Vodafone strikes deal with Openreach for full fibre broadband

16h | Natalie Bannerman

Vodafone has reached a new commercial deal with Openreach to expand its Gigafast broadband roll-out to bring fibre services to more consumers and small businesses.

NTT choses BearingPoint for digital transformation

17h | Natalie Bannerman

BearingPoint/Beyond’s Infonova Digital Business Platform has been selected by NTT Group to modernise its business support systems.

MTN set to deploy 5,000 OpenRAN sites in Africa

17h | Jason McGee-Abe

South Africa’s MTN is deploying Parallel Wireless OpenRAN tech at more than 5,000 sites, bringing 2G, 3G and 4G connectivity into areas that were previously under connected.

Juniper rolls out Mist Wired Assurance services and Marvis Actions

18h | Natalie Bannerman

Mist Systems, a Juniper Networks company, has launched the first AI-driven self-driving network for the enterprise.

Veon’s impatient manager with high expectations of her team

11 November 2019 | Big Interview

Ursula Burns speaks to Capacity's Alan Burkitt-Gray about how she is leading a radical reversal of her predecessor’s strategy at Veon.

Telefónica picks Comtech for Latam mobile backhaul boost

11 November 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Telefónica has selected Comtech Telecommunications’ heights networking platform to upgrade its Vivo Brazil and Telefónica Argentina mobile infrastructure networks in support of 2G, 3G and LTE backhaul.

Tizeti launches 4G LTE to accelerate Nigerian broadband

11 November 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

West African solar-based wireless internet service provider Tizeti has launched its high-speed 4G LTE network in Nigeria.

Flexential, Seaborn partner to boost Latin American options

11 November 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Flexential has teamed up with Seaborn Networks to expand its FlexAnywhere offering via the Seabras-1 Latin American subsea cable.

Nkom set to launch NOK 100m subsea competition

11 November 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Norway’s National Communications Authority (Nkom) is set to announce a tender competition this month that will help to fund new subsea fibre cable projects.

GCX to become independent company after Chapter 11

11 November 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has announced that it will become a standalone company after its Chapter 11 proceedings and after completing the initial phase of its previously announced sale process.

Macquarie Telecom, Microsoft ink VMware SD-WAN deal

08 November 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Macquarie Telecom has sealed an agreement to deliver VMware software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) by VeloCloud services through the Microsoft Azure marketplace.

T-Mobile US to launch 5G network in December

08 November 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

T-Mobile US has announced plans to switch on its nationwide 5G network on 6 December 2019.