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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

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If you are responsible for running telecoms infrastructure in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, this could be your year.

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

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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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...

Europe’s 5G tariffs continue to offer better value for money than 4G

Point Topic’s latest report reveals that unlike most other goods,  the average residential 5G tariff in Europe was $50.11, down from $52.22 recorded in Q3 2024

Tauron signs up a dozen operators for wholesale fibre

The Polish telecom and energy company is using funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (KPO) to build fibre in non-commercial areas

Mugler deploys 5G campus network with Kontron

The network at the the research laboratory of the Technical University of Rosenheim will be used to deliver its research projects

Orange Polska offers 8Gbps in 39 cities plus Wi-Fi 7

Operator is the first to offer Wi-Fi 7 in the country and can reach 2.5 million households with new service
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