Getronics has appointed Miguel Barahona as the company's new Sales Director for Spain and Portugal. In his new role, he will be responsible for defining and developing the multinational's sales plan, maintaining the organization's current growth trajectory in the Iberian Peninsula, and ensuring the quality of service received by customers.

Trend Micro and Qualys have announced a collaborative partnership to provide a unified solution for the Iberian market across the global vulnerability management lifecycle.
This collaboration will enable users to mitigate the risks posed by vulnerabilities by improving their security posture in a unique and automated way, all within a unified cybersecurity platform.

As part of the FTTH Conference 2023 program in Madrid, the FTTH Council Europe has published several market reports outlining the latest figures on fiber deployment trends in Europe: the FTTH/B Market Overview 2023, the Global FTTH/B Ranking 2023, the FTTH/B Forecasts for 2023-2028, and the updated report on FTTH/B in Rural Areas, prepared by IDATE. All reports are based on the latest available data from September 2022. The reports confirm the positive trend in fiber optic deployments across Europe.

Sateliot will launch the first 5G satellite in history into space in April, aiming to democratize access to the Internet of Things. The GroundBreaker, as this satellite is named, reflects its disruptive nature, marking a turning point in satellite telecommunications. It conveys the idea that there is no other satellite like it in orbit operating with standard 5G technology.

EET and Lanaccess have announced a strategic distribution agreement covering all of Europe. This agreement will allow EET customers to benefit from Lanaccess's LAVA advanced video analytics solutions. Based on Deep Learning technology, Lanaccess's analytics provides dedicated hardware and neural network-based video algorithms to add Artificial Intelligence (AI) to any video system, increasing its efficiency and accuracy.

PATRIZIA has acquired two Spanish broadband and fiber operators through its European Infrastructure Fund II (EIFII). As a result, PATRIZIA Infrastructure is launching a new "fiber to the home" (FTTH) platform in Spain, aiming to bring high-speed broadband to the country's most rural areas.

Sateliot and the Global Certification Forum (GCF) have signed an agreement introducing a standard certification to the satellite industry for the first time. This alliance, also the first between the GCF and a satellite operator, will accelerate the availability and commercialization of Sateliot's technology, which features IoT chips and modules certified to the 3GPP 5G NB-IoT NTN Release 17 standard for use by all operators.

The $19 billion merger between Orange (ORAN.PA) and MasMovil faces a large-scale antitrust investigation in the EU, three people familiar with the matter said Tuesday, in a test of whether EU regulators could loosen restrictions on deals in the sector.

The European Commission has unconditionally approved, in accordance with the EU Merger Regulation, the creation of a joint venture by Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange SA, Telefónica SA, and Vodafone Group plc. The Commission concluded that the transaction would not raise competition concerns in the European Economic Area ("EEA").

HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, has announced the launch of three new Nokia smartphones: the Nokia G22, Nokia C32, and Nokia C22. HMD Global also announced its first steps toward becoming the first major global smartphone manufacturer to move its production to Europe.

Red Hat, Inc. today announced the expansion of its collaboration with Samsung to deliver a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solution with enhanced integration and automation capabilities. The technology is designed to help service providers better manage networks at scale while meeting the demands of 5G through greater operational flexibility and efficiency.

Nokia announced today that it will expand the production of PON optical line terminals (OLTs) at its factory near Chennai, India. The decision responds to growing demand from local customers in India, as well as from international markets.

Phoenix Contact presents Javier Figueras as the new managing director of its subsidiary in Spain, succeeding Gerardo García Covarrubias following his retirement on February 8, 2023. With almost 40 years of experience in the industrial sector, mostly at Phoenix Contact, Gerardo García Covarrubias' leadership has contributed to sustainable and continuous growth, making Phoenix Contact Spain the benchmark leader in the sector and providing great stability and confidence to all its employees.

The CNMC has published a study on public subsidies allocated to broadband deployment in the least connected areas of Spain. Between 2013 and 2020, €344 million in public aid facilitated broadband deployment in more than 40% of Spanish municipalities.

German laser manufacturer TOPTICA Photonics AG has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire a majority stake in French fiber laser technology company Azurlight Systems SAS.
Azurlight will continue and expand its fiber laser business under the new name TOPTICA Photonics SAS and will form the French hub for the TOPTICA brand.

In 2023, the industry will manage consumption and carbon footprint, driving trends toward regulation, standardization, and the search for alternative energy generation methods. Data centers face an increasing number of regulations.

Increasing pressures to meet consumer demands for energy and water are forcing governments to take a closer look at data centers and their excessive consumption of these resources.

Physicists at the University of Bath in the UK have created an optical fiber that uses the mathematical concept of topology to remain robust, thus ensuring high-speed information transfer.

Fiber optic networks are not structurally perfect, and information transfer can be compromised when things go wrong.

Nokia has announced that it has signed a new cross-patent licensing agreement with Samsung following the expiration of the previous agreement at the end of 2022.
Under the agreement, which covers Nokia's core inventions in 5G and other technologies, Samsung will make payments to Nokia over a multi-year period beginning January 1, 2023. The terms of the agreement remain confidential between the parties.

Nokia announced today that Telefónica Spain has successfully tested its 25G PON technology. The test, the first in Spain to demonstrate symmetrical speeds of 20 Gbps, proved that the next-generation 25G PON can coexist with Telefónica's existing GPON solution.

Telefónica, with nearly 60 million homes passed FTTH already deployed across its multiple business units, has validated with this test that current GPON and XGS-PON broadband technologies can coexist seamlessly on the same fiber as 25G PON.

Semtech Corporation and Sierra Wireless, Inc. have announced the completion of Semtech's acquisition of Sierra Wireless for a total enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion. This transaction nearly doubles Semtech's annual revenue and adds approximately $100 million in recurring revenue from high-margin IoT cloud services.