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Nigeria’s regulator tells operators to compensate users for poor service

The Nigerian Communications Commission is making good on the promises laid out in its Directive in March, which is designed to encourage investment in mobile networks

Scaleway to replace Microsoft in hosting French Health Data Hub

Screening covered more than 350 technical criteria which appears to have trumped already holding SecNumCloud certification

BICS, Google bring voice to the cloud for enterprises

BICS enables enterprises to integrate PSTN-like voice services within Google’s suite of communication solutions

Germany’s largest altnet offered funding as it struggles with €7bn debt

Canadian pension fund Omers and private equity group EQT have jointly offered another €5 billion – they are already investors in the altnet

Lidl to launch no-frill plans in up to 30 countries as MVNO sector heats up

Walmart Bait has 26m customers in Mexico, fintechs are invading the UK and US Mobile dynamically switches between the main mobile networks, bundles Starlink for home broadband

CEO of Poste Italiane follows up on €10.8bn bid for Telecom Italia

Matteo Del Fante has outlined the business justification for the offer to the Financial Times, regardless of state-ownership, and suggests the deal could be complete by September

UK extends law designed to make it easier to acquire and operate basestation sites

Legislation introduced in 2017 has led to a surge in disputes and delays with landowners; expanding it to include 15,000 more sites looks unlikely to improve matters

United’s 600km terrestrial cable links Greek cities and Greece to ME

It connects eight cities, links Greece to its main PoPs in southeastern Europe and beyond to Turkey and the Middle East, for its own traffic and on a wholesale basis

Helios Towers is to invest $100m next year in DCR

Helios manages 2,700+ towers in the African country: this latest expansion is with the ongoing support of the country's Agence Nationale pour la Promotion des Investissements

Vodafone partners Glasfaser Nordwest to expand Gigabit footprint

The operator will be able to offer 1.5 million more premises Gigabit broadband this autumn as it continues efforts to turnaround its fixed connectivity business in Germany

Hayo launches services in Rwanda for operators, enterprise and government

The country has been one of the fastest adopters of digital services over the last decade

WBA claims ‘step-change’ in Wi-Fi 7’s reliability in real-world trials

AT&T, RUCKUS Networks and Intel's testing show multi-link operation with commercial devices improve uplink performance – under interference – by up to 116%

Sparkle teams up with Anthropic to offer Claude via AWS Bedrock

The wholesale infrastructure provider says the new offer will integrate "seamlessly" with its multi-cloud and connectivity solutions

Digi acquires 51% stake in UK altnet Whyfibre

Whether the Romanian operator group can repeat its profitable success in its home market and Spain remains to be seen

45% of homes in Europe passed by FTTH do not subscribe to fibre

Monetising the infrastructure remains the most serious challenge faced by those building and selling fibre broadband, although the FTTH/B take-up rate has reached 54.4%
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