What’s up with… Apple, Alibaba, Airspan
Apple pledges $500bn US investment during Trump’s term Alibaba plans to spend $53bn on AI and cloud computing Airspan snaps up Corning’s small cell unit
View ArticleMavenir and Terrestar achieve industry-first satellite voice over NB-IoT call...
Breakthrough deployable via software upgrade to existing GEO satellites using available S-band spectrum to allow operators to monetize NTN services immediately Richardson, Texas: Mavenir, the...
View ArticleWhat’s up with… Vodafone, Nokia, LLMs for telecom
Vodafone reignites ‘fair share’ debate Nokia completes $2.3bn Infinera acquisition GSMA Foundry evaluates LLMs for telecom tasks
View ArticleSkylo raises $30m in oversubscribed funding round
First standards-based commercial D2D service to activate millions of devices across 5 continents, now launching in Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand Mountain View, California – Skylo, the company...
View ArticleVodafone and AST SpaceMobile sign deal to create European direct-to-device...
Newbury, UK and Midland, TX. US - Vodafone Group Plc (Vodafone) (LSE: VOD), a leading European and African telecommunications company, and AST SpaceMobile Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), the...
View ArticleWhat’s up with… Vodafone, MWC25, Orange
Vodafone forms European satellite-to-smartphone joint venture MWC25 is up and running and absolutely heaving Orange launches its API business unit
View ArticleWhat’s up with… Qualcomm, VMO2, SFR & Nokia
Qualcomm acquires edge AI specialist Virgin Media O2 debuts Open RAN SFR tests Open RAN, 100G FTTP with Nokia
View ArticleFiltronic appoints new business development director
Filtronic has appointed Paul Clowes as Business Development Director. Paul, who recently joined from Global Invacom Group, is responsible for expanding the company’s presence in telecoms, particularly...
View ArticleOpen Cosmos to manufacture Europe’s first open 6G research lab
Open Cosmos and i2CAT announced at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025 the launch of Europe’s first Low Earth Orbit (LEO) lab for research and development in non-terrestrial networks (NTN). This...
View ArticleIndia’s Airtel strikes satellite broadband deal with Starlink
Bharti Airtel has struck a landmark agreement to offer Starlink satellite broadband services in India The move marks a major breakthrough for Elon Musk’s SpaceX, of which Starlink is part, in the...
View ArticleOrange and Telesat sign multi-year partnership
Telesat Lightspeed Landing Station will be hosted at Orange’s teleport in Bercenay-en-Othe, France, with the provision of ground connectivity to Telesat’s PoP. Long-term partnership includes capacity...
View ArticleWhat’s up with… Jio & Starlink, Orange, Samsung & Nvidia
India’s Jio joins the Starlink satellite broadband club Orange strikes LEO satellite deal with Telesat Samsung and Nvidia bang the AI-RAN drum
View ArticleMWC25: Verizon’s CTO on RAN evolution
Verizon’s CTO and senior VP of strategy and technology enablement, Yago Tenorio, discusses the US telco’s virtual RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN progress, the role of the RAN intelligent controller (RIC), the...
View ArticleWhat’s up with… DZS, Xavier Niel & Eir, Huawei
Broadband equipment vendor DZS goes under Iliad’s Xavier Niel increases his stake in Ireland’s Eir Huawei embroiled in Euro bribery allegations
View ArticleVerizon announces significant expansion of its satellite texting capabilities
NEW YORK – Verizon today announced a significant expansion of its satellite texting capabilities, enabling its customers to become the first in the US to send text messages to any other customer device...
View ArticleCharter and Comcast launch satellite connectivity for mobile devices
Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) today announced that their respective mobile businesses, Spectrum Mobile and Xfinity Mobile, have launched satellite-based services...
View ArticleWhat’s up with… BT, Veon & Kyivstar, sat2phone
BT approaches AT&T, Orange for global partnership – Bloomberg Veon grows, plots digital service expansion in Ukraine US cable operators tap Skylo for satellite-to-smartphone services
View ArticleWhat’s up with… Ericsson & SoftBank, telco M&A, Ofcom
Ericsson and SoftBank forge 6G-focused partnership Indonesia’s XL Axiata and Smartfren seal $6.5bn merger deal Ofcom moves the UK closer to direct-to-cell services
View ArticleWhat’s up with… Singtel & Globe, Rakuten Mobile & Allot, Eurofiber
Singtel and Globe unite for IT services joint venture Allot joins Rakuten Mobile’s cloud-native crew Eurofiber advances its quantum-safe comms plans
View ArticleWhat’s up with… Lumen & Ciena, Sky, ITU
Lumen and Ciena claim optical world first Sky is cutting 2,000 jobs in the UK ITU warns of satellite jamming
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