Reuters reports Altice Europe is sounding out prospective bidders, but the price tag looks steep.

Separately, TIM, the financial services arm of Accenture and Crédit Agricole Italia have signed a ten-year strategic partnership.

The Danish operator was acquired by Macquarie and three local pension funds in 2018.

The board of directors agreed to separate the company into SK Telecom and SKT Investment.

CONGRATULATIONS to Telefonica’s Enrique Blanco who won the Gamechanger Award 2021 and to Philippe Ensarguet of Orange Business Services, our Trailblazer of the Year 2021.

Altice, controlled by Patrick Drahi, is now BT’s single biggest shareholder, just ahead of Deutsche Telekom with 12%.

The bank has teamed up with the flagship French fintech which has experienced exponential growth in Europe.

The firm has gathered an ecosystem to work with operators going cloud native.

TIM is one of the first operators worldwide and the only one in Italy to launch an Open Test and Integration Center (OTIC) Lab.

Japan already has a joint R&D agreement with the US in the bid to fend off Chinese domination of the next generation.

Many of the world’s best-known websites were inaccessible for more than an hour yesterday after the Fastly CDN failed.

The range of new members is as telling as the rise in numbers.

 Signatories of the Open RAN MoU – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone – follow up with Open RAN Technical Priority Document.

There are economic benefits to mmWave in deployed standalone and to complement other spectrum bands.