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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced Monday how nearly $42.5 billion in Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment funds will be divided among states and territories, marking the federal government’s single-biggest investment in high-speed internet access. Speaking at the White House on Monday, Biden said the goal of connecting all Americans to high-speed […]
The country’s science minister has predicted that South Korea will seek to commercialize sixth-generation (6G) services by 2028. On Tuesday, Science and ICT Minister Lim Hye-sook stated during her address at the Mobile World Congress 2022, a mobile technology trade show currently being held in Barcelona: “We will create a society where all individuals can […]
GoldConnect, a leading wholesale telecommunications provider in Latin America and the Caribbean, announces the release of its state-of-the-art pricing & engagement platform, LatamConnect. The new interactive platform will provide customers with external plant feasibility analysis, in more than 17 countries in the GoldConnect network plus an additional 87+ partners in Latin America. LatamConnect provides accurate […]
Private equity firms don’t often make the news for good reasons, and today is no exception. Apparently, Peppertree Capital Management, one of the largest private equity firms in Ohio, has teamed up with investment banking titan Goldman Sachs to allegedly try and attempt to screw over its local partners in a telecommunications towers venture working […]
Global payment processor Mastercard Inc (MA.N) will invest $100 million in Airtel Africa’s (AAF.L) mobile money operations, valuing the business at $2.65 billion, the London-listed company said on Thursday. Airtel Africa is targeting a public listing of Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) within the next four years. Earlier this month, private equity firm TPG’s […]
Bulgarian telecommunications company Neterra has broken ground on its second data center in the capital of Sofia. The four-story, 1,400 square meter (15,000 sq ft) facility, known as Sofia Data Center 2 (SDC-2), is located opposite Neterra’s SDC-1 facility and is being built to Tier III Uptime standards. Construction is due for completion later in […]
IHS Holding Limited (“IHS Towers”), one of the largest independent owners, operators and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world by tower count, has acquired Centennial Towers’ Brazilian and Colombian tower operations. This acquisition brings an additional 602 towers in Brazil, and 217 towers in Colombia, strengthening IHS Towers’ position and core expertise in […]
Peru plans to launch a tender for spectrum frequencies for 5G technology during the first half of next year, according to deputy communications minister Virginia Nakagawa (pictured). Speaking at a virtual event on Peru’s agenda for the development of 5G technologies promoted by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Nakagawa said that before the […]
Alphabet’s internet-delivery balloon service, Loon, has finally received approval from the Kenyan government. To help improve communication during the coronavirus pandemic, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta fast-tracked the regulatory approval Loon and its partner, Telkom Kenya, were waiting on. Loon expects to begin providing service to remote areas of Kenya in the “near future.” Once up […]
The African Telecommunications Union (ATU), a specialized agency of the African Union in the field of telecommunications, has put together a set of guidelines to assist in combating the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic that every Member State should consider. Africa has so far recorded relatively few coronavirus cases compared to the rest of the world. […]