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    French households don’t use a quarter of their devices 

    Despite this, only 13% of internet users thought that buying refurbished devices was a useful avenue for limiting ICT’s environmental footprint

    Three in four Romanians now connect via fibre 

    The country has hit five million fibre-to-the-premises connected internet users

    Deutsche Telekom wins Meta IP transit case 

    Meta wanted to convert an IP transit agreement with Telekom to free peering and continued to send traffic to the telco’s network after contract termination

    Plusnet expands fibre footprint with Deutsche GigaNetz deal 

    In a fragmented fibre market in Germany, altnets are still moving fast to build their businesses and not always by overbuilding

    Odido dumps legacy to build B2B marketplace services with partners 

    The Dutch telco has big aspirations but first must undertake big perspirations to sort out its back-office systems

    Romania sees solid fixed line broadband speed increases 

    Regulator ANCOM says fixed wireless access is increasing across the country

    German regulator imposes new conditions on spectrum extensions 

    BNetzA’s consultation shows it has listened to newcomer 1&1’s complaints around extending existing frequency usage rights for Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica

    Microsoft and Amazon to invest billions in cloud, AI in France 

    Hyperscalers commit to splash the cash on cloud and AI infrastructure at the annual “Choose France” summit

    Starlink could reach $6.6bn revenue this year – Quilty Space 

    Analysts bullish on Starlink’s revenue levels but the company’s cash burn is still a mystery

    UK fibre overbuild now reaches 7 million premises 

    As BT’s Openreach accelerates its FTTP to 946k homes in Q1, fixed broadband overbuild in the UK is almost getting like Spain

    Evidence grows that consumers are warming to AI in their handsets 

    ‘AI-less’ Apple still holding its own as consumers warm to AI hype, but for how long?

    4iG Group and REMRED begin work on satellite manufacturing centre 

    The 4,000 sqm facility in Martonvásár, Hungary, will design, manufacture, and test satellites and advanced space systems from 2026

    Freenet launches eSIM-based data roaming with 1Global 

    The new service freenet Travel will be available in more than 100 countries and includes a variety of data packages

    Tecnotree restructures to boost telco offerings 

    The Finnish-Indian BSS software company sheds staff and non-core businesses as it looks to recruit based on customer need

    Fibreco öGIG expands Austrian network footprint 

    The Graz-Waltendorf groundbreaking sets the race to connect 150,000 homes and businesses by the end of the year