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

Financial/Regulation
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
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BT extends global NaaS infra by expanding partnership with Equinix

Cloud/NFV
Operator says new deal will offer 74% direct coverage of hyperscalers' clouds and pre-provisioned connectivity to more than 700 data centres
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MasOrange, Cellnex reshape hosting deal to match merged operator’s strategy

RAN
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
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Europe’s smartphone market grew 5% in 2024 

5G & Beyond
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
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Orange Egypt signs €284m wholesale fibre deals with Telecom Egypt

5G & Beyond
The deal will help Orange Egypt roll out 5G in the country and the operator believes the commercial terms were improved in the process
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T-Mobile turns to Red Hat for telco cloud across core and ‘far edge’

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

Digital Platforms & APIs
They will demo their Open Gateway Multi-Telco Innovation Lab – a "developer-ready environment" that allows firms and developers to leverage telcos' capabilities
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Vodafone, AST SpaceMobile and Málaga University launch R&D hub

Satellite
It will open in summer and adopt Open RAN in its efforts to build a European space/Earth ecosystem on common standards
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Mobile core market slips into decline – Dell’Oro

5G & Beyond
The fall comes despite Europe seeing some action on carriers like Telefónica replacing their Huawei 5G cores
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Colt reaches new heights with Managed LEO+

Satellite
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
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Turkcell and ZTE trial remotely monitoring GPON network

Access
The “Fiber Fingerprint” trial transforms the passive, ‘dark’ ODN pipeline into a ‘visualised’ network, improving resource utilisation and troubleshooting efficiency
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Middle East smartphone sales surpass global markets, growing at 14%

Access
Canalys reports that the region, excluding Turkey, surged in 2024, with sales of 48.4 million handsets, although growth slowed in Q4
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Telefonica Group accelerates exit from Latin America

Financial/Regulation
Less than a month after the Spanish government replaced the group CEO, there's activity on many fronts in South America
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Poste Italiane to acquire 10% stake in TIM from state bank

Financial/Regulation
IItalian government shuffles share holdings as TIM edges closer to bagging Postepay’s infrastructure to consolidate Italy’s domestic communications network
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Batelco launches fixed-mobile One Plan bundle

5G & Beyond
Beyon’s rebranding of Batelco to diversify into offers like finance now sees a converged fixed mobile bundle hit the market
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