What’s up with… Telia, broadband tech, StarHub
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Oct 12, 2026 In today’s industry news roundup: Telia is further reducing its headcount, this time by more than 6%, as it targets annual opex savings of $100m; fixed broadband technology advances and capabilities are in the spotlight, with Nokia and Vodafone leading the news charge as the Network X event takes place in Vienna; Singapore’s StarHub snaps up minor mobile service provider MyRepublic as it continues talks to acquire the island nation’s third-largest operator, M1; a nd much more! Scandinavian telco Telia is axing 900 jobs, more than 6% of its current workforce, by the end of this calendar year as part of a cost-cutting effort that will reduce the company’s annual operating expenditure by 1bn Swedish krona (SEK) ($100m). The telco is to reduce its headcount (including employees and “resource consultants”) in all of its markets – Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia and Lithuania: A table included in its press release announcing the move shows how many jobs will be cut in each market. As part of the same reorganisation, Telia plans to transfer approximately 220 positions, primarily from its common technology unit, to the country units in an effort to “localise its operations further and strengthen the role of its country units in meeting evolving customer needs and delivering profitable growth”. (The operator has been implementing a cost-cutting and decentralisation...
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To start the week, Nokia has unveiled a new passive optical network (PON) line card, based on its Quillion chip and optical PON modules, that “supports GPON, 10G, 25G and 50G PON on every port, together with a variety of multi-PON optical modules.
