DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Connectivity
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Midgard Infra to build Sweden-Finland subsea cable
Unrepeatered system to total 144 fiber pairs, full route details not shared
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WindTre workers go on national strike in Italy
Unions warn of further industrial against next month
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Dolphin Telecoms signs solar deal with Grid Crux to power ACE cable landing station in Lagos, Nigeria
Grid Crux will design, finance, install, and operate the system at the cable landing station
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Telia outlines plans to cut 900 jobs as part of $100m cost-savings strategy
The layoffs will conclude by the end of the year
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Vodafone raises cost savings target for UK unit to £1bn
The previous figure was £700 million
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SpaceX to acquire Grain's 800MHz spectrum assets to further advance carrier ambitions
As the company continues to push to challenge US telcos
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Verizon exec overhaul claims chief network officer Adam Koeppe
Koeppe in a LinkedIn post explained that 'it’s time to move on to the next chapter'
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India dismisses Elon Musk claims over satellite approval process in country
It comes after Musk had earlier said Starlink had been "blocked by certain oligarchs" in the market
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FCC approves SpaceX's request to launch 15,000 D2D satellites
As the space giant looks to take the cellular fight to 'Big 3' US carriers
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Ghana awards 5G licenses to Telecel, MTN after slow rollout woes
Telecel plans to launch 5G in December
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Openreach taps Ciena for 1.6Tbps WaveLogic 6 technology
Optical upgrades will support Openreach's wholesale offering
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Telstra expands Aura Network with launch of Perth-Sydney route
As Telstra continues to build out its planned 14,000km fiber network
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AT&T to combine Forged Fiber 37, Gigapower into one JV
Carrier continues towards its 60 million buildout target
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Virgin Media O2 slams BT's planned acquisition of TalkTalk, amid CMA's probe into Nexfibre-Netomnia takeover
The telco says the BT deal "has all the characteristics of a stitch-up masked as a rescue deal in the public interest"
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Telus, AST SpaceMobile carry out D2D test in Canada
The duo completed their first satellite-to-smartphone integration test on Telus' network
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Virgin Media O2 launches 5G Standalone service in Bristol, UK
As carrier further expands 5G+ footprint
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Malaysia's DNB secures $1.27bn in funding for next phase of 5G rollout
Comes shortly after the DNB activated more spectrum to expand 5G footprint
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HPE to be connectivity provider role at next year's Ryder Cup in Ireland
Will deploy Self-Driving Network to provide an up to par experience
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Qualcomm and Huawei sign multi-year patent license agreement spanning 5G, compute, AI, and networking technologies
Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed
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AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon-led satellite JV is official, gains temporary leader
The chess game continues
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ESA picks neXat, Telesat, & Colt for $1.68m Cableshield to backup subsea cable infrastructure
ESA to finance emergency data rerouting system via satellite in the event of subsea cable failure
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Medusa subsea cable system expands to Jordan, partners with NaiTel
System to connect to Coral Bridge cable
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Amazon secures Uzbekistan’s Uztelecom as partner for Amazon Leo satellite service
Uztelecom to resell Amazon Leo services, use satellite company to connect remote regions
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Australian telcos activate temporary disaster roaming agreement
The service went live today and will enable customers to switch to alternative carrier during severe weather events
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Climber Protection Group obtains federal-recognized 501(c)(3) status
The group seeks to represent telecom tower climbers in the US
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Data center in Kyiv, Ukraine, suffers "critical damage" and goes offline after Russian bomb attack
Moscow continues to target digital infrastructure
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Eurofiber and Delft Networks deploy dark-fiber between Rotterdam and Delft for quantum
The companies have deployed the entanglement-ready dark fiber connecting Delft and Rotterdam in a closed loop configuration
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Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth following investment from Nvidia and Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round