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AT&T data plans

AT&T to participate in affordable connectivity program

AT&T and Cricket Wireless will participate in the new federal Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The ACP will provide eligible households with a benefit of...
AT&T campaign

AT&T sells advertising marketplace Xandr to Microsoft

AT&T has agreed to sell its global programmatic advertising marketplace, Xandr Inc., to Microsoft. Financial details were not disclosed. Xandr’s technology strategically complements Microsoft’s current...
Swisscom 5G network

Swiss proposes increasing minimum internet speed

The Swiss government proposed on Friday increasing the minimum internet speeds by a factor of eight. At present Swisscom has the concession to provide basic...
Cellular for IoT

Migration of 3G-powered IoT devices to 4G in US

Applied Information, a provider of intelligent transportation infrastructure technology, is upgrading more than 3,000 connected traffic control devices to 4G in advance of the...
wi-fi-investment

EU must provide spectrum for next generation Wi-Fi technologies

The EU should ensure that enough spectrum is made available to enable the next generations of Wi-Fi Gigabit technologies, Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7, to...
Orange for mobile phone users

Orange Belgium in talks with Nethys for buying VOO

Orange Belgium has started negotiations with Nethys for buying 75 percent stake in VOO SA -- based on an enterprise value of €1.8 billion. VOO...
Nokia WiFi Beacons

WorldLink offers Nokia WiFi Beacon 1.1 mesh access point

WorldLink Communications, the largest broadband ISP in Nepal, has introduced Nokia WiFi Beacon 1.1 mesh access point to offer a seamless home Wi-Fi experience...
FWA

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) market set to boom as 5G grows

The Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) market will exceed 180 million subscriptions and generate $70 billion in revenue in 2026. The 5G FWA market will...
Italy Open Fiber project

Macquarie and CDP win EU approval for Open Fiber acquisition

The acquisition of broadband network company Open Fiber by Italy’s state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and Australian fund Macquarie has won EU...
Reliance Jio plans fiber broadband network in 900 towns

U.S. Commerce Secretary reveals plans to spend $65 bn to expand broadband

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo revealed plans to spend $65 billion to expand broadband access and affordability, Reuters reported. The authors of the new infrastructure...
Altice USA broadband

Altice USA reveals $1.8 bn Capex focusing on FTTH

Altice USA said it expects to accelerate investments in key growth initiatives, increasing cash capital expenditures to ~$1.7 billion to $1.8 billion in fiscal...
Frontier fiber coverage

Frontier Capex touches $377 million in third quarter

Frontier Communications said capital expenditures (Capex) touched $377 million in the third quarter of 2021 against $314 million in the third quarter of 2020,...
MTN store South Africa

MTN service revenue up 19% to R125 billion in nine months

MTN Group’s service revenue increased 19.1 percent to R125 billion -- driven by growth momentum in major markets Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa --...
Optical fiber investment

Number of US fiber lines to reach 28.2 mn by 2026

The number of US fiber lines will grow at a CAGR of 10.8 percent to reach 28.2 million lines by the end of 2026....
BT headquarter London

BT achieves $1.37 bn cost savings target ahead of schedule

BT said it delivered its annual 1 billion pounds ($1.37 billion) cost savings target 18 months ahead of schedule. BT earlier reported revenue of £5.071 billion...
Remote working for telecom professionals

Adapting to the telecoms demands of remote working

Remote working is here to stay, and it has brought with it huge telecommunications challenges. The capacity of the internet and its many comms...

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