News Archives - Mobile Europe

Nigerian operators get half their wish with 50% tariffs rise

Financial/Regulation 22 January 2025

Earlier this month some operators had asked the regulator for permission to raise prices by up to 100% after they had been held at the same level for 11 years

Egypt launches Wi-Fi calling services

5G & Beyond 22 January 2025

The leading mobile operators, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, e& Egypt and Orange, have already launched the service for customers

DT achieves its highest ever brand value and top global ranking

Financial/Regulation 21 January 2025

According to Brand Finance Global 500 report, DT beats Verizon and AT&T, while e&'s brand increased eight-fold in the last 12 months, but techcos rule the roost

Telxius upgrades Global Carrier Ethernet for Europe and Americas

Optical/IP 21 January 2025

Now enterprises and service providers can flexibly scale bandwidth between 50Mbps and more than 100Gbps

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

Access 21 January 2025

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

GlobalConnect joins proposed Polar Connect to avoid Red Sea routes

Optical/IP 20 January 2025

Nordic consortium aims to link Europe, Asia and the US with new subsea cable that is expected to come online in 2030

Alvarez-Pallete ousted at Telefonica board meeting

CXO 20 January 2025

His replacement, Marc Murtra, has links with the public sector and government – last year the state acquired a 10% stake in the operator group

Telia Company makes changes to group executives

CXO 20 January 2025

Holger Haljand becomes Head of Telia Finland; Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters gains extra responsibilities and the hunt for a new leader for Estonia is underway

EXA Infrastructure to acquire Aqua Comms for $54 million

Access 20 January 2025

The sale at a knockdown price is the latest of Digital 9 Infrastructure’s divestments but also bolsters EXA’s transatlantic routes

Three UK choses Ericsson to deploy 9Tbps dual core

5G & Beyond 17 January 2025

The parties claim this will be the largest mobile core in Europe

Europe’s competitiveness “has one foot in the morgue”

Financial/Regulation 17 January 2025

CEOs of Ericsson and Nokia team up for conference, New Industrial Ambition for Europe, in Brussels

GlasfaserPlus in row with German municipality

Access 17 January 2025

Mayor accuses German fibreco of “targeted interference” and suggests to its rollout footprint was incomplete

GSMA says Europe is falling behind on 5G

5G & Beyond 16 January 2025

Despite some bright spots in its latest report, the mobile group warns “urgent policy reforms” are needed to secure critical network investment

Sparkle chooses Oceanic Environmental Cables to recycle subsea cables

Access 15 January 2025

The Mediterranean has several decommissioned subsea cables and TIM’s international division has decided to do something about it

Orange and Vodacom partner to extend rural coverage in DRC

Access 14 January 2025

The two say their joint venture will deliver services to 19m more people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and that it is the first of its kind in Africa