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BT claims to be first in UK to offer suite of sovereign services and cloud

Assembly Research says there is an £18 billion opportunity for sovereign AI in the country BT Business says it offers the UK’s first full...

5G advances to network quality, mature architecture, service differentiation

GSA's findings include 97 operators are investing in D2D satellite technology, 35 in 5G-Advanced and 95 operators have launched 5G Standalone service – up 42% since Q1 2025

Vodafone Business, Google Cloud offer SMEs cybersecurity, agentic AI

A new managed detection and response service enabled by Google Security Operations will launch first in Germany; the Concierge service in Germany and Greece

BICS, Google bring voice to the cloud for enterprises

BICS enables enterprises to integrate PSTN-like voice services within Google’s suite of communication solutions

Germany’s largest altnet offered funding as it struggles with €7bn debt

Canadian pension fund Omers and private equity group EQT have jointly offered another €5 billion – they are already investors in the altnet

Econet Wireless looks to change economics of AI in Zimbabwe

Super compute power at the university is claimed to be super costly: until AI infra is built out in Zimbabwe, Econet's customers can access Econet group's S African AI factory

Khalifa University develops AI language model for radio frequency

RF-GPT turns radio signals into visual patterns for AI to interpret, moving spectrum intelligence from isolated, task-specific RF pipelines toward a unified RF-language interface.

OpenAI pulls out of Norway deal with Microsoft as substitute

Just days after 'pausing' Stargate in the UK, OpenAI buys a podcast to better explain its thinking while CNBC notes the AIco is tempering spending plans as a potential IPO looms

Cinia, Nokia partner to secure Finland’s critical infra against DDoS

A recent report by the EU's agency for cybersecurity found the volume of DDoS rose sharply in the bloc, with hacktivists primarily attacking public administration

Amazon changes the space race, acquiring Globalstar for $11.6bn

A stunning amount for just 24 active satellites – but Globalstar owns 2.4GHz spectrum licences, perfect for D2D, plus unique access to Apple’s ecosystem and more

Lidl to launch no-frill plans in up to 30 countries as MVNO sector heats up

Walmart Bait has 26m customers in Mexico, fintechs are invading the UK and US Mobile dynamically switches between the main mobile networks, bundles Starlink for home broadband

Orange wins EC approval to buy out partner in MasOrange for €4.25bn

Orange will acquire the outstanding 50% stake in MasOrange from Lorca, a private equity group that includes KKR, Cinven and Providence Equity Partners

Physical AI in logistics, manufacturing to hit 400,000 systems by 2030

This is according to Juniper Research but is physical AI just Round 2 of MEC or could we follow Softbank and Yaskawa's lead to turn the network into the brain for less specialist tasks?

Africa Data Centres partners Oni-Tel Fibre Networks to improve Guateng links

Africa Data Centres says it operates the continent’s largest interconnected, vendor- and cloud-neutral data centre platform – the new connectivity is for Midrand and Samrand campuses

CEO of Poste Italiane follows up on €10.8bn bid for Telecom Italia

Matteo Del Fante has outlined the business justification for the offer to the Financial Times, regardless of state-ownership, and suggests the deal could be complete by September
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