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Vodafone Germany drops cost of fibre broadband to encourage switch from DSL

Financial/Regulation
There will be a new set of tariffs from 26 October – Germany is Vodafone's biggest market but in recent years has been a drag on the group's performance
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Airbus, Thales and Leonardo close in on space merger

5G & Beyond
The new business would have combined annual revenues of €6.5 billion and create a European space champion, but not in LEO
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AWS fallout: how critical are cloud services and what sovereignty?

Cloud/NFV
For EMEA regulators, AWS' global outage highlighted the difference in regulation for critical national infrastructure networks and hyperscalers cloud infrastructure
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Vodafone rApps platform to improve experience across European footprint

5G & Beyond
A central platform, Rapid RIC, is being developed and deployed with Irish company Zinkworks and should be operational early next year
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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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Italy’s FiberCop waives dividends as churn accelerates

Financial/Regulation
KKR paid €22 billion for its stake in the NetCo last year, has filed complaint against rival Open Fiber to the EC and remains under investigation by the EC itself
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Vodafone Group, Vodafone Ukraine to build subsea Black Sea cable

Access
The Kardesa submarine cable system will connect Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine – Vodafone Ukraine is partner market, owned by Neqsol
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Energy chief: Milan to increase data centres tenfold 

Automation/AI
But A2A reckons it has the energy increase covered, along with the grid, and it can innovate with waste heat
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Seven backers underwrite €1.3bn refinancing for EXA Infra

Financial/Regulation
It is one of the biggest fibre investments this year in Europe and will fund more capacity and new routes – Paris-Marseille bottleneck will be among the first to benefit
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Who will blink first as Altice rejects rivals’ €17bn offer for SFR?

Financial/Regulation
The three bidders say they stand by their offer in a mobile market that grew by just 0.4% in 2024
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Turkcell largest bidder as 5G auction raises $3.53bn

5G & Beyond
Turkey will now prepare to launch nationwide 5G services by April 2026 under new localisation and investment mandates
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Omdia: new AI regs in EU, S Korea push up telcos’ compliance costs

Automation/AI
Highest risk use cases face most stringent compliance tests; unlike the EU, South Korea's law does not apply to users, only to those offering products and services
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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 awards major RAN contracts in Europe to Ericsson, Samsung

5G & Beyond
Both partnerships will major on the German market first, which is the biggest in Europe but one in which Vodafone has struggled in recent years
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