Wholesale

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FTTx

Single network plan in Italy will not mean just one network

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Blockchain

Deutsche Telekom ramps up blockchain activities with Hyperledger membership

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FTTx

Altice fibre sale to start new trend of infrastructure monetisation

Cloud

POST Luxembourg leverages Ribbon to deliver IP Peering services

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Wholesale

Ofcom has another crack at dark fibre, setting up another potential showdown with Openreach

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FTTx

CityFibre's £2.5bn FTTP spend will drag UK up fibre league table

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Fixed Access

Nokia claims network slicing for the fixed network

5G

Huawei helps CMHK build a 5G-ready comprehensive transport network

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Industry Associations

Effective competition the key to Europe's 'Gigabit Society'

Source: Canalys

Telecoms Vendors & OEMs

Something’s going wrong with vendor partner programmes

OTT

Berlin’s Leading Neutral Internet Exchange Deploys Coriant Groove™ G30 to Scale Peering Infrastructure

Wholesale

CityFibre joins Europe’s wholesale-only and open access operators to form new alliance to accelerate the rollout of fibre networks

Tracker

Vodafone to acquire Liberty Global’s operations in Germany, The Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania

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C&W Networks partners with Coriant for optimisation of pan-Caribbean backbone

Tracker

Ooredoo Oman launches its first dedicated B2B app

ITW 2018 (from left) Marc Halbfinger and Carl Grivner © Colt via Twitter

Telco & CSP

BT and Telefónica join PCCW and Colt in their blockchain trial

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More telcos join PCCW Global and Colt in their blockchain trial

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Australia's Virtutel selects PCCW Global’s nTwine UCaaS platform for hosted unified voice services

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Orange expands its Open Transit Internet Network with Cisco Network Convergence System

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BT forms new business unit BT Enterprise

Broadband

Ofcom confirms new rules to boost Britain’s broadband

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Orange aims to become a key player in energy transition in Africa and extends its services to five new countries

© Colt

Telco & CSP

Verizon and Colt demonstrate network orchestration across SDN

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PCCW Global and Colt demonstrate speedy payment settlements using blockchain technology