Sweden-based Bahnhof AB, an Internet service provider, is taking advantage of the climate and population density in Stockholm to turn ventilated data center heat into usable energy.
Bahnhof CEO John Karlung recently showed RCR Wireless News around its data center in Sweden’s capital and explained the...
The number of cyberattacks on Deutsche Telekom networks has risen from 300,000 to 1 million per day, according to DT Group CEO Timotheus Höttges. Speaking at the third annual Cyber Security Summit in Bonn on Nov. 3, Höttges said that the security threat is growing from year...
French telecom equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent announced a four-year deal with Thailand's True Corporation to provide an IP transport network integrating True’s mobile, cable and Internet services and allowing for expansion of LTE services.
True claims to be the only carrier in Thailand to offer LTE...
Stockholm’s thriving technology ecosystem, anchored by giants like Ericsson but also a huge draw for startups, is beginning to draw comparisons to the U.S. hub of innovation in Silicon Valley.
RCR Wireless News recently sat down with three tech leaders to compare and contrast the...
The trend today is for everyone to talk about connected cars and it seems as though almost every telecom operator says they are playing here. But at what level are they doing connected cars and how much is aspirational for the future versus having a...
Machine-to-machine technology will soon be available around the globe, according to market research firm Berg Insight. The spread of M2M, which allows devices to communicate without human intervention, is being driven – quite literally – by connected cars.
M2M has been a long-term evolutionary trend coming for many...
Bill Huang, head of research and development and GM of China Mobile Research Institute, reflected at the recent Telecom Council Carrier Connections conference on the company’s rapid expansion and looked ahead to the Chinese telecom giant’s plans for creating a "5G" network.
Huang sat down...
Much of the discussion around big data in Europe has centered on protecting data rather than using it. Revelations connected to the U.S. National Security Administration spying scandal has had a huge impact on Europe, driving a heavy focus on data security at the expense of building...
The mobile phone became a sign of protest this week as tens of thousands of Hungarians raised their lit-up smartphones in the air as they marched against the world's first Internet tax.
The Hungarian government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban planned to implement a 150...
Even as LTE becomes more prevalent in the U.S. and Asia, LTE is far from the mainstream in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Observers often cite cost as one of the primary reasons for its slow growth — both the cost of the...
Nokia Networks recently completed its fastest implementation of voice over LTE technology, completing a roll-out for United Arab Emirates-based Du in under 80 days. If the push for VoLTE continues, the telecom equipment-maker might have to keep moving quickly.
Nokia Networks put some of the recent...
When more than 1,300 global industry experts converged on Düsseldorf, Germany, last week for the SDN and OpenFlow World Congress, one of the hottest topics was network function virtualization.
(Although it's only three years old, NFV has become so important it apparently warrants its own...
U.K. mobile operator EE plans to make some structural changes, including cutting 350 administrative jobs and adding other employees in sales and customer support. The company told Bloomberg that the structural changes are part of their strategy “to expand U.K.-based customer service teams.”
The move comes...
After Hungary’s long-awaited spectrum auction, Hungary’s Magyar Telekom wasted little time in boosting its LTE covering, turning on 450 new LTE base stations the day after receiving new spectrum licenses following the country’s highly anticipated spectrum auction. The carrier, which is majority owned by...
Despite economic troubles and the impact of conflicts in neighboring Iraq and Syria, Jordan has one of the most competitive mobile markets in the Middle East. And this competition has led to a great deal of innovation.
Jordan's mobile market is the second most competitive in the...
It’s Freitag and the weekend is upon us. Each week this column will focus on light hearted musings of the wireless industry and all of the moving parts that make this industry work. Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career...
You may not have heard of Net-mobile yet, but my guess is, you will be hearing about them before long. And there is a high likelihood you are using a service they provide and aren’t aware of because it’s branded by your mobile operator.
Headquartered...
The European Union trade chief Karel De Gucht believes he's found a solution to a trade dispute with China over telecom equipment subsidies. The EU has been at loggerheads with China, its second-largest trade partner behind the U.S., over what the EU claims are illegal...
Amdocs announced a strategy and ecosystem to enable further service virtualization by its customers. Within the announcement there are three topics which combined enable their strategic vision for an open network functions virtualization cloud.
The first new product is a Network Cloud Service Orchestrator or...
Last week I mentioned the Orange-Tesla partnership announcement and since then have had the opportunity to discuss in more depth with Samuel Loyson, Orange Business Services Head of Connected Car Program, details behind the announcement.
In 2011, the Smart Cities & Territories program was launched...
Everyone talks about connected cars today. A very hot topic, but one that is still relatively unclear in its definition. Although it’s fun to talk about infotainment and all the things you’ll be able to do while driving in your vehicle to make it...
Andrus Ansip, the candidate to lead the European Union's Digital Internal Market, is willing to suspend the safe harbor agreement with the U.S. if Europe's security concerns are not addressed.
The safe harbor agreement regulates the transfer of Europeans' personal data to the U.S. It affects thousands of technology...
Neelie Kroes, the outgoing EU digital commissioner, fired some parting shots at telcos last week, telling them to “adapt or die.” Speaking at a Brussels conference held by the European Telecommunications Network Operators' association (ETNO), she said that sometimes “the telecoms sector is its own worst...
An interesting LTE race is brewing in Slovenia, primarily between Telekom Austria and Telekom Slovenije — or whoever winds up buying a majority stake in the state-owned Telekom Slovenije.
Slovenia was a bit slow off the LTE mark in auctioning off its “digital dividend,” the sub-1GHz...
