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Italy’s regulator halts TIM’s proposed tower sharing with Fastweb+Vodafone

The two signed an agreement in March and clearly expected a regulatory nod, but the watchdog has a list of concerns and says it will reach a decision before the end of April 2027

Seeing the light – and the big picture across generations of tech

Professor Harald Haas famously coined the term LiFi and takes a reassuringly long view of comms tech and all the pieces that need to come together around it to reach its full potential

Industry trailblazers on what telcos need to achieve with cloud

The expert panel – Analysys Mason, Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Red Hat – shared detailed and sometimes surprising insights at Mobile Europe's recent The Briefing

Proximus, Fiberklaar, Wyre and Telenet collaborate on GB broadband for Flanders

This 'long-form' agreement builds on an MoU the four signed in July 2024 Proximus, Fiberklaar, Wyre bv and Telenet have signed long-form agreements to support deployment...

eYou European social media platform fact-checks posts in real time

It is intended as a trusted, European alternative to social media platforms awash with fakes, misinformation and toxicity – it had 50,000 users signed up before launch with 19% from the US

Nokia offloads FWA to US’ wireless solutions firm Inseego

Acquisition expected to roughly double Inseego’s revenue and further its ambitions to be a global leader in wireless broadband – fixed and mobile with focus on 5G – as Nokia takes a stake

UK’s Global Signal Exchange wins UN and hyperscalers’ backing

Case study: platform used 87 email addresses, 4 URLs to cause 50,000 disruptions and a large scale criminal referral in West Africa – far exceeding usual one signal, one takedown model

10 recommendations for operators to move AN forward with AI

Here are some ways that telcos should be preparing for a future that has everything to play for but is likely to be expensive and demanding to conquer – and some issues to bear in mind

Germany’s largest altnet offered funding as it struggles with €7bn debt

Canadian pension fund Omers and private equity group EQT have jointly offered another €5 billion – they are already investors in the altnet

OpenAI pulls out of Norway deal with Microsoft as substitute

Just days after 'pausing' Stargate in the UK, OpenAI buys a podcast to better explain its thinking while CNBC notes the AIco is tempering spending plans as a potential IPO looms

Lidl to launch no-frill plans in up to 30 countries as MVNO sector heats up

Walmart Bait has 26m customers in Mexico, fintechs are invading the UK and US Mobile dynamically switches between the main mobile networks, bundles Starlink for home broadband
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Beyond AIOps: How knowledge-driven agentic AI enables autonomous network operations

Partner video: Finbarr Travers of Vitria talks to STL Partners’ Amy Cameron about the shift in telecoms from traditional monitoring and event correlation to autonomous networks

UK extends law designed to make it easier to acquire and operate basestation sites

Legislation introduced in 2017 has led to a surge in disputes and delays with landowners; expanding it to include 15,000 more sites looks unlikely to improve matters

More proof regulation is failing: European AI ‘is a rounding error’

Richard Windsor: The time for the EU to rethink the rules is running out…regulators need to rip up their nascent rules which are causing delays and start again

4 IoT botnets generated attack traffic exceeding 30Tbps

The US, Canada and Germany took them down – they were almost exclusively spread through connected consumer devices like routers, smart TVs – but the next wave is already forming
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