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FRANCE

Digital Secretary Matt Hancock has visited Paris to announce a package of measures to strengthen ties between the UK and France’ s digital industries.

The aim is to boost both countries’ digital economies and forge closer links between cutting-edge companies from both nations.

Mr Hancock addressed a landmark bilateral conference on data and the digital economy alongside his French counterpart, Mounir Mahjoubi. He confirmed that the UK’ s world-leading centre for AI and data, The Alan Turing Institute, is signing an agreement with the French institute, DATAIA, to promote collaboration between the French and British sectors.

SPAIN

Intracom Telecom, a global telecommunication systems and solutions vendor, has announced the signing of a strategic agreement with the National Association of Local Operators of Telecommunications( AOTEC) of Spain, that represents the interests of the industry, to supply ultra-fast broadband services for the next two years to AOTEC members.

More specifically, through this agreement the members of AOTEC can take advantage of Intracom Telecom’ s innovative ultra-fast broadband Point-to-MultiPoint( PtMP) solutions for the licensed band of 28 GHz that provides capacities of more than 200 Mbps to their residential and business subscribers. Furthermore, members of AOTEC will have the option to source more value for their subscribers, using Intracom Telecom’ s Smart City, IoT, Big Data and IPTV solutions.

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