Telecom Talk

JANUARY 10, 2025

Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL), the third-largest telecom operator, recently brought unlimited data prepaid plans for customers.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

The global telecoms industry is set for another year of transformation in 2025, driven by trends including AI, sustainability, private networks, and new approaches to connectivity. For this article, industry leaders have shared their predictions as the pace of progress acceleratesimpacting not only the telecoms sector but also influencing broader industries and global economic trends.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 10, 2025

Contributed Article The optical distribution network (ODN) is a point-to-multipoint passive optical network (PON), as shown in FIG. 2-1. The ODN is an optical transmission channel from an optical line terminal (OLT) in a central office (CO) to multiple optical network units (ONUs) on the user side. In traditional ODN construction, the feeder optical cables, distribution optical cables, and drop cables are stripped or terminated onsite for fiber connection.

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Telecoms Tech News

JANUARY 10, 2025

The telecommunications industry is no stranger to innovation. It’s moved in step with breakthrough technologies that have changed the way people connect and communicate. But of all new technologies, blockchain stands out for its power to offer added security, transparency and efficiency. While blockchain is often linked to the financial sector, the technology goes beyond.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 10, 2025

News Nokia has been selected by Openreach to deliver its One Network Platform, an open-access fibre network designed to connect millions of homes and businesses across the UK The project will see Nokia deploy a wide range of technology upgrades across Openreachs network, aiming to boost efficiencies and simplify further fibre rollouts. Using Nokias Altiplano and NSP controllers, Openreach will be able to automate its fibre services across various technologies, which they say will simplify ope

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 10, 2025

Discover Jio AirFiber's latest plans for January 2025, offering speeds up to 1 Gbps, OTT bundles, affordable pricing, exclusive offers, and data sachet packs for extra usage. Explore plan details and benefits.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 10, 2025

News Vodafone has announced today that it has sold its remaining 79.2 million shares in Indus Towers Limited, a 3% stake in the company The sale raised INR 28 billion ($330 million), according to a r ecent stock market filing. Vodafone used $105 million of this to repay loans tied to its Indian assets and cover transaction costs. The remaining $225 million was invested in its Indian mobile subsidiary Vodafone Idea (Vi), increasing the companys stake in the operator from 22.56% to 24.39%.

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Light Reading

JANUARY 10, 2025

Surge in data center investment shows Malaysia's efforts to build digital economy are paying off.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 10, 2025

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH) has established extensive microwave backbone transmission networks across Indonesia in collaboration with ZTE, addressing

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Light Reading

JANUARY 10, 2025

The iPhone 16 remains banned in Indonesia despite Apple proposing to build a $1 billion Airtag factory in Batam.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 10, 2025

At CES 2025, Qualcomm Technologies showcased a range of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements and made significant announcements and collaborations across

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RCR Wireless

JANUARY 10, 2025

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sees agentic AI and AI-enabled robotics as a multi-trillion dollar opportunity LAS VEGASNot unexpected but, in many ways, NVIDIA pretty well stole the show at CES this week.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 10, 2025

POCO X7 Pro comes in three colours - Nebular Green, Obsidian Black, and Yellow (signature POCO colour).

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Light Reading

JANUARY 10, 2025

Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery won't move forward with their Venu sports streaming joint venture. But at least one analyst is predicting that some other kind of sports effort will ultimately take its place.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 10, 2025

Xiaomi Pad 7 has just launched in India. This new tablet from Xiaomi has a super large screen measuring at 11.2-inches and a high-resolution display.

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RCR Wireless

JANUARY 10, 2025

CES 2025 finished up this week, one year almost to the day after the certification of Wi-Fi 7. Since then, roughly 33 handsets support this new generation (as of October 2024), as well as many high-end laptops.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 10, 2025

While Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are offering unlimited 5G, Vi is offering unlimited 4G. Vi is investing in 4G networks and expanding coverage and capacity.

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Light Reading

JANUARY 10, 2025

The tech tycoon's misguided intervention in British politics has laid bare his worst characteristics, and it marks a troubling start to the year before he assumes a US government role.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 10, 2025

JioFiber/AirFiber postpaid customers subscribing to the following plans will be eligible for this offer - Rs 888, Rs 1199, Rs 1499, Rs 2499, and Rs 3499.

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telecoms.com

JANUARY 10, 2025

As CES 2025 draws to a close, we scoop up some of the more eye-catching computing, gadgetry, smart home, and downright peculiar products from the swarm of tech occupying the Las Vegas Convention Centre.

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RCR Wireless

JANUARY 10, 2025

As Greil Marcus said of Bob Dylan, somewhere between Nashville Skyline and Blood on the Tracks: what is this s**t?

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 10, 2025

SK Telecom is paving the way for innovation in the AI space by launching a beta version of their AI-powered personal agent, Aster. This advancement targets users in North America and is set to be released in March 2025. Chung Suk-geun, head of SK Telecom’s Global Personal AI Agent Business Division, emphasized Aster’s capabilities during CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

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RCR Wireless

JANUARY 10, 2025

Jio is targeting the addition of one million AirFiber customers within a month Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is intensifying efforts to scale its 5G-powered fixed wireless access (FWA) service, Jio AirFiber, with plans to significantly boost customer acquisitions over the next year.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 10, 2025

Verizon Business has been tasked by the US Air Force to enhance 4G and 5G infrastructure at 35 Air Force bases across the country. This initiative is part of the Air Force’s ‘offer-to-lease’ (OTL) program, which aims to upgrade crucial communications infrastructure. This represents Verizons seventh success in eight attempts under the OTL program, which began in 2019.

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Light Reading

JANUARY 10, 2025

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: sustainability shout-outs; CityFibre rolls into East and West Sussex; massive anchor under the microscope.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 10, 2025

An exciting development in the telecommunications sector has emerged with the official naming of a new Application Programming Interface (API) joint venture. Initially launched in September by Ericsson , Google Cloud, and several notable global operators, the venture is now known as Aduna. Anthony Bartolo, former COO of Vonage and executive at Tata Communications, will take the helm as CEO on January 20.

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telecoms.com

JANUARY 10, 2025

Large parts of Los Angeles have already been destroyed by wildfires, leaving thousands of people homeless and in need of all the help they can get.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 10, 2025

Nexfibre announced a significant milestone: its fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network now covers 2 million premises. This rapid expansion, achieved in just two years, makes nexfibre the UK’s second largest alternative network. Some debate the validity of this claim due to CityFibre ‘s larger footprint of over 4 million premises, but nexfibres growth remains noteworthy.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 10, 2025

Arvig shares … In the early 1990s, Allen Arvig heard rumblings about a relatively obscure, largely untested, and somewhat clunky new technology. In the telecommunications industry at the time, it was common to hear of promising innovations, even if they didnt all live up to the hype. This particular technology, in its own right, was still unprovenand from a business standpoint at leastrisky.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 10, 2025

An Ericsson report revealed that Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) data traffic reached 19% of global mobile network data traffic by the end of last year. Even more recently, in Q3 2024, Verizon reported nearly 4.2 million FWA subscribers, reaching its target subscriber goal over a year ahead of schedule. In short, FWA is booming and disrupting decades-old business models of traditional wireline network operators thanks to its increased flexibility, low costs, and high speeds.

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Telecom Ramblings

JANUARY 10, 2025

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ohad Peled, Product Marketing Manager at Sony Semiconductor Israel The global home medical equipment market is experiencing explosive growth. Smart devices are being used to monitor and treat patients suffering from diabetes, cardiac disorders, and other medical conditions without exposing those patients to the risk of hospital-acquired infections.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2025—Last week’s landmark decision to block the Federal Communications Commission's from exercising power to impose net neutrality has prompted another expert to weigh in on the issue. Daniel Lyons , a law professor at Boston College and nonresident senior fellow for the American Enterprise Institute, praised the court’s decision in an AEI post Thursday.

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Telecom Ramblings

JANUARY 10, 2025

Two items from the UK, and two more from the Middle East: A new player is entering the London data center scene.

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RCR Wireless

JANUARY 10, 2025

These days, sustainability is more than a buzzword. Enterprises understand that responsible environmental stewardship matters. Commitments to environmental responsibility are nowa standard element in countless corporate 10-K filings, reflecting its importance.

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Telegeography

JANUARY 10, 2025

Ah, So Paulo. A critical market for Latin American connectivity ( just ask our Market Connectivity Score ), and the perfect location for Capacity LATAM 2025.

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RCR Wireless

JANUARY 10, 2025

Dutch chip firm NXP Semiconductors has signed a deal to buy Austria-based automotive software solution provider TTTech Auto for $625 million. TTTech Auto, with around 1,100 engineering staff, produces safety systems and middleware for software-defined vehicles.

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Light Reading

JANUARY 10, 2025

Cable company Charter Communications challenged a T-Mobile advertisement that said T-Mobile is 20% cheaper than "the other guys.

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