Orange adds more transatlantic subsea capacity
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Active networking sharing in Germany and the latest addition to the global submarine network top today’s pile of news items.
Telefónica Deutschland has struck deals with both of its main rivals –
Deutsche Telekom and
Vodafone – to share their ‘active’ networks in hundreds of so-called ‘grey spots’ where only one of the operators currently has 4G coverage. The arrangements will help the operators reach their population coverage targets without having to build out additional network infrastructure. More details about the deal between DT and Telefónica Deutschland can be found here, while the agreement between Vodafone and Telefónica Deutschland is detailed in this press release. The move is part of Telefónica Deutschland’s broader strategic plan to expand its network and become more profitable: Another strand of that strategy involves deploying Open RAN technology, which th
Friday, 15 January 2021, 2:18 pm
The feeling from Rory Medcalf of the Australian National
University was one of breathless wonder. “The US
government,” he
wrote in
The Strategist, “has just classified
one of its most secretive national security documents - its
2018 strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific, which was
formally classified SECRET and not for release to foreign
nationals.”
Washington’s errand boys and girls in
Canberra tend to get excited by this sort of thing. Rather
than seeing it as a blueprint for imminent conflict with
China, a more benign reading is given: how to handle
“strategic rivalry with China.” Looming in the text of
More than two decades ahead of schedule, the U.S. released a new declassified policy paper on the Indo-Pacific that, in retrospect, reveals the Trump administration’s failure to achieve its objectives on the Korean Peninsula. The “United States Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific,” approved by President Donald Trump in Feb. 2018, details the United States’ goals […]