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At MWC Barcelona 2025, ZTE won the "GSMA Foundry Innovation Award" at the GLOMO Awards 2025 for its Minimalist Private 5G-A solution.
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Canal+ Telecom tapped Nokia to upgrade its fibre network French Guiana and Guadeloupe, to deploy a future-proof network and meet growing demand in the regions.
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Global satellite operator SES says it has signed a partnership agreement with direct-to-device (D2D) satellite startup Lynk Global to target the D2D segment with integrated services – with SES also providing Series B funding for Lynk as part of the deal.
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Satellite operators Space42 and Viasat said on Tuesday they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore ways to develop a 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) ecosystem for direct-to-device (D2D) satellite services.
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) says that its Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Coalition has now reached US$73 billion in pledges for universal connectivity, including fresh commitments this week from South Africa’s MTN Group and LEO satellite operator Globalstar.
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Ericsson-led open network API joint venture Aduna announced on Saturday it has struck a partnership with the Bridge Alliance to combine their efforts to promote and speed up adoption of CAMARA-based network APIs.
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Delegates at the International Submarine Cable Resilience Summit in Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday outlined steps for stakeholders to cooperate in tackling the issue of subsea cable resilience in the wake of network outages that have plagued countries around the world.
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Satellite operator Eutelsat Group announced on Monday it has conducted what it says is world’s first successful trial of 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) technology over its Eutelsat OneWeb LEO satellites.
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Start-up satellite manufacturer and operator Astranis announced on Monday it has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch five more of its MicroGEO broadband satellites later this year.
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Ericsson has reported its Q4 results along with its full-year results for 2024, and while the Swedish vendor saw an uptick in North America, its sales have cratered across emerging markets.
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said on Monday it has launched the AI Skills Coalition, an initiative to bridge the global AI skills gap that has the backing of 27 organizations, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, the East Africa Community and Cognizant.
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LEO satellite operator Eutelsat OneWeb says last week’s service outage that lasted for 48 hours was down to a software glitch in its ground segment that didn’t take leap years into account.
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Nokia announced on Friday it has completed the selloff of its subsea cable unit, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), to the French government in order to focus on its core network infrastructure business.
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Satellite operator SES has added two more satellites to its next-gen O3b mPOWER constellation that are also the first two satellites with new designs to address power issues in the first six satellites.
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As had been anticipated, 2024 proved to be another challenging year for the communications industry. Declining growth in fixed and mobile broadband network investments coupled with the ongoing struggle to monetise new 5G services, and accompanied by the global economic downturn, continued to impact business performance for many telcos, equipment vendors and the wider industry.
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Connectivity solutions provider iBASIS announced it was selected as Caribbean-based operator Paradise Mobile’s international gateway partner.
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With around 75% of operators now launching Generative AI commercially, integrated AI strategies are increasingly essential for facilitating the interactions between AI and networks. Societal concerns around AI adoption put pressure on businesses to demonstrate an ethical approach in implementing this technology.
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Thousands of guests including industry leaders, technical experts, and partners from around the world, gathered in Paris last week at Huawei Connect 2024, to explore how digital and intelligent technology can accelerate Europe's twin green and digital transition.
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How should the telecommunications industry respond to the transformation that technology evolution – and especially AI – will drive? It’s a transformation that will affect strategy, services and operations, as Huawei’s Liu Kang explained at OTF2024.
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As industries worldwide accelerate digital transformation in an AI-driven era, resilient, high-speed networks have become essential.
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At the recent Net Zero Festival in London, the role of AI in the transition towards net zero was the subject of a panel discussion that brought together key thinkers in the sector.
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On Day 2 of the Global MBB Forum 2024, Yang Chaobin, Huawei's Board Member and President of ICT Products and Solutions, opened the keynote speech with the declaration that the mobile AI era is roaring in.
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The Day One Keynote session at MBBF 2024 emphasised that we are entering a new era of AI facilitated by the expansion of 5.5G. With 5.5G expanding the boundaries of connections, AI allows them to connect intelligently.
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Peter Zhou, President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line, talks about Huawei’s all-flash storage solutions, its recently launched next-generation OceanStor Dorado, and how the company is deploying the latest technology and large models in storage products.
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At GITEX Global 2024, Huawei unveiled a ground-breaking innovation set to redefine the optical transport landscape — the industry's first end-to-end fine-grained Optical Transport Network (fgOTN) product portfolio.
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As technologies such as AI, 5G-A, and cloud computing accelerate ever more rapidly, our physical and digital worlds are growing increasingly intertwined.
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GSM-R (Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway) specifications were released two decades ago. These have been successfully used around the world, but can no longer support the bandwidth, latency, and connectivity required by railways as they go digital.
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Huawei has won two awards at Network X 2024, held in Paris, France, which has demonstrated Huawei's technological advantages in the global optical network field.
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From October 14 to 18, with the theme Accelerate Industrial Digitalization and Intelligence, Huawei, as a Diamond Sponsor, is participating in the GITEX GLOBAL 2024, one of the world's largest tech exhibitions.
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After a five-year break, the Whale Cloud Together Summit 2024 made a grand return in Kuala Lumpur, bringing together industry experts, innovators, and telecom leaders.
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As AI technologies become all-pervasive, they are starting to impact service development and digital intelligence transformation across a range of industry sectors, in turn imposing ever greater demands on existing enterprise and carrier network infrastructures.
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At the 6G Conference held in Istanbul, on September 24, 2024, Dr. Wen Tong, Huawei Wireless CTO, delivered a keynote speech on 6G standardization and innovation. With the release of the ITU-R 6G vision framework, the 3GPP will start 6G standardization in 2025.
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Satellite communications are a longstanding technology that have remained inaccessible due to their higher costs – and arguably limited capabilities - compared to terrestrial networks. However, recent advances in the technology have seen direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity gaining significant traction, with D2D now able to offer an easier and more cost-effective way for devices to access reliable connectivity.
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