The investment will also provide digital and AI skills training to more than 1 million Italians by the end of 2025, said Microsoft
Microsoft announced this week a $4.7 billion investment to expand Italy’s hyperscale cloud and AI datacenter infrastructure. The investment will be doled...
Smartphone users are consuming and creating short-form videos at astonishingly high rates
Vodafone Group and Meta Platforms are deepening their network traffic optimization partnership by addressing the capacity needs of short-form video on 11 of the carrier’s European mobile networks.
Smartphone users are consuming and...
Vodafone partnered with a Glastonbury Festival drink vendor to demonstrate how network slicing can enable faster payment transactions
Vodafone partnered with EBC, an onsite drink vendor at the Glastonbury Festival — a music event in Somerset, U.K. — to demonstrate how network slicing can enable...
The update is the result of the work carried out by the European carriers under the a previously signed Open RAN MoU
European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone Group have released an update on the technical priorities of Open RAN, the telcos...
Apple will also withhold iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay Screen Sharing in the EU this year
Due to regulatory concerns relating to the European Parliament’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple has said it will withhold the release of generative AI (gen AI) tools like its Apple Intelligence feature across...
The private 5G network includes more than 120 antennas delivering standalone 5G throughout 350,000 square meters
Deutsche Telekom has installed a massive private 5G campus network in Spremberg, Germany for paper and packaging manufacturer Hamburger Containerboard. According to the carrier, the network runs the size...
The funding will support a NanoIC pilot line hosted at imec’s facility in Leuven, Belgium
Research labs in Europe will receive 2.5 billion euros ($2.72 billion) in funding under the European Chips Act, announced in 2023. The funding, according to Belgium's nanoelectronics R&D hub imec, is...
Intel has chip plants in several countries including the U.S., China, Malaysia, Vietnam and Israel
According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, Intel is in discussions with U.S. investment company Apollo Global Management for $11 billion in funding for a chip manufacturing plant in the...
The investment from Microsoft will go towards building infrastructure, workforce training and support for French start-ups
Microsoft has pledged to inject $4.3 billion into its French cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) operations by the end of 2027. The plan involves building advanced infrastructure, AI training...
The technological advances being shaped by 5G across Europe are so profound, the era is being identified as Europe’s digital decade. There are multiple technology milestones being realized throughout Europe and these achievements are seen as pivotal moments where vision becomes a reality right...
Optics BidCo, controlled by KKR, will take over the assets from TIM at a current enterprise value of 18.8 billion euros
Italian telecom company TIM has approved a proposal from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) to acquire TIM's fixed network assets or NetCo,...
Elisa will walk away with a 37.5% stake in MVC Mobile VideoCommunication’s international video-conferencing business
Elisa intends to sell the majority stake in its workplace collaboration subsidiary Elisa Videra to MVC Mobile VideoCommunication. The deal is a share swap, and so, the Finnish operator will...
The two cables running between between Sweden and Estonia were mysteriously damaged on October 8th
Earlier this month, two underwater telecommunication cables that run between Sweden and Estonia were damaged, and as the European countries are continues to investigate the cause of the damage, Estonia...
HMD Global is starting manufacturing in Europe with assembly of the 5G-capable rugged Nokia XR21
HMD Global has begun manufacturing smartphones in Europe, starting with assembly of the 5G-capable rugged Nokia XR21, which the company first unveiled in May and is designed for enterprise customers and...
Cellnex operates 4,557 sites across Sweden and Denmark
Europe's largest tower company, Cellnex, has agreed to sell a 49% stake in its Sweden and Denmark subsidiaries to Stonepeak, an U.S.-based investment firm that focuses infrastructure, for €730 million ($772 million). The decision aligned with the...
The technology and government sectors both love an acronym, but FUDGE-5G? Really? It seems a stretch; a random mnemonic to brand a rather complex-sounding EU innovation initiative. The project’s full name is ‘Fully Disintegrated Private Networks for 5G Verticals; just try picking the letter...
