Telstra has partnered with telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson and mobile chipset maker MediaTek, to claim a new benchmark peak downlink speed of 9.4 Gbps on its live commercial 5G Standalone (SA) network.



Indian telecoms monolith Bharti Airtel has partnered with financial services provider Bajaj Finance to create what they claim will be one of India’s largest digital platforms for financial services.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched investigations to determine if Apple and Google have strategic market status (SMS) in their mobile ecosystems, including operating systems, app stores and mobile browsers.

Launch and space services provider Rocket Lab has signed a launch contract on its Electron small orbital launch vehicle with Orora Technologies (OroraTech), a German company developing a satellite constellation to detect wildfires.

Google Cloud Security has released the H1 2025 Threat Horizons Report. Cloud environments are facing an evolving threat from threat actors prioritising data exfiltration, exploiting identity as the new perimeter, and adapting tactics to evade detection and attribution.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire

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