This Week's Top Five Stories in the Telco Industry

Orange, Bouygues Telecom and Free-iliad Sign MoU for SFR

For years, the French telco market has been dominated by four major operators battling for spectrum and market share.

That structure may now be heading for its biggest change in more than a decade.

Orange, Bouygues Telecom and the Free-iliad Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Altice France to acquire SFR, France's second-largest telco operator.

How Digital Realty's Cyberjaya Expansion Connects Malaysia

Malaysia is strengthening its credentials as a regional connectivity hub, with Digital Realty unveiling its plans to expand its Cyberjaya footprint.

The company plans a 32MW expansion, designed to support the growing demands of cloud providers and telco operators across Southeast Asia.

As AI applications, cloud services and data-intensive workloads place greater demands on networks, operators are looking beyond traditional hubs to locations that can combine scale, resilience and low-latency connectivity.

Inside Nokia and Indosat's 5G and AI Expansion in Indonesia

Indonesia's mobile network is getting an upgrade with ambitions that stretch beyond faster speeds.

As operators around the world look for ways to combine connectivity with AI, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is betting that the future of telco operations lies in building networks that can do both.

Nokia has signed a nationwide agreement with Indosat to modernise the operator's mobile infrastructure, deploying advanced 5G RAN technology across Indonesia.

Why Has BT Joined Anthropic's Cybersecurity Initiative?

The telco industry has spent years building faster and more resilient networks.

Now it faces a different challenge: defending those networks against cyber threats that are becoming more sophisticated by the day.

That reality is behind BT’s decision to become the first UK company to join Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, a programme that gives critical infrastructure operators access to advanced AI tools designed to identify vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

Inside the Telco Strategy Behind Intel's Xeon 6+ Processor

The future of telco infrastructure is being shaped by the same technology powering hyperscale cloud platforms.

That's the thinking behind Intel's new Xeon 6+ processor, which the company positions as a platform for operators building 5G core networks, edge infrastructure and cloud-native services.

Unveiled at MWC, the chip represents Intel's most efficient Xeon processor yet and marks the first Xeon family product built on the company's advanced Intel 18A manufacturing process.