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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started a detailed Phase 2 investigation looking into Vodafone UK’s joint venture agreement with Three UK.
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The potential merger between Vodafone and Three UK will shake up the battle to be Britain’s leading telecoms brand, new analysis from Brand Finance indicates.
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Irish mobile operators will pay more than €140 million each for spectrum bands to boost the roll out of 5G across Ireland.
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The UK’s biggest broadband and mobile operators have made a range of commitments to help customers with the rising cost of living crisis.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from Subsea cables to roaming charges and satellite launches.
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Three and EE have announced they have joined the BAI Communications network to provide 4G and 5G mobile connectivity across the London Underground.
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UK carrier Neos Networks is expanding its wholesale fibre network in Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and London, and has signed a deal with the local authority that covers Oxford.
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CK Hutchison’s Three UK says it has completed the first phase of the digital transformation of its business-to-business operations, with a new IT infrastructure.
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Mobile operators in Ireland and Singapore are to introduce a registry that will aim to prevent fraudulent use of sender IDs in text messages.
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Three UK has called on the UK government to explore the "credible alternative" of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) to deliver gigabit connectivity in rural areas.
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Three Ireland has become the first CSP to join a new global initiative launched by Ericsson to capture the consumer potential of 5G.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from across the ICT infrastructure industry.
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Huawei is willing to fund exhaustive security checks of its equipment in Sweden as a way of allowing operators to bid for 5G licences using its kit.
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There will be more consolidation in the data centre and telecoms markets in 2021, say two forecasters.
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Huawei has won the first round in a legal battle to allow Swedish operators to continue using its equipment in mobile networks.
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Three UK has confirmed two senior appointments as it positions to capitalise on the B2B market and new carrier services.
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The US has won its battle to make the UK ban Huawei from new 5G networks, the government announced today.
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The US is on the verge of winning its battle to persuade the UK to ban Huawei from its telecoms networks, says a former spy chief.
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CK Hutchison may have won the war, but the battle continues following yesterday’s ruling from the European Commission.
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The European Commission has reversed its decision to block Telefonica from selling O2 to CK Hutchison, the parent company of Three.
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Three UK has appointed Carlo Melis to drive its “major enhancements” in 4G and 5G, using the UK’s “leading spectrum portfolio” to enhance the network experience.
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Three UK and Ireland has appointed a new chief commercial officer to drive closer collaboration between customer and marketing teams and drive growth in the operator’s 5G spectrum portfolio.
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The UK’s government’s collaboration with network providers to monitor the success of its social distancing policy could be an infringement of the Human Rights Act.
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The UK’s major mobile networks have been experiencing outages this morning as millions of people have been forced to work from home due to the Coronavirus.
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CK Hutchison’s Three Group is set to combine UK and Ireland with Robert Finnegan, CEO of the Irish company, also appointed CEO of Three UK.
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Mobile network operator Three is to leverage CityFibre’s nationwide full fibre infrastructure to deliver the country’s “fastest 5G network”
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The UK government has warned people in Britain that the EU’s law on free mobile roaming will cease to apply at the end of 2020.
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CK Hutchison’s Austrian mobile operator Drei (Three) has launched 5G operations in the southern state of Carinthia.
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Telefonica’s O2 has hit out in response to Ofcom’s 5G spectrum defragmentation plan.
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CK Hutchison, which owns the Three mobile networks in Europe and a business in Hong Kong, is to set up a company to run the group’s 28,500 towers.
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Three UK and Nokia have launched the world’s first 5G-ready fully integrated cloud core network, totalling £2 billion, in preparation for Three UK’s 5G rollout.
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has ended a 20-year partnership with Hong Kong’s Hutchison by selling its stake in the unit that runs Three HK and Three Macau.
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Italian mobile operator Wind Tre is to spend €6 billion over the next five years on upgrading its 4.5G network to 5G, said CEO Jeffrey Hedberg on Friday.
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Three of the UK’s four mobile operators showed their disdain for efforts to ban Huawei today by conducting the first video call across 5G radio networks.
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UK mobile operators hope to keep current roaming deals in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit – despite the UK government’s admission that it will revoke EU roaming regulations will be axed should it fail to strike a deal with the political block.
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Hutchison’s 3 Hong Kong has made a live outdoor TV broadcast via its trial 5G network, with speeds peaking at over 2Gbps.
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Italy’s four mobile operators – TIM, Vodafone, Wind Tre and French newcomer Iliad – are to pay €6.55 billion between them for 5G spectrum.