Telecoms.com

NEC and AWS expand partnership to drag 5G even further into the cloud

The two tech heavyweights are expanding their existing collaboration to deliver cloud native 5G, enhanced digital government solutions, as well as hybrid cloud.

• 08 Sep 2021

Ericsson virtualizes TPG Telecom’s core

Australian operator TPG Telecom now has a fully virtualized its network core in partnership with Ericsson and next they’re deploying a new 5G SA one.

• 07 Sep 2021

Ericsson CEO vows to fight for Chinese presence

Börje Ekholm, CEO of Swedish kit vendor Ericsson, is determined not to throw in the towel over China despite geopolitical forces working against him.

• 03 Sep 2021

EU court rules against Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone on net neutrality

Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone have found themselves on the wrong end of a European court decision in a years-long dispute over certain content offerings.

• 02 Sep 2021

Boost boosts low-end market presence with MVNO buy

Dish Network’s Boost Mobile has agreed to acquire Los Angeles-based mobile virtual network operator Gen Mobile.

• 02 Sep 2021

How 5G networks can become a platform for innovation

5G introduces a range of new functions and network attributes that can be exposed and managed through the BSS.

• 31 Aug 2021

Nokia and Ericsson continue to gain ground in Europe

A1 Telekom Austria Group has gone full Nordic, while Ericsson seems to have replaced Huawei in the Faroe Islands.

• 23 Aug 2021

Enabling enterprises with digital BSS

Against the backdrop of the ongoing pandemic and its effect on digital transformation, telcos are turning their attention back to Enterprise.

• 16 Aug 2021

UK consumers getting more for less in telecoms, but prices are going up

Consumers in the UK are paying less for their communications services than they were five years ago, even though data usage is increasing, according to Ofcom’s latest Pricing Trends report.

• 23 Jul 2021

BSS – the technology trendsetter in operators

One of the advances we’re seeing in BSS to enable this ‘agile operator’ to exist is the use of no-code BSS.

• 19 Jul 2021

AT&T is the latest US operator to hand over its messaging to Google

Messages by Google will soon be the default messaging app for all AT&T Android customers in the US, effectively killing attempts by operators to establish their own RCS platform.

• 01 Jul 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Nokia, roaming and Ofcom censorship

The guys are giving Mobile World Congress 2021 a miss due to all the associated Covid hassle, so they try to assuage their FOMO with some vaguely Spanish refreshments from Tesco. They start by reviewing the recent reboot of Nokia’s 5G portfolio, which Iain reckons is a big deal. They move on to EE’s contentious decision to start charging its customers for data roaming in Europe and conclude with a look at a new UK law that would allow Ofcom to censor digital speech.

• 28 Jun 2021

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