Telecommunications

Vodafone and Three Merger: UK Gives Telcos 5 Working Days to Address Competition Concerns to Avoid in-Depth Probe

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will thoroughly investigate the merger between Vodafone and CK Hutchison's Three unless the two mobile carriers address the regulator's concerns.


US Senators Propose to Auction Government-Owned Spectrum to Boost 5G Networks

Two Republican senators are unveiling a new legislative proposal that would auction some US government-owned spectrum to bolster commercial wireless 5G networks...

BT Telecommunications Aims to Lead UK Telecom Market With Its Own 5G Standalone Network

The inaugural "standalone 5G" network will be released in 2024 as BT Telecom prepares ecosystem readiness and device compatibility following a successful trial...

MWC 2024: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Juniper Networks CEOs Discuss $14 Billion Merger Deal Benefits

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is set to acquire Juniper Networks in a $14 billion deal...


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French competition regulator says evaluation of SFR takeover to take nine months
It could take the French competition authority nine months to evaluate the possible takeover of Vivendi's SFR by Bouygues or Numericable for antitrust issues, Reuters reported.
UAE's Ducab purchases UK cable firm AEI
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based cables manufacturer Ducab purchased Durham, UK-based cable maker AEI Cables for an undisclosed amount to expand its product offering and international market re
Swiss cable solutions provider R&M acquires Indian firm Advanced Fiber Systems
Wetzikon, Switzerland-based cable solutions provider Reichle & De-Massari (R&M) acquired Bangalore, India-based fiber optic products manufacturer Advanced Fiber Systems (AFS) for an undisclosed sum as
Speek secures $5.1M in series A funding round
Conference calling service Speek secured $5.1 million from its Series A round which included the earlier round which raised $2.7 million in convertible notes raised before, TechCrunch reported.
German court rules in favor of Apple in IPCom GmBH & Co patent lawsuit
A Mannheim court dismissed the $2.2 billion lawsuit filed against it by patent holding firm IPCom in Germany on one of the "100" series patents the latter acquired from Robert Bosch GmBH, Bloomberg re
Georgia-based Birch Equity Partners backs Tempo Telecom
Tempo Telecom, a provider of prepaid and flexible communications services, received an investment from Birch Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in Atlanta, Georgia.
IBM and AT&T pair up to combat cyber threats
New York, US-based tech giant IBM and Dallas, Texas-based telecom firm AT&T struck a strategic partnership that will create a simplified service that will help businesses deal with network security pr
Netflix to pay Comcast for faster speeds
Netflix has agreed to pay one of the largest broadband providers in the United States Comcast Corp for faster speeds, throwing open the possibility that more content companies will have to shell out f
Google working on super fast 10-gigabit Internet connection
Google is said to be developing data transfer speeds of up to 10-gigabits per second, an internet connection that would put to shame the 1-gigabit connection of its Google Fiber offering, NBC News rep
Apple, Time-Warner in talks over new Apple TV device: report
Apple Inc is in talks with Time Warner Cable and other content partners for a faster TV set-top box with a new user-interface that could be revealed as soon as April, Bloomberg cited sources familiar
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