Light Reading Recap: Week ending August 13
Aug 18, 2021•4 min
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Episode description
Last week's telecom news highlights included some M&A speculation involving Reliance Jio and T-Mobile Netherlands. We also covered the new roaming fees that are now summering in the UK. Finally, don't look up now but we have another satellite story – this one discusses SpaceX's decision to buy Swarm, a company that operates around 100 microsatellites providing IoT connectivity.
Here are the stories we mentioned in the podcast:
- SpaceX buys IoT company Swarm amid heightened space competition
- South Korea's Hanwha Systems sinks $300M into OneWeb
- Desperation shows as BT and Vodafone resurrect roaming
- India's Jio may bid for T-Mobile Netherlands - report
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