Telecom, cloud, chips and the money behind Europe's connectivity and compute.
The French state is offloading a significant portion of its stake in Orange, the country's leading telecom operator, via a share placement expected to generate roughly €1.1 billion.
With the Public Switched Telephone Network set to shut down on 31 January 2027, Openreach is pressing roughly 350,000 business premises to abandon legacy copper infrastructure before time runs out.
Europe has established the regulatory groundwork for digital sovereignty through the Data Act, AI Act and cloud initiatives. Now the continent must translate these policies into verifiable, scalable systems that organisations can actually implement.
The Emirati operator has become the first globally to launch commercial 5G-Advanced services using L-Band spectrum, claiming improvements in coverage, capacity and reliability across its network.
The German operator has renewed CEO Marcel de Groot's contract for three additional years while bringing in Michael Bird as Managing Director and Finance Director, replacing Carmen Velthuis after more than a decade.
Archangel Lightworks has validated its TERRA-M optical ground station, a portable device roughly one metre tall that can transmit data to satellites in orbit with minimal infrastructure requirements.
The market for private wireless networks spans dozens of player types—from telcos to hyperscalers to satellite operators—yet the economics often fail to justify the complexity, particularly when spectrum control shifts away from operators.
Nearly a quarter of European mobile operators have now launched or are testing direct-to-device satellite services, signalling confidence in the technology's role in future networks—though T-Mobile's experience suggests real-world demand remains limited.