year 2025

The Awards are open to telecoms service providers of all kinds in Europe, the Middle East and Africa – mobile, fixed, satellite, wholesale, retail, incumbents, altnets, cablecos, converged…

Orange Egypt signs €284m wholesale fibre deals with Telecom Egypt

The deal will help Orange Egypt roll out 5G in the country and the operator believes the commercial terms were improved in the process

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

MWC: MasOrange, Telefónica, Vodafone to show personal safety API use case

They will demo their Open Gateway Multi-Telco Innovation Lab – a "developer-ready environment" that allows firms and developers to leverage telcos' capabilities

Vodafone, AST SpaceMobile and Málaga University launch R&D hub

It will open in summer and adopt Open RAN in its efforts to build a European space/Earth ecosystem on common standards

Mobile core market slips into decline – Dell’Oro

The fall comes despite Europe seeing some action on carriers like Telefónica replacing their Huawei 5G cores

Colt reaches new heights with Managed LEO+

Operator says businesses in rural and hard-to-reach areas in more than 65 countries could benefit service that integrates low-Earth orbit satellite with 4G and 5G

Turkcell and ZTE trial remotely monitoring GPON network

The “Fiber Fingerprint” trial transforms the passive, ‘dark’ ODN pipeline into a ‘visualised’ network, improving resource utilisation and troubleshooting efficiency
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Data-first Intersec sets up operators for success in AI era – Interview with Yann Chevalier, CEO, Intersec

Partner content: Yann Chevalier, Co-founder and CEO of Intersec, talks to Annie Turner about the company’s roots, evolution and future plans, powered by a...

Middle East smartphone sales surpass global markets, growing at 14%

Canalys reports that the region, excluding Turkey, surged in 2024, with sales of 48.4 million handsets, although growth slowed in Q4

Telefonica Group accelerates exit from Latin America

Less than a month after the Spanish government replaced the group CEO, there's activity on many fronts in South America