UK tries to breathe fresh life into its shared rural network
The UK government issued a press release detailing how great everything will be when the shared rural network is finished.
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London Mayor takes credit for glacial Tube 4G rollout
In a few years’ time London commuters will be able to pay for the chance to connect their devices while travelling on the Underground.
MTN to roll out OpenRAN in Africa this year
MTN this week became the latest major telco to commit to deploying OpenRAN technology, which it claims will be a “game-changer” in emerging markets.
Rakuten says it will have “No More Secrets”
Rakuten’s CTO Tareq Amin told analysts and media that the company will soon disclose all prices it pays its suppliers, in a new drive for commoditisation of telecoms hardware and software.
Nokia SON to shore up EE networks
EE, the UK’s biggest mobile operator, has deployed Nokia’s Self-Organizing Networks software to enhance network management and service quality.
Ericsson launches new private 5G platform
The Swedish kit maker has unveiled Ericsson Private 5G to support LTE and 5G SA private networks to tap the opportunities in the enterprise cellular market.
O2 speeds ahead on 4G but EE is in the driving seat for 5G
With the spring bank holiday weekend looming in the UK many will be hitting the road for a quick getaway, and O2 is using this to its advantage, trumpeting the strength of its 4G network coverage along the country’s major arteries.
European operators play the green card with smartphones
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia, and Vodafone jointly start Eco Rating labelling scheme to score how sustainable mobile phones are, aiming to encourage device makers and device buyers to be more environmentally minded.
AT&T is becoming a telco – it’s crazy but it might just work
AT&T this week shared a groundbreaking new strategy: to focus on being a telco.
Telefonica, 1&1 Drillisch finalise Germany roaming deal
Telefonica and 1&1 Drillisch appear to have finally made friends in Germany, sorting out the finer details of a deal that should end their dispute on the cost of national roaming.
Rakuten decides to compete on price, again
The Japanese greenfield operator Rakuten Mobile has seen its low-price strategy driving fast subscriber growth, so it has decided to double down on its iPhone 12 offers.
The Telecoms Data Imperative – The COVID Effect on the Pace of Change to Digital Transformation
While many things slowed down for businesses during the pandemic, digital transformation was not one of them. A McKinsey Global Survey of executives finds, for example, that companies accelerated the digitization of their customer and supply-chain interactions by three to four years and the share of digital or digitally enabled products by an astonishing seven years.
American telcos have sounded another death knell for RCS
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have pulled the plug on Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI), the telcos’ joint initiative to develop an RCS-based cross-carrier rich messaging solution.
NEC teams up with Red Hat to deliver cloud native 5G solutions
The Japanese telecoms vendor NEC has brought its partnership with IBM-owned open source software solutions provider Red Hat up to date to deliver multicloud capable 5G solutions.
Dish does another 5G network deal and calls T-Mobile anti-competitive
Dish Network on Monday trumpeted the signing of a 5G security deal with Palo Alto Networks, but it has more than just its own infrastructure to worry about at present. The TV provider-turned-mobile operator is all bent out of shape about rival T-Mobile USA’s plans to shut down its CDMA network at the start of […]
Google wins legal duel with Oracle over Android’s use of Java code
The US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Google in the decade-long litigation brought by Oracle, granting the Android owner “fair use” of Java API code it copied in developing the mobile operating system.
NYC fastest mobile city in US, boosted by Verizon
Residents of New York City had the fastest mobile data speeds in the US in the second half of last year, according to new statistics from RootMetrics.
Rakuten receives a $2 billion capital injection
The Japanese digital heavyweight Rakuten has sold 13% share, worth $2.2 billion to new investors to bolster its balance sheet and to finance more aggressive mobile rollout.
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.
Indian government overprices 700 MHz spectrum again
The first Indian spectrum auction in years ending in two days and brought in loads of cash, but operators once more declined to bid on 700 MHz lots.
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