Coronavirus
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Vodafone’s charitable foundation is aiding research to help fight Covid-19, via drugs and so-called hyperfoods.
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MTN has told all its employees that they must be vaccinated against Covid-19 if they are to work on the company’s premises.
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Many companies have gone into what Equinix calls “digital overdrive”, moving four times faster than pre-pandemic levels.
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The company that owns Indian operator Reliance Jio will continue to pay the salary of staff who have died of Covid-19 for five years.
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The mobile industry’s trade association is hoping up to 50,000 people will attend its delayed Barcelona show in person at the end of June.
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The Global Leaders’ Forum has played a key role in enabling the industry to work together to allow business to carry on through the Covid-19 pandemic. GLF chair Laurinda Pang tells Alan Burkitt-Gray how they did it, and what’s next
Forthcoming events
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Remote working will continue at least until the end of 2021, according to a new survey by networking specialist Aryaka.
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The use of people using mobile video calling went up from 1.2 billion in 2019 to 1.8 billion last year as the pandemic spread.
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Virtual network operator Lycamobile says it is offering UK customers free data to support their children learning from home.
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Linx, the London Internet Exchange, says traffic on its main platform has gone up by 40% in the year of Covid-19.
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The GSMA, the mobile industry’s trade association, is fighting a battle to ensure its giant exhibition and conference takes place in Barcelona — but the industry is looking increasingly sceptical.
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Asia carriers saw growth from 30% upwards as the pandemic hit their markets in early 2020.
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The telecoms industry will take until 2023 before its revenue exceeds that for 2019, according to new research.
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Telecommunication operators could see up to a 10% “annual negative revenue impact” as a result of the Covid-19 recession, with some services requiring 18 to 24 months to return to pre-Covid levels.
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Batelco has expanded its global network by 49% to accommodate increased data traffic due to the effects of the Coronavirus.
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Ahmed Mohamud Yuusuf, CEO Hormuud Telecoms, suggests three avenues of change for African telecoms in a post-Covid world
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Ben Baker, senior director of service provider product marketing at Juniper Networks, takes on the challenge of 400GbE innovation
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In an increasingly crowded marketplace, a global recession will bring a series of challenges for CSPs to address. Mo Firouzabadian, SVP for developed markets at Evolving Systems explains
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The Covid-19 pandemic has hit broadband speeds across the world, with some countries seeing speeds fall by 40-50%.
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As many begin to emerge from months of lockdown, businesses across the spectrum are designing a “new normal” for their operations, one where traditional full-time office working is a thing of the past.
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Economies across Latin America could face “significant negative impact” if the reductions in network speed and quality seen during Covid-19 lockdowns become a permanent fixture.
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Two bodies representing Europe’s telecommunications industry have called on EU institutions and national governments to take a series of actions as they prioritise digital technology across the continent.
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Throughout the pandemic, questions have been asked about what the post-Covid world could, and should, look like.
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Mike Brescio, CFO of ZenFi Networks, reflects on how the urban telecom landscape has been impacted by this pandemic.
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Karsten Gewecke, SVP and head of EMEA, Zyxel Communications, shares his top connectivity trends for a post-Covid business landscape.
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A special edition rich list analysing the impact of Covid-19 on the fortunes of the world’s “most successful entrepreneurs”, has been dominated by executives from across the tech and communications landscape.
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The operator confirmed intention to continue to expand not only in Canada but other markets, where rival Equinix this week invested $750 million in acquiring 25 Bell data centres.
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The first quarter of 2020 recorded 95 deals, with AI-driven remote security and monitoring of social distancing and mask-wearing, plus fever detection technology, in play.
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Salesforce and digital experience agency Isobar have joined forces with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to help automate the management of funding including Covid-19 vaccine development programmes.
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DE-CIX has published a new whitepaper on how interconnection drives the digital transformation of enterprises.