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News  The Italian government are said to be focusing investment on critical national infrastructure  The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and Retelit, a subsidiary of the Spanish Asterion Infrastructure Fund, has made €700 offer for Sparkle, Telecom Italia’s subsea cable unit, the company has announced this week  Negotiations are ongoing, and TIM is expected to carefully evaluate the offer in the context of its overall strategy. The involvement of MEF and Retelit in the bid...

News  This marks the company’s largest investment in the country so far  Microsoft has announced plans to invest €4.3 billion over the next two years in Italy to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure.    As part of the initiative, Microsoft will also train over 1 million Italians in digital skills by 2025, aiming to support economic growth and tackle demographic challenges.  While what exact scale of thew new infrastructure to be built was not announced, Microsoft says its expansion will make...

Presse-Information  München, Deutschland – Connected Germany, Deutschlands Veranstaltung für die digitale Wirtschaft, kehrt zu ihrer bisher größten Ausgabe nach München zurück.   Auf der zweitägigen Veranstaltung, welche vom Medien- und Veranstaltungsspezialisten Total Telecom ausgerichtet wird, werden 150 Sprecher die wichtigsten Themen für den Aufbau von Netzwerken der nächsten Generation in Deutschland diskutieren. Die Veranstaltung ist in fünf Hauptthemen aufgeteilt und behandelt Themen...

Energy and communications provider Utility Warehouse (UW or Telecom Plus) recently boosted their existing range of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages by finally adding a top 944Mbps tier, which costs just £40 per month on an 18-month term. The change appears to have occurred in the middle of last month, although they didn’t issue a press release about it – we noticed when it was mentioned in their latest minor quarterly trading update. Customers who take this package...

The official website that was setup last year to support the proposed mobile mega-merger between Vodafone and Three UK – https://vodafoneandthree.uk – mysteriously vanished at the start of this week and has yet to return after several days of waiting. But the issue is more likely to be an awkward technical one than a sign of something more dramatic, we think. Generally speaking, you wouldn’t normally expect the main website for one of the UK’s largest telecoms mergers to simply vanish for a...

The Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) in England has published some of the initial results from a project it undertook with Birmingham City University (BCU) and other local authorities, which mapped 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage in the County – helping to reveal areas of both poor and no signal. The effort began in 2022 after NCC secured £20,000 from the Local Government Association (LGA) to fund its Digital Pathfinders project. Over the 18-month survey period, the project...

The Growing Mid Wales programme and network analyst firm Streetwave have used their ongoing mobile connectivity study in Ceredigion (Wales) to reveal what sort of impact tourism has on mobile broadband performance in seaside towns (there’s a “major” drop in data speeds) and thus where EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2 may need to upgrade. Just to recap. Streetwave have been harnessing waste (bin / refuse) collection lorries to map mobile network coverage and speeds in the area since earlier in the...

Brsk, one of the fastest-growing networks in the UK, has announced that work is underway to bring full fibre broadband to the Salford borough of Greater Manchester. Areas to be connected include Blackfriars in the city centre, Seedley, Pendlebury, and Irlams o’ th’ Height.   This investment will offer 25,000 homes and businesses in the area access to the fastest and most reliable type of broadband available in the UK, providing symmetrical upload and download speeds via a brand-new network.  ...

News The software aims to prevent ‘vishing’, where fraudsters attempt to collect personal data over the phone Since its launch in May 2024, BT’s Enhanced Call Protect service has blocked over 2.4 million scam calls and flagged 17.7 million spam calls to landlines, the company has announced. The service is part of BT’s Digital Voice platform, which uses AI powered tools to identify and block malicious calls. Developed in partnership with Hiya, Enhanced Call Protect uses machine learning to...

News The operator says it will soon be able to offer fibre optic broadband to more than 11 million homes and businesses across the country Vodafone Germany is set to offer its fibre broadband packages to 11 million premises across the country, a move it says will make it the largest fibre network in the country. The expansion comes via the implementation of new infrastructure sharing partnerships with Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Glasfaser, which will increase Vodafone’s commercial reach by...