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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.
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Vecima raises revenue guidance after pulling in record fiscal Q4 revenues on the back of cable network upgrades and PON sales. The vendor also touts seven virtual CMTS wins in a part of the market still dominated by Harmonic.
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AI agents are changing the way enterprises buy bandwidth. Lumen's new Internet service aims to pick up where capacity planning falls short.
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Vocus plans a 4,000km long ducted fiber route connecting Brisbane and Darwin as the second project under its ADIP initiative, through which it seeks to close Australia's fiber capacity gap amid surging AI demand.
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Be afraid – Liberty Global is exposing customers to AI agents. Liberty Global plans to use Sierra, a talking AI agent created by OpenAI's chairman, as a customer service chatbot.
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At its plenary meetings in Madrid last week, 3GPP postponed its decision on 5G-to-6G migration after the group could not agree on which options or how many to allow.
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#Eurobites: TalkTalk close to sale – report; Ofcom probes phone number misuse; Finnish president has words with Musk; Openreach's last-resort service.
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Telcos are transforming from managing bit traffic to managing tokens, China Telecom says, despite warnings about cost.
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Keppel and StarHub are engaged in ongoing discussions over the possible sale of M1, which would mark the first telecom consolidation in Singapore's history.
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There are serious problems with the idea that slicing and API offers from BT and Vodafone can reinvigorate the telco business model.
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#Eurobites: MEO taps Eutelsat for satellite assist in Portugal; EE tops nPerf's 4G, 5G ratings; Liberty Global gets conversational with Sierra; SES begins work on new plant.
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T-Mobile applies for FCC experimental licenses to test prototype equipment in 2.7GHz and 4GHz as the 6G spectrum pipeline gets prepped for auctions.
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U Mobile and technology partner ZTE have successfully tested a portable solar-powered 5G site in Sarawak and Sabah.
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While AI can increase digital inclusion in education and healthcare, it is also pushing up smartphone prices, making it harder to broaden access to mobile Internet, the GSMA warns.
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Vocus becomes the latest company to warn about subsea capacity crunch, saying construction resources are already booked out into the 2030s.
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#Eurobites: CMA tweaks search-screen proposals for age of AI; Sunrise offers enterprise AI; BT's new ad focuses on users' cybersecurity fears; DNA employees can stay at home, forever.
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All of Subco's newly announced APX North, APX-2 and APX West hypercable projects are expected to be operational by 2029. Meanwhile, FLAG is upgrading its dedicated fiber pair of the Echo cable system.
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Companies linked to WCRN, a low-power TV station in Boston, is asking the FCC to allow it and others like it to deploy 5G Broadcast on a 'voluntary, elective basis.'
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GSA's latest report hails a new milestone in private network deployments with 2,000 in operation, although the pace has slowed a bit compared with 2022.
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T-Mobile and Jio claim to have made a breakthrough with 5G SA international roaming connection, enabled through Syniverse's mediation platform.
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Space42 and Viasat seek more partners to join Equatys, their shared satellite infrastructure venture for direct-to-device to fill mobile network coverage gaps.
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