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Netcracker advances Agentic AI

Netcracker Technology has announced the next evolution of its Agentic AI Solution for telecom, introducing ready-to-deploy telecom AI Agents, an enhanced open Agentic AI Platform and AI-native integration across its digital IT portfolio. The new innovations give telecom service providers a faster path to scale AI across their entire business – automating complex workflows, accelerating innovation […]

September 5, 2025

Billingbooth, GoCardless expand partnership

GoCardless, the bank payment company, has expanded its long-standing partnership with Billingbooth, a specialised billing software designed for telecom companies. The collaboration will see GoCardless’s full suite of bank payment solutions integrated directly into the Billingbooth platform, helping telcos simplify their billing and payments process, and recover bad debt. The integration now includes Instant Bank […]

September 3, 2025

GoCardless selected by Carnival Internet

Carnival Internet, a new broadband provider under parent company Dotlines UK, has selected bank payment company GoCardless to offer its customers a simpler way to pay their broadband bills. Through the collaboration, Carnival Internet customers will use GoCardless’ Direct Debit function to seamlessly manage and automate their monthly payments. Carnival Internet will benefit from enhanced cash flow […]

August 31, 2025

Report: Telcos face growing cyber threats tied to political unrest

NetScout Systems has released its latest research detailing the evolving Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack landscape. NetScout monitored more than 8 million DDoS attacks globally in the first half of 2025, including more than 3.2 million in EMEA. DDoS attacks have evolved into precision-guided weapons of geopolitical influence capable of destabilising critical infrastructure. Hacktivist groups such […]

August 27, 2025

Survey: Networks won’t handle future bandwidth growth

RtBrick has released its State of Disaggregation report, examining the current state of networks globally and telecom operators’ efforts to address surging customer demands. The survey revealed operators are at risk of being overwhelmed by the demands of streaming bandwidth in the next five years. The industry recognises it needs to adopt next-generation disaggregated networks […]

August 21, 2025

Sunrise reports “stabilised revenue” in Q2

Sunrise, the Swiss telco, has reported a “solid but softened” net increase of 18,000 mobile postpaid subscriptions in Q2 2025, while the number of Internet subscriptions remained unchanged on an organic basis. Price increases and the resulting deliberate broad reduction of aggressive price promotions were cited as driving factors. Compared to the previous quarter, revenue […]

August 21, 2025

Research: Telco/satellite collaborations still in early stages

A new wave of partnerships between telcos and satellite/non-terrestrial network (NTN) players is reshaping the connectivity landscape, but the market remains far from mature, analyst house STL Partners has reported in its satellite tracker report Skywatch. STL Partners’ analysis of 74 announcements since January 2024 reveals a striking trend: only 20 per cent of the […]

August 8, 2025

Tele2 to form telco tower company in Baltics

Tele2, the Swedish multinational telco, has announced it will “carve out telecom infrastructure assets” and create the first tower company covering all Baltic countries, in a 50/50 partnership with Global Communications Infrastructure (GCI) which is backed by Manulife Investment Management. Tele 2 says the transaction will allow it “to unlock value in its mobile telecom […]

August 6, 2025

Liberty sells Vodafone stake

Liberty Global has offloaded its remaining stake in Vodafone, according to a filing with the London Stock Exchange made on August 1st. Liberty held 5.018 per cent – consisting of 0.357 per cent in voting rights attached to shares and 4.661 per cent through financial instruments – in the British telco through Liberty Global Europe […]

August 4, 2025

Telefónica posts €1.36bn loss on LatAm divestments

Telefónica, the Spanish multinational telco, has reported a net loss of €1.35 billion in the first half of the year, after adding an additional €51 million in the second quarter to the €1.3 billion loss recorded in Q1, largely driven by divestments in Latin America. Despite this, revenues reached €18.01 billion in the first six […]

July 30, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid