Portuguese authorities said they conducted a search of Portugal Telecom's offices as part of a fraud investigation. Newspaper Diaro Economico reported that the PT shareholder assembly to approve the sale of PT assets to France's Altice could be delayed because an audit of PT's relationship...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...
Smart solutions are being used for a range of projects in Europe, from the fantastical—like Van Gogh-inspired bike path in the Netherlands (above) to the very practical—smart meters, smoke detectors and trash cans. And it's not just single, separate projects, but broad, complex efforts to employ smart...
When I was a kid, Saturday morning meant watching cartoons on the television. For my kids, it means Kindle time. They play games and flip through e-books while we sleep in. I don't see too much difference in our childhood experiences. It's an indulgence on...
Mobile operators in Africa are using the power of their medium to combat the spread of Ebola. Their efforts include launching continentwide text-messaging donation campaigns, expanding help lines and analyzing mobile data to better target aid to affected areas.
Many major operators in Africa are participating in...
This past year showed signs that LTE is ready to take off in Europe. The region started the year with LTE making up less than 5% of connections, and is poised to begin 2015 with nearly 10%, according to the GSMA's Mobile Economy Europe...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...
Reports indicate pair of moves by German telecom giant
Germany's largest phone company, Deutsche Telekom, is looking to sell the country's most popular Internet portal, T-Online, according to newspaper reports. Company sources told Wirtschafts Woche that the giant telco is in talks to sell T-Online to the...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...
The U.K. has recently been the focus of many studies on performance expectations of subscribers related to their mobile networks. Two of which I will highlight today.
First, is a report Ofcom released, the Infrastructure Report 2014. As a result of the Communications Act of...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the world, is reportedly cutting expansion of its TD-SCDMA 3G network and focusing on its TD-LTE network, which supports 4G connectivity.
One telecom insider told RCR Wireless News that this announcement, which was first reported by Caixin Media...
After looking into buying Telefonica's O2, BT announced it has entered into exclusive talks to buy mobile operator EE for $19.6 billion. If successful, the deal would combine the U.K.'s largest fixed-line provider with its largest mobile network operator.
Part of the proposed purchase includes shares in BT, so EE's...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News – has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
In the ongoing battle against cyber attacks and espionage, Deutsche Telekom's business customer unit, T-Systems, is joining with the Silicon Valley firm FireEye to offer security-as-a-service to European organizations.
According to a FireEye study, many European firms are not able to quickly respond to breaches ― the median response...
UPC Business, a major Irish network services provider, announced the acquisition of operator Bitbuzz, which provides Wi-Fi hot spots to hotels, airports, pubs and other locations.
Terms of the Dec. 4 deal have not been made public.
Bitbuzz Managing Director Shane Deasy said the acquisition “will...
Angel Merkel was the keynote speaker at Vodafone’s Digitising Europe conference last week and shared her vision for net neutrality.
Some services in the digital economy require different levels of service and should be treated differently than other data, she said. As a result, her vision...
It’s been a busy week for Amdocs with announcements related to carrier-grade Wi-Fi and quad-play acceleration.
Starting with the carrier-grade Wi-Fi announcement (covered by RCR Wireless in yesterday’s news edition), the focus was on an independent research report looking at the potential to transition from...
Claudia Bacco, managing director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those...
