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Lightpath Enters Phoenix Market with New AI-Grade Fiber Network

Total Telecom

NEW YORK February 19, 2025 Lightpath , an all-fiber infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, announced its entrance into the Phoenix market with a new 230-route mile, high-fiber count network throughout the region, anchored by multiple hyperscaler customers.

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African smartphone market grows 3% despite challenges

Developing Telecoms

Analyst house Canalys revealed that the African smartphone market grew by 3% year-on-year in Q3 2024 despite macroeconomic challenges. It predicted that smartphone shipments would grow by a “cautious” 1% in 2025.

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Emerging markets drive smartphone rebound

Developing Telecoms

The global smartphone market grew by 7% to 1.22 billion units in 2024, marking a rebound after two consecutive years of decline, with emerging markets highlighted as the industrys key growth driver.

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Kazakhtelecom sells mobile unit to end market monopoly

Developing Telecoms

billion sale of its subsidiary, Mobile Telecom Service LLP, to Qatari Power International Holding (PIH) in a move to align with the Kazakh presidents orders to demonopolise the Kazakh mobile market. Kazakhtelecom completed the US$1.1

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Everstream Solutions Proposes to Delay Pennsylvania Market Exit

Broadband Breakfast

4, 2025 – A communications provider serving five Mid-Atlantic states has proposed to remain in the Pennsylvania market until the end of 2025 – a response to opposition to an earlier cutoff. Everstream originally planned to exit the Pennsylvania market by June 30, 2025, as a component of a broader withdrawal from multiple states. 

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Chinese LEO company follows Starlink into Brazilian market

Developing Telecoms

SpaceSail, a Chinese low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite company, has signed an agreement to enter the Brazilian market. The signing took place during Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent state visit to the capital, Brasilia.

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South Africa’s Telkom enters MVNO market

Developing Telecoms

South African operator Telkom has entered the countrys mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market through a partnership with a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) platform provider.

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