Citing sources with knowledge of the matter, a number of news outlets have been reporting that a cable project may soon be formally announced that will connect Morocco with Mauritania through Western Sahara.
Such an initiative could also reinforce the African Coast to Europe (ACE) cable to which Mauritania was connected in 2011 and on which it mainly relies for high-speed internet services.
The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable spans 17,000 kilometres along the west coast of Africa, connecting three European countries – France, Portugal and the Spanish-owned Canary Islands – and 16 African countries including Mauritania.
According to the Ecsaharaui website, Moov Mauritel, Mauritania’s leading operator, is especially interested in the, as yet unnamed, cable project.
If it goes ahead the cable would be over 1,000 kilometres long, stretching from Morocco’s southern Saharan regions to Mauritania while crossing the Guerguarat border post and boosting internet speeds significantly.
But will the project go ahead? A rather tricky issue is the argument that such a cable would imply recognition by Mauritania of Moroccan sovereignty in Western Sahara, one reason that the project has been rejected by previous Mauritanian presidents. If it is officially affirmed, however, it seems that current president, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, would be changing that position.
Another issue is Algeria, which may be unhappy with a project that undermines its own position. It supports the Polisario Front, the group that claims independence in the southern Moroccan provinces.
Algeria made clear its dissatisfaction when the Spanish government officially endorsed Morocco’s Autonomy Plan – a proposal to resolve the Sahara conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front – as the most serious and credible basis to end the dispute over Western Sahara.
In the event, we still seem to be awaiting a formal acknowledgment of the scheme, though there will then presumably be the practical issues of funding and project tendering to deal with.
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Globe Telecom gained board approval to sell over 7,000 mobile towers, in deals expected to reap PHP71 billion (US$1.2 billion) to finance network expansion and sustain industry consistency and reliability scores.
In a statement, the operator detailed two 15-year sale and leaseback agreements were signed for portfolios totalling of 5,709 telecom towers and related passive infrastructure. Both deals are expected to close in Q3 this year.
The first contains 2,180 telecom towers in Luzon which will be acquired by MIESCOR Infrastructure Development Corporation (MIDC) for PHP26 billion, the pre-tax gain from this transaction to be PHP10.6 billion. Globe also commissioned the company to construct 750 additional build-to-suit towers over the next four years on which the operator will be the anchor tenant.
The second deals consist of 3,529 towers which will be sold to Frontier Tower Associates Philippines for PHP45 billion. Globe estimated the pre-tax transaction gain form this deal will be PHP15 billion.
The majority of the towers to be sold are located in Luzon (66%) with the rest in Mindanao (19%) and Visayas (15%). The majority (79%) of the assets be to sold are ground-based and with the rest being rooftop towers.
Another deal is currently in “advanced discussion” with an undisclosed tower company for the sale and lease of 1,350 towers located in Visayas and Mindano. This deal is expected to close in Q4.
“We have always been looking for ways to monetise our tower assets and this record-breaking initiative marks our continued commitment to optimise our capital raising efforts and further strengthen the balance sheet as we seek to capitalise on opportunities in the telecommunications sector and complementary services,” said Globe CFO Rizza Maniego-Eala.
“These expanded long-term partnerships with the tower companies show Globe’s commitment to help improve the Philippines’ internet condition, as well as our desire to have as many Filipinos enjoy the benefits of having access to reliable internet. We also believe that through these monetisation efforts, Globe will be able to further improve overall operational efficiency, allowing us to serve our customers better,” added Globe president and CEO Ernest Cu.
Financial results
In its H1 results, Globe revealed capex increased year-on-year by 17% to PHP50.5 billion due to “aggressive” network rollouts to improve customer experiences.
The company’s service revenue hit PHP78/9 billion a 4% increase which was fuelled by the contribution of data-related products and services across mobile and corporate data.
Mobile data revenue grew 8% to PHP41.8 billion from PHP38.6 billion last year. Mobile data consumption grew to 2,177 petabytes from 1,761 petabytes last year. EBITDA stood at PHP40.5 billion which is up 8% from the same period last year.
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Roger Northrop, Chief Technology Officer, Mutare
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The National Digital Twin programme, part of Centre for Digital Built Britain, wanted to create an interactive demonstrator tool to help show how connected digital twins can make telecoms, water and energy infrastructure more resilient to flooding due to climate change. Part of the National Digital Twin’s (NDTp) Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) project, the demonstrator was needed as a key communication tool to help show that more resilience is needed within existing utility systems and that collaboration and data sharing is the key to success. Aimed at non-technical and diverse audiences, including the public, industry and government…
The National Digital Twin programme, part of Centre for Digital Built Britain, wanted to create an interactive demonstrator tool to help show how connected digital twins can make telecoms, water and energy infrastructure more resilient to flooding due to climate change.
Part of the National Digital Twin’s (NDTp) Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) project, the demonstrator was needed as a key communication tool to help show that more resilience is needed within existing utility systems and that collaboration and data sharing is the key to success.
Aimed at non-technical and diverse audiences, including the public, industry and government, the demonstrator was designed for launch at COP26 in November 2021 and could not contain real data or refer to real world locations for security/confidentiality reasons. It needed to include energy, water and telecoms networks and focus on showing the impact of extreme weather, such as flooding.
“Collaboration through connected digital twins is key to tackling climate change but digital twins are complex to explain, particularly to non-technical audiences. We needed something visual to show during the early stages what CReDo is all about and what we are trying to achieve,” said Sarah Hayes, head of NDTp’s CReDo project. “When you’re bringing together multiple teams with different skill sets, it can be challenging to communicate effectively. The objective was to not only help connect and engage with external stakeholders but also internal teams, to help crystallise the vision and concept of what we are producing.”
The NDTp selected Esri UK to develop an interactive demonstrator tool, following an industry-wide tender, deciding that its capabilities in digital twins, visualisations and infrastructure were the best fit. “Creating a complex, fictitious city from scratch had never been done before, as far as we knew but we could see Esri UK had a wealth of experience in this area and were confident it could deliver in time for COP26,” commented Hayes.
By using location as a foundation for linking disparate digital twins, Esri UK developed the tool using its GIS software. Featuring a fictional city called Sunford City that experiences a series of severe storms and floods, the tool was designed to allow users to test different scenarios and make decisions to better protect Sunford, clearly showing the benefits of using connected instead of isolated digital twins.
Flooding models were used to simulate how a flood would impact on Sunford City in various scenarios. Creating fabricated asset data was essential and a major part of the project’s challenge. Any interactive map couldn’t show where real assets were due to obvious sensitivities around future flooding scenarios. “What Esri UK created in eight weeks was incredibly impressive, particularly as it was developed from scratch, but our collaborative and iterative approach gave us what we were looking for,” continued Hayes.
A short feature film was also created to help show the importance of projects like CReDo to adaptation and resilience, called Tomorrow Today, directed by BAFTA winning director Colin O’Toole. Telling the story of Arthur and his grandson Jack facing the unprecedented Storm Ruby, the film shows its potential to knock out multiple utility services and threaten lives.
Launched at the United Nations Climate Conference, COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, the demonstrator tool has been used extensively by multiple partners and has played an invaluable communication role since, as Hayes explained: “The interactive map and images have been critical in helping explain what we are trying to do and together with the short film, helped gain support for the continuation of the CReDo project with government stakeholders and industry.”
“Images taken from the demonstrator have been essential to show what kind of interventions a digital twin might consider in the future and how you would assess the impact of the interventions. The images help make the point about resilience from a system point of view, rather than a sector point of view. We needed pictures like this to get the point across quickly and easily.”
Telling the CReDo story externally has been made easier using the tool, engaging with both the information management and utility communities. Used during the discovery phase of CReDo, the tool also helped keep the multi-disciplinary team united and focused on the purpose of the project. The second phase of CReDo is now continuing under Connected Places Catapult (CPC), moving from the National Digital Twin programme at CDBB.
“Talking about something complex like a digital twin, you need a visualisation to explain the concept. The Sunford City application helped demonstrate how connecting datasets and digital twins across organisations and sectors is vital to securing future infrastructure resilience,” concluded Hayes.
The interactive demonstrator tool can be tried here. You can meet ESRI at Connected Britain this September – book your tickets at www.totaltele.com/connectedbritain
Total Telecom are keeping track of the latest news from the USA as billions of dollars pour into developing internet access for all. If you are interested in a more in-depth look at how progress is being made, check out our new Connected America event.
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Cantwell, Capito Propose Broadband Buildout Along America’s Electricity Grid – Press Release
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The Future Of Broadband Is In The States’ Hands – Forbes
10 August 2022
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Total Telecom are keeping track of the latest news from the USA as billions of dollars pour into developing internet access for all. If you are interested in a more in-depth look at how progress is being made, check out our new Connected America event.
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EdgeConneX® announces the launch of Voltera. Rising from the EdgeConnex history of space and power innovations, Voltera builds, owns, and operates charging facilities that enable electric vehicle (EV) deployment and operation at scale. Voltera has equity backing from EQT Infrastructure, which plans to invest several billion to address the challenges around fleet EV charging that include delivering scalable power in strategic locations…
EdgeConneX® announces the launch of Voltera. Rising from the EdgeConnex history of space and power innovations, Voltera builds, owns, and operates charging facilities that enable electric vehicle (EV) deployment and operation at scale. Voltera has equity backing from EQT Infrastructure, which plans to invest several billion to address the challenges around fleet EV charging that include delivering scalable power in strategic locations. Voltera has a team with deep experience deploying charging infrastructure, and is uniquely positioned to help solve EV infrastructure challenges as the world prepares for a more sustainable future.
“As a pioneer in the digital infrastructure industry, EdgeConneX has solved many of the same challenges EV fleet operators and automakers face – acquiring, permitting, powering and operating sites in strategic locations, while ensuring customers’ speed to market,” says EdgeConneX CEO Randy Brouckman. “It’s a highly logical and practical application of our long-developed data center innovations to solve another very real and significant challenge. Voltera will advance the transportation industry like EdgeConneX did digital infrastructure. It’s really all a part of our commitment to sustainable innovation.”
Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. That includes fleet operators looking to electrify without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital to install EV charging infrastructure, as well as automakers looking to deploy charging infrastructure to support EV sales. Siting, acquiring, powering, building, and operating strategically located, fit-for-purpose charging facilities, Voltera is the full-service partner these companies rely on to support EV deployment and operations at scale.
“Fleet operators, automakers, and consumers alike are adopting electric vehicles at a rapidly accelerating pace. Lagging far behind, though, is the power infrastructure needed to support EVs at scale,” says Voltera CEO Matt Horton. “We have to bridge that gap if we’re going to make zero-emission transportation a reality. That’s what Voltera is doing, and it’s why I’m so excited to be part of this team.”
EQT Infrastructure has made several investments in clean transportation and was looking for opportunities to help develop the EV charging infrastructure necessary to support vehicle electrification. “Through our work with EdgeConneX, we understand that the capabilities needed to deliver critical infrastructure for transport electrification at scale are similar to the capabilities EdgeConneX developed as a leading data center provider,” says EQT Partner Jan Vesely. “In Voltera, EQT sees an opportunity to partner with a company that can drive positive change, helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing EV infrastructure, and we are excited to back their expansive ambitions.”
Google has declined to back a proposal by the Indian government to create an entity that would allow the social media sector to self-regulate, despite support for the move from Facebook and Twitter.
In June 2022 the Indian government laid out two possibilities to address the issue of content moderation on social media: a new government-appointed panel that would review user complaints, or an industry-supported self-regulatory body. According to Reuters, Facebook parent Meta – which also owns WhatsApp and Instragram – and Twitter are keen for the latter option as they anticipate ‘overreach’ by government-appointed regulators.
While the government is open to the possibility of self-regulation, it has also noted that this would require a consensus across the sector, so Google’s “grave reservations” make the creation of a government panel more likely.
Reuters quoted anonymous sources as saying that during a private meeting this week, an Alphabet executive noted that a self-regulating body could oblige Google to have its internal decisions reviewed and even overridden by an external body. This could for example result in Google being forced to reinstate content that it had removed for violating its policies, setting a “dangerous precedent”.
The sources opted to remain anonymous given that the meeting was private, but confirmed to Reuters that in addition to Google, representatives of Facebook and Twitter were present, along with Snap and Indian social media platform ShareChat. The latter two companies reportedly also expressed reservations about a self-regulating body, arguing that social media moderation requires greater input from civil society.
In a statement, Google said that it had sent representatives to preliminary meetings and was engaging with the government and the industry on the matter, “exploring all options” to achieve the “best possible solution.”
Social media moderation is a major issue in India. The government takes a fairly hard-line stance on content that it deems objectionable and issues frequent takedown orders, which has resulted in social media firms taking a somewhat self-censoring approach. During Q1 2022, Google’s YouTube removed more videos in India for violating content guidelines (over 1.2 million) than in any other market globally.
Exacerbating these stringent controls over social media is the fact that users are currently only able to complain via India’s courts. The government is now seeking to introduce a dedicated system for social media users to make legal complaints if their content is hit with a takedown order.
The government’s proposal for any self-regulating body was to appoint either a technology expert or a former judge as a chairperson, with a further six panel members – among which would be some senior social media executives. The panel would be able to make binding legal decisions, reported Reuters.
US tech representative groups argue that a self-regulating body whose members are appointed directly by the Indian government could not be considered truly independent.
PBXware 6.6 is officially here! Every time we release a new version of our PBX system and telephony platform, we also include several additional useful features for our loyal users. Unified Communications as a Service is in rapid development, and as one of the pioneers in the industry, we tend to lead the way, not lag behind. Therefore, we constantly work on upgrading our products and services to deliver you the best Unified communications platform on the market.
Let’s dive in and check out all the neat new features included in the latest version of PBXware.
Bicom Systems’ In-house STIR/SHAKEN Solution
STIR/SHAKEN is a framework that helps reduce fraudulent robocalls and illegal phone number spoofing, and we have written about this topic on several occasions. You can read more about STIR/SHAKEN on our official blog here.
STIR/SHAKEN implementation in version 6.6 is another great addition to PBXware, and one a lot of our partners were waiting for eagerly. We have decided to implement STIR/SHAKEN into PBXware 6.6 to comply with the FCC STIR/SHAKEN rules.
PBXware added its implementation of STIR/SHAKEN, which allows signing and validating calls with valid STIR/SHAKEN certificates that customers own.
If you are interested in how to enable STIR/SHAKEN in PBXware, watch the video below, where we explain everything in a few simple steps.
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Introducing New SMS Provider: VoIP Innovations
In order to fully utilize the messaging service, version 6.6 adds the option allowing PBXware users to choose VoIP Innovations as a provider in their settings.
VoIP Innovations is a full-service VoIP provider that provides top-notch services to developers, clients, businesses, and carriers. VoIP Innovations offers termination services in addition to origination services.
Users must take several prerequisite procedures to effectively set up VoIP Innovations as an SMS provided on PBXware. A user must first obtain the VoIP Innovations account and log in to set up additional configuration.
Create Multiple Extensions with Extension Template Feature
We have upgraded the Extensions feature in PBXware 6.6 with the Extension Template functionality. This allows administrators to create multiple Extensions in a heartbeat using the preselected Extension template. Administrators can use the following options: Name, Email, Ext, Secret, User Password, PIN, MAC, Department, Line#, and PAI.
The Add Multiple Extension Report will be displayed if everything is configured successfully and will indicate whether the Extensions were saved successfully or the action failed.
Advanced security is highly important for auto-provisioning, so potential attackers can not use known MAC address ranges to gather the Extension login details.
For this reason, PBXware added its implementation of mTLS (Mutual TLS verification) that can validate the client (device) certificate server-side by taking the Manufacturer’s Root CA (Certificate Authority) and building a trust store on the server side.
Note: TFTP and HTTP provisioning will not work when this option is enabled, as this feature can only work if HTTPS provisioning is used.
Introduction to Extension Statistics
We have also added the Extension Statistics, which gives you better insight into your business. Extension Statistics includes basic reporting and allows users to create reports related to Extensions and their Inbound/Outbound and internal calls. It allows users to select a date/time interval and desired Extensions or all of them.
This section gives users a preview of the reports table showing Extension statistics related to:
‘All Answered Calls’,
‘All Calls’,
‘All Unanswered Calls’,
‘Calls Per Direction’,
‘Inbound Calls’,
‘Internal Calls’
PBXware Contact Center Module
Introduction to Feedback Forms for Queues
We also implemented some fresh enhancements to our Contact Center edition. After creating a Feedback Form, users can set any Queues to use this form. Under the Show Advanced option within Queues, the gloCOM section contains two options: the first lets users set whether they want to use the Feedback Form on gloCOM, while the second lets them choose the Feedback form they want to use for the Queue.
An additional option was added within the System menu. On the GUI under the File System section, users may set after how much time Feedback form files are going to be removed (four weeks by default).
The option for downloading Feedback forms was added to the Queues menu under the CDR’s page. Users can download ‘Feedback Forms’ by selecting the check box in front of CDRs and clicking ‘Download Feedback’.
Enabled Queue/ERG/Agent Recording Playback Through Statistics Breakdown
Users can access recordings through the Statistics page. A small icon was added for each call row in the breakdown that takes users to a new CDR page for that Call ID.
We added a new option where calls with recordings would have ‘REC’ written in red next to their Call ID, allowing users to playback selected recordings.
Beyond PBXware 6.6
This is only a little glimpse of the numerous valuable PBXware features. Visit our website or get in touch with us for a free trial to learn more about PBXware and other UCaaS offerings from Bicom Systems.
For a quick demo of new PBXware features in the 6.6 release, take a look at our What’s New video.
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