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By Jonathan Easton Liberty Global rounded out 2020 meeting its quarterly guidance after a difficult year. The operator reported annual revenue of US$11.98 billion, up 3.8 per cent year-over-year. This was largely buoyed by a positive Q4, in which revenue increased 14.9 per cent year-over-year Overall, the company saw modest underlying revenue gains in the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. The group added a total of 56,000 new fixed line customers for the quarter and a total of 81,000 adds for the year. This is compared to negative performance...

By Josephine Akaerr, Special Correspondent The Sahel Alliance will hold its second general assembly in N'Djamena, Chad on Monday, 15 February 2021. The meeting will take place on the side-lines of a summit for the G5 Sahel countries— Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad—as well as France. The African Development Bank played an active krole in the formation in July 2017 of the Alliance, an international cooperation platform to spur development and stability in the Sahel region. To foster closer synergy with development partners, the Sahel Alliance has invited the...

By Oystein Bergmann, Correspondent Scandinavia and Josephine Akaerr, Special Correspondent An innovative connectivity solution based on the deployment of a private cellular campus network is supporting the digital transformation of enterprises in Greece. Greece’s first private cellular campus network for smart manufacturing has been deployed at Calpak’s fully automated, solar water heater production facility in the municipality of Loutraki. The new private cellular campus network, which was designed and deployed by COSMOTE, in partnership with Ericsson, is accelerating Industry 4.0 uses in Greece like smart manufacturing. The innovative connectivity solution...

By Emmanuel Oluebube, Correspondent UK UK TMT regulator Ofcom has imposed fines totalling £50,000(US$69,548.75) on Khalsa Television Limited (KTV) for serious breaches of its broadcasting rules. KTV broadcasts a range of cultural, religious and educational programmes to the UK’s Sikh community. Stated Ofcom: “Our first investigation found that KTV aired a music video on three separate occasions, which indirectly encouraged Sikhs living in the UK to commit violence, including murder, against people opposed to the Khalistan Liberation Front. We also found that the music video contained subliminal harmful messages in...

By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu, Correspondent Lagos Located at 2447 Avenue de la Chance in the new administrative district (GTA Lome II) in the North of Lome, the Regus centre will open soon as a franchise in partnership with Confortis International Group. It will offer a wide range of ready-to-use workspaces ranging from private offices to coworking, meeting rooms and business lounges. Regus, the flagship brand of the IWG Holding (International Workplace Group) created 30 years ago in Belgium, is the world’s largest provider of flexible workspaces with 3,500 locations in...

By Cyber Era Reporter EBRD Legal Transition Programme/Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development(EBRD) in cooperation with the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law are putting together a webinar themed: What Next for Procurement Review Tribunals? Recent Challenges and Reforms. The virtual event holds over Zoom between 10:00 and 12:00(London time) on February 17, 2021. The governments operate ex-ante monitoring of public procurement but best results are achieved through a robust public procurement review system where the...