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Google and SoftBank put $250m into wholesale internet from the stratosphere

Companies owned by SoftBank and Google owner Alphabet have put $250 million into a company that plans to deliver internet access from balloons and uncrewed aircraft.

18h | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Latest News

KCOM phones pension fund for £500m takeover deal

16h | Alan Burkitt-Gray
Vapor IO, Crown Castle bring AWS to the Kinetic Edge

16h | Jason McGee-Abe
Teleglobal delivers rural connectivity in Indonesia via SES Networks

17h | Natalie Bannerman
Zimbabwe’s TelOne ‘may lose WIOCC shareholding’, says CEO

17h | Alan Burkitt-Gray
Vodafone expands network sharing agreement with Orange

18h | Natalie Bannerman

Features

Working towards a zero touch future

Carriers are inching towards the dream of ‘zero touch’ networks, where everything from provisioning to trouble shooting is automated. Guy Matthews examines how close we are to this reality

17 April 2019 | Guy Matthews

How to maintain a cutting edge

16 April 2019 | Gareth Willmer

New summit will bring the industry together for 5G

15 April 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Latin America: a region in transition

12 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

A smart path to urban happiness

20 February 2019 | Gareth Willmer

Editor's Pick

Capacity launches the 2019 Power 100

08 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

[Whitepaper] Upgrading R&E Networks to Bolster Bandwidth, Operational Efficiency, and Information Security

04 April 2019 |

Batelco’s Umniah and JEPCO to launch fibre-optic carrier

03 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Low-power IoT networks now available from 100 operators, says GSA

29 March 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Zain to sell and lease back 8,100 towers in $672m IHS deal

28 March 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Hyperscale operators become the fastest growing customers of colocation services

28 March 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

Africa

Zimbabwe’s TelOne ‘may lose WIOCC shareholding’, says CEO

17h | Alan Burkitt-Gray
Google and SoftBank put $250m into wholesale internet from the stratosphere

18h | Alan Burkitt-Gray
Turkcell expects victory in $4.2bn MTN lawsuit before year-end

24 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Asia & Asia-Pacific

Teleglobal delivers rural connectivity in Indonesia via SES Networks

17h | Natalie Bannerman
China Unicom ‘first in China’ to show 5G at Shanghai event

23 April 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray
Retelit becomes global player amid US and Asia expansion

18 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Europe

KCOM phones pension fund for £500m takeover deal

16h | Alan Burkitt-Gray
Vodafone expands network sharing agreement with Orange

18h | Natalie Bannerman
BT execs in UK ‘knew about Italian aggressive accounting’, says report

24 April 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Middle East

Retelit becomes global player amid US and Asia expansion

18 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe
Egypt ‘to be Africa’s data gateway’, says CEO of Telecom Egypt at Capacity North Africa

17 April 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray
Cybernet to land Hengtong’s open-access PEACE cable in Pakistan

16 April 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Latin America

Google completes Curie cable from US to Chile

24 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman
Claro Argentina picks Comtech for mobile backhaul infrastructure

23 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe
Telefónica nearing $700m sale of Chile data centre

23 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

North America

Vapor IO, Crown Castle bring AWS to the Kinetic Edge

16h | Jason McGee-Abe
Google and SoftBank put $250m into wholesale internet from the stratosphere

18h | Alan Burkitt-Gray
DataBank begins construction on Salt Lake City data centre

24 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

People

Telkom Kenya names Steve Okeyo as MD of mobile division

23 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

Telstra: ‘Always On’ Point

18 April 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

Tata names Pathmal Gunawardana as head of Americas

17 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

Colt and the culture of innovation

16 April 2019 | Natalie Bannerman