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Pulsant acquires two edge data centres from SCC

The UK edge DC company continues to expand its footprint with the acquisition of SCC data centres in Birmingham and Fareham

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

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

Arcep sees first evidence of EU Digital Markets Act working

Despite the plaintive cries from big tech, the French regulator reports that users are seeing browser choices on handsets

e& UAE partners Motorola Mobility to provide enterprise solutions like MDM

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

The telco, operating in eight markets, wants to be the connectivity partner of choice for device OEMs looking to crack the Middle East

Telenor and Jotta merge their cloud storage businesses

Data sovereignty in Europe is inevitably going to get redefined in the current geopolitical climate

A1 Austria’s Exoscale migrates 21TB of data in a week 

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

Google shrugs off antitrust worries with $32bn Wiz acquisition

The proposed deal is Google’s largest ever and eclipses the $23bn offer it made for the cybersecurity company under a year ago

Orange Polska upgrades IMS to boost call capacity

The operator has been building 4G services based on IMS for a decade but it needed to handle more connections to better support VoLTE

Open Fiber extends Intracom FWA partnership

Promising up-to-gigabit speeds for Italy’s National Gigabit to the Home network

Danes raise telecom security threat levels to “high”

Danish cybersecurity agency releases threat assessment warning of increased state-sponsored cyber espionage activities targeting the telecom sector in Europe

Areim raises further €450m for Nordic data centres

In the Nordics, around 200 data centres have been established over the past decade, with Sweden as a frontrunner

Microsoft invests extra €254m in South African cloud infrastructure

The investment comes at a time when the market is awash with speculation on just how many billions Microsoft may have wound back on global data centre commitments

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
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