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Italian telco Sparkle and Turkish mobile operator Turkcell have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a subsea cable solution to improve connectivity in the Mediterranean region.

Addresses rising Web DDoS attacks and DORA compliance deadline

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a global leader in application security and delivery solutions for multi-cloud environments, announced it expanded its agreement with one of Italy’s top 5 banks. Based on the agreement, the financial institution will use Radware’s end-to-end suite of network and application security and application delivery solutions. This includes Radware’s Cloud Application Protection and Cloud DDoS Protection Services as well as its Alteon® application delivery controller with its Global Elastic License (GEL).

Italian FWA (fixed wireless access) telecoms provider EOLO, has deployed what is claimed to be the first 5G standalone mmWave RAN (radio access network) in Europe, using equipment from Finnish vendor Nokia.

Telecoms equipment vendor Nokia and Madrid-based fibre-optic infrastructure provider Islalink claim to have set a capacity-reach record for unrepeated transmission of 800Gbps over 330km with Nokia’s PSE-6s photonic service engine on Islalink’s IONIAN submarine network connecting Crotone, Italy, with Preveza, Greece.

Vodafone Romania has picked Samsung Electronics to deploy its fully virtualised RAN software (vRAN) and radio solutions to roll out Open RAN in Romania.

British telecommunications company Vodafone and Finnish telco vendor Nokia will trial commercial 5G open radio access network in Italy, a move, both companies say, will stimulate competition and innovation in Europe.

Data from 5,603 mobile data plans in 237 countries between 5 July 2023 and 6 September 2023 showed that Israel has the cheapest mobile data plans in the world with 1GB of data costing an average of US$0.02, according to Cable.co.uk.

The French competition authority has accused Apple of abusing its dominant position in the market to implement "discriminatory, non-objective and non-transparent conditions" to mine user data for advertising purposes.

GUEST CASE STUDY: Dynatrace, the leader in unified observability and security, has announced that Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), the largest airport operator in Italy – serving nearly 50 million people annually via more than 100 airlines and the Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci and Ciampino airports – is using the Dynatrace platform to keep travellers flowing through its airports quickly and efficiently. Digital systems are at the heart of ADR's efficiency, underpinning all critical airport processes, including security checks, border control, baggage handling, airside operations, and traveller information systems such as those used for check-in and travel updates.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released a new report Hacktivism Unveiled: Insights into the Footprints of Hacktivists.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

In a sure sign that the US is losing its ability to spread believable propaganda — something at which it has excelled in the past — a senior US naval commander has warned that China could invade Taiwan "as soon as this year".

With the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro smartphones, one of Google's main aims appears to be stemming the flow of users from Android to iOS, a technology analyst with the company Counterpoint Research claims.

Australia’s domain administrator auDA had 170,000 .au direct names registered by the end of the June 2022 quarter and CEO Rosemary Sinclair says this growth and the registration milestone can be attributed to registrants’ trust and confidence in .au and the strong uptake of Australia’s newest namespace: .au direct.

American semiconductor giant Intel has announced it will invest up to €80 billion (A$121.9 billion) in European Union states over the next decade, in everything from research and development to manufacturing to state-of-the art packaging technologies.

BAI Communications, a communications infrastructure provider, announced the next phase in its international growth strategy with its expansion into Italy in collaboration with key local industry executives, to bring neutral host connected infrastructure solutions to one of Europe’s fast-growing telecommunications markets.

COMPANY NEWS: Smith Brothers Media teams up with Italian National Tourist Board to launch the Make IT Real tourism campaign to encourage Australians to travel to Italy, promoting the peninsula as an ideal travel destination.

Fixed wireless access subscriptions, both 4G and 5G, will reach 473 million globally by 2030, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research predicts, which means that it will service 36% of fixed broadband users across the globe.

A team at security shop SentinelLABS has released detailed research about a threat actor it has dubbed EGoManiac, which operated between 2010 and 2016 and messed with Turkish TV journalists at OdaTV in order to place incriminating documents and malware on their devices.

Vodafone has been given a conditional go-ahead to use Huawei's 5G radio access network in Italy, the news agency Reuters reports.