Orange CEO touts interest in French consolidation
Says that consolidation is needed in the market, and in Europe
News - France
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Serbian gov’t signs contact with Eviden for €50m supercomputer
Will contain 20x more chips than country’s existing Nvidia-based system
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Vivendi cuts stake in Telecom Italia to 18.4%
The TIM top shareholder strongly opposed the Italian telco's grid sale
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Orange Marine's cable laying ship Teliri breaks down while laying Unitirreno cable
Vessel was stranded after leaving Calais on February 28
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Totem CEO Nicolas Roy to lead Orange's data center strategy
Roy has been CEO of Orange's tower subsidiary since 2021
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Altice France seals agreement to cut overall debt by $9bn
Owner Patrick Drahi will retain a 55 percent stake
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STMicroelectronics unveils new data center photonics chip for AI workload interconnects
The PIC100 offering is the first from STMicroelectronics' new product portfolio
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IOEMA to land European petabit subsea cable in Exa CLS in Suffolk, UK
Company expands scope of system to reach France, but reduces planned fiber count and capacity
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GPU cloud provider Fluidstack signs MoU for 1GW AI supercomputer in France
$10.4bn supercomputer will be operational from 2026, company claims
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Sesterce invests €450m in AI data center in Valence, France
Will house 40,000 GPUs
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Quantum computing startup Alice & Bob closes €100m funding round
Saw participation from both new and returning investors
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Sequans snaps up Zurich-based ACP in 5G push
Says the acquisition will boost its 5G eRedCap development
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Orange, O2 Telefónica join French-German consortium to build 5G highway corridor
The build-out will kick off this year and should be complete by the end of 2027
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Nokia completes sale of subsea cable unit ASN to French State
The vendor will retain a 20 percent stake until targeted exit
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Orange pairs with La Poste to repurpose network sites used during 2024 Olympic Games
Repurposing the equipment is one of the main legacy targets of the Paris games
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French government bids €500m for Atos' AI, HPC, and quantum business
Another part of the IT services company targeted for nationalization
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Bouygues Telecom acquires MVNO La Poste Telecom in France
La Poste has around 2.4 million customers
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Météo-France seeks €185m supercomputer upgrade
Meteorological agency hasn't set a petaflops goal for new system
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French government acquires preferred share in Atos' supercomputing unit
As Atos divests Worldgrid energy division
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France's Elevator Federation calls for delay to 2G and 3G shutdown
Warns that the switch off date is too soon
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Eviden installs 5-qubit IQM quantum computer in France
Users will have both physical and remote access to the machine
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IBM installs more quantum computers at New York campus
As IonQ secures Air Force contract, and EuroHPC JU signs deals with IQM and Quandela
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Nebius deploys AI cluster at Equinix data center in Paris
First cluster totally equipped with own-design servers
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Cellnex explores sale of French data center unit - report
Tower firm building portfolio of 100+ Edge sites across country
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Free launches 5G Standalone network in France
Becomes the first French telco to launch 5G SA