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Cellnex signs €375m loan with EIB to support rollout of 5G infrastructure
Will fund new tower builds across Cellnex's European markets
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Connected Infra Group appoints M&A specialist as tower company targets expansion plans
Reunites Isaac Lipton with Bernard Borghei
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UK mmWave vendor CBNG collapses after loss of Verizon deal
The company entered administration in early October
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Nevada ISP owner pleads guilty to embezzling more than $7.8m from Internet buildout project
The money was part of a $27m federally awarded grant
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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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Openreach issues warning over January's PSTN switch-off
Warns that businesses will count the cost if they don't migrate from legacy ISDN services
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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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Virgin Media O2 nears agreement to use BT's broadband network - report
The FT reports that Virgin Media O2 could pause its own fiber infrastructure buildout
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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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Turkish police make 85 arrests over last month's arson attack against Starlink satellite station in Poland
As the net widens over arson attack on September 23
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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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Kyivstar acquires Ukrainian cloud provider GigaCloud
In the works for months, deal comes weeks after Kyiv data center of GigaCloud’s parent company was bombed by Russia
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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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US broadband provider RiverStreet files for Chapter 11, enters asset purchase agreement with Oaktree Capital Management
Will transition ownership to Oaktree Capital Management
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FCC approves Amazon Leo's $11.5bn acquisition of Globalstar
The move is set to boost Amazon's D2D vision