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Dixons Carphone goes steady with Vodafone

UK electronics retailer Dixons Carphone has decided to be monogamous with Vodafone and make it the only MNO it offers its customers.

• 28 Jun 2021

EE reignites Brexit debate by charging for data roaming in Europe

UK mobile operator EE has announced it will start charging £2 per day for new and upgrading customers to use their data in Europe.

• 24 Jun 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Vodafone, Euro 5G and G7 vs China

The lads cunningly record this one the day before the UK was struck by a monsoon. They start by reviewing a big week for Vodafone, which brought them into contact with a former podcast regular. They move on to discuss Ericsson’s conclusion that Europe is dropping the ball on 5G before concluding with a look at recent moves by western countries to gang up on China over the tech industry.

• 21 Jun 2021

Vodafone UK plays the philanthropy card at new tariff launch

UK operator Vodafone combined the launch of its Evo mobile offering with talk of cutting carbon emission and tackling digital poverty.

• 15 Jun 2021

It’s all kicking off as Sky offers free mobile data for Euros

The beginning of summer brings with it the start of a major international football tournament and that can mean only one thing: a telco-backed survey on the TV viewing habits of UK fans.

• 11 Jun 2021

Kubernetes Patterns: Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications (an O’Reilly eBook)

Recommended as one of “6 must-read books for aspiring Cloud Architects,” O’Reilly provides detailed, reusable Kubernetes patterns for container deployment and orchestration. Learn specific Kubernetes patterns for cloud-native and rapid application development. Learn everything Kubernetes offers for each particular pattern, with tested conclusions for each concept and full code examples. Topics include: The path to […]

• 09 Jun 2021

Telecommunications Company Saves €30,000 Monthly with Container NFV Solution

Proximus Group, Belgium’s largest telecommunications provider, replaced its bare-metal server environment with flexible, scalable network functions virtualization (NFV) infrastructure running on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, supported by Red Hat Ceph Storage. This more modern foundation, which also includes running Red Hat OpenShift in OpenStack to deploy and run container-based microservices at scale, helps Proximus save […]

• 09 Jun 2021

Rakuten fleshes out its Communications Platform ahead of global expansion

Japanese greenfield operator Rakuten Mobile has signed agreements with NEC and Fujitsu to collaborate over global OpenRAN promotion.

• 18 May 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Rakuten, Ericsson China and 5G delivery

The guys start this episode of the pod by addressing some public criticism of their work, before getting on with the main event. They start by reviewing Rakuten’s recent earnings, which were sobering for investors, before moving on to the latest potential escalation of the China-versus-the West tension. They conclude with a look at a report that reveals consumers aren’t too impressed so far.

• 17 May 2021

Google Cloud takes SpaceX to the edge

US LEO satellite outfit SpaceX will use Google data centres for its cloud applications and services at the network edge.

• 14 May 2021

BT numbers disappoint but the future looks promising

UK operator group BT saw its revenues decline by 7% in full year 2020, but there are signs that it’s headed in the right direction.

• 13 May 2021

5G delivery not meeting consumer expectations – Ericsson

The latest ConsumerLab study by Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has found many 5G phone owners either don’t have a 5G subscription or expect more innovative services and apps.

• 12 May 2021

China appears to make further Ericsson work conditional on Swedish 5G policy shift

Chinese government-controlled newspaper Global Times has published an ‘exclusive’ in which an anonymous source links Ericsson’s future work in the country with Sweden’s Huawei ban.

• 11 May 2021

A new kind of wireless service provider – Algis Akstinas, CEO and Founder, dotmobile

In this article I am going to talk about something that is available to anyone who wants to build great digital experiences – a toolkit for purposefully built, digitally native, telecom brands – a new kind of wireless service provider. 

• 08 Apr 2021

Nokia tempts telcos to automate with promise of big financial reward

Nokia is really pushing telecoms operators to embrace automation, promising them huge financial rewards through cost-savings and the generation of additional revenues.

• 31 Mar 2021

Augmented Analytics – a key lever for transformation

Taking into consideration data management, data science, and data visualisation; when augmented analytics is adopted, processes are streamlined for increased productivity, improved accuracy, and faster insights.

• 29 Mar 2021

Ericsson launches network slicing optimisation tool

5G Core Policy Studio is a bit of software designed to help CSPs make the most of the capabilities offered by network slicing.

• 23 Mar 2021

Driving CSP growth with digital-to-network automation

The telecoms industry has been instrumental in underpinning the fast growth and high penetration of mobile internet services and providing critical connectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. New network technology advancements will expand the service monetisation opportunities for service providers beyond connectivity provision and will accelerate growth compared to the past.

• 15 Mar 2021

IPX – maximising security for a global community

IPX covers data, signalling, voice and messaging, includes transport/proxy and hub services, and ensures an end-to-end quality of service.

• 10 Mar 2021

Ericsson pulls out of Mobile World Congress 2021 – uh-oh!

Within hours of the GSMA announcing the measures it has put in place to make MWC 2021 a success one of its biggest exhibitors has bailed.

• 09 Mar 2021