Wholesale

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

via Flickr © Jim Bowen (CC BY 2.0)

Fixed Access

No deadlock holiday for embattled TIM

Cloud

PCCW Global and TierPoint collaborate to extend Console Connect’s data center footprint in the U.S.

via Flickr © Son of Groucho (CC BY 2.0)

FTTx

Single network plan in Italy will not mean just one network

via QuoteInspector.com (CC BY-ND 4.0)

Blockchain

Deutsche Telekom ramps up blockchain activities with Hyperledger membership

via Flickr © Steenbergs (CC BY 2.0)

FTTx

Altice fibre sale to start new trend of infrastructure monetisation

Cloud

POST Luxembourg leverages Ribbon to deliver IP Peering services

© Flickr/cc-licence/Steve Bowbrick

Wholesale

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

via Flickr © Roshan Nikam CCBY2.0

FTTx

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

via Flickr © fdecomite (CC BY 2.0)

Fixed Access

Nokia claims network slicing for the fixed network

5G

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

via Flickr © SGPhotography77 (CC BY-ND 2.0)

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

Tracker

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

Tracker

More telcos join PCCW Global and Colt in their blockchain trial