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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Virgin Media O2 confirms plans to cut thousands of jobs, aims to save £800m by 2029
As company says it's halting investment in further fiber upgrades
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Viasat, Space42, and Terrestar sign MoU for interoperable networks
Best of both worlds sought between sovereignty and open-standards cooperation
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Telia, Ericsson launch 6G field trials in Sweden
The trials taps into Ericsson’s pre-standard 6G capabilities in the upper 6 GHz frequency band
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Korea Telecom to halt sale of new 3G plans
As the carrier prepares migration away from legacy network
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SpaceX in talks to buy EchoStar's Boost Mobile - report
Or explore a network access deal
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Rogers expands D2D roaming coverage to international markets
The Canadian telco expands service to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand
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Virgin Media O2 to cut thousands of jobs in cost-savings push - report
Sky News reports that up to 4,000 roles could be impacted
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T-Mobile CTO says carrier will be first to 6G in US
The race to launch 6G is on
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Deutsche Telekom halts mega-merger plans with T-Mobile - report
For now, it seems a union between the two is off
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FCC seeks comment on plans to free up 500MHz of spectrum available for D2D services
As the regulator requests feedback from carriers on potential concerns
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FCC to vote on whether prisons can jam contraband cellphone calls
A vote is set for next month
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Orange seeks compensation from Nokia over outage in France earlier this month - report
The outage last week impacted millions of Orange customers
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Entel shuts down 3G network in La Paz, Bolivia
As the telco seeks to boost 4G coverage instead
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American Tower CEO: We own abandoned Dish equipment on our towers
As data center revenue growth raises full year outlook
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Extreme Networks fined for channeling networking equipment to Russian missile contractor
Extreme trouble for networking firm after inadvertent sanctions breach
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Tata Communications to invest $450m into 10,000km of AI-ready fiber to support data center connectivity in India
The route aims to support India's growing data center industry
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Mike Sievert steps down from T-Mobile US board
Now ex-vice chair completes uncoupling a year after leaving CEO position
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Virgin Media O2 kicks off 2Gbps broadband rollout in UK
Rolls the service out to 18 locations
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La Caisse snaps up 49.9% stake in Bell Canada's tower unit
Raises CAD$2.45bn for newly-formed tower business
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CTIA, Big 3 US carriers warn that support for D2D in 5G bands could hurt network performance
As the FCC prepares to vote on measures to harmonize SCS and MSS spectrum this week
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Verizon signs $2bn AWS AI infrastructure deal
As carrier welcomes Starlink battle
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O2, Nokia complete AI RAN deployment at O2’s Giga Site in London Paddington
Claims it to be the first UK live deployment of AI-RAN
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New Libyan telecom firm to launch data center in 2027
Installation of the Medusa subsea cable also progresses in Benghazi
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Crown Castle bullish on carrier spectrum deployment, says it can support SpaceX's terrestrial dreams
As the tower company sees an opportunity to support SpaceX's terrestrial rollout
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SpaceX aims to access 80,000 US cell sites for wireless network
The company has even held talks with US tower giant Crown Castle
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Pilot Fiber to buy Boldyn Network's New York-New Jersey metro fiber business
As company also raises $330m in financing
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Iraq establishes first new satellite gateway since 2003, supporting security & aviation
New ground station arrives after a raft of successful international telecoms infrastructure projects
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AT&T CEO John Stankey not getting twisted over SpaceX’s spectrum salvo
'I wouldn't over rotate on what I would call one carrier of low-band spectrum,' Stankey said on AT&T's latest earnings call