Vodafone Ukraine signs MoU for mobile satellite services with AST SpaceMobile
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Vodafone Ukraine signs MoU for mobile satellite services with AST SpaceMobile

Vodafone Ukraine said that it has signed a memorandum on understanding with the company AST SpaceMobile to work on the launch of mobile satellite services across the country. The agreement was signed during MWC Barcelona. While no launch date was given, Vodafone Ukraine said it plans to offer a full satellite broadband service over the low-orbit satellites from AST SpaceMobile, supporting its strategy for resilient services throughout the country. It will work with AST SpaceMobile on the commercial launch,

MTS launches cybersecurity training course for customers
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MTS launches cybersecurity training course for customers

Russian operator MTS has launched a free interactive training course on cybersecurity. The course is designed to improve digital literacy for customers, enabling them to understand and recognise tools used by fraudsters. The course includes twelve thematic blocks and is based on information collected by the service MTS Guard. 

Russian operators offer free roaming in Middle East
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Russian operators offer free roaming in Middle East

Russian operator Megafon offers its customers roaming in the Middle East a 2 GB bundle and 30 minutes of calls free, as well as free calls to its support centre. The mobile operator T2 also introduced free data and voice services in the Middle East to support customers there during the military conflict. MTS is waiving commissions for money transfers over its payment system My MTS to the UAE.

Play offers eSim confirmation with photo of ID
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Play offers eSim confirmation with photo of ID

Polish operator Play, controlled by Iliad, has introduced a new authorisation option for customers buying eSIMs remotely. Prepaid customers purchasing eSIMs in this way can authenticate by sending a photo of their ID taken on their smartphone. This adds to the existing options over electronic banking or the service MyID.

DSI Data to raise internet speeds from April
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DSI Data to raise internet speeds from April

Slovak operator DSI Data said that it will raise fixed broadband speeds under its Flexi tariff line in all locations where possible, reports Zive. New speeds will be offered from 01 April, while prices will remain unchanged. Downloads at up to 800 Mbps will be available for subscribers of the Wireless Pro+ tariff, and uploads will amount to 140 Mbps. That's up from the current 700 Mbps and 70 Mbps, respectively.

Plus offers promo of Motorola smartphone, sells new Huawei smartwatches
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Plus offers promo of Motorola smartphone, sells new Huawei smartwatches

Polish operator Polkomtel, trading under the Plus brand, has introduced a promotion to customers buying the Motorola Edge 70 smartphone in its shops. Customers purchasing the model Edge 70 5G 12/512GB are able to buy it for PLN 3,499. They are also offered a PLN 700 cashback. The promotion is valid buying the smartphone until 31 March.

Beskid Media offers broadband at 8 Gbps
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Beskid Media offers broadband at 8 Gbps

Polish ISP Beskid Media, working in the Lesser Poland and Silesia regions, has introduced to its customers an opportunity to access broadband services at up to 8 Gbps speed. The service is available for a monthly rate of a broadband tariff at up to 1 Mbps speed for twelve months under the promotion. The monthly rate will amount to PLN 95 during the promotional period, it will grow to PLN 155 starting from the 13th month.

T-Mobile Poland and Plus offer free services to customers in Middle East
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T-Mobile Poland and Plus offer free services to customers in Middle East

T-Mobile Poland is offering a free 15 GB data package, as well as free calls and SMSs, to customers using its roaming services in the Middle East. The offer is valid in ten countries until 16 March. T-Mobile's prepaid subscribers are being offered a 100-day validity extension for their handset balances. Polkomtel, trading under the Plus brand, is offering a 15 GB mobile bundle to affected customers as well as 120 minutes of outgoing and incoming calls.

Vectra introduces Royal Offer broadband, TV and video package
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Vectra introduces Royal Offer broadband, TV and video package

Polish operator Vectra has announced the introduction of the Royal Offer package. It supplies fixed broadband at up to 300 Mbps, a pay TV service providing 73 television channels, as well as access to the video streaming platforms Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max or Canal+. The monthly subscription rate is PLN 89.99. The package is available to customers on fibre-optic networks who sign a 23-month contract.

Polkomtel wins contract to provide mobile services to Warsaw municipal council
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Polkomtel wins contract to provide mobile services to Warsaw municipal council

Polish operator Polkomtel, trading under the Plus brand, has won a tender on providing mobile telephony services to Warsaw city municipality administration. Duration of the contract is three years, a size of the deal totals PLN 9.955 million.

Mango Telecom integrates call centre service with messenger Max
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Mango Telecom integrates call centre service with messenger Max

Russian VoIP operator and cloud services provider Mango Telecom said it has added an integration with the messenger Max to its Mango Office call centre service. The new option is expected to accelerate call processing from customers to businesses and to improve the quality of the service. In January, Russian internet company VK said that the Max user base had passed 80 million, after the daily audience hit a new high of 51 million in December 2025.

Digital Realty launches operations in Bulgaria, buys Telepoint interconnection hub in Sofia
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Digital Realty launches operations in Bulgaria, buys Telepoint interconnection hub in Sofia

Digital Realty has announced its entry into Bulgaria, establishing a new market presence in the Sofia capital. Digital Realty's entry into the market is enabled through the acquisition of Telepoint, a local data centre and interconnection provider. The transaction includes two data centres in Sofia, including an interconnected facilities in Southeast Europe, with more than 110 unique network service providers and multiple cloud on-ramp deployments.

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Vodafone, Satellite Connect Europe to test D2D satellite connectivity services in Romania

Vodafone Romania has announced its collaboration with Satellite Connect Europe to test direct to device (D2D) satellite connectivity services in Romania in the summer of 2026. Vodafone Romania and Satellite Connect Europe are collaborating for the future implementation of the new satellite technology, with trial exercises of the services to start in Romania in the coming months.

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M.Video makes board appointments

Russian online retail chain M.Video has incorporated Yevgeny Shchepelin and Anatoly Mokhov into its management board, which has nine members. Shchepelin is the founder of the company eCompass Capital. Mokhov started working at M.Video in August 2025 and is now COO of the company.

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Flexi TV to double price of basic package

Slovak pay-television service Flexi TV, owned by the company DSI Data, plans to double the monthly subscription rate of its basic package from April, reports Zive. The package supplies almost 30 Slovak and Czech TV channels and the price will go up to EUR 5.20 monthly from EUR 2.60.  The operator said that the hike is related to the expansion of the line-up and based on its contracts with broadcasters.

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T-Mobile Poland declares 2 mln Magenta Moments loyalty scheme users

T-Mobile Poland said that the user base of its loyalty programme Magenta Moments has reached the threshold of 2 million. More than 1,800 promotional offers of various sorts, and over 110 competitions, have been available to users of the programme since its launch in September 2023.

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Orange Poland runs top-up promotion, free month's 'Unlimited to Everybody' subscription

Orange Poland has introduced a new top-up promotion for prepaid subscribers. Customers are being offered a free 30 GB data bundle when they recharge their handset balance by PLN 15 or more. The promotion runs until 31 March.

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Play offers free data packs to customers in Middle East

Polish operator Play, controlled by Iliad, has introduced free mobile data roaming bundles to its customers based in the Near East. 15 GB packages valid for two weeks have been offered to customers. The packages have been activated by default, customers will be informed of them by SMSs.

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Krosno Airport deploys private 5G network from applied sciences academy

The private 5G network has been deployed in the Krosno Airport in Poland. The project has been carried out in cooperation between the airport and The State Academy of Applied Sciences (PANS) based in Krosno. The network is based on the PANS 5G Lab infrastructure of the academy.

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Orange Poland to raise rolling contract prices in April

Orange Poland has announced plans to raise prices from 01 April for B2C and B2B customers on subscription contracts without a tie-in period. The hike is based on the total increase in prices in the country of 3.6 percent in 2025, which has been announced by state statistics office GUS. Orange's subscription contracts include clauses enabling a price rise based on the official inflation rate declared by GUS. Customers unwilling to accept Orange's 3.6 percent rate hike have until 31 March to terminate their c

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Orange Slovakia to deploy transmitter in Galeria Petrzalka shopping mall in Bratislava

Orange Slovakia plans to deploy an indoor transmitter in the Galeria Perzalka shopping centre in the city of Bratislava, reports Zive. This will improve indoor coverage in the mall, which belongs to the retail chain Tesco. The deployment will make 5G services available there.

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Slovak operators offer data bundles to customers in Middle East

Slovak operators are providing free data roaming packages to their customers in the Middle East. O2 Slovakia is offering the option of free 5 GB monthly mobile bundles to subscribers in selected countries including Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan. Slovak Telekom and Orange Slovakia are offering 10 GB bundles to customers located in the Middle East.

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Czech operators offer free data in Middle East

Czech operators T-Mobile and O2 said that they have introduced free data roaming bundles for customers in the Middle East.T-Mobile said that 10 GB free monthly roaming data bundles have been activated for customers residing in Iran, Israel, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and Oman. Customers affected eligible for the data activation will be informed via SMS. The packages will be activated by default for all B2C and B2B customers, including prepaid customers (Twist and Kaktus brands).

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Digi Slovakia adds TV Paprika to line-up

Digi Slovakia said that it has returned the cookery channel TV Paprika to its pay-television line-up. The channel has become available to subscribers of the operator's IPTV, satellite TV and cable TV services. A Hungarian language version of TV Paprika has been added to the thematic package HU+.

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