CenturyLink ‘wants to exit consumer business’, says CFO

15 May 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

CenturyLink is stopping selling its consumer video service and is looking for a buyer for its whole consumer business.

CoreSite improves AWS bandwidth offering

13 May 2019 | Laurence Doe

CoreSite Realty Corporation has announced the availability of hosted connections with one, two, five, or 10Gbps of capacity for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect.

SK Telecom in cloud, 5G and AI deal with Microsoft for IoT

13 May 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

South Korea’s SK Telecom and Microsoft are to work together on cloud, 5G and other new technologies, the companies have announced from Seoul.

Ericsson joins Nokia in building Optus’s fixed 5G in Australia

13 May 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Ericsson has joined Nokia in building 5G-based home broadband services for Singtel’s Australian unit, Optus.

Openreach targets 15m UK buildings for FTTP by mid-2020s

09 May 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Openreach, BT’s wholesale last-mile subsidiary, has expanded its targets for directly connected fibre to 15 million UK buildings by the mid-2020s.

Axiata and Telenor in talks to merge Asian operations

07 May 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

Telenor Group and Axiata Group Berhad are in talks to merge their business operations in Asia.

[Whitepaper] The Future of Enterprise Grade A2P Messaging & Grey Route Protection

29 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

SMS has been a dependable, ubiquitous communications technology over the past two decades, after rapidly rising to become a preferred messaging method around the world. However, it is no secret that consumer usage has seen a transformation in recent years.

ITW 2019: Agenda Revealed

26 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

The key to success in today’s fast-paced telecommunications industry is to adapt quickly to change, and provide cutting-edge solutions in order to grow.

Capacity Middle East 2019: Highlights

25 April 2019 |

Capacity Middle East is the largest carrier event in the Middle East, bringing together more than 1,700 attendees from organisations representing voice, data, SMS, data centres, peering, over-the-top service providers (OTTs) & content providers, internet service providers and network infrastructure providers.

BT execs in UK ‘knew about Italian aggressive accounting’, says report

24 April 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

BT’s senior executives in the UK knew about efforts to inflate the performance of the company’s Italian business, the Reuters news agency is reporting.

Turkcell expects victory in $4.2bn MTN lawsuit before year-end

24 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Turkcell has stated that it expects to win its $4.2 billion lawsuit against MTN by the end of this year.

Telkom Kenya names Steve Okeyo as MD of mobile division

23 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

Telkom Kenya has appointed Steve Okeyo as the new managing director of its mobile division, succeeding Amer Atwi who has been with the company since 2016.