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    Visalia to offer telecoms and energy package to consumers in Spain

    The group is also moving into the Portuguese market, opening an office in Lisbon

    Orange merges mobile and fixed operations in Romania  

    Government left owning 20% stake in the combined operator

    Talking Telecoms Week: Is metaverse’s future with industry and enterprise?

    Antonio Pita Lozano, Metaverse Product Manager at Telefónica, talks to Annie Turner about the operator's progress and how it sees the metaverse's future unfolding Watch...

    Vodacom signs virtual power wheeling deal with Eskom 

    Telco believes deal can overcome South Africa’s power grid load-shedding pain

    T-Mobile Polska completes wholesale fibre access deal with Vectra Group 

    The deal means the telco can now reach around 10m households with bundles in Poland

    Era of eSIM – operators ‘forced’ into adopting tech as tipping point nears

    Research predicts 77% average annual increase in smartphone activation to 2028, plus big IoT push

    Arelion moves closer to converging its IP and optical network layers 

    Converging the wholesale carrier’s IP and optical networks with Cisco will reduce network costs and simplify network management  

    e& acquires majority stake in PPF Group’s CEE telco assets 

    The UAE telco group has agreed to buy a 50% plus one share in PPF Telecom’s assets in Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia

    Vodafone’s Redstream upgrade of UK backbone enters final phase

    All its home broadband, mobile and business customers will move onto the backbone to improve customer experience, cut cost and make network operations greener

    Nokia shifts to Red Hat for core cloud infrastructure deal

    Nokia moves cloud infra and container ops to vendor to support 5G, core, MEC and RAN services via OpenShift and OpenStack

    Mojeek promises searching without stalking

    Is /e/OS a smartphone safe-space? Secure smartphone operating system Eeyos (/e/OS) has added private search engine Mojeek to its portfolio of defensive options, for those who want to...

    Orange Belgium and Telenet to share fibre networks

    Orange Walloon with a 74% Voo Telenet and Orange Belgium (OB) have signed two fixed wholesale agreements, subject to the latter's completion of the VOO...

    Connect44 Group accelerates business growth, appoints Francis Schmeer as Group CEO

    Company continues strategic measures to accelerate business growth with the new appointment Lucerne, Switzerland – September 14th, 2022Francis Schmeer, the new leader of Connect44 has...

    Orange’s new CEO shapes her top team

    CTO Michaël Trabbia picks up short-term responsibility for Wholesale & International Networks division Christel Heydemann (pictured) took over from Stéphane Richard as Orange’s group CEO...

    GDPR fines hit telcos for €1.6 billion – Dufrain

    Pain will get worse when Data Governance Act kicks in European mobile operators should invest more time on data strategies, according to Dufrain a data strategy vendor....