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VodafoneThree turns to agentic video intel to speed mobile site upgrades

The operator announced a partnership with Vyntelligence to support field engineers as part of its post-merger network integration and infra upgrade

US ruling ‘a wake-up call’ for Europeans relying on US-owned cloud and infra

A US Supreme Court ruling has undermined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which allows the flow of personal data between Europe and the US. What next?

Zain Group wins 25-year mobile licence in Syria

Zain paid a total of $747m for the licence and has committed to invest a further $800 million – it is unclear what will happen next concerning control of rival Syriatel

UAE’s du first to run 5G-Advanced services on L-Band spectrum

L-band is 1.54GHz – the operator states this improves spectral efficiency, network capacity and customers' experience for enhanced digital services

Vodafone Deutschland extends CEO’s contract by three years

Marcel de Groot (pictured), the incumbent since 2024, shouldn't get too comfortable – the last two CEOs of Vodafone's biggest European market were fired or quit after a short time

Digi set to IPO in Spain as it suffers growing pains in a tough market

It plans to raise €150 million and already has an anchor institutional investor lined up in the shape of Global Portfolio Investments Romanian telecoms group...

Party like it’s 1999 as BT, Verizon form international JV?

In the 1990s, deregulation to encourage competition ‘forced’ major telcos globally to form international alliances that collapsed when the dotcom bubble burst – is this round 2?

AST Spacemobile to launch three more BlueBirds in August

The satco lost ground after the Blue Origin rocket explosion in May, pushing the launch of initial commercial services to the first half of 2027

Jio joins the space race at a cost of up to $15bn for 1,650 satellites

The firm has filed for an initital public offering – probably India's biggest ever with the issue expected to be about $4bn – and plans to have the constellation operational within 3 years

e& UAE’s white paper shows TM Forum’s AN framework in action

The paper's purpose is to share the operator's architecture, roadmap, implementation approach and lessons learned with the wider industry

Telefónica Deutschland, Blue Planet show AI agents speeding slice service

They reduced service design from weeks to minutes by embedding AI-driven automation in operational workflows – more use cases will follow for dynamic, intent‑based services

FTTH Council Europe broadens into DC links, passive optical LANs

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

Telenet progresses goal of B2C, B2B customers on one BSS platform

This is the latest phase of an ongoing modernisation programme with Netcracker, building on foundations the two have put in place

Hidden costs of botsitting and other extra work generated by AI

New research found this is closely related to "botshitting” which is admitted to by up to 70% of users, that is, shipping AI-generated work that is not verified or fully understood

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

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
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