Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Orange lands transatlantic cable near Bordeaux; Cambridge Wireless and Huawei launch 5G testbed; CityFibre, Virtual1 team up for business fiber services. Telefónica is working with Mavenir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) on what it describes as a "pre-commercial managed IoT connectivity service." The service, which will be managed by Telefónica Tech's IoT Kite platform, seeks to combine Mavenir's Packet Core with AWS's cloud infrastructure to offer Telefónica's customers worldwide faster access to the Internet from the closest AWS region, allowing companies in various industrial sectors to better control their IoT connectivity. The operator believes that a less centralized approach to IoT will bring a number of benefits, not the least of them lower latency.