Monday:

stc Bahrain to work with Huawei for 5.5G network

The company will become the first in the Middle East to adopt this network and comes as part of its strategy to establish and develop the next version of 5G infrastructure within the next three years.

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Liberty Global, Telefonica, and InfraVia set up UK fibre JV

The joint venture (JV) will be 50:50 owned by Liberty Global–Telefonica and InfraVia and see an initial investment of £4.5 billion to deploy fibre-to-the-home (FTTH)

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Tuesday:

Ambani and Adani: Asia's richest men battle to dominate 5G in India

India's largest auction for 5G airwaves has ended after seven days, potentially setting the stage for a battle of supremacy over India's digital future between two of Asia's richest men - Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani.

A total of 72 gigahertz of spectrum was on the block in the auction. Ashwini Vaishnaw, India's telecoms minister, said 71% of what was on offer was sold.

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Open RAN Revenues to Approach $20 B over Next 5 Years, says Dell’Oro Group

According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, near-term Open RAN and vRAN projections have been revised upward to reflect the higher starting point and improved momentum. 

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Wednesday:

SES closes $450m DRS deal

SES has closed its US$450 million acquisition of DRS’ satellite business.
The satellite firm revealed it had obtained all the necessary regulatory approvals for the deal to be completed following an initial agreement.

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Vodafone and Ericsson launch support service for Hungarian 5G factory

Ericsson and Vodafone have launched a new preemptive support service for private 5G networks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to ensure efficient operations at the Foxconn factory in Komárom, Hungary

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Thursday:

Accenture to Help Swisscom to Reduce Emissions by 1 Million Tons of Carbon by 2025

Accenture collaborated with Swisscom on a climate strategy to reduce the telecommunications company’s emissions and help its customers reduce their emissions by one million tons of carbon by 2025 — equal to 2% of Switzerland’s total carbon emissions.

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5G Slicing Revenue Expected to Reach $24 Billion in 2028, says ABI Research

With 3G and 4G, connectivity has been a uniform offering independently of the device or target customer. 5G slicing, by contrast, holds the potential to offer varying levels of connectivity characteristics (e.g., SLAs, bandwidth, latency) for different devices, use cases, and applications.

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Friday:

Deutsche Telekom to run all Tele2’s international voice traffic

Deutsche Telekom has won the contract to be the exclusive gateway for all of Tele2’s incoming and outgoing international voice traffic.
The German company’s Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier (DTGC) will use its voice aggregation solution United Voice, and a customised fraud protection package.

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Globe, Eastern Communications, InfiniVAN kickstart $150m subsea cable project

Globe Telecom, Eastern Communications, and InfiniVAN have begun work on the Philippines' longest subsea fibre cable network.

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