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Over the weekend, it was reported that Nvidia was in talks with SoftBank for the purchase of UK chip-maker Arm.  Such a purchase, valued at around $55 billion, would see Nvidia solidify its position ahead of rival Intel as the 'world’s most valuable chip-maker'.   SoftBank […]

Telstra has seemingly set lofty goals for its 5G coverage over the coming year, hoping to cover three-quarters of the Australian population by June 2021. Since its launch in May 2019, Telstra’s 5G network has been expanding quickly. Almost a year since launch, the operator announced that its […]

Reports from the Economic Times suggest that Vodafone Idea’s vendor partners, such as Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, and ZTE, are delaying incoming equipment orders from the operator, with fears that the telco will not be able to pay up.   This could see the struggling Indian telco stuck in […]

Last week, the Chilean government announced plans for the development of its Transoceanic Cable, a route that will span the Pacific to connect Chile to Oceania.   Chile hopes that the 13,180 km cable, which will link Chile to Sydney and Auckland will lead to the South American nation […]

The Italian government has long been hungry for TIM to consolidate its fibre business with that of state-owned Open Fiber, a move which would greatly increase efficiencies throughout the country. TIM, however, has been reluctant to do so and has repeatedly resisted government pressure…read […]

Our journey so far Looking back over the last five months since we first launched the 5G-aliser in March 2020, development of 5G has been a battle of opposing forces. While the wildcard factors of COVID-19, the US-China trade war and wider geopolitics, and the rise of 5G conspiracies have all had […]

Every operator in every region around the world has had a markedly different experience of the coronavirus pandemic. Ensuring robust connectivity at a time like this has been no easy task, requiring CSPs to adapt quickly to the unique challenges posed within their own networks.     […]

BT’s networking arm, Openreach, has announced plans to bring full fibre to 3.2 million homes and businesses in ‘Area 3’ of the UK by 2025/26 – those geographic areas considered to be harder to reach.    This goal falls under BT’s overall ambition of […]

At the start of 2020, when the world was just beginning to get to grips with the coronavirus, nobody could have predicted the extent to which it would change our world. As infection rates flared around the globe, many countries were rapidly lockdown, with social distancing and work from home […]

Since the start of 2020, Huawei has been under siege, with the fallout from a Chinese–US geopolitical dispute reshaping the vendor’s position in the global ecosystem. As a result of US pressure, the company’s role in providing 5G infrastructure for various countries around the […]

Today, London-based altnet Community Fibre has announced a major additional investment of £400 million in its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. This new funding will see a major acceleration of its London rollout plans, increasing targets to one million premises by 2023…read more […]

Yesterday, MTS announced that it has been allocated Russia’s first 5G licence.    The operator suggests that its new licence in the superfast 24.25–24.65 GHz mmWave band will allow it to explore a number of new verticals. In its announcement, MTS said that it is currently […]

As 2019 drew to a close, excitement surrounding 5G was beginning to soar. 2020, many said, was to be the ‘Year of 5G’, with mass adoption of the new technology set to revolutionise the telecoms world and beyond. However, none could have foreseen the incredible disruption that was to […]

Around the world, collaboration between governments and communications companies have been at the heart of national and international responses to the coronavirus pandemic. From social distancing and contact tracing apps, to telemedicine and remote schooling, joint action between the private and […]

Anticipating the future is never an easy task, especially when it comes to technology. We need only look to the ongoing pandemic to understand just how quickly well-made plans can be disrupted, with the world at large forced to rapidly adapt to unforeseen circumstances.   But the pandemic […]