Veon-owned Ukrainian telco Kyivstar announced on Tuesday that it has signed a cooperation memorandum with Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation to develop the country’s first national large language model (LLM) trained on Ukrainian-language data.
UAE-based Edgnex Data Centres by DAMAC announced on Tuesday it has started construction an AI data centre in Indonesia with a designed IT load capacity of 144MW and a price tag of US$2.3 billion.
VodafoneThree Merger Plans Subsea Cable for Shetland Islands By Amber Jackson, Data Centre Magazine June 16, 2025 VodafoneThree launches feasibility study for subsea cable linking Shetland to mainland Scotland, boosting connectivity and enabling data centre development A new feasibility study was proposed last week for a subsea cable system that would aim to transform connectivity [...]
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SubCo Lands SMAP Cable in Perth By Dan Swinhoe, Data Centre Dynamics June 17, 2025 SubCo has landed the SMAP subsea cable in Perth, Australia. “SMAP is coming along at a great pace! Our first landing in Perth happened today!” Subco CEO Bevan Slattery said on LinkedIn this week. The cable was laid by the Ile d’Yeu [...]
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Global Caribbean Network (GCN), a provider of wholesale capacity to a number of telcos in the Caribbean, has upgraded its existing subsea cable network using the Ekinops360 WDM platform with FlexRate technology from optical transport and network access specialist Ekinops.
Claro Ecuador, a leading mobile operator in Ecuador, has appointed VOX Solutions as the exclusive gateway for international application-to-person (A2P) SMS and voice traffic delivery into is network.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is apparently capping connectivity costs for public Wi-Fi providers in what is widely seen as an effort to boost internet accessibility, but one that has not been well received by the companies whose infrastructure is helping to enable public Wi-Fi.
Telecom chief executives have urged the industry to truly embrace artificial intelligence in order to seize the opportunities it presents, or risk being left behind in the race for progress.
Paratus Zimbabwe, a subsidiary of Paratus Group, a company that provides ICT network solutions, fibre and satellite connectivity that cross-link Africa and the world, has signed a major deal with PowerTel Communications, the ICT arm of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) to launch a new high-capacity national fibre network across Zimbabwe.
Orange Egypt and Huawei have partnered to deploy 5G technology to provide advanced connectivity solutions to consumers and businesses in Egypt.