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Finland’s Valoo raises another €200m to speed fibre broadband build

Access
The network operator will target underserved areas and about 30 municipalities and cities across the country – the country's fibre penetration is about 68%
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Are we past peak data centre as Microsoft reportedly pulls out of leases?

Automation/AI
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
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Europe’s fibrecos move from land grab to monetising active links

Access
FTTH Council Europe's launches a slew of reports and resources at its flagship event in Amsterdam this week
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Brussels expands probe into alleged bribery of MEPs and staff by Huawei

Financial/Regulation
Lobbyists, MEPs and European parliamentary assistants are under investigation by Belgian authorities for allegedly accepting gifts in exchange for promoting the vendor's interests
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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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UK’s CityFibre acquires Connexin to gain east Yorks footprint

Access
CityFibre takeover includes Project Gigabit contract CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent fibre platform, has announced the acquisition of Connexin’s fibre infrastructure. This gives CityFibre "a...
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BT sounding out Orange and AT&T as potential partners for global ops

Cloud/NFV
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
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Cassava to upgrade data centres with NVIDIA super computers

Automation/AI
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
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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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Zain Group entices IoT OEMs with Global M2M offering

5G & Beyond
The telco, operating in eight markets, wants to be the connectivity partner of choice for device OEMs looking to crack the Middle East
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Webscale capex surpassed telco capex in 2024 – MTN

Automation/AI
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
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Odido turns to Netcracker for Klik&Klaar FWA service billing

Access
The operator has been busy consolidating its BSS platforms streamline its operations and support new services like fixed wireless
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Telenor and Jotta merge their cloud storage businesses

Cloud/NFV
Data sovereignty in Europe is inevitably going to get redefined in the current geopolitical climate
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A1 Austria’s Exoscale migrates 21TB of data in a week 

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