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Spanish carriers secure additional spectrum for 5G
Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone have obtained a total of 1,800 megahertz for 5G
Spanish operators Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone have secured additional spectrum to expand 5G services after the government completed a tender to award frequencies in the 26 GHz band.
Telefónica secured 1 gigahertz of...
Telefónica’s 5G network reaches 83% of Spanish population
Telefónica said its 5G network provides coverage in 1,719 towns and cities across Spain
Spanish telecom operator Telefónica’s 5G network currently covers 83% of the Spanish population, the telco said in a release.
The operator said its 5G network provides coverage in 1,719 towns and cities...
Movistar activates 5G services in Mexico
Movistar is using AT&T’s network infrastructure for the provision of 5G in Mexico
Mexican operator Movistar, owned by Spanish telecom group Telefonica, announced the launch of 5G services in the country.
In a release, Movistar Mexico said that its 5G service was activated in Ciudad de...
MNOs vs MVNOS – who is top of mind for enterprise IoT connectivity? (Reader Forum)
Earlier this year, Transforma Insights undertook a survey of 1,100+ enterprises in the US and Europe, asking about their buying behaviour and vendor preferences cellular IoT connectivity. As part of that survey, we asked respondents which connectivity providers they were aware of, which they...
Spain to award additional 5G spectrum next month
The government of Spain aims to award a total of 12 national concessions in the 25.10-27.50 GHz band, and 38 regional concessions in the 24.70-25.10 GHz band
The Spanish government announced details of a spectrum auction next month, through which it expects to award local...
Telecom Infra Project readies blueprint for cheaper, scalable cloud-native private 5G
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is to release a “blueprint”, it says, for how to deploy “cost-effective and scalable” cloud-native private 5G networks, based on an initial trial of a 5G-connected computer vision application led by Telefonica. Rakuten Symphony, Tech Mahindra, and NTT Data...
Masmovil’s 5G network reaches 1,400 towns and cities in Spain
Masmovil said that it had reached 505 new towns and cities in its latest 5G expansion
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in almost 1,400 towns and cities in 51 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the carrier...
Telefónica and Qualcomm ink metaverse, XR deal
Qualcomm and Telefónica will leverage Snapdragon Spaces and the carrier's network infrastructure
In a new collaboration, Telefónica and Qualcomm Technologies will work to expand the XR ecosystem in preparation for the metaverse. The pair will leverage the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform and Telefónica’s fixed...
Spain launches consultation to award additional 5G spectrum
The government of Spain said that national 5G concessions will have a starting price of 7.5 million euros each
The Spanish government has kicked off the process to auction more spectrum for 5G mobile services in the country.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital...
Spanish telcos concentrate 5G services in large cities: Study
The study revealed that 5G coverage will only reach 3% of the country's territory next year
5G technology will cover 53% of the Spanish population in 2023, but only 3% of the country’s territory, according to a report published by Spain’s EAE Business School.
The data...
How is Open RAN evolving? A Q&A with NEC
NEC's Patrick Lopez, global vice president of product management, lays out the four elements of Open RAN
Editor’s note: This Q&A is adapted from an interview conducted at the Open RAN European Forum. It has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: Could we start with...
Who is buying Open RAN? Market sizing, outlook
Open RAN investment grows from less than 1 percent of total RAN spend in 2019 to 3-5 percent in 2022
While there are distinctions between Open RAN, open virtualized RAN, cloud RAN and further sub-combinations of those architectures, these new approaches to building the radio...
American Tower ends Q2 with 30,000 telecom sites in Europe: CEO
In June last year, American Tower had closed the first tranche of the acquisition of Telxius Towers, comprised of nearly 20,000 communications sites in Germany and Spain
American Tower Corporation (ATC) ended June with nearly 30,000 telecommunications sites across its European footprint, the company’s President...
Sunderland takes smart-city 5G to uni areas; West Midlands wins £10m for 5G innovation
Sunderland City Council and the University of Sunderland in the UK have appointed BAI Communications (BAI), already engaged on a 20-year deal with the city council to build and operate a 5G network to support municipal services and the local manufacturing sector, to also...
AT&T Mexico expands 5G coverage to five new cities
AT&T expects its 5G network infrastructure to reach 25 new cities across Mexico before the end of 2022
AT&T Mexico launched 5G services in five new cities across the country, the telco said in a release.
The carrier now offers its 5G technology in parts of...
Telefónica and Boston Scientific, Nokia and OneLayer look to secure hospital 5G
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...
Global cellular IoT subscribers reach 2.1bn at end-2021: Study
The top ten mobile operators reported a combined active base of 1.8 billion cellular IoT subscribers at the end of 2021
The global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 22% during 2021 to reach 2.1 billion, according to a new report from European IoT...
Telefónica to launch 5G-based satellite NB-IoT for hard-to-reach enterprise venues
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...
Telefonica, Ericsson carry out 5G network slicing demo
The lab test was carried out at 5TONIC, a Madrid-based open research and innovation laboratory founded by Telefónica and IMDEA Networks
Spanish operator Telefónica and Ericsson have demonstrated end-to-end, automated network slicing in 5G Standalone, the telco said in a release.
Telefonica said that the proof-of-concept...
Telefonica’s 5G network reaches 82% of Spanish population
Telefonica provides 5G coverage to 38 million people in 1,431 towns and cities across Spain
Spanish telecom operator Telefonica’s 5G network currently covers 82% of the Spanish population, the telco said in a release.
The operator said its 5G network provides coverage to 38 million people...
Libelium buys Spanish smart cities firm HOPU, sets sights on future IPO
Spanish IoT provider Libelium has acquired local firm HOP UBIQUITOUS (HOPU), which produces IoT solutions for environmental and meteorological monitoring. The deal follows Libelium’s capital injection from venture capital fund Axon Innovation Growth IV, part of Spain-based Axon Partners Group, a year ago, which...
Critical and complementary – setting the record straight on 5G and Wi-Fi
Time to set the record straight on cellular 5G and Wi-Fi 6/7, a panel of Industry 4.0 luminaries suggested at Private Networks Forum (PNF) a couple of weeks back; these technologies are not, and never will be, mutually exclusive, it implied. They will not...
Masmovil’s 5G network reaches almost 900 towns and cities across Spain
Masmovil currently has 80 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band for the provision of 5G
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in almost 900 towns and cities in 40 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the...
Telefónica Hispam picks Mavenir’s IMS Core
Telefónica Hispam has picked Mavenir to provide core voice, messaging and multimedia capabilities for its Latin America telco networks.