Telia Carrier partners TierPoint to offer Cloud Connect services

20 September 2018 | Natalie Bannerman

Telia Carrier and TierPoint have entered into a partnership that will see Telia Carrier offer its Cloud Connect service across 25 TierPoint facilities in the US.

Q&A with Andrew Kwok of HGC

18 September 2018 | James Pearce

Capacity speaks to Andrew Kwok about HGC's positioning in Myanmar, its plans for growth in the area and updates on recent annoucements.

Entries open for Capacity's 20 Women to Watch 2018

17 September 2018 | Natalie Bannerman

Capacity is back with our annual 20 Women to Watch power listing. This is your opportunity to nominate the top women in the telecoms industry who are breaking down barriers and driving change in this male dominated industry.

Orange reinforces West African Coast connectivity with MainOne subsea cable

14 September 2018 | Jason McGee-Abe

Orange is set to acquire additional capacity in the West African submarine cable system, MainOne, thereby reinforcing its position in the African telecommunications ecosystem.

EU ‘will provide for wholesale and shared spectrum’ in new comms directive

12 September 2018 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

The European Commission’s new electronic communications directive will have specific provisions for wholesale carriers, designed to encourage investment in high-capacity fibre networks.

Call for papers to participate in the Capacity Innovation Series

12 September 2018 | Natalie Bannerman

Capacity Europe 2018 sees the launch of a new conference segment called the Innovation Series - a platform for innovators in emerging technologies to showcase their offerings to the global carrier community.

CMC Networks deploys 128T networking platform in South Africa

06 September 2018 | Natalie Bannerman

128 Technology has announced the commercial deployment of its 128T Session Smart Networking Platform with CMC Networks in South Africa.

TIM’s new management ‘disastrous’, says 24% shareholder Vivendi

06 September 2018 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

The chairman of TIM has hit back at last night’s stringent criticism by Vivendi of the management of the company since a new board took over in May.

TIM Wholesale in trials to cut complaints in copper last-mile network

04 September 2018 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

The wholesale division of TIM has started a pilot project to speed up fault detection and correction in its copper last-mile network.

CenturyLink moves full speed ahead after Level 3 acquisition

29 August 2018 | Natalie Bannerman

In the lead up to this years' Capacity North America conference taking place in Denver, 5-6 September, Laurinda Pang, president of international and global accounts management at CenturyLink and one of our key speakers, spoke exclusively to Capacity about the North American market, the latest projects over at CenturyLink and why more needs to be done to empower women in telecoms.

Adtran signs up US rural power companies for gigabit fibre broadband

29 August 2018 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Four electricity cooperatives in Alabama and Tennessee are to start offering gigabit fibre-based broadband services to their customers.

China and Huawei hit out at Australian government 5G ban

24 August 2018 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Huawei and the Chinese government have condemned Australia’s ban on using Huawei and ZTE kit for its 5G services as “politically motivated”.