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Why most operators are failing to grasp the satellite opportunity

Satellite 27 July 2026

Praveen Shankar of Capgemini and Derek Long of Cambridge Consultants explain what telcos want from satellite, what customers want from telcos and the balance of power

e& UAE, Core42 partner on sovereign AI infrastructure

Middle East & Africa 21 July 2026

e& and Core42 have partnered to deliver Sovereign AI Compute, a new platform in the UAE and international markets with secure in-country access to...

VMO2 achieves 500 Giga Sites milestone as CEO calls for stronger telecoms competition

5G & Beyond 21 July 2026

VMO2 has switched on its 500th 'Giga Site' as part of a £700 million Mobile Transformation Plan to upgrade mobile connectivity across the UK. The...

Ericsson joins £8bn UK defence communications framework

Mobile Europe 21 July 2026

Ericsson has been named as a supplier of the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Tactical Communication Systems framework, a major procurement scheme valued at up...

Optical makes waves in space but won’t displace radio

CXO 16 July 2026

Jean-François Morizur, Founder and CEO of Cailabs, explains how the laser tech intended for quantum computing is proliferating in space-to-ground comms

The end of connectivity-only: from ambition to structural stress test

Financial/Regulation 16 July 2026

Telecoms is evolving from a single connectivity-led system into a more polarised landscape, in which operators follow increasingly different economic logics

Nokia to launch ‘first commercial AI-RAN’ in 2027 but do telcos care?

5G & Beyond 15 July 2026

The vision of 'RAN as the next AI infrastructure' has a skeptical operator audience living with the fallout from open RAN and little additional revenue from 5G

CSquared boosts internet by integrating with 2Africa West cable

Access 15 July 2026

The aim is to expand route diversity and improve the resilience of international and regional connectivity across West and Central Africa after a series of multi-country outages

SK Telecom and KT begin pilot for physical AI infrastructure

5G & Beyond 14 July 2026

Physical AI's goal is to support all kinds of robots, reducing latency and cost by putting processing power on the network close to them

Ericsson beats profit forecast, shows off 5G drone sensing

5G & Beyond 14 July 2026

The Swedish vendor reported higher margins in key areas like mobile networks, but falling sales – meanwhile its drone sensing and tracking trial with AT&T is a whole new ballgame for 5G

Telenor to pay €552m for Bahnhof broadband to become #2 in Sweden

Financial/Regulation 8 July 2026

The acquisition will increase its consumer market share from about 15% to around 27% as part of the group's greater focus on its Nordic markets

Multi-stage sell: promotional pricing is reshaping consumer broadband globally

Access 7 July 2026

For more than half of the world’s consumer broadband plans, the standard monthly price is not a single transaction but a multi-stage escalation that make comparisons difficult

VodafoneThree foils banking fraud via SMS for Barclays

Automation/AI 6 July 2026

The proof of concept has blocked 2m fraudulent SMSs since August 2025 and the UK operator group's work now includes the Co-op Bank and TSB

VodafoneThree turns to agentic video intel to speed mobile site upgrades

Automation/AI 2 July 2026

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

Financial/Regulation 1 July 2026

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?

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Why most operators are failing to grasp the satellite opportunity

e& UAE, Core42 partner on sovereign AI infrastructure

VMO2 achieves 500 Giga Sites milestone as CEO calls for stronger telecoms competition

Ericsson joins £8bn UK defence communications framework

Optical makes waves in space but won’t displace radio

The end of connectivity-only: from ambition to structural stress test

Nokia to launch ‘first commercial AI-RAN’ in 2027 but do telcos care?

CSquared boosts internet by integrating with 2Africa West cable

SK Telecom and KT begin pilot for physical AI infrastructure

Ericsson beats profit forecast, shows off 5G drone sensing

Telenor to pay €552m for Bahnhof broadband to become #2 in Sweden

Multi-stage sell: promotional pricing is reshaping consumer broadband globally

VodafoneThree foils banking fraud via SMS for Barclays

VodafoneThree turns to agentic video intel to speed mobile site upgrades

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

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