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WALTHAM, MA — April 16, 2024 — Netcracker Technology announced today that Play, the operator that acquired UPC Poland and is part of iliad, a major European telecommunications group, has extended its relationship with Netcracker for professional services and Digital BSS, which provides support for a number of functions, from onboarding new subscribers to service activation, including billing and payments. Play, the leading operator in Poland, offers mobile, broadband Internet and television...

News Auramo joins from enterprise resource planning giant SAP, where she was Chief Business Officer for the EMEA region This week, Vodafone Group has finally announced a new CEO for Vodafone Business in the form of Marika Auramo, currently the Chief Business Officer for the EMEA region for software specialist SAP. Auramo’s career at SAP spanned various roles over the past 25 years, including COO EMEA North, Managing Director for the Nordic and Baltic region, Global COO of SAP Database and Data...

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today issued several updates to their planned auction design for releasing a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmW) radio spectrum frequency in the 26GHz and 40GHz bands, which will be used by mobile operators to deliver faster 5G (mobile broadband) services – mostly in urban areas. The major mobile operators (EE, O2, Vodafone and Three UK) already have access to several 5G bands between 700MHz and 3.8GHz. Such frequency reflects the same sort of...

Sophia Antipolis, France, April 16 – Enreach for Service Providers, part of Enreach, the fast-growing European contact leader, has today announced a partnership with Netherlands-based CloudCTI, which delivers cloud-based CRM and ERP integrations to telecom service providers and resellers. The agreement will provide customers with access to 200+ CRM integrations. It will also support the customer experience (CX), analytics features and AI roadmap within  Enreach UP, which combines, UCaaS, CCaaS...

News The beleaguered Indian telecoms operator says a return to growth will be possible following its $2.2 billion follow-on public offering (FPO) Last week, Vodafone Idea announced that it would launch India’s largest ever FPO, seeking to raise almost $2.2 billion in an effort to reduce the company’s debt and provide funds for infrastructure investment. Now, Vodafone Idea’s CEO Akshaya Moondra has revealed further details about the potential impact of this funding, saying that it should allow...

Tarifica, a leading telecom analytics firm, has released its latest Data Dive analysis, shedding light on the critical roles of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and fiber technologies in expanding internet connectivity and bridging the digital divide. According to the analysis, based on data from Tarifica’s Telecom Pricing Intelligence Platform, while fiber offers unparalleled speed and reliability, FWA presents a compelling alternative, particularly in regions where laying physical cables is...

The wholesale division of Virgin Media O2 Business (VMO2), which supplies other UK broadband ISPs and network operators with connectivity services, has today informed their partners that they will not be raising prices for new business or existing services across all products throughout 2024. This “freeze on back book prices” follows the operator’s announcement in December that new business acquisition rates would not be raised in 2024 at any bandwidth. The decision is said to underpin the...

The UK Government’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and local MP, Jeremy Hunt, has visited and praised the Broadband for Surrey Hills (B4SH) project for having worked with volunteers to help bring full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband to nearly 1,000 premises in a remote rural area of Surrey (England). The project follows a similar mould to B4RN, which means it’s a not-for-profit Community Benefit Society (CBS) that is run by volunteers, who are helping to build the new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP)...

Mobile network operator O2 (VMO2) has begun harnessing SpaceX’s global network of Starlink ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which are being used to help provide mobile backhaul (data) capacity to boost mobile services in some of the United Kingdom’s remotest locations (e.g. sites in the Scottish Highlands). The use of such an approach is not new to O2, which last year tested a similar Starlink-based method alongside Wavemobile (here) when deploying 4G signals to the...

Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave and the Northumberland County Council (NCC) in England have today released the findings of an interesting study that monitored the effects of Vodafone’s recent 3G switch-off in the region, which is said to have resulted in a small to modest boost in 4G/5G coverage and mobile broadband performance. In case anybody has forgotten, Vodafone largely completed the process of switching off their old 3G network in February 2024 (here). Mobile operators have...