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DNS:NET targets single-family homes with Berlin fibre rollout

Access
German operator DNS:NET is expanding its FTTH footprint across Berlin and Brandenburg, focusing specifically on detached housing estates
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New world record of 430Tbps over standard telecoms fibre

Optical/IP
The new technique, developed by an international team of 12 organisations, offers more capacity without deployment of new fibre or much wider spectral bandwidth
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EXA Infrastructure completes Aqua Comms acquisition

Access
Deal adds multiple Atlantic cable systems and follows a series of fibre investments aimed at strengthening route diversity and capacity across Europe
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Nokia teams up with Trump, investing $4bn in US-based R&D, manufacturing

Automation/AI
US Secretary of Commerce: the most innovative tech to power AI, data centers and critical national security will be developed and built in the USA
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1&1 consolidates infrastructure with €1.3bn Versatel acquisition

Access
The move brings the operator’s fixed and mobile infrastructure under one roof and strengthens its position in Germany’s enterprise market
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Sparkle advances quantum-safe AI communications

Automation/AI
Italian operator unveils patent-pending technology for secure, verifiable AI-to-AI interaction, extending its quantum-safe portfolio that already includes a cloud-native service on AWS
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Lyntia launches DC Connect across Iberia

Automation/AI
New service extends Lyntia’s wholesale portfolio amid continued investment and European expansion
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Sparkle’s BlueMed cable lands in Cyprus as the Med sees more cables

Access
TIM Group’s international arm expands its reach across the eastern Mediterranean with a new landing at Cyta’s Yeroskipos station in Cyprus
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Spain’s regulator rules Cadiz imposed unjustified barriers to fibre laying

Access
Although competing telcos seem to like digging the same ground repeatedly, it is nice to see a regulator stamp on excessive bureaucracy
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Belgian regulator tests Proximus–Telenet fibre commitments

Access
The country needs it to work given Belgium’s fibre penetration remains among the lowest in Europe, with only 30% of households connected
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Bouygues, Iliad and Orange offer €17bn for SFR

5G & Beyond
The French government may like the sovereign move, but the wider regulatory test will be how the EU views the acquisition in terms of telecom sector consolidation
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Vodafone, Nokia brag world-first cuts broadband lag by up to 94%

Optical/IP
This is the first time low latency, low loss, scalable throughput (L4S) technology has been deployed, end to end, on a FTTH connection
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4iG sets up new wholesale group 2Connect in Hungary

Access
4iG’s transformation programme, which started in November 2023, has now reached its “final and ultimate milestone”
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Sparkle boosts IRIS2 control centre site PoP to 400Gbps  

Access
The Italian wholesale operator upgrades its PoP at the Fucino Space Centre, which will host the main control site for the EU’s proposed low-orbit...
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Italy creates fund to safeguard gigabit plan

Access
Italy’s government has created a new National Connectivity Fund to reallocate €700 million in savings from its delayed ultrafast broadband project
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