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And so the cookie crumbles. Google had already said, last January, it is phasing out third-party cookies to track Internet users as they scamper over the web. This will happen in the Chrome browser by early next year. Now, it has gone further and says it won't use alternative tools for tracking individual web users, either. Google will, instead, only use "privacy-preserving technologies" which anonymize or aggregate users' data. Ad tech companies have been trying to build alternatives to cookies to maintain personalization in advertising, while maintaining users' privacy. One, called Un...

The UK telecom incumbent benefits from a tax 'super-deduction' that should make it look more attractive to investors.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Tesco Mobile boss slams sneaky price increases during a time of pandemic; EU antitrust boss issues recovery reminder; a data center for DRC. Telecom Egypt has announced plans to launch a new subsea system that will "outline" the African continent, connecting coastal and landlocked African countries to Europe through the operator's infrastructure. The Hybrid African Ring Path (HARP), which Telecom Egypt hopes to get live by 2023, will connect Africa's eastern and western edges to Europe, from South Africa to Italy and France along the continent's east coa...

Says full rollout could support a scaled deployment of multi-gigabit speeds.

From a broad point of view, next-generation access network activity slowed for many cable operators in 2020 as they focused on splitting nodes and adding capacity to existing network gear to keep up with the traffic surge fueled by the pandemic. However, Comcast said its work around network virtualization and the use of new AI and machine learning techniques that optimize and enhance the performance of the access network accelerated over the past year. "We have not slowed down anything … We have not stopped and not blinked," Elad Nafshi, senior vice president of next-generation access netwo...