T-Mobile has confirmed that its new 600MHz 5G network is live across Puerto Rico. Jorge Martel, general manager of T-Mobile Puerto Rico, commented: ‘It fills us with enormous pride that... more

Austria’s Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecoms (RTR) has published the conditions for the country’s ‘second 5G auction’, which is scheduled to take place in spring 2020. The regulator is... more

Danish operator TDC's infrastructure arm TDC NET (previously TDC NetCo) and Swedish equipment vendor Ericsson have launched a trial 5G project in Helsingor municipality, after being granted temporary access to... more

Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel, has promised that 5G-suitable spectrum will be allocated by mid-2020, in line with the European Commission’s timetable, reports Paperjam. Speaking at the opening of the... more

The Slovak cellco SWAN Mobile, which trades as 4ka, has opened a limited 5G network in the city of Banska Bystrica. The operator says customers with 5G-enabled handsets can access... more

Movistar Chile has migrated its fixed line network in Copiapo, the capital of Atacama region, from copper to fibre technology. According to the full-service provider, it has installed 440km of... more

Algeria’s Minister of Post, Telecommunications, Technology & Digitalisation, Houda Imane Faraoun, has announced the completion of a cross-border fibre-optic network link with Mauritania, reports Agence Ecofin. The deployment of the... more

Digital Colony Management, the digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, has announced the acquisition of Highline do Brasil II Infraestrutura de Telecomunicacoes (Highline), an ‘independent infrastructure solutions provider’, from... more

US fixed line operator Windstream – which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February this year – is expected to request an extension to push its restructuring plan into... more

Hungary’s Magyar Telekom has announced that negotiations regarding the proposed sale of its enterprise ICT subsidiary T-Systems Hungary to 4iG have been terminated. Telekom and 4iG announced in July that... more

Indian cellco Vodafone Idea has responded to reports earlier this week that it is in talks with Brookfield and Edelweiss regarding the sale of its fibre and data centre assets,... more

Airtel Africa has announced its intention to undertake an initial public offering (IPO) of its Malawian unit. Airtel Malawi intends to apply for admission of its ordinary shares to trade... more

The planned acquisition of a stake in Greek telco and pay-TV operator Forthnet is now expected to go ahead by the end of January. A group of banks who together... more

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