Kuwaiti Central Agency for IT and Google Cloud offer digital skills training

(Telecompaper) Kuwait’s Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) and Google Cloud have begun the second edition of the National Digital Skills Initiative, KUNA reported… https://ww…

Telefonica inks deal to air EuroLeague women’s basketball until 2028

(Telecompaper) Telefonica’s pay-TV unit Movistar Plus+ has acquired the rights to air matches from the EuroLeague Women’s Championship on an exclusive basis in Spain until June 2028……

Ciena plans ECOC demo of ‘first’ driverless PAM4 modulated optics over 500 metre fibre

(Telecompaper) Ciena plans to demonstrate what it claims will be the first driverless PAM 4 optical transmission running over 500 metres of fibre, powered by its 448 Gbps digital signal processor (DSP…

Older people loyal to live TV, young people turn to streaming and YouTube – survey

(Telecompaper) Live TV is the main use of smart TVs in the Netherlands, at 43 percent. Young people are likely to spend more time watching streaming services or YouTube, while older people favour line…

Chile’s Mundo tops 1 mln clients, to launch 50Gbps fibre

(Telecompaper) Chilean fixed broadband provider Mundo has reached 1 million customers in over 300 municipalities and marked the milestone by announcing the… https://www.telecompaper.com/news/chi…

Disney+ lifts subscription prices in Europe

(Telecompaper) Disney+ has increased the price of its subscriptions in Europe. The standard subscription with advertisements now costs EUR 7 per month instead of… https://www.telecompaper.com/ne…

Sercomm books US snowboarding star Keith Gabel to promote offering at SCTE TechExpo

(Telecompaper) Keith Gabel, multi-time US Paralympic Games snowboarding competitor and former Snowboard cross world champion, will be joining Sercomm as a special… https://www.telecompaper.com/n…

Open Fiber brings FTTH to over 65K more premises in Lombardy

(Telecompaper) Italian wholesale-only operator Open Fiber has finalised the cabling of its FTTH infrastructure in dozens of new localities in the northern provinces of Pavia, Varese and Sondrio (Lomba…

Warburg Pincus acquires Seoul site for 80 MW data centre

(Telecompaper) Warburg Pincus, in partnership with South Korean data centre developer DC Connects and asset manager Wide Creek AMC, has acquired a site in Yongin City to develop an 80 MW hyperscale da…

CityFibre CEO calls for altnet consolidation to compete with BT, Openreach

(Telecompaper) The CEO of CityFibre, Simon Holden, has called for UK fibre altnets to consider consolidation as a way to compete with incumbent BT/Openreach… https://www.telecompaper.com/news/ci…

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