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Capacity is now accepting submission for the 20 Women to Watch 2021 index.

Capacity’s annual power listing, featuring the top 100 people across the wholesale telecoms industry is back - and the nomination deadline has been extended.

I like the hashtag for this year’s International Women’s Day, #ChooseToChallenge because words are great but actions speak louder. If we want more diversity, we need to force the issue and back up our old arguments with fresh activity and hard evidence that shows our progress.

According to a BCG study from 2020, only 15% of data scientists are women.

Too often the conversation around gender parity, centres on the notion of equality, i.e. the state of being equal, or in this context the notion that all people are treated the same. But are there instances where people need to be treated different in order to make things equal – e.g. equity.

Cairo, 3 March 2021: Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cable operators in the region, announces its plans to launch Hybrid African Ring Path (HARP) by 2023, a new subsea system that will outline the African continent, forming the shape of a harp.

Cataworx, a provider of business-to-business sales automation software, and Nokia have developed an integrated solution, which enables communication service providers to provide instant quotes for optical network connectivity services, with support for dynamic pricing, and empowering their customers to trigger service fulfilment through order orchestration.

Breakthroughs in technical innovation promise to make life better, businesses smarter, and the world more inclusive

At the 5G Brings New Value Forum of MWC Shanghai 2021 attended by carrier customers and key industry analysts, Huawei released its whitepaper titled "Cross-Technology Collaboration (X-Tech) Enables Industry Digital Transformation".

Huawei is already preparing for what network operators will need in 2025 — only four years away. The company’s Peng Song has reviewed what the target network of 2025 will need

Data centres are critical when the innovative technologies are flourishing to an explosion in demand for data centre storage and computing power.

With over 185 million internet users, Indonesia is one of the biggest online markets worldwide. As of July 2020, online penetration in the country stood at over 68%.

How is Orange revolutionising connectivity in Western Africa with Djoliba? Watch our On-Demand webinars to find out how the new network is reshaping connectivity in the region.

One of China’s biggest cement makers on automated production that could save billions a year

Capacity is running a special edition of its online gathering Wholesale Wednesday, in association with PLDT Global Corp.

Bruno Teyton of IDC imagines future business and technology in 2025

Elisa’s head of access design Tiina Höckert explains how the company is leading 5G roll-out in Finland

Have your say on the biggest trends in the wholesale telecoms space!

The telecoms industry has not faced sterner test than the Covid-19 crisis.

Liu Shijiang | Government & Enterprise Customer Department, China Unicom

The 2020 nominations for Capacity's 20 Women to Watch are open to Monday 03 August 2020

Born as the dot-com storm raged, Capacity is still serving the industry after 20 years, though it changed direction in its first year. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to some of the people who were there at the time.

Burned by the investment decisions of the past, telcos have for years been largely absent from the data space. However, it could be time to revise the strategy. Melanie Mingas writes.

Despite the traditional nuances usually seen between markets, GLF members have shared many of the same experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. Entering a period of reflection, Telstra International CEO Oliver Camplin-Warner, tells Melanie Mingas about the lessons that are being learned.

Capacity Media looks at ten of the most interesting current SD-WAN project collaborations to keep an eye on.

One of the most powerful forces in our rapidly digitising world is the mobile network and all that it carries under its hypothetical wings. With that in mind, Capacity is proud to present a list of six mobile heads to watch in the new decade. Compiled by Abigail Opiah.

In the aftermath of our first RCS summit, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman examines one of the key talking points of the mobile industry, RCS. How close are we to full-scale adoption and exactly how disruptive will this technology be?

Huawei can supply 5G radio kit to the UK's mobile operators, but not for the core - and there are strict limits. By Alan Burkitt-Gray.

As global internet traffic continues to grow at record rates, Caroline Puygrenier, director strategy and business development connectivity at Interxion, explains how delivering the ultimate user experience could see data centres go small and local

With the world rapidly coming to halt and no end in sight, Capacity shares some ideas on how data centre operators can weather the storm.

Capacity Latam 2020 in Sao Paulo hosted around 200 companies with over 600 senior level attendees present.

#EachforEqual is the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD). But what does it actually mean? Simply put, we are all equal and individually can do our part in the larger fight for equality.

According to the most recent report from the GLF, 80% of carriers cite fraudulent traffic management as a “strategic” or “top priority”. This among other things has highlighted the increasing need among carriers for robust security products and agile solutions.

The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum is due to publish its whitepaper on the Communications Blockchain Network (CBN), Capacity investigates.

Innovations in the subsea cable market are being driven by the bandwidth-hungry content sector. Guy Matthews considers their impact.

DE-CIX has now expanded its global interconnection model to its most eastern point to date. Jason McGee-Abe speaks to Ivo Ivanov, DE-CIX’s international CEO.