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Orange said that the transaction is based on an enterprise value of 18.6 billion euros Spanish mobile operators Orange and Masmovil have signed a binding agreement to combine their operations in Spain. The telcos had started negotiations in early March of this year. The transaction is...

Orange Belgium, Proximus and Telenet Group have secures spectrum in the 1,400MHz band The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) concluded the final phase of the radio spectrum auction, which raised 216.5 million euros ($221.2 million) bringing the total amount for the two...

5G holds promises we never imagined for our personal and professional lives. Through ultra-low latency, higher speeds, and ability to partition, or slice, network resources, businesses and industries are changing the way they operate and now how we live. And, of course, Telcos are...

CBRS is key to “helping to close the digital divide” – Samsung Samsung announced Friday that Mediacom Communications will deploy Samsung’s Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum wireless networking solutions for its 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service. The deal includes Samsung’s 4G and 5G-ready...

Deutsche Telekom stated its enterprise IT subsidiary T-Systems was already working with Commerzbank on a pilot system   German operator Deutsche Telekom and compatriot bank Commerzbank have partnered to develop digital supply chain systems with integrated financial services which use 5G, AI, IoT, blockchain, sensors and...

Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and approximately 85,000 route miles of fiber Crown Castle expects to double the rate of small cell deployments next year compared to the 5,000 nodes the firm expect to put on air this...

Singtel had announced the launch of its 5G SA network in the country in May of 2021 Singaporean carrier Singtel's 5G Standalone network currently covers over 95% of the country’s territory, the telco said in a release. Singtel noted that the milestone comes more than three...

Volkswagen-owned automotive software company CARIAD has appointed Franco-Italian semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics (ST) to develop a system-on-chip (SoC) for a new line of Volkswagen vehicles based on the CARIAD software platform. At the same time, the parties “are moving to agree” that silicon contract manufacturer...

Note, this article is not about remote 5G surgery! A couple of press notes across the desk at Enterprise IoT Insights this week make a play of 5G security in hospital settings. Firstly (in no order), Spain-based network operator Telefónica is working with US...

In November 2021, Optus announced the launch of a 5G SA trial prior to the commercial launch of this technology, expected for 2022   Australian operator Optus announced the deployment of its 5G network at Melbourne Airport, which is the second-busiest airport in the country. In a...

The private network will be used to explore the use of autonomous, over-the-road trucks for shipping container drop-off and pick-up Verizon Business announced plans to build a 5G NonStandalone private network at one of the port of Virginia’s main container terminals that will combine 5G...

China ended May with a total of 899.3 million subscribers in the 5G segment Chinese operators have already deployed over 1.85 million 5G base stations across the country, local news agency Xinhua reported, citing data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The ministry reported...

In November 2021, Ericsson announced the acquisition Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal Ericsson said it has completed its acquisition of Vonage Holdings, which will enable the vendor to offer a full suite of communications solutions including, Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS), unified communications-as-a-service...

US public LoRaWAN operator Senet has struck a deal with IoT network and analytics software outfit Iota Communications (IotaComm) to deliver LoRaWAN connectivity and IoT solutions in both 915 MHz and 800 MHz spectrum. LoRaWAN operates in unlicensed 915 MHz spectrum by default; IotaComm...

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced a deal with France-based outfit IDEMIA, a supplier of identity-related security services, to offer enterprise customers an optimised low-power embedded SIM (eSIM) with its power-constrained cellular IoT products in North America and Europe. IDEMIA’s eSIM proposition, called DAKOTA...

It's a time of transition for mobile network operators: LTE to 5G NonStandalone, then to 5G Standalone; from Voice over LTE to Voice over New Radio; implementation of mobile edge computing and dabbling in Open RAN, and a more complete realization of cloud-native network...

Three initially launched 5G services in the UK in August 2019, with the initial offering of a high-speed 5G broadband service in parts of London Three UK has activated its 5G offering in 86 new locations, including tourist hotspots such as Dartmouth, Milford on Sea,...

Vodafone recently said that its 5G Standalone network is currently available to nearly 10 million people across Germany German carrier Vodafone announced the start of the deployment of 5G Standalone (SA) technology in the city of Munich, the company said in a release. Vodafone will initially...

The why and how of Open RAN, capex/opex savings and through honest collaboration, have been pretty well sorted. Now it’s time to leverage the capabilities of virtualized, open, multi-vendor solutions to deliver innovation. For operators, hosting radio workloads in cloud environments can facilitate a host...

A mining engineer, a 5G wireless technology provider, a value-added reseller and an excavation equipment manufacturer walk into a bar. No, it’s not the set-up for a joke. It’s a description of the kind of partnerships we can expect to see more often as we...

Telefónica is looking to offer a 5G-based dual-mode terrestrial-and-satellite service for NB-IoT connectivity. Its digital services business, Telefónica Tech, and managed services division, Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS), are working with Barcelona-based satellite telco operator Sateliot to run Release 17-level IoT data over both ground-based...

Frankfurt-based airport operator Fraport, which operates Frankfurt Airport in Germany, has commissioned IT service provider NTT to build the “Europe’s largest private 5G campus network” (so-far announced), it has said. Work on the project will begin in the third quarter, with network tests in...

  Based in China, AI-LINK, provides industrial internet of things (IIoT) solutions, built on 5G and cloud edge computing technology platforms   U.S. firm Keysight Technologies announced that Chinese company AI-LINK is using Keysight's 5G test tools for end-to-end performance validation of cloud-native 5G radio access network...

Verizon said the new move allows it to offer 5G home and business internet services to more customers across the country Verizon says it has started to expand its 5G service with the deployment of 100 megahertz of C-Band spectrum in many markets across the...