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WALTHAM, MA — February 11, 2025 — Netcracker Technology announced today that Telecentro Argentina has committed to a multi-year engagement that will give the operator a stable IT platform and support and maintenance services as it plans for additional capabilities and improvements to benefit its business and customers. Telecentro Argentina, which delivers key services including broadband, telephony and video to B2C and B2B customers and controls an extensive fiber network, will continue to...

PERU, IND. (Feb. 11, 2025) – Thousands of Miami County residents and businesses will soon have access to faster, more reliable Internet with a joint investment from Comcast, the Indiana Broadband Office (IBO) and the Indiana Office of Community & Rural Affairs (OCRA). The multi-million-dollar joint investment is the latest from Comcast under the fourth round of the Next Level Connections broadband grant program, and continues company efforts to build reliable, high-speed Internet access to...

NEOM, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 10 February, 2025 – NEOM, the sustainable region taking shape in northwest Saudi Arabia, and DataVolt, a Saudi-based international developer, investor and operator of data centers, today signed a landmark agreement, marking a significant step toward realizing the Kingdom’s vision for a sustainable, data-driven economy. The development will take a phased approach, with phase one – funded by an initial investment of USD 5 billion – expected to be operational by...

Teset Capital, an independent fund manager with assets in the Eurozone, has formalised a strategic investment agreement with Valencia Digital Port Connect (VDPC) to support the development of the Barracuda Project. This unique and innovative initiative combines submarine telecommunications infrastructure with a cable landing station (CLS) and an edge data centre. The estimated total investment for the Barracuda Project is €100 million, and according to the proposed timeline, the project will...

David’s professional background includes founding One Six International, a strategic consulting firm specializing in telecom, media and entertainment, where he advised clients on market strategies and business operations. Prior to this, he held roles such as President and CEO of Globecast America, and CEO of Globecast Asia, where he oversaw significant growth and transformation initiatives. His expertise spans business planning, partnerships, product launches and market expansion. Earlier in...

To enable its rapid worldwide expansion, NetIX, one of the fastest-growing Internet Exchanges in the world, has partnered with global colocation provider, Telehouse creating a primary point-of-presence (PoP) in the Telehouse North data centre, at the Telehouse London Docklands campus. After more than six years of using a partner to connect into Telehouse North, NetIX has brought the data centre fully on-net as one of its primary PoPs. This enhancement has reduced service turn-up times in this...

High Speed 2 Ltd, which is a non-departmental public body that is wholly funded by the UK Government’s Department for Transport (DfT) and oversees the HS2 rail project, has signed a £99.6m deal with Hitachi and Telent to design and deploy telecommunications services across the new rail network, including passenger voice and broadband connectivity. The contract itself, which is expected to run for thirteen and a half years, will see Hitachi and Telent (Joint Venture) become “responsible for the...

Alternative fibre optic ISP Brsk, which is currently in the final stages of being merged into Netomnia’s network (here), has reportedly confirmed that approximately 50,000 homes and businesses across the South Yorkshire (England) market town of Barnsley will be the next to benefit from their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband. The town is already well covered by Virgin Media’s (inc. nexfibre) gigabit-broadband network, while Openreach also has a significant level of FTTP...

News  The Asia Direct Cable (ADC) system is now fully operational, two months ahead of schedule  The ADC, developed by a consortium of companies including China Telecom, China Unicom, Singtel, SoftBank, Tata Communications, and Viettel, is the first new submarine cable introduced in the Asia-Pacific in over eight years.   The cable spans approximately 10,000km, connecting China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, and has a capacity of over 160 Tbps.  The submarine cable...

Contributed Article by Tim Parker, Chief Growth Officer of Assured Comms The rapid evolution of AI is reshaping data center infrastructure, changing the approach to compute deployment by enterprises and cloud providers. Driven by traditional hyperscalers with large-scale training clusters, emerging efficiency gains are shifting demand toward smaller, more distributed inference deployments. Meanwhile, demands for connectivity continue to rise globally, demanding infrastructure that best...