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News  A new report from Liberty Global and EY has highlighted the role that AI could play in helping the telecoms sector to achieve sustainability milestones over the next decade  The ‘Smarter Networks, Greener Planet’ report, released this month, explains how AI tech can be used to improve operations, increase efficiencies, and reduce environmental impact in the telco industry.   The two companies highlighted eight actionable strategies to help the telco sector use AI for sustainability: ...

Press Release Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, opens a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Brasilia to support the growing demand for international connectivity in Brazil. First in Brasilia and fifteenth in the country, the new PoP expands Sparkle’s network capillarity in Brazil – featuring presence also in Fortaleza, Porto Alegre, Rio De Janeiro, Salvador, and São Paulo, – while consolidating its positioning as a leading global Tier-1...

News The relief package could provide a 50% waiver of interest and a 100% waiver on penalties related to adjusted gross revenues This week, rumours are swirling that India’s upcoming government budget could contain a life raft for the nation’s beleaguered telecoms sector. According to reports, the government’s annual Union Budget, set to be announced by Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, may contain a relief package waiving billions of dollars in fees that are owed to the...

A new report from consultancy firm EY and European broadband operator Liberty Global, which alongside Telefonica is also a parent of the merged Virgin Media and O2 UK, has today argued for the “strategic adoption” of AI in the telco sector to help drive “major sustainability gains over the next decade“. Just don’t worry about its power consumption. The report – ‘Smarter networks, greener planet‘ (PDF) – argues that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help broadband and mobile operators to “build...

Edinburgh-based alternative UK network ISP GoFibre has today announced that they’ve managed to sign-up 1,000 customers to their new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network in the Scottish Borders town of Hawick, which has just completed its build. Locals are now being offered a special deal that gives new customers speeds of 1000Mbps for the price of 500Mbps for the duration of their contract. The operator’s new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network is now available to 6,000 premises (ready for...

News The new CEO is taking over the company during a major decline in its stock price, with Telefónica’s market value falling by more than half under Álvarez-Pallete’s leadership  After a board meeting in which shareholders expressed the desire for new company leadership, Telefónica’s board has accepted the resignation of CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete.   Marc Murtra, the former president of IT and defence solutions company Indra, has been appointed to succeed Álvarez-Pallete, assuming...

News The breach, which took place last year, reportedly saw hackers steal months of the agents’ text and call logs According to a report from Bloomberg, FBI agents are being warned that their data may have been compromised in a data breach at AT&T. AT&T announced having been attacked in July last year, revealing that six months of customer mobile data from 2022 had been stolen. The hackers responsible subsequently attempted to extort AT&T, threatening to sell the data on the dark...

News  Freshwave will deploy a portable 5G private network at the Edinburgh facility to help support robots and AI applications   The collaboration, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), is designed to improve robotics testing and drive innovation in the agritech sector.  The first use case for the portable 5G network features Spot, a four-legged wireless robot.. Using the 5G network, Spot streams live video, generates 3D maps, and conducts infrared scans in real time to...

News  The infrastructure is designed to operate for at least a decade  Vantage Towers, TOTEM, Orange, O2 Telefónica, and Saarland University of Applied Sciences have joined forces to deploy a 5G highway corridor connecting Metz in France to Saarbrücken in Germany.  The “5G Autobahn to Autoroute” (5G A2A) project spans 60km, with construction beginning in early 2025, aiming to complete in late 2027.  The corridor will include a 55km section in France and a 5km stretch in Germany. In France,...

Press Release Telehouse launches educational initiative featuring character ‘DC’ to enhance public understanding of data centres and their impact on digital lives Half of UK consumers (51%) have never heard of the term ‘data centre,’ highlighting a significant lack of awareness about their critical role in powering daily digital life. New research from Telehouse reveals how, despite the increasing reliance on digital services and their recent categorisation by the government as Critical...