Iliad is starting to look very light on infrastructure
French telco Iliad has confirmed a deal to sell 51% ownership of its fibre assets to InfraVia for roughly €300 million.
French telco Iliad has confirmed a deal to sell 51% ownership of its fibre assets to InfraVia for roughly €300 million.
The FCC has proposed new actions which would finally make valuable mid-band spectrum available to telcos, but it is not without opponents.
Mavenir has announced Turkcell as its latest customer, with the pair planning to deploy OpenRAN vRAN technologies in the telcos domestic market.
Europe is a key front in the trade war between the US and China, as is Huawei, so President Trump won’t be happy to hear Huawei is building a factory in France.
Vodafone Germany and Lufthansa have launched what they claim is a private 5G network based on standalone technology in an 8,500 square meter aircraft hangar in Hamburg.
[Johannesburg, South Africa, February 26, 2020] South Africa’s Rain announced that it has cooperated with Huawei to build a 5G transport network using Huawei’s optical cross-connect (OXC) and 200G solution, leveraging Huawei’s latest all-optical switching product, OXC (P32), to build a metro optical transport network with minimal footprint, high provisioning efficiency, simple O&M, and high scalability to address the medium- and long-term challenges brought by 5G and revolutionary services.
The single biggest change in the telecoms landscape over the last year was that commercial 5G networks went live around the world. More than 50 networks in over two dozen countries had switched on 5G services by the end of 2019. Subscriber uptake was already faster than the same period when 4G was first introduced, according to data released by the South Korean operators. The research firm Ovum (now part of Omdia) predicted that over 1.3 billion subscribers are expected to sign on 5G by 2023.
2020 is going to be the year when we see the first standalone mode 5G networks being rolled out. A key component of standalone 5G is the next generation 5G core, which is critical for 5G operators when they attempt to deliver on promises for more advanced services, like end-to-end network slicing. This Telecoms.com Intelligence […]
Proprietary software that allows radios to alternate between 4G and 5G on the same spectrum is now available to Ericsson’s customers.
Research from professional services firm EY suggests that while enthusiasm for 5G might be gathering steam, the in-house capabilities to transform into a connected enterprise is lacking.
Ethical kit vendor Nokia has launched new technology that allows network slicing on 4G and non-standalone 5G networks.
Spanish tower operator Cellnex has continued down the path of aggressive expansion, launching a new joint venture with Bouygues Telecom and announcing 15% growth at its earnings call.
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has released its annual report, dampening enthusiasm around telco progress, but the industry got off lightly compared to everyone else.
The Facebook-founded Telecom Infra Project has offered an update on all the telecoms stuff it’s up to.
[London, the UK, February 20, 2020] Today, Huawei launched the NetEngine 8000 series, the industry’s first E2E 400GE routers oriented towards the 5G and cloud era, which redefines the intelligent IP network with ultra-broadband and committed SLA.
Research from Accenture suggests while 5G is being viewed as a potential catalyst for revolutionary ideas, security still looks like a notable barrier to entry..
Delivering 5G is the easy bit, figuring out how the telcos are going to make any real financial gains from it is the piece of the puzzle which is missing.
Having forced the hand of the GSMA to cancel this years’ Barcelona bonanza, the coronavirus is now making itself known in Korea.
The usual crew overcome various degrees of incapacitation to drag themselves into the studio this week. They start with a review of Huawei’s recent event in London that was originally intended as an MWC preview. They move on to other things the coronavirus outbreak has ruined, before concluding with a look at how Deutsche Telekom is doing.
Huawei says it has signed more 5G contracts than any of its competitors, but for some reason chooses not to publish any details.
Silicon Valley's snoopiness starts paying off, but that doesn't make it right https://t.co/Yf0zaa6O9M #CloudApps #ContentApplications
05 April 2020 @ 11:28:02 UTC
eSIM and IoT: Q&A with Alexey Gabsatarov https://t.co/JjTXAE82xe #eSIM #MVNOsinpartnershipwiththeMVNOsSeries
03 April 2020 @ 15:47:04 UTC
New T-Mobile company has already opened itself up to a lawsuit https://t.co/Ct4F7FKGPv #Corporate #Regulation
03 April 2020 @ 11:56:05 UTC
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