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At the 15th @ZTEPress Global Summit & User Congress 2026, Francois Olivier, CSO, and Mauritz Lewies, CTO of @comsolnetworks, share their vision for the company’s strategic 5G network deployment in South Africa and the opportunities it creates for businesses and consumers.
Ericsson stops making millimeter wave radios at its 5G smart factory in Lewisville, Texas, and consolidates production at manufacturing site in Estonia.
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#Eurobites: Ukraine's Kyivstar cracks on in Q3; Vodafone trials 5G SA in Ireland; Cellnex cuts costs, grows revenue; captain of cable sabotage ship jailed in Finland.
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Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges says he takes SpaceX seriously as a new mobile network competitor in the US, as the carrier reports Q3 earnings.
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Voters expressed their feelings on data centers on Tuesday via ballot measures restricting their development. That rejection comes as public opposition to data centers and fear of AI continues to rise, notes New Street Research.
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Globe Telecom and Amdocs have signed a new multi-year deal to modernize Globe's core platforms and accelerate its shift to AI-driven services.
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Eyewatering group profits give Samsung Networks a much higher tolerance for pain than Ericsson or Nokia in the tough 5G market.
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#Eurobites: BT confirms outlook after steady H1, plays patriot card; Telia and Ericsson combine on 5G for Swedish military; Ethio Telecom and ZTE do AI-RAN; Vodafone UK claims broadband breakthrough.
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AT&T makes first call handoff to satellite with AST SpaceMobile and prepares for beta service, while Rakuten targets commercial launch in 'near future.'
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Shares in the software company plunge in Frankfurt after a legal dispute with T-Mobile forces Amdocs to lower its outlook.
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After trying satellites and small cells, Elon Musk's SpaceX is to build a terrestrial mobile network across tens of thousands of sites with Qualcomm.
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Mobile service revenue and ARPU jump at South Korea's SKT as the telco shakes off the impact of last year's data breach.
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SoftBank and Sceye's five-year agreement will see the commercialization of HAPS services in Japan.
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#Eurobites: VodafoneThree claims world first with Ericsson MIMO rollout; Nokia predicts the data future; GSMA tackles network resilience; Boldyn bigwig chairs Rome's smart-city project.
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Who gets the lasers? Marvell's Lumentum deal puts a big InP fab inside an AI chip company just as telecom and datacom buyers compete for the same supply.
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Analysts say SpaceX can't use a Boost Mobile deal to inherit EchoStar's MVNO deals with AT&T and T-Mobile. Change-of-control provisions require MNO approval, meaning SpaceX can't bypass carrier resistance that easily.
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House Democrats are urging that 'any new Republican nominee' for the FCC be paired with a Democratic nominee, including through the renomination of Commissioner Anna Gomez, according to a letter sent to Senate leaders last week.
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The three major Chinese telecom operators have each taken a 15% stake in new $4.5 billion company NDG set up to commercialize state enterprises' data assets.
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UK operator VMO2 unveiled a savings plan that will reduce staff costs by 30% and pause fiber build in response to a tough economic environment and fiber market.
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Malaysia's OMS Group has secured a $1.03 billion financing deal that will be used in part to acquire four new fiber-optic cable-laying ships.
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A pioneer of Luneberg lenses for passive antennas, MatSing has an opportunity to challenge Ericsson and Nokia in mainstream 5G.
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