Europe

Europe’s new data protection rules come into operation in four weeks tomorrow, on Friday 25 May. But though they officially apply to the 28 members of the European Union, including the UK, the impact is global.

The UK government has unveiled a new £1 billion deal on artificial intelligence which has received backing from 50 leading tech firms and around £300 million of private investment.

Proximus has signed a fibre-to-the-business wholesale deal with Destiny, the cloud business services provider, in Belgium.

BICS and Italian telecoms operator Fastweb have announced a strategic partnership that will see them offer combined connectivity solutions offering enhanced capacity and customer service.

Interoute's 72,000km fibre network has been selected to support the Vatican Communications Secretariat’s new online site.

Megaport is enhancing hybrid network connections to Google Cloud’s global network with its SDN capability.

The Open Internet order was due to be revoked this week, but as delays have pushed this back, we look at how the entire net neutrality saga unfolded.

Open Fiber and Retelit have signed a commercial agreement to develop ultra-broadband connectivity and services, extending the reach of their networks across Italy.

Equinix has strengthened its partnership with Google by announcing a new service that allows its partners to connect to the Google Cloud platform from anywhere.

UK-based telecoms firm CityFibre is the subject of a £538 million takeover bid from a consortium of infrastructure funds backed by Goldman Sachs.

Elliott group, the activist shareholders in Telecom Italia (TIM), cannot put forward its own slate of directors until next month – at the company’s second shareholders’ meeting in 10 days.

Mardia van der Walt (Niehaus) is to step down from her role as SVP of Deutsche Telekom’s International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS) division when her contract expires at the end of August 2018.

Connexin, the UK-based fixed wireless company, has unveiled plans to build a £5 million data centre in Hull.

Reports over the weekend suggest that a blockbuster deal that would see Vodafone buy Liberty Global’s German and eastern European cable networks is imminent.

Swedish telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson’s sales are down 25% quarter-on-quarter, and 9% year-on-year.