BROWSING: Vodafone

American enterprises rule for IoT, and the transport industry leaves the automotive sector for dust when it comes to connecting 'things'. These are the conclusions of a new study by Vodafone, which nevertheless finds higher adoption, higher confidence, and higher urgency among global enterprises. One...

  The trial is part of a larger 5G test being carried out by the telco across Manchester U.K. carrier Vodafone said that it has switched on 5G technology at Manchester Airport. Manchester Airport is the first of several travel hot spots where Vodafone is currently trialling...

  The trial includes a 5G smartphone form factor test device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem Vodafone UK said it has begun lab tests of a 5G smartphone form factor test device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem using Ericsson radio equipment at...

  The global outdoor advertising company said that small cells will be deployed in ten cities across France   Global outdoor advertising company JCDecaux has announced that will provide support for French telecoms operators to roll out small cells in around ten French cities in 2019. The company...

  Vodafone’s CEO Nick Read said that the debate about Huawei was taking place at a "simplistic level" U.K. telecom group Vodafone will continue to use gear from Chinese vendor Huawei in 5G Radio Access Network but will pause the implementation of the vendor’s equipment for...

  The two UK carriers said they also aim to upgrade their transmission networks with higher capacity optical fiber cables   UK carriers Vodafone and Telefonica UK (O2) have signed a letter of intent aimed at strengthening their existing network sharing partnership. Vodafone and O2 said they plan...

Vodafone and Predictable Network Solutions are leading a new Broadband Forum project that focuses on connection quality features including latency and reliability, as part of wired networks' preparation for 5G. Broadband Quality Experience Delivered, or Broadband QED, uses the Quality Attenuation framework "to look beyond just...

AT&T has slipped out a minor announcement about LTE connectivity on latest-model Toyota and Lexus cars and trucks in the US, starting from the fall, just as the technology and automotive markets appeared in a newly climactic embrace ahead of the 2019 Consumer Electronics...

  The decision will allow the U.K. carrier to have access to 100 megahertz of contiguous 5G spectrum UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom said it will allow local carrier Three UK to merge two separate blocks of spectrum, ahead of the company's 5G launch scheduled for next...

The biggest business trend in the coming year will be transforming customer experiences, and the driving force behind that transformation is technology: both in how technology has changed customer expectations and how technology is enabling disruption, according to Vodafone's annual Trends Barometer report. Vodafone said...

The promise for operators of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to consumers, Vodafone told The Great Telco Debate in London this week. But the operator community must guarantee 5G services, offered on network slices to industrial operatives, if...

The carrier said it already operates 1.6 million IoT connections in New Zealand Vodafone New Zealand has launched its NB-IoT and LTE-M networks in the country, which will allow users to have access to a new range of IoT applications, the carrier said in a...

700 MHz auction originally set for Q1 next year The Spanish government confirmed that the auction to award spectrum in the 700 MHz band in will take place in the first months of 2020 and not in the first quarter of 2019 as it had...

Vodafone has completed the first live tests in Europe of a full cellular system for both short and long-range vehicular communications, as well as for monitoring and managing multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the same air space. The UK operator teamed with Jaguar Land...

The two carriers intend to reach a final 5G agreement in Q1 2019 Italian carriers Vodafone and Telecom Italia (TIM) are currently in talks to jointly build a 5G network in Italy, according to a report by Bloomberg. The main goal of the construction of a...

Vodafone, Ericsson, and BMW have warned the European Commission (EC) its current stance on vehicular communications, which precludes 5G technologies in favour of a single purpose Wi-Fi variant, will throw the region way off track in terms of digital infrastructure and economic development. In a...

  Vodafone said it aims to trial 5G technology in seven UK cities this year U.K telecom operator Vodafone claimed to be the first carrier in the country to carry full 5G over a commercial network. The telco said that live mobile data traffic is now being...

Vodafone, Telefónica to pilot disaggregated RAN The broad goal of the Telecom Infra Project is to take the cost out of crucial network infrastructure by disaggregating hardware and software and moving functionality onto commercial-off-the-shelf hardware. By pushing open interoperability between vendors, along with the move...

  The U.K-based telecom group recently announced plans to double the size of its NB-IoT footprint in Europe by end-2019   Vodafone Spain said that its national narrowband internet of things network has been expanded to cover all localities with more than 25,000 inhabitants. The telco also said...

  Local carriers TIM and Vodafone Italia secured spectrum in the 3.7 GHz, 26 GHz and 700 MHz bands Italy's Ministry of Economic Development announced the completion of the national 5G spectrum tender, in which the government raised a total of EUR 6.55 billion ($7.56 billion),...

  Vodafone’s new facility will allow local firms and start-ups to test 5G and IoT capabilities U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone has inaugurated its 5G and internet of things center, dubbed ‘The Landing,’ in Manchester. The new facility, located at MediaCityUK, will become a new innovation hub and...

Vodafone Spain said the recently deployed node has already supported several demonstrations of 5G use cases Vodafone Spain, in association with Chinese vendor Huawei, has installed what it claims to be one of the first 5G network nodes in the world at La Nave, an...

Vodafone planning 1,000 5G sites in the U.K. by 2020 While 5G hasn't been deployed at enough scale for the first killer app to emerge, the next generation of cellular will sport major capacity increases and latency decreases. In the U.K., operator Vodafone this week...

  Vodafone will use its new "Sensing4Farming" platform for the NB-IoT project with Bodegas Emilio Toro   Vodafone has signed an agreement with Spanish wine producer Bodegas Emilio Moro to develop what it describes as the "winery of the future", using narrowband Internet of Things technology, Spanish...