On September 23, 2020, the UK government announced plans to launch a new telecoms diversity task force aiming to find new suppliers capable of filling the gap after the ban on Huawei equipment. Following the implementation of the task force, telecom operators won’t have to use Huawei supplies – considered high-risk – or be obliged […]
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Deutsche Telekom has announced it has built the next-generation IP multimedia subsystem (NIMS) platform which will be used to migrate to the cloud 18 million landline connections. This project comes as part of Deutsche Telekom’s all-IP strategy which aimed to have all of its services in Germany operating on IP by the end of 2018, […]
On September 16, 2020, Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile has signed a Memorandum of Understanding MOU with Spanish telecom giant Telefónica. Under the new agreement, the partners will conduct trials of open RAN architectures and will develop proposals for the role of Artificial Intelligence in the RAN. On the other hand, the Spanish and Japanese operators […]
A new report by Tariff Consultancy Ltd service Datacentrepricing states that cloud and data centres in the Asia-Pacific region are among the fastest-growing in the world. “The Cloud and Data Centres Markets in the Asia-Pacific” report assesses the market landscape of cloud and data centres across eleven countries including Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South […]
The United Kingdom is making significant progress in the rollout of full fibre broadband. Despite the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the three broadband majors – BT, Virgin Media, and City Fibre have continued their full fibre deployment. However, residents’ ability to connect is still highly dependent on where they live, states Telecoms.com. The UK […]
The Ethiopian telecom sector that has long been monopolized by Ethio Telecom, will be partially privatized next year. In fact, Ethiopia has set February 2021 as a new deadline for the privatization of the telecom sector with carriers such as Orange, according to The National. This is an important announcement as the government has recently […]
KT Corporation – Korea’s largest telecommunications service provider – won 6 out of 14 categories in an annual awards ceremony honoring the best telecommunications companies in the world, according to PR Newswire. KT was awarded during the11th annual awards ceremony of Informa Telecoms & Media – a London-based ICT research organization. This year has been more […]
The Saudi Telecom Company is in discussion to reduce the offer to buy a 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt for $2.39 billion. STC’s approach for the non-binding offer was made for the first time in January 2020. The memorandum of understanding initially signed on January 29, 2020, was extended for a period of 90 and […]
Omantel and Ooredoo – the two mobile operators in Oman were awarded a 15-year license in 2019. However, according to Oman’s Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technology, Vodafone – the third operator – will be ready to start operating services by 2021. “We are delighted to start our strategic partnership with Vodafone, as part […]
The Nigerian telecom industry is expected to see significant improvements in the next five years, according to Umar Garba Danbatta, Nigerian Communication (NCC) Chief Executive. The CEO states that there will be mass deployments of 4G networks across Nigeria. Moreover, there is a plan to reduce the cost of mobile data steadily from the current […]