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OPINION: Australia and New Zealand’s telecoms industry is sitting at a crossroads in the AI era – indeed that’s part of the challenge as this era calls for movement and action, and telcos have a role to play.
A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight revealed that Chinese mobile operators dominated in worldwide IoT connections, with the top 3 Chinese operators accounting for more than 70% of total connections.
Australian operator Optus has contracted Nokia to refresh its voice platform and deliver cloud-native voice services over its 5G network to more than 10 million customers.
Japanese mobile operator SoftBank claims significant increases in downlink speed and data capacity were successfully achieved in a proof-of-concept experiment using quantum computing technology to optimise base station settings.
China has seen its market share of smartphone shipments to the United States ravaged in Q2 2025, undergoing a precipitous year on year drop largely due to tariff concerns.
The Medusa Submarine Cable System, a project owned by Barcelona based African internet exchange point company AFR-IX Telecom, has selected Nokia to power the high capacity fibre network.
Orange Money, the mobile phone money transfer service of French telco Orange, and South African fintech provider JUMO have partnered to extend microcredit services for the unbanked across Africa.
Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE), the industry body representing Europe’s leading sovereign cloud infrastructure providers, is taking the European Commission to court to challenge its approval for US infrastructure software provider Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.
Sparkle, the services arm of Telecom Italia, and Algérie Télécom, the incumbent telecoms operator in Algeria, have signed an MoU to develop a new subsea cable linking Italy and Algeria.
Australia’s largest telecoms provider Telstra has deployed Automated Carrier Aggregation in more than 50 of its live commercial 5G Advanced sites across North Sydney using technology from equipment provider Ericsson.
Orange Cyberdefense, the cybersecurity subsidiary of French telecoms conglomerate Orange, has bolstered its presence in Switzerland after finalising the acquisition of Ensec, a cybersecurity services provider based in Zurich.
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