Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Deutsche Glasfaser said its chief executive officer Thorsten Dirks will step down on 31 December. Andreas Pfisterer will take over the management of the company by 01 December at the latest...

(Telecompaper) Dhiraagu has obtained a land lease in Hulhumale to establish a landing station to connect the Maldives to the SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine cable system...

(Telecompaper) Vodafone Germany has appointed Marcel de Groot, currently Chief Commercial Officer of VodafoneZiggo in the Netherlands, as Managing Director for the consumer business, effective 01 September...

(Telecompaper) Telkom South Africa has received no offer or proposal from Rain to merge, Bloomberg reported...

(Telecompaper) The hedge fund Third Point has bought a stake in Disney and is calling on the company to spin off its sports network ESPN, CNBC reported, citing a letter sent to Disney CEO Bob Chapek...

(Telecompaper) German operator 1&1 has conducted the first live test of its new 5G mobile network, it said on its LinkedIn profile. 1&1 started the test in July under real conditions with its customers...

(Telecompaper) Telegram has introduced a new Telegram Emoji Platform, where users can access customised emoji packs and add exclusive animated emojis in messages...

(Telecompaper) Google said it has started shipping its latest major Android update, Android 13, for its Pixel phones following several beta releases...

(Telecompaper) Snap announced that the paid subscription service Snapchat+ first launched at the end of June has already reached the milestone of 1 million users worldwide...

(Telecompaper) The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has announced two more days of strikes by BT Group workers on 30 and 31 August in the UK...

(Telecompaper) Construction of Angola's Angosat-2 satellite is completed and it is already in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, waiting for the political decision for launch, according to Expansao...

(Telecompaper) YouTube wants to open an online "channel store" for streaming video services and is looking for entertainment companies to participate, the Wall Street Journal reported...

(Telecompaper) HMD Global and Etisal for Advanced Industries (EAI) have signed an agreement to manufacture Nokia-brand phones in Egypt...

(Telecompaper) Huawei reported lower revenues for the first half of the year. The company said its device business was particularly impacted, while its ICT...

(Telecompaper) South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has given a presidential pardon to Samsung Electronics vice chair Jay Y Lee, Bloomberg reported...

(Telecompaper) South African operator Rain said it made a formal request to present the board of Telkom South Africa with a merger proposal to combine the two businesses, ITWeb reported...

(Telecompaper) MTN Group said its service revenue grew by 12.8 percent to ZAR 92.5 billion in the first six months of 2022...

(Telecompaper) The Federal Communications Commission has rejected applications from Starlink and LTD Broadband for subsidies under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund...

(Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom has again increased its full-year outlook, after solid underlying growth in both the US and Europe in the second quarter...

(Telecompaper) Disney announced it will launch a version of its Disney+ subscription streaming service with advertising on 08 December in the US...