2024 turned out to be horror year for telecommunications equipment providers throughout the world, with massively declining revenues, according to a prominent market analyst.



Cloud infrastructure provider Worldstream has chosen telecoms equipment vendor Nokia for network security technology to protect its business clients in the Netherlands and globally against large-scale DDoS attacks.

Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI has quickly become a powerful tool that is driving innovation in many areas of business. This has opened the way for developers to fill a key role in the evolution of AI.

The South Korean Government has announced that nationwide issuance of the Mobile Resident Registration Cards - a national digital ID on smartphone - commenced on 14 March 2025, and will be ubuquitous throughout the nation by 28 March.

Australian competition regulator the ACCC has given the go ahead for telecoms infrastructure provider Vocus's proposed acquisition of telecoms operator TPG's fixed line business, enterprise, government, and wholesale customer base as well as its fibre and transmission networks.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire