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The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), which regulates competition in Spain, has approved the definitive regulation of the wholesale broadband access markets.
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Investment firm KKR has entered into an agreement with Telefónica to create an open access wholesale company in Colombia.
Are fibre deployments on course to meet targets? Keely Portway finds out
UK competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed merger between Virgin Media and O2.
Investment firm KKR has entered into a $1bn agreement with Telefónica to create an open access wholesale company in Chile.
Recovery plans for a post-pandemic world have one key ingredient in common across the globe – sustainability. Keely Portway outlines how the telecoms sector is playing its not insignificant part
Telefonica UK is upgrading its network to ease legacy traffic migration, reduce operational costs and improve reliability.
Liberty Global and Telefónica have reached an agreement to combine British operations O2 and Virgin Media. This is under a new, £31.4bn agreement that could have a huge impact on the UK market.
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) took to the podium at this year’s NGON and DCI Europe conference in Nice to reveal the results of its 2018 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interface (T-API) multi-vendor interoperability demonstration.
Telefónica Spain has developed a new scheme allowing it to transform its network by shutting down a copper switchboard a day until 2020. The Faro Project is designed to enable the shutdown of 653 copper switchboards by 2020, 253 of which will occur this year, 200 in 2019, and 200 more in 2020.
The company says that, under the project framework, it will be able to make savings when it comes to energy and space, citing the space occupation of fibre at 15 per cent in comparison to copper and potential energy savings of up to 60 per cent.
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Regulations and standards are key to building the networks of tomorrow. Here, two industry experts offer their view on what to expect
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Interoperability is recognised to be the linchpin to open networking, but this can only be achieved via industry collaboration, finds Keely Portway
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Keely Portway looks at what the current semiconductor shortage could mean for telecoms in 2022
Mark Lutkowitz makes a comparison between solutions from two startups, demonstrated at ECOC 2021
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What does the future hold when it comes to developments in PON technology? Keely Portway finds out
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There is currently a shortage of skilled fibre professionals. How can we, as an industry, work towards addressing this? Keely Portway asks the question
Keely Portway takes a look at the state of play for FTTH deployment in Europe and America, and what needs to be done in the next 12 months to meet various governments’ ambitious targets
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Jeff Heynen explains why fibre deployment will show no signs of slowing in 2022
