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News The acquisition comes six months after OTE first attempted to offload the business to Quantum Projects Group  Romania’s largest operator, Digi Communications, has announced an agreement to take over Telekom Romania Mobile, the local operator owned by Deutsche Telekom’s Greek subsidiary OTE Group.   Telekom Romania is the country’s fourth largest telco after Orange, Vodafone, and Digi, with around 3.9 million subscribers. Formerly owned by the Romanian state, Telekom Romania has been under...

News  The announcement confirms rumours last month that suggested Verizon was also in separate talks to purchase some of UScellular’s assets   T-Mobile has announced an agreement to acquire the majority of UScellular’s wireless operations, including its customers, retail stores, and certain spectrum assets.   T-Mobile will pay a total of $4.4 billion for UScellular’s assets through a combination of cash and the assumption of $2 billion of debt.   As part of the deal, T-Mobile will acquire...

Mobile operator Vodafone has revealed that, as part of their commitment to the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, they’ve now expanded 4G (mobile broadband) services to a total of 250 extra rural sites across England, Scotland, Wales, and N.Ireland (up from 200 in April 2024). A mast located in Church Stretton (Shropshire) was the 250th to go live. The industry-led SRN – supported by £500m of state aid and £532m from operators – involves both the reciprocal sharing of existing masts in...

As per the report by Global Market Insights, Inc. “Worldwide 5G NTN Market was valued USD 4.2 billion in 2023 and will surpass a revenue collection of USD 79.8 billion by 2032 with an annual growth rate of 35% over 2024 to 2032.” The market growth is due to an increasing number of companies showcasing their innovations at leading industry events. As the race to deploy 5G networks intensifies, these events serve as platforms for companies to unveil their latest technologies and solutions. For...

Highlight has integrated Cisco ThousandEyes, a leader in digital experience monitoring into its Service Observability Platform. Highlight now collects the data from ThousandEyes, simplifies it and presents it in a service orientated view alongside the supporting Underlay connectivity, Overlay MPLS or SD-WAN, switch or WiFi LAN infrastructure.  By integrating the digital experience data from ThousandEyes alongside Highlight’s data about the WAN and LAN, organisations gain a full graphical view...

Epsilon Telecommunications (Epsilon), a global interconnectivity provider, has partnered with Neterra, a global telecommunications solutions provider, to expand its network presence in Europe and around the world. The partnership adds key European cities including Istanbul, Kyiv, Prague, Rome, Sofia, Vienna, Warsaw and Zagreb to Epsilon’s network footprint, as well as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in South America. Epsilon’s international customers can gain immediate access to these markets...

“As the United Kingdom gears up for a General Election on July 4th, the future of our society hangs in the balance. For us at the Keeping Digital Foundation, a digital inclusion charitable organisation dedicated to ensuring every resident has equal opportunity to get online, this election is a critical juncture. We urge all political parties and candidates to recognise the fundamental importance of digital inclusion and make it a cornerstone of their policy agendas. The Importance of Digital...

Graystone Strategy, specialist consultants in mobile and virtual mobile networks, announces today that it is acting as the principal advisor to The Channel Island Cooperative (Coop) and its proposed launch of Coop Mobile. As Sure progresses the purchase of Vodafone Airtel, the launch of a new MVNO is part of a remedial plan to ensure consumer choice is protected in the Channel Island’s mobile market. Acting as the principal strategic and commercial advisor to the Coop, Graystone Strategy has...

Belfast-based UK network builder and broadband ISP Fibrus has just extended their multi-gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network into the coastal town of Millisle in County Down (Northern Ireland), which is home to around 2,300 people. The new service is currently said to be serving 1,268 premises. The provider’s gigabit broadband network has, as of 31st March 2024, already been expanded to cover 354,000 premises (337k RFS) across parts of England and N.Ireland, which is...

Contributed Article  The global connectivity landscape is undergoing a transformative evolution. A wave of highly anticipated submarine cable systems is poised to come online, unlocking unprecedented opportunities for the African continent to seamlessly integrate into the global digital ecosystem. These game-changing initiatives will deliver a quantum leap in connectivity capabilities for the region, empowering customers with the unparalleled capacity, low latency, and redundancy they demand...