Telecoms.com

1 week ago | telecoms.com | Andrew Wooden

The UK Government has announced 50 existing mobile masts across England, Scotland and Wales have been upgraded to improve rural mobile coverage. The masts, which were initially only used to connect EE customers and those calling 999, have now been upgraded to provide coverage from all mobile network operators.

2 weeks ago | telecoms.com | Mary Lennighan

The Spanish operator announced that it has hammered out the package with almost 20 banks, which it is taking as a sign of strong support from both national and international capital markets. The package is split into two parts: up to €6.5 billion at the MasOrange level and €4.7 billion in infrastructure financing at FiberCo, the fibre-to-the-home joint venture it formally agreed with Vodafone Spain in January.

2 weeks ago | telecoms.com | Andrew Wooden

Microsoft has announced a new enterprise agentic platform called Microsoft Discovery, which purports to accelerate research times by giving scientists and engineers specialised AI agents to collaborate with.

2 weeks ago | telecoms.com | Andrew Wooden

The combined business will “create an industry leader in mobile and broadband communications services,” says the release, and will involve Charter acquiring Cox Communications’ commercial fibre and managed IT and cloud businesses, while Cox Enterprises will contribute Cox Communications’ residential cable business to Charter Holdings, an existing subsidiary partnership of Charter.

3 weeks ago | telecoms.com | Mary Lennighan

However, while the satellite offer will bring very basic connectivity to people in areas where mobile coverage might not reach, it is not yet at a stage where it could be relied upon in an emergency. For now, Telstra is pitching it as a "just in case" connectivity layer. Indeed, the Australian incumbent is taking great pains to set expectations from the start. It published a lengthy statement essentially explaining the limitations of direct-to-cell.