BROWSING: Deutsche Telekom

Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works as a useful barometer of its high mood. It kick-starts the season, effectively, after...

This year’s Hannover Messe trade fair, arguably the second biggest event for the telecoms market in Europe, has been postponed until July. Deutsche Messe, which runs the show, made the announcement today (March 4), to put the event back by two months on account of...

The US arm of T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s digital services division, is bundling LoRaWAN connectivity plans and hardware offers from US-based Senet with its own IoT platform. Senet said it had struck a deal for T-Systems to resell its network connectivity plans and IoT solutions with...

  Singapore telecom operator Singtel and Nokia have agreed to collaborate to develop and trial 5G network slicing capabilities, based on a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) approach, the Asian telco said in a release. Network slicing is a key 5G feature where multiple virtual networks can be created...

Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the project. The German operator said the deployment marks its fourth such campus installation. It has...

Nine operators will collaborate on the GSMA's Operator Platform Project Nine telcos in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region said today that they are working together to develop a global edge computing framework and reference platform aimed at supporting the needs of enterprises and app developers,...

Virtual RAN solutions are critical in a 5G world, says VMware VMware, Inc. and Deutsche Telekom are collaborating on an open and intelligent virtual RAN (vRAN) platform. The platform, based on O-RAN standards and Intel’s FlexRAN architecture, will improve RAN agility for both existing LTE...

  T-Mobile US and Sprint have slightly tweaked the merger agreement between the two companies, resulting in Deutsche Telekom having a larger stake in the combined New T-Mobile and a larger overall equity value for the merger deal, the two U.S. carriers announced Thursday. DT is...

Telekom Slovenia and Slovenia-based industrial tech provider Iskratel are to deploy hybrid public-private LTE and 5G networks for Industry 4.0. The pair said they will undertake an analysis of market needs, perform equipment interoperability testing, and investigate spectrum planning aspects. Their arrangement will focus on...

US carrier Verizon is the first carrier to certify Sequans’ LTE-M based Monarch Go modem components. Sprint and Deutsche Telekom have approved its other Monarch-based units. The French chipmaker has also opened a new design centre to develop 5G broadband and critical IoT products,...

Deutsche Telekom has public-private ‘campus’ networking setups with various customers, offering a kind of proto-slicing, as a precursor to industrial 5G. It has so far announced deals with German lighting company OSRAM, German car parts maker ZF Group, and the RWTH research institute at...

Questions about Huawei and private networks for industrials have marked German 5G rollout Since German telecommunications operators secured 5G spectrum licenses in June 2019, they started an aggressive commercial strategy to launch 5G services in the country's main urban areas and also announced even more...

  The 400 largest cellular IoT deployments at a global level together account for 279 million units, according to a recent study by Swedish consultancy firm Berg Insight. The study includes various types of projects deployed across all types of vertical markets, including aftermarket automotive, fleet...

  German carrier Deutsche Telekom has launched commercial 5G services in the city of Hamburg, according to local press reports. The service is currently being offered through 18 5G antennas in the city. Deutsche Telekom expects to deploy another 40 5G sites in Hamburg in the...

  German carrier Deutsche Telekom expects to end this year with a total of 450 5G base stations across the country, German press reported. By the end of next year, the number of 5G sites is expected to climb to nearly 1,500, according to the report. During...

T-Systems, the digital services division of Deutsche Telekom, has introduced an on-premise edge cloud solution for lower-latency analytics and automation, and on-site data processing.  Edge-based compute power offers advantages in terms of latency, compared with cloud based data processing. T-Systems said its new platform, called...

Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in at least six ‘digital’ factories, it is understood.  Klaus Helmrich, chief executive of the company’s...

German regulators prepping to allocate private 5G spectrum Finnish vendor Nokia said it expects to provide 5G networks for small and medium-sized German companies following the opening of the application procedure for local firms intending to use 5G frequencies on industrial campuses, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported. Nokia highlighted...

Berlin, Frankfurt among cities receiving 5G investment Vodafone Germany said it expects to activate 150 new 5G antennas across Germany before the end of the year. The telco, part of U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone, already operates 60 5G sites and 140 antennas in 40 German...

  German operators Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland, and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to jointly deploy mobile communications networks across the country, with the aim of expanding coverage in rural areas and along road, rail and inland waterway transport routes. Deutsche Telekom highlighted that...

Deutsche Telekom has launched a blockchain marketplace for German enterprises. The new German blockchain ecosystem (GBE) will enable customers to “map” different applications using blockchain. The service, from Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, will allow businesses to map a product's entire supply chain in a distributed...

  Deutsche Telekom, Covestro and the Swedish Umeå Institute of Design (UID) are currently cooperating in a pilot project to test new creative designs for 5G small cells, DT said in a release. The German telco said that the partners are developing antenna housings that fit...

Deutsche Telekom: "5G takes data transmission to a new level" During the Berlin Marathon, German telco Deutsche Telekom successfully used a 5G uplink to transmit live television images. The telecom partnered with the marathon host broadcaster Infront Productions to run the test, which sought to explore...

Increasingly complex networks, being built today to ultimately support billions of devices and dynamically provision the appropriate level of service, require network automation solutions to operate. And this paradigm will only compound as 5G matures and consumer and enterprise uptake creates a surge in...