Spanish telco looks to reach 1,300 cities with LTE by year-end
Spanish telecom operator Orange said it’s investing 1.5 billion euros ($1.61 billion) in its LTE network across the country. With the investment, the operator is looking to cover 85% of the Spanish population with...
Orange has started to deploy an 'Internet of Things' national network in France
HONG KONG – French telecom operator Orange expects to invest 15 billion euros ($16.3 billion) between 2015 and 2018, the company’s SVP of Radio Networks Arnaud Vamparys said during a keynote speech...
During the Wi-Fi Global Congress in San Jose, Calif., I had the pleasure to sit down with Paul Taylor, manager of business development & Wi-Fi services at United Arab Emirates mobile network operator Du, to discuss the drivers behind the recent carrier Wi-Fi initiatives.
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Vodafone UK claims attack gained limited customer data from 1,827 customers
Vodafone Group reported its United Kingdom operations late last week were hit by a cyberattack that gained access to account information of 1,827 customers, including names, telephone numbers, bank short codes and the last...
The Deutsche Telekom field trial was deployed over base stations in Bonn
Deutsche Telekom said it recently deployed the world’s first field implementation of narrow band "Internet of Things." The trial was carried out with the cooperation of Chinese vendor Huawei.
The trial was developed...
CMA doesn't think BT/EE deal will hurt competition in mobile sector
The U.K.'s competition and consumer authority, CMA, has provisionally cleared BT’s anticipated acquisition of mobile operator EE.
After looking in detail at different markets – including the supply of retail mobile, wholesale mobile, mobile backhaul,...
5GÂ radio demo has already been conducted
Nokia Networks and United Arab Emirates mobile operator Du signed a memorandum of understanding on a set of common objectives for the development and evolution of "5G" and the "Internet of Things."
The companies carried out a 5G radio demonstration...
The operator aims to offer access speeds of up to 375 Mbps
Turkish mobile operator Turkcell expects to launch LTE-A services in the country in 2016. Atac Tansug, the company’s fixed network director confirmed that the 4G service will be commercially available starting July 1....
Nokia to provide technology and services for Ooredoo’s 2G, 3G and LTE-A networks
Nokia Networks signed a framework agreement with Qatar-based telecom operator Ooredoo Group to support the operator's long-term development strategy across its footprint in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.
Under...
The European Court of Justice, the E.U. equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court, today ruled the Safe Harbor data transfer agreement void, presenting a challenge to tech companies like Amazon or Facebook that use the deal to move personal data from the European Union...
The Norwegian telco said the market value of its stake is $2.38B
Norwegian telecom operator Telenor announced it will sell its 33% stake in international mobile operator VimpelCom.
The European carrier said that it will explore all options to divest its shares in VimpelCom and that...
The Chinese firm also targets LTE-A projects in the region
Chinese vendor Huawei said it's seeing significant growth opportunities in the Middle East region with small cells projects, the company’s VP of international media affairs for EMEA, Ronald Sladek, told RCR Wireless News.
“Many operators within...
ARCEP confirms the auction will take place in November
France’s four mobile operators have filed applications to participate in an auction through which telecom regulator ARCEP will award spectrum in the 700 MHz band to support LTE services. The regulator said firms submitting applications were...
UK telcos to pay almost £200 million per year to use 900 MHz, 1800 MHz bands
U.K. telecom regulator Ofcom has published revised annual fees for mobile operators, which determine the amount of money they must pay to use certain parts of the mobile spectrum.
In 2010, the...
OpenSignal has released its State of LTE report tracking the changes over the last three months to not only global LTE deployments from a coverage perspective, but also speed performance.
The Asia-Pacific region is clearly in the lead on all counts, which likely isn’t a...
RCR Wireless News recently had the opportunity to discuss the transition from LTE to "5G" with Chris Cave, director of research and development for InterDigital. We discussed four topics: spectrum; ongoing LTE evolution; network infrastructure differences between LTE and 5G; and shared our thoughts on 5G...
Innovation is a key theme in telecom; so key, in fact, it runs the risk of becoming nothing more than a buzzword unless organizations have some substantial proof points behind the buzz. Thought leadership is important. These topics show that an organization is thinking about...
The telco aims to deploy IoT projects across the UAE in the future
The United Arab Emirates’ second-largest operator Du has tested what it claims to be the first true "Internet of Things" network in the Middle East.
The telco said that the recently tested network...
The telco aims to reduce its business in Eurasia
Swedish telecom operator TeliaSonera will increase focus on its European and Swedish operations and reduce its presence in the Eurasia region.
The company said that it has been working to improve its Eurasian operations over the last...
Keeping up with moving things in the IoT
Rajant provides kinetic mesh networks enabling a network that moves. In today’s traditional mesh networks, the wireless infrastructure stays in a constant location and the devices using the network move. In Rajant’s solution the network can also...
The service will be available for 1M subscribers by the end of 2015
Hutchison 3G, the smallest mobile operator in the U.K. and provides services under the Three brand, has become the nation’s first mobile service provider to launch a commercial voice-over-LTE service.
The new service,...
The University of Surrey has officially opened its 5G Innovation Centre in partnership with Huawei and other industry players. In separate announcements, both organizations spoke of their commitment to the topic of "5G."
The Innovation Centre will house more than 170 researchers and has already...
The Russian telco currently provides commercial services in more than 60 regions across the nation.
Russian mobile operator Tele2 Russia plans to launch commercial mobile services in the Moscow area Oct. 22, according to the company. Tele2 aims to launch services in metropolitan Moscow and...
Nordic telcos faced regulatory obstacles from the European authorities
Swedish telecom operator TeliaSonera and Norway’s Telenor decided to withdraw a proposed merger of their respective business units in Denmark.
The two Nordic companies said they reached the decision as they were not able to agree with...
