Media

Bidders line up for Golan Telecom purchase

32m | Company Announcement

Cellcom Israel Ltd and Bezeq Israel Telecom both announced multi-million-dollar bids to buy rival operator Golan Telecom

CityFibre to facilitate UK’s “fastest 5G network”

32m | Company Announcement

Mobile network operator Three is to leverage CityFibre’s nationwide full fibre infrastructure to deliver the country’s “fastest 5G network”

Retelit boosts market share with Brennercom buy

32m | Company Announcement

Retelit subsidiary confirms acquisition of Brennercom S.p.A. through shareholder buyout

Orange and Telxius to collaborate on Google cable project

2h | Melanie Mingas

Orange is to collaborate with Telxius to offer co-location services for Google’s trans-Atlantic Dunant cable project

5G IoT revenue set to hit $8bn by 2025

3h | Abigail Opiah

A new study found that total operator-billed revenue from 5G IoT connections will reach $8bn by 2024; rising from $525m in 2020, which is a growth of over 1,400% over the next five years.

5 things to know for February 17: Elio Montes Chavez exits Entel, China gives spectrum licences for 5G, and DE-CIX launches PoP in NJFX

17 February 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!

Liberty Global launches $1bn share buyback, amid slow 2019 results

14 February 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Liberty Global has announced plans to launch a $1 billion share repurchase plan amid lower than expected full-year 2019 financial results.

GSMA cancels Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress

13 February 2020 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

The GSMA has bowed to what became inevitable and cancelled Mobile World Congress, the 100,000-strong event that was due to start in Barcelona in just over a week.

Tata Teleservices gets the greenlight on Airtel merger

12 February 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Tata Teleservices has received the approval of the Department of Telecom (DoT) for its merger of its consumer mobile business with Bharti Airtel.

Cybernetica and Cloud Carib join forces to bring digital government to the Caribbean

11 February 2020 | Abigail Opiah

Cybernetica and Cloud Carib have signed an agreement to implement a secure data exchange based on the Unified eXchange Platform (UXP) for pilot projects in the Caribbean region.

Amazon, NVIDA, Sony, Viavi drop out of MWC

10 February 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Amazon, NVIDA and Viavi have become the latest names to pull out of attending Mobile World Congress 2020.

5 things to know for February 10: Vodafone and Sunrise partner up, stc Bahrain rolls out 5G and MTS launches mobile network in Antarctica

10 February 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!