Total Telecom

JANUARY 2, 2025

News The connectivity could prove vital in areas where infrastructure is destroyed by Russian military activity Telecoms group VEON has announced a new partnership with Starlink, a division of SpaceX, to bring direct-to-cell satellite connectivity to Ukraine. The deal will see Kyivstar, VEONs Ukrainian subsidiary, offer these satellite-based connectivity services to its customers across the country.

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Telecom Talk

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The Indian Government waives bank guarantees for pre-2021 spectrum auctions, benefiting Vodafone Idea with Rs 24,800 Crore in relief.

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Developing Telecoms

JANUARY 1, 2025

Before the end of 2025 Ukraine is expecting to be one of the first countries to have the Starlink direct-to-cell satellite service up and running, thereby enhancing the resilience of the countrys connectivity landscape, thanks to a deal between Starlink and local operator Kyivstar.

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Paloalto Networks

JANUARY 2, 2025

This post was originally published on Forbes. Today, our most sensitive information is generally encrypted from your personal messages, banking and health information to things like classified military documents and companies' trade secrets. But theres a growing threat looming over our collective privacy and security and thats quantum computing. Currently being developed by the largest tech companies, startups and governments alike, quantum computers use the principles of quantum mechanics to

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 3, 2025

News The deal follows Zegonas 5 billion purchase of Vodafone Spain last June Zegona Communications has announced that Vodafone Spain and MasOrange will form a new fibre network joint venture, dubbed FibreCo. FibreCo will combine the two companies fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, reaching roughly 12.2 million premises across Spain.This, the partners say, will create the largest FTTH network in Europe.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 1, 2025

If you are looking for prepaid plans with which you can recharge for the entire year from BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited), you have come to the right place.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Turkish telecoms giant Turk Telekom has announced a new 5G project focusing on smart agriculture in collaboration with Chinese telecommunications company ZTE.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 2, 2025

News The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack caused a website failure and service disruption for around 12 hours Today, Japans largest mobile operator, NTT Docomo, has revealed it has suffered a cyberattack, impacting a number of services. The DDoS attack reportedly resulted in a system glitch at 5:27am, which disrupted access to several services such as the company website and the companys goo portal for almost 12 hours.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 2, 2025

Bihar, a state in east India bordering Nepal, has received Rs 1100 crore from the central government of India for 4G and 5G rollout.

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Developing Telecoms

JANUARY 2, 2025

Turkcell, globally a leading comprehensive telecom and digital services provider, has announced the successful completion of the world's first 2.4Tbps field trial on a live transmission network in collaboration with Huawei.

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Light Reading

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The new 3GPP 5G-Advanced specification promises a range of new features and functions. Operators and vendors are likely to start moving toward it in 2025 as telco spending looks set to resume.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 2, 2025

News The news follows final regulatory approval last month Swiss telco Swisscom has completed its acquisition of Vodafone Italia in a move set to reshape the competitive landscape of Italys telecoms sector. The deal, valued at 8 billion, was finalised on December 31 following approval from Italian regulators earlier in the month. The acquisition will see Vodafone Italia merged with Swisscoms existing Italian subsidiary, Fastweb.

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Telecom Talk

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-run telecom operator, has introduced two new prepaid plans for customers.

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Developing Telecoms

JANUARY 2, 2025

Two very different announcements regarding SIM registration have made headlines in two African countries in recent days: Togo is pursuing the policy, while Mauritius seems to be rejecting it.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is now officially looking for spectrum sharing technology to prove the 'viability of spectrum sharing in the 3100-3450MHz band,' according to a new filing.

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Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, its time for our annual tradition of highlighting the most-viewed posts of the year. This list includes posts that garnered the most attention, regardless of when they were originally published. For clarity, Ive included the month and year of publication for each. Huawei's Lampsite , Jul 2014 Passive and Active Infrastructure Sharing , May 2020 Nokia's AirScale indoor Radio (ASiR) Small Cells , Jul 2020 Open RAN (O-RAN) RRU (O-RU) and DU (O-DU) Design , Feb 2021 Ericsso

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 3, 2025

Traini, a pet-tech generative AI startup, announced on Friday, January 3, 2025, that it had launched its v1.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 30, 2024

While its been a holiday season in many parts of the world, its been a busy week for Safaricom Ethiopia at least in terms of significant announcements involving M-Pesa services and coverage growth.

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Light Reading

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Sixth Circuit has struck down the FCC's network neutrality rules, arguing in part that broadband is an 'information' service and that the Commission lacks the authority to impose the rules.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Fiber broadband saw a flurry of major deals in 2024. Major mobile carriers are expected to continue snapping up fiber providers in the coming year, as they look to offer converged services in a regulatory environment that looks to be getting friendlier. News that Verizon was looking to acquire Frontier in early September was seen by analysts as the beginning of this trend in earnest.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 2, 2025

BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited), a state-run Indian telecom operator, has two prepaid plans under its offering that come with 425 days of service validity.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 29, 2024

An internet law that gives the government power to regulate online content took effect in Vietnam last week. Decree 147, as the law is known, expands government control over access to information on the internet for reasons of national security and social order.

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Light Reading

JANUARY 2, 2025

What's on the Light Reading editorial coverage list in 2025? Network slicing, AI in the RAN (and damn near everywhere else), data center transformation, 5G Advanced getting more advanced-ier, broadband policy, spectrum sharing, eSIMs, cable everything, pay TV's funeral, smartphones that fold, think and make you less reliant on telcos and much more.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 28, 2024

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28, 2024 – Talkie Communications, a small fiber-to-the-home Internet Service Provider, is asking Washington officials to reject Delaware's Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program awards unveiled a few weeks ago and require the state to re-open the application process. In a Dec. 24 letter, Talkie's CEO raised several objections with numerous officials within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration – which has the ultimately

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 1, 2025

Vodafone Idea (Vi) reportedly plans to disrupt the 5G market in March 2025 with aggressive pricing and an initial launch across 75 cities.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has enabled prepaid payment instruments (PPIs) to make unified payments interface (UPI) transactions via third-party mobile applications, a concept that may sound arcane on first glance, but one that could speed up the money transfer process in India.

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Light Reading

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The use of Nvidia GPUs in the radio access network would have massive implications for telcos and their suppliers.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2025 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued new guidance Thursday to enhance state access to federal broadband funding for alternative technologies like low-Earth orbit satellites. Building on draft guidance released in August , NTIA's final guidance on the use of alternative broadband technologies under the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program reflected input from 138 stakeholders' comments.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 3, 2025

Indian consumers are upgrading to better and more premium smartphones every year. As a result, the average selling price of devices is continously jumping upwards.

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Developing Telecoms

JANUARY 2, 2025

Pan-African operator MTN Group has announced the conclusion of the sale of its MTN Guinea-Conakry operation to the State of Guinea. This took place on 30 December 2024.

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DECEMBER 31, 2024

Vendors have been struggling for years amid a pullback in telecom network operator spending. Now, though, it appears operators are beginning to resume more normal spending patterns.

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Telecom Ramblings

JANUARY 3, 2025

We started the week with the question of consolidation targets in the US , and now its time for the other side of the coin. What network operators are most likely to be consolidators in 2025? Well take it as a given that infrastructure funds would top the more general list of likely buyers, of course, but lets focus on the existing network operators looking to expand inorganically in the US.

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Telecom Talk

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Firstly, let us clear up the term mid-range for you guys.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 30, 2024

While the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been widely reported as dismissing speculations that it plans an upward review of tariffs by January next year, it does seem as though one operator, satellite internet service Starlink, will have its planned tariff increase approved.

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Light Reading

JANUARY 3, 2025

It is time to stop describing technologies as artificially intelligent when they are no such thing.

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RCR Wireless

JANUARY 2, 2025

The IFT-12 tender will allocate 2,223 blocks of radio spectrum across several frequency bands for 5G services Mexicos telecommunications watchdog Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) has announced the launch of the IFT-12 spectrum tender, a major step in the countrys efforts to expand 5G connectivity.

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Telecom Talk

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) board has decided to go for the implementation of VRS (Voluntary Retirement Scheme) 2.

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