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Cloud

POST Luxembourg leverages Ribbon to deliver IP Peering services

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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TIM: BoD approves project for the voluntary separation of the fixed access network

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Telefónica and Orange sign a commercial wholesale agreement for fiber optic network

Devices

Apple iPhone takes huge 51 percent share of global smartphone revenues in Q4 2017