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Consumer confidence stalls mobile handset market in Q2

Operators should prepare for continued margin pressure in the mass market handset segment

Luxembourg’s SES wins US approval to acquire Intelsat’s spectrum

The deal is expected to close this week – meanwhile, the UK will stump up another €163 million in the proposed latest round of funding for Eutelsat Group to maintain its stake

Kenya ICT Authority launches consultation for regional fibre backbone

The Horn of Africa Gateway Development Project is funded by the World Bank and intended to boost digital access in the region and strengthen its economic integration

EXA Infrastructure deploy new fibre London to Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels

The operator is the sole telecom consortium member for the high-capacity cable as investors pile into European infrastructure 

Orange Business speeds transformation to simplify digital offers

Orange's B2B arm has teamed up with ServiceNow, Splunk, Blue Planet and CSG, and expects to add more tech partners to its IT ecosystem

Resilient, high-capacity mobile could unlock £230bn in UK by 2035

This is the main conclusion from a new BT report – the problem is customers think they are paying for reliable total coverage now, although it's not what they get

T-Mobile Poland launches 5G Plus services with 700 MHz band

Operator is adding the band to its 5G Plus 3.x GHz band services for wider geographic coverage, especially in rural or hard-to-reach areas

AI RAN will account for 33% of RANs by 2029, driven by D-RAN and 5G

Meanwhile Vodafone Group has joined the AI-RAN Alliance, which has not made much noise or demonstrable progress since it was formed last year and is low on operator members

Digital telco: Operating “the largest, most interconnected cloud fabric in the world”

Colin Bannon, CTO of BT Business, explains "slow is the new down" and what networks will look like for the next 20 years in his keynote

NGMN releases “common language” for base station antennas

The publication is especially timely as operators move towards hybrid antenna systems, which blend passive and active components

France’s data centre energy demand to grow 74% by 2050

Unlike other European countries, France’s heavy reliance on nuclear gives it a window of opportunity to build more data centres

Sky Broadband offering up to 5Gbps to 4.5 million UK premises

Claims this is the fastest broadband offer in the country from any major service provider

Norway’s regulator urges users to phase out 2G 

Next month, Telia begins shutting down its 2G network while Telenor has postponed until the end of 2027

Boldyn Networks restructures European leadership

The move comes as the neutral host specialist rebrands German private network builder Smart Mobile Labs Neutral host builder and operator Boldyn Networks has announced...

Franchisees £120m legal fight with Vodafone UK reaches Parliament

62 current and former franchisees allege that sudden, swingeing cuts to commission rates on selling Vodafone products in high street stores plunged many of them into huge personal debt
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