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    Orange boosted by on-going, double-digit growth in Middle East and Africa

    Financial/Regulation
    Elsewhere progress is less dramatic but appears to be going to plan, if not fast enough for the stock market
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    Zain pilots ‘world-first’ signal overlay to secure Saudi networks

    5G & Beyond
    With Enea, the operator could help extend the capabilities and architecture of signalling firewalls to improve protection for virtual, cloudified and physical infra
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    Microsoft’s new Phi-3 AI model can run on an iPhone  

    5G & Beyond
    As Telekom CEO Tim Höttges recently quipped, “Who the hell needs apps?”
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    Car makers meet tech firms to thrash out mobile Digital Keys 

    5G & Beyond
    The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) is working on standards to let mobile phones securely open cars, but customer perception will be the key
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    A1, Nokia delivers 800Gbps across 1276km link on a single wavelength

    News
    The transmission was between Frankfurt and Budapest using Nokia’s FP5 network processor and Photonic Service Engine optics (PSE-6s)
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    TIM’s embattled Labriola given another three years as CEO

    CXO Interviews
    Attempts to unseat him and block the splitting out of the infrastructure into a NetCo failed, but opposition wins three board room places so the opera continues
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    Orange and LatenceTech develop connectivity quality probe 

    BSS/OSS/CX
    Telcos says AI-based tool should help to optimise network reliability for new 5G or fibre uses
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    Deutsche Telekom reveals corporate Chat GPT subscription rates

    Automation/AI
    Telco’s generative AI offerings will come in three US drink style sizes: M, L and XL
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    Vodafone Business launches new API to combat impersonation fraud

    Digital Platforms & APIs
    For now the service is available to channel partners in the UK but will be rolled out in other unspecified markets at an unspecified time
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    CACI seals $1.3bn deal for ICT services to US, European and Africa Commands 

    5G & Beyond
    Global military expenditure rose for the ninth consecutive year to an all-time high of $2,443 billion last year – NATO accounted for 55%
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    Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund PIF and stc agree to form $1.3bn towerco

    5G & Beyond
    With 30,000 mobile towers, the towerco looks the same size as the Ooredoo, Zain and TASC Towers deal in December, but worth more
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    Virgin Mobile Saudi Arabia partners Hitek to develop smart cities 

    5G & Beyond
    Virgin Mobile Saudi Arabia partners Hitek to develop smart cities 
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    Berlin Open RAN test lab carries out first certification for VVDN 

    5G & Beyond
    Rohde & Schwarz and Viavi support European OTIC in Berlin for O-RAN conformance certification for VVDN kit
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    Proximus to acquire more 5G spectrum from ICT services group

    5G & Beyond
    NRB acquired 20MHz in the 3600MHz band to offer 5G directly to its customers but has now decided to embrace the MVNO model
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    Zain Sudan shifts to Charging-as-a-Service in 18 days

    BSS/OSS/CX
    SaaS provider Totogi claims total cost of ownership could fall by up to 80% as disaster recovery expenses are all but eliminated
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