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Today, the UK government, via the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), has announced a “joint ambition”, alongside mobile operators, to increase the use of Open RAN technology in national networks.  The plan is for 35% of the country’s mobile traffic to […]

Chile has now officially inaugurated the Prat submarine cable, a move which it hopes will help further develop the country as a regional connectivity hub. The cable spans around 3,500km down the west coast of Chile from Arica, at the company’s most north-westerly point, down to Puerto Montt […]

Yesterday, US colocation data centre specialist Equinix announced its intentions to purchase Nigeria-based digital real estate company MainOne in a deal worth around $320 million. The deal represents Equinix’s first expansion into Africa, with the company hailing the move as the start of a […]

Today, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced that they have completed upgrading their existing network to DOCSIS 3.1 technology, four years ahead of schedule.  The upgrade process has been underway for the last two years, accelerating at an incredible pace. VMO2 announced that they had reached […]

CrossChannel is a next generation, high-capacity system with 96 fibre pairs supporting over 2,400 Tbps of capacity. The network spans 550km, 149km of which is submarine. The system is the first to be installed between the UK and France in over 20 years…read more on TotalTele.com »

Launched by Total Telecom in 2012 the Asia Communication Awards are the region's leading platform for recognising innovation and excellence amongst communication service providers, suppliers and other participants based in the Asia region or with product offerings specifically serving the region. […]

Samsung has not been shy when it comes to organisational restructure over the past decade.    Back back in 2017, then CEO Kwon Oh-hyun resigned, citing an “unprecedented crisis” facing the company. At the time, the company was performing fairly well financially, hence the […]

According to a report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, ex-employees are accusing Mitto co-founder, Ilja Gorelik, of selling private mobile location data to surveillance companies.  Mitto is a Swiss company employed by the likes of Google and Twitter to send automated text messages […]

According to anonymous sources speaking to French news channel BFM TV, Orange and Vodafone were considering a merger of equals towards the end of 2020 and the start of 2021.  This move would have had huge ramifications for telecoms markets all over the world. It would have created […]

Rolling out 5G infrastructure is expensive and time consuming, with operators around the world struggling to free up capital for their network expansion. Malaysia’s approach to this issue, however, has been somewhat unique.  Back in February this year, the Malaysian government […]

Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has announced that it has banned six additional VPN products from the Russian market: Betternet, Lantern, X-VPN, Cloudflare WARP, Tachyon VPN, and PrivateTunnel…read more […]

Nokia has announced that Japanese operator KDDI has selected Nokia’s 5G Core and Converged Charging software to support its transition to a fully automated, cloud-native 5G Core architecture. Nokia’s cloud-native 5G Core’s near zero-touch automation capabilities help operators […]

Back in October, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it had terminated China Telecom’s authority to provide communications services in the US.  The decision was largely based on classified information supplied by US national security agencies, who said that […]

The Polish regulator has now announced that it now intends to launch Poland’s first 5G spectrum auction next year.   Like so many 5G spectrum auctions around the world, Poland’s has faced a tumultuous journey in reaching actualisation. Initially planned to take place in 2020, the […]

The Indian DoT has made the highly decision to auction spectrum for satellite broadband companies, eschewing the near universal convention of allocating the spectrum directly.  In most markets around the world, satellite players are directly allocated operating spectrum by the relevant […]