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    French households don’t use a quarter of their devices 

    Despite this, only 13% of internet users thought that buying refurbished devices was a useful avenue for limiting ICT’s environmental footprint

    Virgin Media O2 Business gets busy in public

    Signs MoU with Crown Commercial Services, teams up with Accenture for private 5G opps and launches Care-ready Connectivity suite for UK healthcare ops

    Romania sees solid fixed line broadband speed increases 

    Regulator ANCOM says fixed wireless access is increasing across the country

    German regulator imposes new conditions on spectrum extensions 

    BNetzA’s consultation shows it has listened to newcomer 1&1’s complaints around extending existing frequency usage rights for Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica

    Telefonica Germany moving 5G subscribers onto AWS-based core this month

    It is the first time an established mobile operator has moved its core network to the public cloud – and a breakthrough for AWS in Europe

    Evidence grows that consumers are warming to AI in their handsets 

    ‘AI-less’ Apple still holding its own as consumers warm to AI hype, but for how long?

    Cloud adoption for data ops must focus on cost, agility and innovation 

    Telekom Srbija, Hrvatski Telekom and Celfocus share their experiences around moving data ops and analytics to the cloud in the telco industry

    Freenet launches eSIM-based data roaming with 1Global 

    The new service freenet Travel will be available in more than 100 countries and includes a variety of data packages

    Telefónica Germany launches first commercial vRAN and Open RAN site

    The site uses Samsung's kit and is part of the joint development announced with the operator last year – more sites and network automation to follow

    Broadband Forum extends 5G convergence standards

    Industry body says they include “major enhancements” to resilience and support for residential customers

    A missed opportunity: passing the EU’s Gigabit Infra Act

    Brussels can tick the box, but it could and should have been so much better

    Broadband numbers static as Italy shifts to FTTP 

    Mobile stays prepaid while VOD subscriptions grow but viewing falls

    Lumine prevails in bid for Casa’s 5G core and RAN assets

    Interloper Skyvera lost out by a narrow margin but cost Lumine $17.2 million more than the original deal it had struck

    Omdia ranks global top 12 operators’ progress towards becoming techcos

    Concludes they are doing well in terms of adopting a software-based operating model and developing enterprise digital services, but their focus on verticals needs work

    Is AI the only way for 5G and automation?

    Partner content: Despite they hype around AI, many telco processes may not need it. Automation can be an incremental step on the way to AI, bringing immediate business benefits