Swedish firms plan to deploy 5G in Stockholm and Tallinn in 2018
Swedish companies TeliaSonera and Ericsson signed a strategic partnership through which mobile subscribers in Sweden and Estonia will be able to experience "5G" services in 2018.
The two companies plan to develop use cases...
Cloud services include contextual marketing, mobile commerce
ItsOn, which provides cloud automation and virtualization services, announced an agreement with the biggest operator in Africa aimed at driving revenue through personalized content and service delivery.
MTN Group picked ItsOn technology to help launch new services geared toward...
Openet’s BSS to allow the launch of new mobile services
Irish company Openet, a provider of real-time business support systems, today announced U.K. operator BT installed its network functions virtualization-ready Evolved Charging solution to monetize its consumer mobile service.
With its new mobile virtual network operator...
The four-year cloud contracts have a total value of more than $26 million
U.K. telecommunications group BT won two contracts with the European Commission for the provisioning of public and private cloud services across 52 major European institutions, agencies and bodies.
Some of the agencies included...
Spanish operator aims to complete the process this year
Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica is working on the spinoff of its domestic infrastructure unit, Reuters reported.
The European telco may decide to list the new company or sell a minority stake at the new firm during the...
French MVNO aims to launch negotiations this week
French mobile virtual network operator Coriolis Telecom is interested in acquiring the business assets of Bouygues Telecom, French newspaper Les Echos reported.
“We will have the critical mass to offer a real alternative to the future duopoly in...
French telco Orange is expanding its African holdings with the acquisition of Liberia’s largest operator, Cellcom Telecommunications. The move is part of an international growth strategy Orange is implementing to gain momentum in emerging markets, with Africa a focal point for the European carrier....
Apple is reportedly working on an application to make switching to Google's Android operating system easier for customers. According to a report from The Telegraph, the device maker agreed to create the app after facing pressure from European operators who say Apple puts up too...
Telco aims to close deal in June; bids from Cellnex, F2i, others
Telecom Italia received three non-binding offers for the company’s 45% stake in telecoms tower unit Inwit, Italian newspaper La Stampa reported.
According to the report, Telecom Italia expects to complete a transaction by...
French telco plans to launch Orange Bank in 2017 with partner Groupama
French telecommunications company Orange and compatriot insurance firm Groupama are currently negotiating a partnership to develop a new banking model.
The negotiations could result in Orange acquiring a 65% stake in Groupama Banque,...
Apple is in trouble in Italy for allegedly failing to pay taxes in the country to the tune of $347 million. According to multiple news outlets, the issue stems from a disparity in revenue reported between 2008 and 2013. It is believed in those...
According to a study by Vasona Networks, smartphone users in the United Kingdom believe their mobile operators are not meeting their mobile data expectations and they are willing to go elsewhere to get the coverage they expect.
The survey found two-thirds of broadband users in...
Smartphone users represent 37% of overall subscribers
Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor surpassed 200 million mobile subscribers in the 13 European and Asian markets in which it operates. That's up from the 185.9 million subs Telenor Group counted at the end of 2014. Telenor Group said it...
Trial blends licensed and unlicensed spectrum; reached access speeds of more than 274 Mbps
Mobile operator Vodafone Netherlands said it carried out a trial delivering LTE services on a commercial network by aggregating both licensed and unlicensed bands.
The trial was carried out in cooperation with...
WASHINGTON – With more than a billion users in the developed world, Facebook is now setting its sights on the next billion users who, while currently unconnected, could now be connected to the Internet via an ambitious satellite-based Internet project.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced...
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...
LTE stations accounted for over 50% of deployments
Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems said it has deployed more than 9,160 base stations across the country, compared to 5,730 base stations installed during the same period last year.
The Russian telco said that approximately 53% of the base...
By the year 2020, some 90% of all people on Earth older than six will have a mobile phone and 6.1 billion will have a smartphone subscription, according to projections released in mobile giant Ericsson’s biannual mobility report.
The Ericsson Mobility Report, released Nov. 18,...
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...
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...
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...
There’s been a lot of buzz in the news lately about the London startup scene for tech. It seems things are really taking off for London.
The latest news focuses on the launch of a $140 million fund aimed at series A funding for European...
Did you know that QNX has been around for more than 30 years and has been a part of the Blackberry family for four? And it has been involved in the automotive landscape for ten years. QNX is the underlying software for many platforms in...
Zoom Wireless and Volo have partnered to bring high-speed Internet access to Northern Uganda. There’s a lot of innovation going on in this story, although that may surprise you given the location.
Let’s start with Volo. Its state mission is enabling Internet service providers to bring low-cost...
