BROWSING: France

The French government has announced funding for new national industrial 5G projects, as parts of its France Relance (France Relaunch) package. It has also raised alarm bells that the country is falling behind rival economies, notably Germany, on the rollout of 5G to stimulate...

SFR Director: 50% of Nice's population is covered by the 5G services While some French cities continue to contest the value of 5G and explore its potential dangers, Nice has become the first city in the country to get next-generation services thanks to mobile operator...

Iliad's shares dipped 3% immediately following the news With plans to purchase Poland's telecom company Play for 3.5 billion euro ($4.2 billion) in the works, France's Iliad is making moves to become Europe's sixth-largest mobile phone operator. Specifically, Iliad had previously agreed to buy 40%...

Germany has made its move in the international AI arms race with state support for tech start-ups, a ‘JEDI’ innovation network with France, and backing for its ‘Cyber Valley’ set-up from industrial giants including BMW, Daimler, Porsche, and Bosch. The German government is to create...

The industrial internet-of-things (IoT) is at the heart of France’s new 5G roadmap, unveiled late yesterday by the French electronic communications and postal regulatory authority (Arcep). The new plan, presented by Arcep chair Sébastien Soriano, flanked by secretaries of state for economic affairs and...

The French and UK governments have signed a five-year accord to work together to improve digital services through state-level collaboration on artificial intelligence (AI), data and digital administration. Mounir Mahjoubi and Matt Hancock, digital secretaries for France and the UK respectively, ratified the deal today...

The White House has convened a meeting today (May 10) of 40 leading tech firms to discuss policy issues related to artificial intelligence (AI), including workforce development, regulatory barriers, and sector-specific applications. The move follows a glut of state-sponsored European AI initiatives in the...

The UK government has announced a £1 billion ($1.4bn) joint investment to stimulate the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry. The deal includes £600 million of additional funding, comprising £300 million of private sector investment from 50 technology firms, matched by £300 million of newly allocated...

The European Commission (EC) has increased its Horizon 2020 research and innovation funding to €1.5 billion for the period through to the end of 2020, as it attempts to raise €20 billion from the European governments and private enterprises to stimulate the artificial intelligence...

South Korea, Germany and Singapore are best positioned to lead the world for industrial automation, thanks to their approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. These three, along with Japan and Canada, are the top five countries for “automation readiness”, according to a new report...

France’s national AI strategy is only the latest promise in an intensifying political arms race. Enterprise IoT Insights considers the seven most significant national AI strategies to date, including state AI blueprints from the US, Canada, the UK, China and Japan. France's bold plan to...

French president Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to invest €1.5bn ($1.85bn) in new education and business initiatives around artificial intelligence (AI) was applauded by the telecoms industry, but only as the latest promise in an intensifying political arms race. Macron said last week France would invest...

The European Union's quest to create a single telecom market has cleared a key hurdle. The Industry Research and Energy Committee approved the “Telecoms Single Market Regulation,” a package of new policies that include ending roaming and enacting a form of net neutrality. It...

A battle of billionaires is underway in France as media company Vivendi has reportedly given bidders until March 5 to submit final offers for its telecom unit, SFR, the second largest operator in France. The two contenders are the French cable company Numericable, whose...

Apple on September 10 announced two updates to its ubiquitous smartphone, the iPhone 5C and 5S, which include more exciting configurations than ever. With everyone's eye on Apple and iPhones buzzing in our brains, it feels like a good time to explore just how these...

Alcatel-Lucent | August 31, 2011 | Press Release Paris, August 31, 2011 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has been selected by Chunghwa Telecom, the largest telecommunications operator in Taiwan, to upgrade its network to address Taiwan’s exploding demand for high-bandwidth advanced mobile services. Currently,...

Alcatel-Lucent | August 26, 2011 | Press Release St. Petersburg, August 26, 2011 - OJSC VimpelCom announced the choice of Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) technical solution to support the launch of new services for Beeline subscribers in the North-Western region of Russia based...

Alcatel-Lucent | August 25, 2011 | Press Release Shanghai, China, August 25, 2011 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and China Mobile have today reached another major milestone in the creation of next generation wireless services by staging the first mobile broadband video call...

France Telecom - Orange | August 25, 2011 | Press Release everyday care and advice for Origami customers A personalised report every six months helps customers make the most of their Origami call plans A new school, a new job, a new city… Change something in your...

France Telecom - Orange | August 29, 2011 | Press Release Orange Business Services will increase the capacity of its Latin American network by ten times due to growing demand from its multinational enterprise customers. Implementation will begin in October 2011, covering Brazil and Chile,...

Alcatel-Lucent | August 23, 2011 | Press Release Paris, August 23, 2011 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA), a leading mobile operator in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to...

France Telecom - Orange | August 17, 2011 | Press Release France Telecom announces having purchased treasury shares within the framework of its 2011 share buy back program. View the full press release via Orange

Alcatel-Lucent | August 22, 2011 | Press Release Paris, France – August 22, 2011 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has introduced a new set of services to proactively analyze the health and performance of telecommunications networks, identify potential problems and take appropriate actions...

Maxis Communications | August 9, 2011 | Press Release Maxis Berhad, the country's leading integrated communications service provider, with Alcatel-Lucent as a strategic supplier, has undertaken a major transformation of Maxis' core transmission network. By deploying Alcatel-Lucent's 100 gigabit per second (100G) optical coherent network...