Eurobites: Ooredoo banks on Google's API platform for 'digital transformation'

O2 Telefónica Germany has boosted mobile coverage at its Munich headquarters with a digital C-RAN antenna system from CommScope. The Hochhaus Uptown München, known as the O2 Tower, has been equipped with CommScope's ERA in-building wireless offering, bringing improved 4G and 5G coverage to all visitors and employees lurking anywhere on the building's 38 floors. Additionally, on selected floors, O2 Telefónica will use the technology to enable its customers to try out private networks. As part of the deployment CommScope installed 5G new radio 4x4 MIMO native active access points – the first installation of its kind in the region, according to CommScope.

A UK Internet service provider has run into trouble with the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for suggesting that 6G is a thing. 6G Internet, a fixed wireless broadband specialist based in the north of England, published a promotional leaflet and ran an ad on its website that an unnamed complainant said "misleadingly implied that a sixth-generation mobile network existed and was able to be used by consumers," in the words of the ASA's statement. In its defense, 6G Internet said 6G was "currently in development, and they understood there was no timescale for when the technology would become available or what the capabilities of the technology would be," and suggested that the number 6 alluded to the Wi-Fi 6 router they supplied rather than a sixth mobile generation. The ASA ruled that the ads must not appear again in their current form, adding sternly: "We told 6G Internet Ltd not to imply a sixth-generation mobile network existed and was able to be used by consumers."

Google is to help train 20,000 young Nigerians in digital skills, Reuters reports. The program will be funded by a grant from Google's philanthropic arm in partnership with Data Science Nigeria.

Boston IT Solutions South Africa has hooked up with Liquid C2 to deploy Azure Stack infrastructure across Africa. The first of the data centers will be opened in Zambia, enabling businesses there to access cloud offerings that meet local regulatory requirements and run latency-sensitive business applications.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading