Ericsson’s Saudi Arabia e-waste program has recycled nearly 5,000 metric tons of telecom equipment, supporting greener VoIP, 5G, and network infrastructure upgrades. By turning retired radios, cables, cabinets, and power systems into reusable materials, the initiative helps operators reduce landfill waste, improve lifecycle planning, and meet Vision 2030 sustainability goals.
Duos Technologies is bringing GPU-powered edge computing to Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets, giving telecom carriers, VoIP providers, schools, healthcare, and businesses faster local processing. By pairing modular data centers with fiber and wireless networks, Doug Recker’s strategy could boost low-latency AI services, connectivity, and growth in underserved communities
VodafoneThree warns the UK’s AI ambitions could stall without faster mobile network upgrades. As AI tools, VoIP services, cloud communications, and 5G traffic surge, congestion may rise across telecom infrastructure. Stronger spectrum, backhaul, and planning reform are essential to deliver reliable voice, video, and real-time connectivity for businesses and consumers.
EXA Infrastructure’s new Barcelona-Bilbao fibre route strengthens Spain’s role as a European connectivity hub, delivering faster, more resilient transport for VoIP providers, cloud platforms, carriers, and enterprises. By linking Mediterranean traffic to Atlantic subsea systems, the route supports low-latency voice, video, AI workloads, and diverse transatlantic routing options across Europe.
AI, geopolitics and sabotage are reshaping subsea cables, creating new risks for VoIP, telcos and cloud communications. FLAG’s Brice Evin explains why resilient routes, partnerships, edge data centres and Gulf-India connectivity are vital as voice traffic, low-latency applications and global digital services demand secure, high-capacity fibre infrastructure for future growth
O2’s 24 new Westminster small cells boost mobile capacity for calls, messaging, data, and VoIP in one of London’s busiest districts. The targeted 5G-ready network upgrade brings coverage closer to users, helping commuters, businesses, and visitors enjoy more reliable connectivity, smoother VoIP calls, and stronger performance during peak demand periods
BDUK’s latest Project Gigabit update shows rural broadband rollout gaining pace, with 296,770 contracted premises now reached. For VoIP providers, businesses, and remote workers, expanded gigabit connectivity promises clearer calls, stronger cloud communications, and improved digital services, though the UK’s hardest-to-reach areas still face costly infrastructure challenges ahead this year
Ericsson and MTN Group Fintech are accelerating Africa’s mobile money evolution with a cloud-native MoMo migration across key markets. For VoIP and telecom providers, the upgrade highlights how scalable digital infrastructure, APIs, and public cloud readiness can strengthen payments, merchant services, resilience, and innovation across Africa’s connected financial ecosystem today.
VodafoneThree welcomes UK planning reforms that could speed telecoms infrastructure, mobile network upgrades, and nationwide 5GSA rollout. Stronger NPPF guidance may improve coverage, capacity, reliability, and VoIP call quality for businesses. Faster deployment supports cloud communications, unified communications, IoT, public services, and growth across cities, rural communities, industries, and homes.
Zayo and Corning expand their fibre supply deal to secure critical cable capacity for AI, cloud, enterprise, and VoIP network growth through 2030. With 15,000 new route miles planned, the agreement boosts backbone resilience, accelerates high-capacity connectivity, and reinforces fibre as essential to scalable telecom and VoIP infrastructure deployment worldwide.

