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French cloud comms provider secures €10m series A boost

11m | Melanie Mingas

French cloud communications provider, Ringover, has raised €10 million in its series A funding round from a single investor, Expedition Growth Capital.

BICS names Matteo Gatta CEO as Kurgan steps down

16m | Natalie Bannerman

Daniel Kurgan has left his role of CEO of Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS) with Matteo Gatta appointed as his successor, effective immediately.

The Son also sets as SoftBank appoints new leadership

2h | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Masayoshi Son is stepping down from leadership of SoftBank on 1 April, to be replaced by the group’s CTO, Junichi Miyakawa.

The race to the edge

4h | Jinu Koshy

A race is underway between hyperscalers and telcos to drive the edge ecosystem on which new 5G use cases will be built. But who will win? Jinu Koshy AVP, head of domain consulting group at Infosys finds out

SSi Canada, SES Networks deliver new satellite capacity in North Canada

22 January 2021 | Natalie Bannerman

SSi Canada, a developer-operator of QINIQ broadband and SSi Mobile services in Nunavut, and SES Networks have a formed a partnership to deliver new satellite capacity in North Canada.

PTC’s "New Realities" panel turns political

21 January 2021 | Natalie Bannerman

The PTC 2021 conference keynote talks OTTs, Trump and politics.

China Mobile and Mobily work with Nokia on industry firsts

21 January 2021 | Melanie Mingas

Nokia has confirmed two technological firsts in recent days following collaborations with China Mobile (CMCC) and Saudi Arabia's Mobily.

Giant four with 1.4bn customers throw weight behind open RAN

20 January 2021 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Four European telecoms giants are joining forces to promote the roll-out of open-source mobile technology.

US industry leaders identify priorities as Biden and Harris come into power

20 January 2021 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

As the Biden-Harris administration comes into power at noon Eastern Time today, leaders in the telecoms industry have told Capacity what their priorities should be.

Cloud-native networks "ready for mainstream"

20 January 2021 | Melanie Mingas

RtBrick has declared cloud-native networks as "ready for the mainstream" after it partnered with Deutsche Telekom to connect the first live customer to a disaggregated broadband network.

Sweden concludes 3.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz band auction

20 January 2021 | Melanie Mingas

Sweden has concluded its 5G auction raising SEK 2,317,000,006 (US$276.8 million) and awarding spectrum to all four bidders.

Samsung’s Lee sentenced to 30 months for bribery

20 January 2021 | Natalie Bannerman

Lee Jae-Yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, has been sentenced to a 30-month (two and a half year) prison term by a High Court in South Korea.