Swisscom
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Switzerland’s Competition Comission (COMCO) has fined Swisscom CHF 18 million ($19 million) for what it deems unlawful conduct in Swisscom’s optical fibre expansion.
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Swisscom’s Italian broadband company, Fastweb, has promoted Walter Renna to be CEO from October.
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Switzerland’s highest court has rejected an appeal from Swisscom over the standards it has to use in expanding fibre-optic networks to consumers.
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Ericsson, Swisscom and Netscout have launched a solution that enables data-processing and network function monitoring in the cloud.
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Swisscom is joining a Swiss national alliance to work together to avert what it expects to be an impending energy crisis this coming winter.
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The telecoms industry has a problem: its workers are getting old, and recruiting school and university leavers is hard, as they are unaware of the work we do, data centre and telecoms people tell Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Swisscom CEO Urs Schaeppi is to step down from his role, effective 1 June, to "embark on new entrepreneurial activities".
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CEOs from 13 of Europe's top telcos have inked a letter in which they say that US tech giants should contribute to the costs of building Europe's telecoms networks.
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The industry is moving to the cloud, says Adolfo Hernandez of AWS, which is working with a raft of operators to move away from traditional infrastructure. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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The Italian branch of Xavier Niel’s Iliad is working with TIM – the former Telecom Italia – to offer direct fibre connections to customers’ homes.
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Swisscom saw operating income increase 4.9% year over year in the most recent quarter, while net income jumped 42.1% year on year thanks to recent investment and divestment activity.
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Highlights from the 2021 show floor as industry returns to live conferences
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Swisscom is using tech from TEOCO and STRAPAG to enhance the operational deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over its cellular network.
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Swisscom has switched off its 2G mobile services after 28 years — but Greece’s Cosmote has gone one better and said it will switch off 3G by the end of 2021.
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Swisscom’s Fastweb and investment company KKR have both taken their stakes in FiberCop, the next stage in the long-running project to build a national Italian fibre company.
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Here are the five things you need to know this morning, November 13, 2020, from around the world.
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Italy is set to take the next step to creating a unified wholesale fibre network company by the beginning of December.
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Syniverse has enabled Swisscom to monetise its wholesale roaming traffic using the GSMA’s Billing and Charging Evolution (BCE) industry standard.
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Nine months after Liberty Global ended discussions about selling its Swiss UPC cable unit to mobile operator Sunrise, Liberty itself has made an agreed bid for Sunrise.
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Deutsche Telekom (DT) has entered into a NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) roaming agreement with Swisscom, Telia Company and Vodafone.
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CFO André Krause has become the CEO of Switzerland’s Sunrise operator following the resignation of Olaf Swantee.
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A second South Korean company has launched a 5G roaming service with a European operator.
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Swisscom’s Italian fibre company Fastweb is to become the fifth mobile operator in Italy, following government approval.
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Swisscom has successfully tried out Ericsson’s so-called Radio Dot small cells to make 5G data calls between two offices.
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BICS has established a live 5G data roaming service between Swiss operator Swisscom and South Korean carrier SK Telecom.
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The board of Telecom Italia is expected tommorow to consider merging its fibre-to-the home (FTTH) operation with that of rival company Open Fiber, according to reports.
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AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom have come together to roll out LTE-M roaming across their respective IoT networks.
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Ericsson and Swisscom have switched on the first large-scale commercial 5G network in Europe to support commercially available smartphones.