Telecoms.com

Vodafone makes the economic case for disempowering landowners

Small towns and cities will miss out on £7 billion of economic output by 2030 unless mobile operators are allowed to plonk masts wherever they like.

• 9 hours ago

VMO2 has sprinkled 1,300 5G small cells across London

UK operator Virgin Media O2 has been busy setting up 5G small cells all around the capital, and it now claims to have more deployed than any other operator in the UK.

• 10 hours ago

Phase-array beamforming fundamental to innovations in 5G RAN

For 5G to achieve its true potential, operators need to assess how they maximize the efficiency of spectrum frequencies.

• 1 day ago

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Core, public cloud and supply chain

Following a slight delay to accommodate their hectic social lives, the lads are delighted to once more welcome a special guest – Erlend Prestgard, CEO of Working Group 2. They start by learning all about his company, which seeks to disrupt the network core sector via the ‘as a service’ model. This inevitably leads the conversation towards the role of public cloud giants in the telecoms world, before they conclude with a quick look at some of the supply chain challenges faced by the industry.

• 1 day ago

Voda gives Skoda its very own private 5G SA network

Car maker Skoda plans to automate more of its manufacturing processes through the use of a new private 5G standalone (SA) network.

• 1 day ago

AT&T workers win 15% pay rise agreement

Following six months of negotiations between management and a union representing workers at US operator AT&T, a ‘tentative’ contract agreement that raises base wages and more has been reached.

• 2 days ago

How many EU cross border 5G autonomous car projects do we need?

The other project designed to play around with 5G connected autonomous cars crossing European borders has reemerged, in this case championed by Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson.

• 2 days ago

India’s private 5G rules make few people happy

The Indian government has issued rules for the allocation of spectrum for private 5G networks, but all parties – with a few notable exceptions – have something to complain about.

• 2 days ago

MWC will stay in Barcelona until at least 2030

The world’s leading international trade show for the telecoms industry will stay put in its Barcelona home for at least another 7 years.

• 3 days ago

Chunghwa goes even greener with Ericsson 5G mid-band kit

Taiwanese telco Chunghwa Telecom has made its network more eco-friendly with the installation of Ericsson equipment for mid-band 5G that brings with it a pretty hefty energy saving.

• 3 days ago

Telia moves to majority renewable energy in Denmark and Estonia

Swedish operator group Telia has entered into a couple of ‘Power Purchase Agreements’, which constitutes increasing the amount of wind and solar energy that powers its Nordic and Baltic footprint.

• 3 days ago

China’s fourth mobile operator goes live

China’s fourth mobile operator has launched services, breaking into a market that has long been the domain of the big three.

• 3 days ago

Ericsson and UScellular make tentative progress with 5G drone test

Chicago-based UScellular has successfully tested 5G connectivity between its live network and a drone.

• 6 days ago

EU recruits telecoms giants to develop connected car industry

The 5G-Carmen project is a pilot scheme that leveraged 5G and edge installations to test some spicier capabilities of autonomous cars.

• 7 days ago

BT is building out ‘self-healing’ capabilities to its tech estate

UK telco group BT has drafted in Dynatrace to upgrade its service management stack with AI and automation fault detection tools, ahead of a larger deployment of ‘self-healing capabilities’.

• 7 days ago

Seven in 10 UK businesses reckon 5G will help them compete

The telco industry’s incessant 5G marketing efforts appear to be winning the hearts and minds of enterprises, if the results of a new survey are to be believed.

• 7 days ago

Tech firms attempt to standardise the metaverse

Meta (Facebook), Nvidia, Epic, Microsoft and others have signed up to The Metaverse Standards Forum, which wants to establish some consistency on open standards and terminology surrounding the metaverse.

• 8 days ago

$3.3 billion 5G deal sees Dish become friends with T-Mobile again

US mobile operators Dish and T-Mobile have settled their differences with a major new roaming agreement.

• 8 days ago

IATA urges the rest of the world to learn from US 5G drama

As if it doesn’t already have enough to worry about, the International Air Transport Association fears the US experience with 5G near airports applies elsewhere too.

• 8 days ago

Spain mulls public funding for 5G backhaul

Spain has opened a consultation into the planned award of up to €250 million in funding for 5G fibre backhaul as part of its broader 5G coverage strategy.

• 8 days ago