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Telesat LEO in Australia: Vocus aims to bridge regional connectivity
Vocus is looking to bridge the connectivity divide that has plagued regional Australia and will bring high-speed connectivity and increased competition to more Australians.
Cisco demonstrates great dexterity at Cisco Live San Diego 2025
At Cisco Live San Diego 2025, a wide variety of artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration capabilities were promoted. Cisco continues to strengthen its collaboration portfolio aggressively with respect to customer experience, devices, manageability, and resiliency.
Why AI efficiencies may not equal UK Government savings
In the absence of an integrated R&D and workforce strategy, nothing in recent announcements suggests the Government will actually make much headway towards its £45bn savings aspiration.
Agentic AI vendors target developers with early releases
Agentic AI promises to unleash the next generation of automation which will unclog the operational provisioning complexities associated with app modernisation.
Texas right to repair law, energy efficiency labels, and other trends
The Right to Repair movement is gaining traction in the US, with Texas passing a repair bill. The EU will implement an energy efficiency label for devices to promote sustainability. Samsung will give 50% cashbacks on Galaxy S25 upgrades in the UK.
OpenAI bold move: A $6.5bn bet on AI hardware with Jony Ive
OpenAI’s $6.5bn acquisition of io, a venture with Jony Ive’s LoveFrom, signals a shift to consumer AI hardware. A new pocket-sized, screen-free device – set for 2026 – aims to complement existing tech.
VodafoneThree joins the smorgasbord of UK telco names
The deal is about scale and represents one of the largest carrier M&A activities in the UK for some time.
Application modernisation is driving business efficiencies
Application modernisation is an unstoppable trend: it will take time to take hold in an inertia-driven environment such as enterprise IT, but the cost of not going ahead with digital transformation is too high.
AT&T aims to leverage Lumen ‘Mass Markets’ buy to bury US rivals
AT&T is level set on keeping its perch as the largest fibre player in the US consumer services landscape. With its announced deal to purchase Lumen’s Mass Markets fibre business, AT&T scales up both its buildout ambitions and its convergence pool.
Agentic collaboration enables smarter telecoms operations
Agentic AI is starting to enable comprehensive, real-time, and auditable network automation via collaboration with multiple agents.