Sustainability Archives - Page 11 of 21

Jordan, Rwanda sign MoU to boost ICT cooperation

Middle East & Africa 25 September 2026

Jordan and Rwanda have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Duting the U.N General Assembly in...

Microsoft pumps $10bn in Middle East AI and cloud infrastructure

Middle East & Africa 25 September 2026

Microsoft has announced plans to invest over $10 billion into cloud and AI infrastructure across the Middle East by 2030. The technology giant revealed the...

Inside Openreach’s final push to shut down the UK’s old telephone network

Insights 2 September 2026

The UK’s old telephone network is entering its final chapter, but for Openreach, switching it off is proving to be about much more than...

VodafoneThree slams ‘embarrassing’ state of UK mobile networks amid AI fears

Automation/AI 1 September 2026

VodafoneThree has warned that the UK risks falling behind in the global AI race unless urgent improvements are made to the country's mobile and...

Ericsson recycles 5,000 tonnes of telecom e-waste in Saudi Arabia

Middle East & Africa 1 September 2026

Ericsson has helped collect and recycle nearly 5,000 metric tons of end-of-life telecom equipment in Saudi Arabia through its E-Waste Management Program. The scheme covers...

VMO2 expands data poverty fight with Good Things Foundation partnership renewal

Sustainability 18 August 2026

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) and Good Things Foundation have renewed their partnership to tackle data poverty. With a new ambition to connect 500,000 low-income households,...

We need to learn from network outages in the era of AI and cyber attacks

Financial/Regulation 9 July 2026

Telstra suffered a national network outage lasting up to 12 hours, apparently caused by a software defect – we need more resilient comms infrastructure as risks rise

FTTH Council Europe broadens into DC links, passive optical LANs

Access 23 June 2026

Spring General Assembly appoints new leaders, new committees and new vision beyond the established FTTH/B ecosystem

Orange and CEA launch joint research and lab into semantic, future networks

Sustainability 18 June 2026

For starters, semantic comms don't need the data received to be identical to that sent, reducing traffic and opening new possibilities for exchanges between AI agents

STC deploys Green Telco Cloud in collaboration with Huawei

Sustainability 16 June 2026

Based on Hauwei's cloud-native architecture, the highly integrated platform uses up to 20% less energy

Google data centre in Wallonia hits gridlock

Automation/AI 19 January 2026

The hyperscaler wants to spend €5 billion in Belgium but its Feluy data centre project currently cannot connect to the high-voltage grid

MasOrange and Endesa to offer each other’s products to customers

Financial/Regulation 1 October 2025

More than 1 million customers could benefit from the best offers for energy and telecoms products and services if the proposal is approved by competition authorities

Middle East data centre ambitions face a water squeeze

Automation/AI 18 July 2025

Although it has unfettered access to solar, the Middle East’s thirst for data centres is posing some critical questions around its access to water

Vodafone powers up with Boldekow solar park with Iberdrola

5G & Beyond 16 July 2025

The German solar park collaboration with Iberdrola marks its first utility‑scale photovoltaic (PV) plant directly linked to network operations

Digital telco: Operating “the largest, most interconnected cloud fabric in the world”

Automation/AI 11 July 2025

Colin Bannon, CTO of BT Business, explains "slow is the new down" and what networks will look like for the next 20 years in his keynote

Sustainability

Jordan, Rwanda sign MoU to boost ICT cooperation

Microsoft pumps $10bn in Middle East AI and cloud infrastructure

Inside Openreach’s final push to shut down the UK’s old telephone network

VodafoneThree slams ‘embarrassing’ state of UK mobile networks amid AI fears

Ericsson recycles 5,000 tonnes of telecom e-waste in Saudi Arabia

VMO2 expands data poverty fight with Good Things Foundation partnership renewal

We need to learn from network outages in the era of AI and cyber attacks

FTTH Council Europe broadens into DC links, passive optical LANs

Orange and CEA launch joint research and lab into semantic, future networks

STC deploys Green Telco Cloud in collaboration with Huawei

Google data centre in Wallonia hits gridlock

MasOrange and Endesa to offer each other’s products to customers

Middle East data centre ambitions face a water squeeze

Vodafone powers up with Boldekow solar park with Iberdrola

Digital telco: Operating “the largest, most interconnected cloud fabric in the world”

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