Deutsche Telekom said that the ‘6G NeXt’ project, which involves nine partners, had its kick-off last week in Berlin
German operator Deutsche Telekom announced it will be leading a 6G initiative as part of a wider program funded by the German government.
The research project, dubbed...
Telefónica said it expects to cover the country’s overall population with 5G by the end of 2025
German telecom operator Telefónica Deutschland/O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network is operating over 18,000 antennas in the country.
The telco said that this network infrastructure...
Vodafone Germany has been busy with private networks for Industry 4.0. A new announcement, with Nokia, says the pair are testing high-accuracy indoor positioning (HAIP) services over a 5G ‘campus network’ (‘campus-netz’) at BMW’s factory in Leipzig, the car maker’s premier site for testing...
Global cellular IoT provider 1NCE has launched in Japan with operator Softbank. Its debut in Japan comes six months after Softbank’s expanded stake in the firm was discussed, and four months after it was confirmed. Softbank, already a major investor in Cologne-headquartered 1NCE, announced...
US-based cold chain management company DeltaTrak is working with Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson to provide global tracking and monitoring data for perishable food and biopharmaceutical products. An announcement says DeltaTrak is working with Ericsson “through Deutsche Telekom”; it adds that the firm is using...
The 6G research project is part of a wider 6G program funded by the German government
German telco Deutsche Telekom announced that it is taking the lead for the "6G-TakeOff" research project as part of a 6G program funded by the German government.
The "6G industrial...
Deutsche Telekom said that the trial of WWC standards took place at its laboratory in the city of Bonn
Deutsche Telekom has carried out a trial of 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence (WWC) standards at its laboratory in Bonn, the telco said in a release.
The German...
Deutsche Telekom aims to make the 5G smartphones available in Germany in early 2023
German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it aims to launch its own 5G smartphones across its European footprint with the aim of increasing the consumer access to 5G.
The T Phone 5G smartphone...
A couple of interesting press notes about energy harvesting in IoT modules during the past week, all originating in the Low Countries; Dutch firm Nowi, a key supplier of energy harvesting circuits, has said Chinese IoT chip design company Telink Semiconductor is using its...
Deutsche Telekom said it expected 99% of households in Germany will access the carrier’s 5G network by 2025
German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it has expanded its mobile services at 1,104 locations nationwide in the past five weeks, while it added 5G capacity at 72...
One of the animating conceits of Open RAN as a technology set and what’s often characterized as a “movement,” is enabling operators to mix-and-match hardware and software from multiple vendors into a radio system optimized for a particular deployment scenario. Offsetting that is one...
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...
Some new light on the murky, creeping digital change taking place in the automotive sector, long-considered the flashiest venue for Industry 4.0 (but highly secretive and deeply conservative), and specifically at one of its blue riband manufacturers, in the original home of Industrie 4.0; German...
Vodafone said that its 5G network is expected to be available to 60 million people by 2023
Vodafone Germany has deployed 13,000 antennas for the provision of 5G services since the beginning of the year, the telco said in a release.
Including this recent deployment, more...
Deutsche Telekom stated its enterprise IT subsidiary T-Systems was already working with Commerzbank on a pilot system
German operator Deutsche Telekom and compatriot bank Commerzbank have partnered to develop digital supply chain systems with integrated financial services which use 5G, AI, IoT, blockchain, sensors and...
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...
Deutsche Telekom highlighted that 92% of households can already access the carrier’s 5G network
German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it has expanded its mobile services at 855 locations nationwide in the past seven weeks, while it added 5G capacity at 123 locations.
In a release, the...
Deutsche Telekom said GD Towers operates more than 40,000 sites in Germany and Austria
Germany carrier Deutsche Telekom announced the sale of 51% of GD Towers comprising its tower assets in Germany and Austria, to Digital Bridge and Brookfield for 17.5 billion euros ($17.58 billion),...
Deutsche Telekom will trial Google Cloud’s data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions
German carrier Deutsche Telekom and Google Cloud announced a new expanded partnership to define a joint roadmap for bringing cloud products and services closer to mobile and connected devices...
The 5G autonomous driving test used infrastructure deployed by TIM, Magenta and Deutsche Telekom
The 5G-CARMEN project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Bruno Kessler Foundation, demonstrated the outcomes of an autonomous driving pilot that connected low latency, autonomous and assisted driving...
Right, let’s see how good my notes are two days later; shortly following a shot-across-the-bows from a top analyst at a London private 5G event (Omdia’s Pablo Tomasi at Private Networks in a 5G World), Sweden-based Telia and Germany-based Deutsche Telekom, on behalf of...
Global cellular IoT provider 1NCE has confirmed a long-trailed deal with Softbank, a major investor already in the firm, to release equity to the Japan-based carrier in return for exclusive distribution rights in Asia Pacific. Softbank will sell 1NCE in 19 markets in the...
Deutsche Telekom said that over 67,000 antennas are already transmitting 5G across the country
German telco Deutsche Telekom said it is using spectrum in the 700 MHz range for the provision of 5G for the first time.
The European operator said that the use of the...
Deutsche Telekom also said it is ensuring 5G coverage on a total area of more than 1.4 million square meters
German operator Deutsche Telekom has installed a private campus network at Hannover Messe, one of the world’s largest industrial trade fairs.
The telco said that this...
