Covid-19
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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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In the final part of the Stay Connected series, Nick Gunga, TalkTalk’s managing director of wholesale services, writes about the importance of adaptation and leadership during a rebrand – and pandemic
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has partnered Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to build a global vaccination validation application.
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Vodafone will work with IntelCorp and other silicon vendors to design its own chipsets in OpenRAN technology.
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T-Mobile will fire corporate employees who are not full vaccinated against Covid-19 by April 2, the company announced in an internal memo.
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DE-CIX has confirmed just how much data passed through its exchanges last year – and it comes as little surprise that the figure has set a new record.
Forthcoming events
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Despite rising Covid-19 infection rates around the world, DE-CIX says its infrastructure remains well prepared for the new wave of the pandemic.
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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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Europe has been named the most "network ready" society in a new study that captures how digital technologies are shaping the global recovery.
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After the recent taste of how a digital world works, Anand Agarwal, group CEO of STL, sets out six steps that digital leaders can take to get the most from the opportunity
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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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If the telecoms and IT industry were a country it would be third behind the US and China in terms of sustainability, Colt CEO Keri Gilder told Capacity Europe last night in her welcome speech.
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Vodafone Group Plc and the International Telecommunication Union are to address the global digital divide through a new working group.
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Ooredoo Group is to begin trialling changes to its working practices to support an "agile, modern digital working culture".
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Airtel Africa reported a revenue increase of 30.7% year on year in its second quarter results, reaching $1.1 billion, as the business recovered from the impacts of Covid-19 in 2020.
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During MWC Barcelona 2021, Huawei Executive Director and President of Carrier BG Ryan Ding delivered a keynote speech Innovation: lighting up the future.
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New findings from Telia Carrier reveal that almost half (45%) of business leaders reported a higher number network security incidents as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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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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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Michael Ourabah, Chief Executive Officer and Founder and Anna Flach, Global Marketing Director of BSO about it's recent re-brand and revenue growth.
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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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Q&A interview with Şükrü Kutlu, chief executive officer, Türk Telekom International.
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The ongoing pandemic has brought many leadership challenges, and not all related to finance. In the first of a new series, Three UK’s chief people officer, Mark Redmond, writes about leading through a pandemic and how the idea of paying it forward is driving the company’s new wellbeing strategy
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The global-scale transition to homeworking in the past year has brought major changes for the telecoms industry, as for all other sectors. But apart from the need to redeploy staff internally, networks have seen a significant impact too. Gareth Wilmer writes
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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
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Emirati telco du has secured long-term financing worth more than US$1 billion (AED 3.769 billion).
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Karsten Gewecke, VP for the EMEA broadband business unit at Zyxel Communications, explains how the firm overcame a global crisis to keep its products moving between Taiwan and Europe
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With five major regional groups, the Latam region is facing lower revenues year-on-year, but the demand for infrastructure continues to grow. Tomás Sarmiento and Georgia Jordan, research analysts for Kagan, the media research unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence, explain.
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With Capacity Latam 2021 upon us, we heard from Rafael Arranz, Chief Operating Officer at Telxius Cable Business, about the Tannat and Mistral cables, partnerships, Covid-19 impacts, and what's on the horizon at Telxius
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Telia Company has published its first financial results after the launch of its transformation strategy.
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AT&T's consolidated revenues reached US$43.9 billion in the first quarter, representing an increase of 2.7%.
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Verizon has achieved a target it set in 2018 to generate US$10 billion in cumulative cash savings by the end of 2021.
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Two of the world's largest internet exchanges recorded new traffic records in the last week.
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Bezeq Israel Telecom saw a 25.3% increase in net profit last year, declaring the Covid-19 pandemic had "immaterial" impact on the financial condition of the group.
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Covid vaccinations funded by MTN Group are now being rolled out in Ghana, with further doses planned for Middle East markets in the coming months.
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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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Deutsche Telekom has pitched a digital vaccination passport solution to the German government as the country advances plans to allow travel this summer.
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As Michael Armitage, CEO of Broadway Partners, writes the UK Government’s 2025 target is as achievable as national and local governments want it to be.
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It's possible the full impact of Covid-19 won't be felt in the data centre space until 2022. James Hart, CEO at BCS Group explains how that could shape the next 12 months
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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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At 1.5 million AT&T has recorded its best full year of post-paid phone net adds in a decade and its "second lowest post-paid phone churn ever".