Telecom Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Bharti Airtel's Airtel Finance has launched a new fixed deposit marketplace offering up to 9.1 percent interest per annum. Integrated with the Airtel Thanks App, this service allows investments starting from Rs 1,000 without the need for a new bank account.

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Telecom Talk

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Meta Platforms is in discussions for a USD 35 billion financing package led by Apollo Global Management to fund AI data centers.

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 19, 2025

Bharti Airtel, one of India’s largest telecom service providers, and Bajaj Finance, India’s largest private-sector Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC), have

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AUGUST 19, 2024

North Korea’s Pyongyang Information Technology Bureau is reportedly conducting inspections of the country’s electronic payments network to update equipment and stabilize operations in a drive to boost confidence in the country's transition to digital finance.

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Telecom Talk

MARCH 13, 2025

State Bank of India (SBI) is setting up a Center of Excellence to enhance project financing for AI, fintech, e-commerce, and renewable energy.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The centres creation is partially financed by a grant from the Spanish Space Agency and includes AST SpaceMobile and the University of Mlaga as its key initial partners.

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Telecom Talk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Ooredoo Group announces a record QAR 2 billion financing deal to expand its data center and AI business in the MENA region.

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Total Telecom

MARCH 6, 2025

In Africa, Huawei Mobile Money helped an operator expand its business scope from mobile payment to mobile finance. In 2024, the operator’s revenue from mobile finance exceeded US$900 million. In addition, certain operators have re-energized their end-to-end NPS journey with digital twins and AI.

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Developing Telecoms

AUGUST 12, 2024

These zones will be designed to attract and support tech, finance and service-orientated businesses in what is described as “a conducive environment tailored to the 21st-century digital trade and technological age”. Nigeria’s federal government has launched an initiative to establish digital free zones in the country.

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Telecom Talk

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Vodafone Idea faces a setback in securing a long-term loan as Power Finance Corp and Rural Electrification Corp have rejected its proposal.

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Total Telecom

MARCH 5, 2025

agentic solution, a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for telecommunication providers that will operate across the critical functions of finance, network, customer service and content life cycle management. Press Release The EY organization today announced the launch of EY Telecom.ai Telecom.ai EY Telecom.ai

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 14, 2024

August 14, 2024 – Internet Service Provider Brightspeed announced that it secured a multi-billion dollar financing deal that will reinforce its ability to successfully build out a fiber build plan.   Through the financing transaction, Brightspeed receives approximately $3.7

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 14, 2024

August 14, 2024 – Internet Service Provider Brightspeed announced that it secured a multi-billion dollar financing deal that will reinforce its ability to successfully build out a fiber build plan.   Through the financing transaction, Brightspeed receives approximately $3.7

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Total Telecom

MARCH 4, 2025

Enhanced Mobile Money to Build a New Digital Life Entry In addition to digital wallet services, Huawei’s enhanced Mobile Money solution integrates mobile micro-finance products oriented to more than 15 scenarios. Based on the open platform and diverse capability assets, new merchants can onboard the platform in only one day.

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Telecom Talk

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Punjab National Bank (PNB) has reportedly declined Vodafone Idea’s (Vi) request for fresh lending, said the bank’s Managing Director and

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 20, 2024

News The Chinese government continues to funnel money into its domestic chip capabilities in order to reduce reliance on US technology The Shanghai Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund (SSIIF), managed by the local government to support the city’s chip industry, has doubled its size to around $2 billion after a recent funding round.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The collaboration will bring AI-powered solutions to over 650,000 businesses and 17 million consumers, with a focus on industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, the companies have said. A key aspect of the partnership is the development of AI models tailored specifically for the Korean market.

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Total Telecom

APRIL 4, 2025

With 28 years of experience in leading extensive digital transformations within the technology infrastructure sector, Mehta brings substantial expertise to Equinix as the company continues to advance its leadership in digital infrastructure. I look forward to her leadership in advancing innovation and value across our ecosystem.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 11, 2024

11, 2024 – The Federal Communications Commission moved Wednesday to open more of the unlicensed 6 GigaHertz band to very low power devices, and to loosen financing requirements for some of its broadband subsidy programs.  WASHINGTON, Dec.

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VoIP Review

APRIL 24, 2025

By blending grid and renewable energy up to 500 MW along with advanced cooling technology, the campus will set a benchmark for sustainable and powerful data centers. Such facilities are crucial for supporting AI applications in diverse sectors, including healthcare and finance.

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MARCH 6, 2025

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Telecom Talk

JANUARY 22, 2025

Moody’s Ratings has upgraded its credit rating and outlook on Bharti Airtel to ‘positive’ from ‘stable’, citing the second-largest Indian

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Nick has spent more than 16 years operating at board level, holding leadership positions across global businesses in telecoms, infrastructure, and technology. Before joining Vodafone, Nick held senior global finance positions at Miller Freeman Worldwide Plc as Group CFO and at Federal Express Corporation for 10 years.

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Total Telecom

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The report analyzes the business value of SASE and covers the market maturity, technologies, and application scenarios of SASE solutions provided by different vendors. Intelligent detection: Huawei has made a breakthrough in the lightweight file emulator technology, which can unpack files in milliseconds.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Indosat Group is committed to contributing through technological advancements in pursuit of this vision,” said Vikram Sinha, President Director and Chief Executive Officer of IOH. “The partnership with Google Cloud is driven by empowering Indonesia, aiming to deliver the country’s first sovereign cloud and edge cloud solutions.

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VoIP Review

MARCH 4, 2025

ZTE Corporation , a prominent Chinese technology vendor, announced impressive financial results for 2024. Technological advancements like artificial intelligence, large models, 5G-Advanced (5G-A), and all-optical networks played pivotal roles. The company reported an annual revenue of CNY 121.30 billion (approximately $16.65

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 10, 2024

News The move is the largest direct foreign investment in Ukraine since the war began This week, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have confirmed they will jointly invest $435 million into Ukraine’s newest converged telco.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and the Home Office will all use Oracle’s platform to streamline their finance, HR, and supply chain operations, affecting nearly 250,000 civil servants.

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Telecom Talk

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Lintasarta, Indosat Group’s AI Factory, partners with Singapore-based 6Estates to enhance AI-driven solutions in Indonesia, leveraging Nvidia's technology for sectors like banking and finance.

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Telecom Talk

MAY 1, 2025

Indus Towers reported a 4 percent YoY drop in Q4 FY25 net profit to Rs 1,779 crore, impacted by accounting adjustments from its Bharti Airtel tower acquisition.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Contributed Article At this year’s GITEX conference in Dubai, Huawei’s Corporate Senior Vice President Li Peng discussed how enterprises are embracing technologies like AI to revolutionise their business models The term ‘digital transformation’ has been at the heart of conversations at GITEX for over a decade.

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Total Telecom

MARCH 28, 2025

From AI-powered robots to agentic AI assistants, there is no doubt that we are rapidly entering the AI era But to make the most of this transformational technology, telco infrastructure will require modernisation. The rollout of this new technology will occur in two phases.

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APRIL 29, 2025

The global survey included 1,000 cybersecurity professionals from 17 countries ranging from analysts to CISOs across a variety of industries including finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and government. Cutting-edge technology enhances security operations center performance, optimizing workflows and accelerating time to resolution.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

The partnership combines AWS’s sovereign cloud infrastructure with e&’s network, catering to the public sector and regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and oil and gas. To do this, e& will use AWS’s technology to enhance its platforms, such as the streaming service Starzplay Arabia and the multi-service app Careem.

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Telecom Talk

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A survey by EY reveals that 94 percent of Indian CFOs and tax leaders believe Generative AI will transform tax and finance operations.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 4, 2024

While what exact scale of thew new infrastructure to be built was not announced, Microsoft says its expansion will make Northern Italy one of Microsoft’s largest data hubs in Europe, supporting data privacy laws and acting as a key digital hub for the Mediterranean and North Africa.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

The capital, which includes both equity and debt financing, will fuel the company’s next phase of growth as it works to meet the increasing demand for cloud and AI services across the region.

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