Wireless/Mobile
- Challenger bank Revolut is preparing to shake up the mobile market, with plans to roll out its own mobile services starting in the UK and Germany.
- Earlier this month, reports suggested Spain was preparing to phase out its nuclear plants. However, a nationwide outage, which forced telcos to run entire networks on backup generators, has likely put those plans on hold.
- Octopus Group, the company which disrupted the UK’s energy and financial services sectors, is reportedly planning to shake up another industry: mobile networks.
- British internet users have moved away from watching events with loved ones to become a nation of split-screeners, according to BT’s annual usage data.
- Researchers at University College London (UCL) have achieved a new wireless transmission record, sending data at speeds over 9,000 times faster than average 5G download speeds.
- Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced that it will start to switch off 3G services in 2025 as part of its ongoing network transformation.
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- Separate reports from Analysys Mason and Dell’Oro give gloomy outlooks for the telecoms market in 2023.
- Ukrtelecom, Ukraine's incumbent telco, reports that as of this morning, 75% of its regional hubs remain operational and that its national carrier network is still working
- Veon CEO Kaan Terzioğlu said this morning it would be “irresponsible” to provide guidance on the effect of Russia’s attack on Ukraine on the company’s performance
- Macquarie Capital has invested in Spain’s Onivia wholesale fibre network alongside Arjun Infrastructure Partners.
- In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tower sales to contract announcements and the use cases for 6G.
- Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
- The economic potential of unlicensed access to the 6 GHz band could add up to US$187.63 billion to the Indonesian economy, and up an accumulated $150.19 billion to the economies of Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
- The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has added Orange to its board of directors.
- ICT arm of PLDT is set to build the additional data centre capacity in Santa Rosa, Laguna province
- Vodafone is looking to sell its entire 28.1% stake in India’s largest cell tower firm Indus Towers according to several reports.