Wholesale

Cloud

Hutchison Drei Austria selects Metaswitch MaX UC platform for business service expansion

via Flickr © Tim Reckmann (CC BY 2.0)

Fixed Access

Debate over America Movil fine masks competitive development in Mexico

© Orange (NicolasGouhier)

Telco & CSP

Orange sees convergence as critical path to digital services provision

Data & Analytics

Strategy Analytics: 5G will lift radio components

Optical

Windstream Wholesale adds Pacific Northwest route, more than 1,000 miles to its long-haul network with Infinera’s FlexILS line system

Security

Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier launches encrypted Lambda service

Wholesale

Orange enters into strategic partnership with Rakuten for international data roaming services for Rakuten Mobile

Cloud

PCCW Global’s SDI platform and NAVER Business Platform collaborate to deliver on-demand, private global connectivity and cloud to Korean and Global MNCs

Wholesale

Digital Wholesale Solutions bolsters its full fibre offering with CityFibre

via Flickr © mliu92 (CC BY-SA 2.0)

5G

Learning to share: it's a tough ask for telcos in 5G

Wholesale

PCCW Global and DCConnect extend global reach with SDI collaboration

5G

Sparkle paves the way for 5G roaming between Europe and the Middle East

Broadband

Bell: CRTC wholesale decision impacting investment in rural broadband networks

NFV

Sparkle launches Genome, the new integrated platform for network automation, programmability and virtualization

via Flickr © Loris Silvio Zecchinato (CC BY 2.0)

FTTx

Competition comes to Estonia with new wholesale fibre network build

Cloud

PCCW Global and Global Switch expand on-demand global connectivity in Asia

APIs

AT&T and Colt implement groundbreaking APIs

via Flickr © Karen Blaha (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Policy & Regulation

Norway's mobile duopoly finally under threat

via Flickr © Alexander Svensson (CC BY 2.0)

Wholesale

Investors flee Vocus amidst tricky turnaround

Mobile

Huawei and MTN sign a joint business innovation MoU

via Flickr © Revise_D (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Business Models

Jeffrey Skilling is a free man after 12 years in prison. Who?

Cloud

PCCW Global’s Console Connect announces on-demand, direct and automated connections to Alibaba Cloud Express Connect

via Flickr © Dious (public domain)

5G

Only the brave: Germany's telcos grapple with 5G uncertainty

via Flickr © Marc Falardeau (CC BY 2.0)

Mobile

TPG relies on Vodafone merger for mobile move, Huawei a red herring