European incumbents push on with OpenRAN rollout
Two of Europe’s biggest telecoms players have announced new initiatives to scale up their early moves into OpenRAN.
Two of Europe’s biggest telecoms players have announced new initiatives to scale up their early moves into OpenRAN.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Virgin Media O2 grows its gigabit network, recruits field engineers; Spain’s La Liga may stream itself; Telefónica combines with STC on cybersecurity.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: UK government updates on Project Gigabit; Telecom Italia makes quantum leap; O2 turns on 5G street light in Frankfurt.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Proximus earnings slip in Q2; Sparkle teams up with Google on subsea links; Orange sets targets.
Also in today’s EMEA regional results-fest round-up: Telefónica’s Q2 boosted by Virgin Media O2 merger and Telxius deal; BT’s fiscal Q1 dented by corporate and public sector struggles; Cellnex puts in a towering performance in H1.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: T-Systems heads deeper into the Google Cloud; customer satisfaction (or not) in France; Telefónica Tech takes up with CrowdStrike.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Telecom Italia prepares for DAZN probe; Nokia gets into testbeds with Greece’s 5G Ventures; Virgin Media O2 sets up ‘national databank’ for the barely connected.
Spain has finally auctioned off spectrum in the 700 MHz band, but bidding was lacklustre at best, with the final total only just exceeding the reserve price.
Telefonica is spinning off its fibre business in Colombia and has agreed to sell a majority stake to KKR, lopping US$200 million off its debt pile in the process.
There are all manner of metrics that telcos cite when crowing about their 5G milestones, and these last few days have seen some top-notch braggadocio.
It wouldn’t be Mobile World Congress if the opening keynote session did not feature at least one high-profile telecoms executive seeking to reshape the regulatory landscape.
News of new asset sales from Telefonica seems to break pretty regularly and this week is no exception.
Telefonica has lopped the best part of €4 billion from its debt pile in the space of a couple of days by closing the sale of towers in Europe and Latin America.
The Spanish government has announced it will auction the 700 MHz by mid-July for the deployment of 5G networks in the country, and has improved commercial terms to encourage bids.
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.
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.
Telefónica is pushing ahead with debt-reduction efforts and this time it is logistics business Zeleris that is up for grabs.
Telefónica’s first quarter results were all about flat earnings, cash generation and debt-reduction, which is as good a performance as the Spanish telco could have hoped for.
Telefónica’s German operation has taken its first steps in carrier aggregation for 5G and expects hat to lead to the launch of standalone 5G this summer.
Telefónica has brokered a deal that will see it offload four more data centres but pick up a stake in the company acquiring them.
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