Telecoms Tech News

JULY 14, 2025

A report from BT and Assembly Research claims the UK is at a digital crossroads when it comes to mobile network infrastructure upgrades. If we get our act together and seriously upgrade our mobile networks over the next ten years, we could unlock a wave of growth and innovation worth £230 billion. But if we. Read more » The post UK risks losing £230B without mobile network upgrades appeared first on Telecoms Tech News.

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Developing Telecoms

JULY 14, 2025

Zambia’s telecoms regulator has fined Airtel and ordered it to compensate customers following a major network outage that caused widespread disruption.

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Telecoms Tech News

JULY 14, 2025

When Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen walks into the Commission’s Brussels headquarters later this year to present the Digital Networks Act, she’ll be carrying what amounts to Europe’s digital declaration of independence. But unlike America’s revolutionary document, this one comes with implementation timelines, impact assessments, and enough bureaucratic complexity to make Silicon Valley executives reach for.

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Total Telecom

JULY 14, 2025

Press Release CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, has reached agreement with its shareholders and existing lenders on a major £2.3bn financing round, accelerating its next phase of growth. The financing includes £500m in new equity secured from CityFibre shareholders, Infrastructure at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Antin Infrastructure Partners, Mubadala Investment Company and Interogo Holding, underscoring their continued commitment to CityFibre’s long term strategy and t

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Telecom Talk

JULY 14, 2025

Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Monday announced the launch of its 5G services in Nagpur. “This expansion is part of Vi’s planned 5G rollout across 23 cities, with Pune, Nashik and Aurangabad next on the map, alongside other rollouts currently underway covering its 17 priority circles where it has acquired 5G spectrum,” Vi said in a statement on July 14, 2025.

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Developing Telecoms

JULY 14, 2025

Safaricom Ethiopia’s mobile money platform M-Pesa and Awash Bank announced on Monday they have signed a strategic partnership to roll out digital financial products, starting with an overdraft service that allows customers to complete M-Pesa transactions even when their wallet balance is low.

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Telecom Talk

JULY 14, 2025

The Centre plans to connect as many as six lakh villages with high-speed optical fibre-based broadband over the next three years, a senior government official said on Monday. The initiative is part of the government’s effort to deepen digital infrastructure and support the expansion of Global Capability Centers (GCCs) beyond metropolitan cities.

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Telecom Talk

JULY 14, 2025

Vodafone Idea’s Rs 99 plan is an interesting option for the consumers. This is because the telco offers this super affordable plan in a day and age where the telcos are trying to raise their average revenue per user (ARPU) by increasing the cost of plans. But if you understand it closely, even the Rs 99 plan from Vi isn’t cheap. It definitely will help Vi in raising ARPU, and it is actually a brilliant strategy.

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Developing Telecoms

JULY 14, 2025

Two recent news items from Pakistan highlight the country's attempts to manage two very different but pivotal areas of the modern telecommunications landscape: QoS and satellite internet.

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Telecom Talk

JULY 14, 2025

Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, who is also the Chancellor of BITS Pilani, on July 13, Sunday, announced an investment of Rs 2,200 crore for three major initiatives that include a capacity expansion plan for BITS Pilani under Project Vistaar, the launch of an AI + campus at Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh, and the unveiling of the edtech platform BITS Pilani Digital.

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Developing Telecoms

JULY 14, 2025

A strategic partnership agreement to deliver low-cost satellite IoT services globally is about to support use cases in Brazil, according to the partners Wyld Networks and Myriota.

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Telecom Talk

JULY 14, 2025

Bharti Airtel has revamped its yearly prepaid plans, offering Unlimited 5G data with added premium OTT benefits through a one-year subscription, thereby enhancing entertainment benefits for users in select circles. Airtel has two yearly plans with Unlimited 5G offerings in its prepaid portfolio. Now, these two plans — Rs 3599 and Rs 3999 — offer JioHotstar and Airtel Xstream Play Premium subscriptions for one year.

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VoIP Review

JULY 14, 2025

Kenya is initiating a transformative project in the Horn of Africa with the launch of a high-capacity fibre optic cable corridor along the Isiolo-Mandera route. Spearheaded by the ICT Authority under the Ministry of Information, Communications, and The Digital Economy, this project aims to enhance regional digital integration and connect underserved communities.

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Light Reading

JULY 14, 2025

With 29 telcos worldwide involved in a quantum project of some kind, there is a big focus on security, according to STL Partners' research.

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JULY 14, 2025

Vietnamese telecom operators are significantly advancing the rollout of 5G infrastructure across the nation, according to local reports from the Authority of Radio Frequency Management. The three main carriers— Viettel , VNPT, and MobiFone—have installed nearly 11,000 5G base stations, effectively covering 26% of the population. Viettel is the frontrunner with more than six million 5G users and aims to expand to 10 million by the end of the year.

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Light Reading

JULY 14, 2025

The DoJ greenlit the T-Mobile-UScellular deal without much fuss, but wrinkles in the DoJ's opinion could affect Dish's plans to become a bona fide fourth national mobile carrier while handing more leverage to US cable ops.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 14, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2025 – It’s been six months, but a damaged Alaskan fiber cable may soon be back online. Quintillion President Michael McHale announced Friday that the company will dispatch vessels this July to repair an undersea cable line severed by Arctic ice in January. The internet-service provider had to postpone repairs until summer because of Arctic conditions and thick sea ice surrounding the line.

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Light Reading

JULY 14, 2025

After a two-year suspension, China Unicom is the first Chinese telco to return to the eSIM market, targeting IoT and wearables – but not smartphones.

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RCR Wireless

JULY 14, 2025

SK Telecom said AX 3.1 Lite offers Korean language capabilities on par with its larger sibling, AX 4.0 Lite, which has 72 billion parameters In sum – what to know: SKT goes open source – SK Telecom released AX 3.

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VoIP Review

JULY 14, 2025

Groq has made its European debut by launching its first data center in Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with Equinix. This new facility aims to accommodate the increasing demand for AI inference capacity in the region. By bringing computing power closer to European customers, Groq intends to offer ultra-low-latency AI services while maintaining sovereign and private infrastructure through Equinix Fabric.

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RCR Wireless

JULY 14, 2025

FCC cites competitive fiber and LEO offerings in approving the SES/Intelsat merger Among the major transactions that the Federal Communications Commission recently approved is the $3.1 billion purchase of Intelsat by rival satellite operator SES.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 14, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2025 –  A cable industry trade association wants cable operators to be able to contact subscribers using text messages and mobile apps in addition to email. But that's going to need the help of the Federal Communications Commission.  The NCTA – The Internet & Television Association has asked the FCC to preserve a rule that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr had targeted for deletion.

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RCR Wireless

JULY 14, 2025

Private 5G is gaining momentum as industrial deployments scale. Nokia’s “landmark” new deal with US utility Memphis Light, Gas and Water shows 5G is supporting grid modernization, automation, and resilience in critical infrastructure sectors.

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Telecom Talk

JULY 14, 2025

OnePlus 13 series all over the world is getting the new OnePlus AI tools with the latest software update. With this new update, users are getting Plus Mind, which was first launched with the OnePlus 13s. The OnePlus 13s has the Plus Key, a dedicated button to help with triggering the Plus Mind feature, but the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R doesn’t.

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Light Reading

JULY 14, 2025

BDx, in collaboration with Anyon Technologies, is establishing a hybrid quantum AI testbed in Singapore and will deploy what it claims is the first hybrid quantum computer in Southeast Asia at its SIN1 facility in the city state.

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VoIP Review

JULY 14, 2025

Google has revealed plans for a new undersea cable system, dubbed Sol, which will connect the United States to Spain. The cable will run from Palm Coast, Florida, to Santander, Spain, with intermediate stops in Bermuda and the Azores. Despite announcing the route, Google has withheld substantial technical or financial details about the project. Sol is intended to strengthen Google’s global network, boosting capacity and reliability across its 42 cloud regions.

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RCR Wireless

JULY 14, 2025

CityFibre has secured £2.3B in new funding to expand its full-fiber network, drive M&A activity, consolidate the UK altnet market, and strengthen its position as Openreach’s main challenger.

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Light Reading

JULY 14, 2025

This week: Spectrum's Jeff Gehrig joins the podcast with Jennifer Tucker of Tucker Farms in Kentucky, to discuss the connectivity challenges facing the rural region and how the farm is now benefiting from Spectrum's fiber build.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 14, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission approved Monday BCE’s $5 billion purchase of Ziply Fiber. The companies inked the deal in late 2023. BCE Inc., an abbreviation of its former name Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., is set to scoop up Ziply’s 1.3 million-location footprint in the Pacific Northwest in the Canadian firm’s first foray into American fiber.

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Light Reading

JULY 14, 2025

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: EE upgrades indoor coverage at Manchester Airport; EXA connects London to Frankfurt and beyond; Vodafone offers same-day in-store device repairs.

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VoIP Review

JULY 14, 2025

Khazna Data Centers and Italian energy leader Eni have embarked on an ambitious project to construct a 500 MW data center campus in the Lombardy region of Italy. This project, centered on AI and high-performance computing workloads, is part of a larger strategic plan between Italy and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to establish 1 GW of IT capacity across the country.

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Light Reading

JULY 14, 2025

After warning it would run out of funds in September this year, CityFibre secures money for network expansion and takeover activity in UK market.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 14, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2025 – A northern New Mexico city will not receive broadband infrastructure after a city official declined federal funding beyond her authority. According to Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández , D-N.M., interim City Manager Carla Martinez submitted a letter on behalf of the city of Española on June 20, declining more than $800,000 in broadband funding allocated under the Fiscal Year 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act.

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Telecom Talk

JULY 14, 2025

Vivo has just launched two new and premium market focused phones – the X200 FE and X Fold 5 for the Indian market. Vivo’s X200 series in India now has three devices – X200 FE, X200, and X200 Pro. The X Fold 5 is the successor to X Fold 3 and comes with several noticeable changes and upgrades. Let’s take a look at the price and specifications of these devices.

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HCL Tech

JULY 14, 2025

Converged Networks: Mobility and Wireline Content Group Video seema.chaudhar… Tue, 07/15/2025 - 06:40 Remove from Listing Page No Short Title Converged Networks: Mobility and Wireline MWC 2025 HCLTech session [link] Watch the video Featured Off Video category Demo Publish Date Tue, 07/15/2025 - 12:00 Video Thumbnail Gated Video Off Video Description Sanjay Misra, Associate Vice President, Margaret Rooney-McMillen, Vice President, Partner Solutions – Ecosystem, AT&T Business and Joe Lawrence, CTO

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IEEE ComSoc

JULY 14, 2025

by Prashant Vajpayee (bio below) Abstract: Autonomous vehicles increasingly depend on Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications , but 5G networks face challenges such as latency, coverage gaps, high infrastructure costs, and security risks. To overcome these limitations, this article explores alternative protocols like DSRC, VANETs, ISAC, PLC, and Federated Learning , which offer decentralized, low-latency communication solutions.

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HCL Tech

JULY 14, 2025

Telecom merger acceleration Content Group Video seema.chaudhar… Tue, 07/15/2025 - 06:51 Remove from Listing Page No Short Title Telecom merger acceleration MWC 2025 HCLTech session [link] Watch the video Featured Off Video category Demo Publish Date Tue, 07/15/2025 - 12:00 Video Thumbnail Gated Video Off Video Description Saravanan Rajendran, Sales Director, Strategic Accounts, HCLTech, Jeanette Calandra, Global Advisory Industries, Clients & Markets Leader, PwC, and Priyadarshi A.

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