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January 5, 2026
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Nanjing University Join the WBBA
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December 23, 2025
End of year message: Thank You to our World Broadband Association Members around the world for making 2025 such a success!
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December 10, 2025
China Telecom’s Cloud-Network Integration Pilot Platform Accelerates Government and Enterprise Digital Transformation
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November 17, 2025
New Member Announcement
WBBA Welcomes UTStarcom as New Member to Strengthen Global Efforts in Bridging the Digital Divide
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November 4, 2025
Global Fibre Day
Recognising global World Fibre Day we are delighted to share this insightful article
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October 22, 2025
WBBA sets out guidance and benchmarks for AI, broadband and fibre prosperity at BDC 2025
Global broadband innovations and excellence recognized at the Broadband Excellence Awards
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October 22, 2025
Global broadband innovations and excellence recognized at the Broadband Excellence Awards
Global broadband innovations and excellence recognized at the Broadband Excellence Awards
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September 18, 2025
New Member Announcement
WBBA Welcomes EFTS Group as New Member to Strengthen Global Efforts in Bridging the Digital Divide
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June 23, 2025
WBBA Broadband Development Congress Shanghai 2025 | Smarter Infrastructure: Converging AI and Broadband
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May 19, 2025
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, 17 May 2025
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May 14, 2025
WBBA's Inaugural Advisory Committee Held, 8th May 2025
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March 28, 2025
Insights and emerging trends from a week in Barcelona
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March 12, 2025
Focusing on Growth and Innovation: Key take-aways from WBBA’s General Assembly & Board Meeting in Barcelona
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March 5, 2025
AI and Net5.5G pivotal to achieving next-generation broadband networks says WBBA
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January 14, 2025
About Collaboration and Future: WBBA Member Forum (China) was held in Beijing
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December 18, 2024
2024 Broadband Development Congress whitepaper launch highlights AI’s role in sustainable fixed networks
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December 13, 2024
Member Success Specialist
The Member Success Specialist is a pivotal role dedicated to ensuring WBBA members achieve maximum value from their membership. By fostering strong relationships and prioritising member satisfaction, this role supports revenue retention and enhances the member experience through a blend of customer-centric innovation and proactive engagement strategies.
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December 13, 2024
Community Manager, WBBA
The World Broadband Association (WBBA) is seeking a proactive and results-oriented Community Manager to lead its member engagement initiatives. This role will focus on driving participation, delivering member value, and implementing impactful strategies that support WBBA's vision of becoming the leading global broadband community.
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December 6, 2024
China Telecom officially joins IDSA and jointly establishes the "International Carrier Data Space Working Group" with WBBA
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November 26, 2024
Zhengmao, Chairman of WBBA: Cloud-Network Broadband Innovation Drives the Development of an Open and Secure Next-Generation Internet
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China Telecom Corporation Limited (“China Telecom” or the “Company”, a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China with limited liability, together with its subsidiaries, collectively the “Group”) is a large-scale and leading integrated intelligent information services operator in the world, providing wireline & mobile telecommunications services, Internet access services, information services and other value-added telecommunications services primarily in the PRC.

As at the end of 2020, the Company had mobile subscribers of about 351 million, wireline broadband subscribers of about 159 million and access lines in service of about 108 million. The Company’s H shares are listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Hong Kong Stock Exchange” or “HKSE”).

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Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have approximately 197,000 employees and we operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Huawei’s mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will: drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks to lay the foundation for the intelligent world; provide the ultimate computing power to deliver ubiquitous cloud and intelligence; build powerful digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, offering consumers more personalized and intelligent experiences across all scenarios, including home, travel, office, entertainment, and fitness & health.

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At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together.

The world is facing fundamental challenges. Pressure on the planet is increasing, productivity is stalling and access to opportunity remains stubbornly unequal. Technology is central to the solution.

Through technology leadership and trusted partnerships, we deliver critical networks to help address global issues.  We have the power to bring together the world’s people, machines and devices, sensing and acting in real time at massive scale. Our critical networks go beyond connectivity to enable self-optimizing, intelligent systems both locally and globally.

With our customers we deliver solutions that respond to climate change through more efficient use and re-use of the world’s resources, restore productivity growth by bringing digital to the physical industries it has not yet reached and provide more inclusive access globally to work, healthcare and education.

We create meaningful interactions to drive human progress.

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The technology world as we know it, is changing faster than ever. In a dynamic and complex landscape, the stakes are high, and the challenges and opportunities are real.

At the start of 2020 we formed Omdia by unifying the depth and breadth of expertise from Informa Tech’s legacy research brands: Ovum, IHS Markit Technology, Tractica and Heavy Reading. This empowered us to serve the technology industry like never before.

Today, we help organizations make better technology choices for their business and enable technology innovators to better understand and reach the markets they hope to serve.

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Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecom provider and one of its foremost IT companies, headquartered in Ittigen, close to the capital city, Bern. Its subsidiary Fastweb has built up a strong position on the Italian market. Swisscom brooks no compromise when it comes to serving customer needs; it focuses on service and quality and invests massively in the networks of the future.

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Openreach Limited runs the UK’s digital network. We’re the people who connect homes, schools, hospitals, libraries, businesses – large and small, broadcasters and governments to the world. It’s our mission to build the best possible network with the highest quality of service, and make sure that everyone in the UK can be connected. We’re a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group and our customers are the 650+ communications providers who sell phone, broadband and Ethernet services to homes and businesses.

Openreach is made up of four divisions – service delivery, fibre and network delivery, strategic infrastructure development, and headquarters.

Our 35,000 people are hugely experienced, resourceful and innovative. They tackle complicated engineering problems – from coordinating works with councils, highways agencies, energy suppliers and landowners, to installing and maintaining the complex kit that provides fibre broadband services. They go the extra mile and take on any challenge to build a better, faster and more affordable network that helps our customers stay connected.

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