Total Telecom
MARCH 17, 2025
News The two companies formed the JV back in 2016 Liberty Global has entered into talks with Vodafone over a potential acquisition of Vodafones stake in Dutch joint venture VodafoneZiggo, Bloomberg has reported. VodafoneZiggo is a Dutch telco company formed as a joint venture (JV) between Vodafone Group and Liberty Global in 2016. The JV is spit equally between the companies.
Telecoms Tech News
MARCH 17, 2025
Mobile networks have become the foundation of our digital lives, but this brings numerous security challenges as technology complexity grows. In a wide-ranging interview with Telecoms, Alex Leadbeater, Technical Security Director at the GSMA, discussed how mobile infrastructure’s classification as critical national infrastructure has affected security approaches, the impact of emerging technologies, and defensive strategies.
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Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
In what is described as a groundbreaking step towards accelerating Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 adoption in India, technology giant Ericsson, Volvo Group, a leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines, and operator Bharti Airtel have announced a research partnership to explore the potential of extended reality (XR), digital twin technologies and AI in the manufacturing sector.
Telecom Talk
MARCH 17, 2025
Bharti Airtel, Ericsson, and Volvo Group announce a strategic research partnership to explore 5G, Extended Reality (XR), and AI in manufacturing. The collaboration aims to enhance industrial operations, workforce training, and smart factory solutions.
Total Telecom
MARCH 17, 2025
News The investigation, which has led to multiple arrests and searches across Europe, has raised concerns about foreign interference and political integrity in the EU This week, Belgian authorities have arrested several people as part of a corruption investigation related to the European Parliament and Chinese tech giant Huawei. It has been confirmed that a large-scale investigation is ongoing into potential corruption, forgery, and money laundering occurring very discreetly since 2021.
VoIP Review
MARCH 17, 2025
Recently, CelcomDigi , the Malaysian telecommunications operator, announced a groundbreaking partnership with local payments provider, PayNet. This aligns with the trend of leveraging open network APIs in the telecommunications sector, a concept gaining significant traction globally. PayNet handles over 13 million digital transactions daily, offering a vast array of payment services for individuals, businesses, and financial institutions.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
The three partners behind MANTA, a new subsea cable system connecting Mexico and the USA with Central and Latin America, have announced that SubCom, which engineers, manufactures, and installs subsea fibre optic data cables, has been awarded a contract for the design, manufacture and installation of the MANTA system.
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Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
Wholesale connectivity provider WIOCC has joined forces with iColo, a carrier-neutral data centre provider, in a strategic colocation agreement aimed at accelerating the growth of internet service providers (ISPs) in Mombasa, a coastal city in southeastern Kenya, and across the country.
Broadband Breakfast
MARCH 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2025 – San Bruno leaders have finalized the sale of the city’s municipally owned broadband provider, CityNet, to Comcast for $8 million. CityNet, launched in 1971, serves about 5,400 residents and businesses but has struggled in recent years with rising costs and mounting debt–reportedly $21.5 million. The city manager’s office described the service as “increasingly technologically obsolete,” citing annual losses of nearly $800,000.
Blandin on Broadband
MARCH 17, 2025
The Minnesota State broadband grants are used to match local funds to deploy broadband in underserved and unserved areas in Minnesota. Historically, the State has matched 50 percent; however, that amount has recently increased to 75 percent and theres a bill that might increase that to 90 percent. That still leaves a large dollar amount to the local community.
Broadband Breakfast
MARCH 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 - Marcus Chambers , Communications Workers of America Maryland State Broadband Lead and member of CWA Local 2018, spoke out against proposed changes that he said threaten reliable broadband access in Maryland and beyond. At the Maryland State and DC American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations State Council Union Night Rally in Annapolis last week, Chambers spoke to a crowd of union members , highlighting the risks to federal broadband fu
Telecom Ramblings
MARCH 17, 2025
Zayo has won the competition to acquire Crown Castle’s fiber business, fulfilling the rumors that have been spilling out since January. On Friday, the infrastructure provider announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Crown’s fiber assets, customers, etc for $4.25B. Meanwhile, in a parallel but separate deal, EQT will acquire Crown Castle’s small cell business.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
Malaysian operator Maxis has introduced a Gen AI assistant, Mia (Maxis Intelligent Assistant), developed in collaboration with AWS for its B2B subscribers.
Broadband Breakfast
MARCH 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 – Crown Castle is selling its long-haul fiber assets to Zayo and its small cell business to private equity firm EQT, an $8.5 billion deal in total, the companies announced Thursday. Crown Castle will retain its roughly 40,000 towers. The company’s expecting to use cash from the transaction for $3 billion in stock buybacks and to pay down debt.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
Indonesias Telkom Group announced on Monday that it plans to implement Metas Llama open-source AI model into the customer chatbots of its enterprise clients to encourage them to adopt WhatsApp as a customer channel.
RCR Wireless
MARCH 17, 2025
AIaaS enables businesses to leverage AI-driven applications such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision and predictive analytics Artificial intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) is revolutionizing the way businesses and individuals harness the power of artificial intelligence.
Telecom Ramblings
MARCH 17, 2025
With the rise of AI has come vast investments in new data centers around the world. But still getting less attention is how all that AI infrastructure will be connected to itself and to everything else. But network operators are definitely gearing up to take on the challenge. With us today to talk about GTTs approach is Gary Sidhu, SVP for Product Engineering.
Broadband Breakfast
MARCH 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 - Timothy Chad Henson , the founder and CEO of ClearFiber, Inc., a broadband provider in West Virginia, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for money laundering funds from a federal broadband project grant, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for Northern District of West Virginia. Henson's firm had received a $1.96 million grant from the U.S.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
We caught up with Intracom Telecom at MWC25 to discuss how their multigigabit solutions deliver the high capacity of fibre at a much lower TCO.
Telecom Talk
MARCH 17, 2025
DoT partners with WhatsApp under Metas Scam Se Bacho campaign to combat online fraud. The initiative includes digital safety awareness, scam prevention education, and integration of Sanchar Saathi services on WhatsApp for wider accessibility.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
During MWC Barcelona 2025, the World Broadband Association (WBBA) hosted an industry summit themed "Smarter Broadband: Investment. Innovation. Intelligence.
Telecom Talk
MARCH 17, 2025
Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in India, has brought 5G for its prepaid and postpaid mobile users.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
Japans NTT Data announced on Monday that its long-awaited Malaysia, India, Singapore Transit (MIST) subsea cable system will be commissioned by June this year as it also outlined plans to double its data centre capacity in India over the next few years.
Telecom Talk
MARCH 17, 2025
Starlink, a SpaceX owned satellite broadband service provider is soon going to enter the Indian market.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
The Zambia Tourism Agency (ZTA) and operator Airtel Zambia have signed what the two groups describe as a landmark memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance tourism planning and development using anonymised telecommunications data.
VoIP Review
MARCH 17, 2025
AT&T has set a new benchmark in fiber-optic networks by achieving a data transfer speed of 1.6 Tbps. This milestone was accomplished over its long-distance commercial network spanning 296 kilometers between Newark and Philadelphia. The equipment used for this trial included technology from industry leaders like Ciena, Broadcom, Coherent, and Keysight.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
Safaricom M-Pesa announced on Monday it is partnering with Ethiopian fintech startup LakiPay Financial Technologies to enhance digital payment services in Ethiopia.
Broadband Breakfast
MARCH 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 – WideOpenWest (WOW!) reported a loss of 10,200 broadband customers in the fourth quarter of 2024, the company announced Friday, for a total of 470,400. That’s down 19,700 year-over-year. Click on this chart to go to the page on "Premium Charts and Data" Available to Breakfast Club Members The cable operator said 5,400 of the lost subs were attributable to the Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which rocked the Southeast last year, and that the Afforda
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
Veon Group has appointed Singapore-based operator StarHubs consumer chief, Johan Buse (pictured), as the new CEO of its Banglalink unit, in a move to accelerate its digital expansion in emerging markets.
VoIP Review
MARCH 17, 2025
Helios Towers has made significant strides in its financial performance, reporting its first positive cash flow in 2024 thanks to a renewed colocation strategy. This UK -based company, operating in the Middle East and Africa, credits its success to doubling down on colocation rather than opening new sites, leading to steady revenue growth. CEO Tom Greenwood expressed optimism, highlighted by a 14% jump in adjusted EBITDA to $421 million last year and a return on invested capital rising to 12.9%.
Developing Telecoms
MARCH 17, 2025
At MWC25, Intracom Telecom's CTO Christos Rizos spoke to us about how the company is implementing Agentic AI across its offering to boost customer service, network monitoring, energy saving, and more.
Telecom Talk
MARCH 17, 2025
Tata Sons, the parent company of Tata Play, has been cleared by the CCI for acquiring an additional 10% stake in the DTH (Direct-to-Home) operator.
Broadband Breakfast
MARCH 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 – Maine’s broadband agency Thursday called on the Commerce Department to refine, but not delay, the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. In a letter sent March 11 to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and NTIA’s nominated Administrator Arielle Roth , the Maine Connectivity Authority made clear that while adjustments to the program were welcome, any major overhaul or pause in funding would be counterproductive.
Telecom Talk
MARCH 17, 2025
Samsung, a South Korean tech giant, has announced the official rollout of One UI 7 based for its smartphones.
RCR Wireless
MARCH 17, 2025
The cellular hardware and SIM security unit of French aerospace and defense firm Thales has picked virtual IoT operator (MVNO) Wireless Logic to provide global IoT airtime for its SGP.32 based eSIM solution.
Telecom Talk
MARCH 17, 2025
Jio's Rs 189 plan is at the top of this list. This is the most affordable service validity bundled prepaid plan available for Jio customers.
Broadband Breakfast
MARCH 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 – The Free State Foundation, a free-market think tank, is opposing the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed $4.5 million fine against telecommunications provider Telnyx based on due process and rule of law concerns. The $4.5 million penalty stems from an alleged fraud campaign by a scammer known as “MarioCop,” who used Telnyx’s Voice over Internet Protocol services to make nearly 1,800 illegal robocalls over 17 hours in early
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