An emerging telco challenge at the potentially lucrative edge

It’s nice to see a telco seemingly ahead of the game when it comes to an emerging market growth area, namely the edge connectivity space, writes communications journalist, Antony Savvas.

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Liberty Global selects Teleste’s distributed access solution

Liberty Global, a converged video, broadband and communications company, is to trial Teleste’s Distributed Access Architecture to support their GIGAbit network. The aim is for customers to benefit from increased

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Liberty Global expands collaboration with Amdocs, runs on AWS to enhance the customer experience

Liberty Global, one of the international TV and broadband companies, has expanded its agreement with St. Louis-based Amdocs, to enable access on multiple devices to inspiring and entertaining media content

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Varlan appointed MD of GIGAEurope, new body representing European Gigabit comms networks

Irina Varlan has been appointed as managing director of GIGAEurope. This is the new industry organisation that brings together private operators who build, operate and invest in the gigabit communications

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Voda’s €18bn deal with Liberty Global makes it stronger but it’s no game changer, say analysts

Following the news that Vodafone is buying Liberty Global’s European assets for €19 billion, analysts are agreed that the Newbury, UK-headquartered network operator will emerge stronger. But that’s about as far as their enthusiasm

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Vodafone to acquire Liberty Global’s operations in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania

Vodafone has agreed to acquire Liberty Global’s operations in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania for an enterprise value of €18.4 billion. It accelerates Vodafone’s converged communications strategy through in-market

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VodafoneZiggo selects Netscout for NFV service assurance

Netscout Systems Inc., a provider of business assurance, service assurance, cybersecurity, and business intelligence solutions, announced a new multi-year agreement with VodafoneZiggo to support its Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) transformation.

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Liberty Global delivers connectivity between cellular and Wi-Fi networks with Openet

Openet, a supplier of real-time BSS (business support systems) and customer engagement systems, reports that its Network Selection Intelligence (NSI) solution has been incorporated into Liberty Global’s Connect App.

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Virgin Media leverages Netcracker’s managed services for Revenue Management

Netcracker Technology announced that Virgin Media has expanded its relationship with Netcracker by selecting it as the managed services provider of choice for its Revenue Management solution. By using Netcracker’s

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Liberty Global and Vodafone create a joint venture called VodafoneZiggo Group Holding B.V

Liberty Global and Vodafone Group have created a new 50:50 joint venture called VodafoneZiggo Group Holding B.V. Combining Ziggo’s fibre-rich broadband network with Vodafone’s mobile operation is designed to create

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