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Telefónica sells Argentinian unit to Telecom Argentina for $1.25 bn 

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Telecom Argentina has said that it will continue to develop the country’s digital infrastructure and increase fixed and mobile broadband coverage, and accelerate the deployment of fibre optics and 5G. News Telefnica has announced the sale of its Argentina to Telecom Argentina for $1.25

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Eutelsat, Mediatek, and Airbus successfully trial 5G NTN over LEO satellites 

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News The trial is a step towards integrating satellite and terrestrial networks, making satellite broadband more accessible for 5G devices worldwide Eutelsat Group, MediaTek, and Airbus Defence and Space have completed the first successful 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) trial using the Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite system.

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Openreach secures £289m in Project Gigabit contracts 

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News The funding aims to close the digital divide, giving rural residents the same opportunities as urban areas The UK government has announced the latest tranche of Project Gigabit funding, with 289 million in contracts being won by Openreach to bring high-speed broadband to some of Britains most isolated areas under the ongoing Project Gigabit.

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Openreach to plug in Nokia's Altiplano platform across network

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Openreach will deploy the Altiplano Access Controller cloud (SDN) platform from Nokia across its full fibre broadband and ethernet network.

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Brits urged to go ‘urban mining’ for copper in ‘drawers of doom’

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Anything with a plug, battery or cable can be reused and recycled and there’s somewhere near you to do it.” As the world’s broadband networks transition to fibre optic technology, the now obsolete copper networks largely remain buried underground, waiting to be reclaimed.

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Virgin Media pipes in fibre to 13,000 homes in Stoke

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13,000 more homes in Stoke have been plugged into Virgin Medias gigabit broadband network, and it says its Gig2 broadband package offers top speeds which are 25 times faster than the local average.

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MN Broadband Task Force October Notes

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The MN Broadband Task Force met in October. I wasn’t able to make it but I got handouts from the Office of Broadband Development website and happened to be in a meeting where Diane Wells gave an OBD update, similar to what she would have given at the meeting. (I Any news on broadband tech assistance grants? 10:35a.m. –