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South African streaming platform provider MultiChoice Group, Israeli payment platform provider Rapyd and American venture capital firm General Catalyst have announced a joint venture aimed at developing an integrated payment platform for Africa with an aim to kill cash on the continent.

Contact centre platform provider Genesys has released customer highlights for its 2023 fiscal year, reporting impressive numbers for its Genesys Cloud CX family of products, including nearly 30% growth in customers and US$2 billion total revenue growth.

The former Telecom Italia, now known as TIM, says it is using Google Cloud to modernise its IT infrastructure and add new capabilities that aim to help close the digital divide between public institutions, commercial enterprises, and private citizens.

A multi-country consortium consisting of European identity experts has been chosen to deliver a cross-border payments pilot, for the European Commission’s (EC) EU digital identity wallet program.

The UK government has announced that research and development on next-generation 5G and 6G wireless technology and telecoms security is to be ramped up as part of a £110 million state-funded investment.

Telecoms equipment maker Ericsson and tech giant Apple have ended their legal feud and inked a multi-year, global patent license agreement between the two companies.

Deakin University in Melbourne has entered a strategic relationship with hybrid cloud company Cloudera to deliver deeper data insights into 8.8 million data events, levelling up on teaching and learning outcomes for its 60,000 students.


Global 5G subscriptions remain on track to top one billion by the end of 2022, and five billion by the end of 2028, according to a new report from global telecommunications equipment supplier Ericsson.

Inflation has hit the mobile telecommunications industry in Spain with a vengeance, forcing the country's three largest operators to declare substantial rate increases from January 2023.

Orange Cyberdefense, the specialist cybersecurity arm of French telco Orange, has launched its annual security research report, the Security Navigator 2023, identifying 99,506 potential incidents, an increase of 5% from the 2022 report.

The Chinese government has granted the first 5G private network license to Commercial Aircraft Corp of China, the manufacturer of the C919, the country's first self-developed single-aisle passenger jet.

The European Commission (EC) has given the green light for airlines to provide the latest 5G technology on their planes, as the regulatory body updated the implementing decision on spectrum for mobile communications on-board aircrafts, designating certain frequencies for in-flight 5G technology.

Netherlands-based global telecoms services provider VEON has entered into an agreement to sell the company's Russian operations to a group of senior members from the management team of Russian telco PJSC VimpelCom, led by its current CEO and former banker Aleksander Torbakhov.

Facebook owner Meta has caved to demands by the German national competition regulator the Bundeskartellamt, which insisted that its VR headset products conform to open platform requirements in Germany.

The UK government has cited national security as the reason for quashing the ownership by a Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer of a semiconductor fabrication plant based in Wales.

In a sign that the economy may be weighing on EU countries, a recently completed 5G spectrum auction in the Eastern European nation of Romania yielded what many are seeing as a disappointing result.

The European Union is set to impose strict cybersecurity measures on its members, with new legislation setting tighter requirements for businesses, administrations, and infrastructure across a range of sectors deemed to be essential.

As Russia continues to get blamed for the recent spate of cybersecurity incidents that have compromised the data integrity of major corporations in the West including Australia, Russian companies are finding it increasingly difficult to find cybersecurity personnel for their own security needs.

Hot on the heels of the former Facebook now named Meta axing 11,000 staff from its global workforce comes the news of another mass layoff announcement by an American online tech company.

An international consortium of companies have formed a joint corporation to work towards development of a submarine fibre optic system connecting Asia and Europe through the Arctic.