Editor’s note: The teams from RCR Wireless News and Enterprise IoT Insights recently convened a wide range of telecoms and enterprise stakeholders to examine all things mobile edge computing at the Mobile Edge Forum virtual event, available on demand here. This article is taken...
Like other regional operators, Orange sees Fixed Wireless Access as a big growth opportunity in Africa
Orange has announced that its Botswana affiliate is the first on the African continent to offer 5G services. Orange Botswana launched 5G on November 11, 2022 with coverage in grater Gaborone...
In France, mobile carriers are currently providing 5G services through spectrum in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands
France had a total of 36,868 authorized 5G sites as of October 1, of which 27,854 were declared technically operational by local carriers, according...
Veolia Water Technologies, the digital solutions arm of French utility services company Veolia, is working with Orange Business Services, the global enterprise division of France-based telecoms operator Orange, to bring new analytics and security to its Hubgrade water cycle management platform.
The pair will develop...
French regulator Arcep has awarded three new trial spectrum licences for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks in the 3.8-4.0 GHz band, taking its total roster of enterprise trialists in France to 13. The band is being liberated for French enterprises, in line with...
In France, mobile carriers are currently providing 5G services through frequencies in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands
France had a total of 36,295 authorized 5G sites as of October 1, of which 26,589 were declared technically operational by the local mobile...
Nokia said that the Hexa-X-II initiative has been awarded funding from the European Commission
Nokia announced that it will lead the Hexa-X-II project, the second phase of the European 6G flagship initiative.
In a release, Nokia noted that this new phase will expand the Hexa-X partner...
Orange has made large-scale commitments to deploy Open RAN systems across its network footprint over the coming decade. Ahead of large-scale deployments, the operator has built an experimental network in Lannion, France, that uses Open RAN along with a cloud-native approach to 5G with...
The consensus is that interoperability has made material progress but there's still work to do
As Open RAN has gained momentum in recent years, there’s been this recurring talking point around modular radio system hardware and software being assembled and disassembled to support operators’ specific...
NEC and Mavenir said that the technologies have been deployed at the Orange Gardens campus in Chatillon
NEC and Mavenir have deployed massive MIMO (mMIMO) on Orange's 5G Standalone (SA) experimental network, the companies said in a joint release.
As part of the deal, Mavenir's...
In France, mobile carriers are currently providing 5G services through frequencies in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands
France had a total of 35,797 authorized 5G sites as of September 1, of which 26,455 were declared technically operational by the local mobile...
The new collab leverages Equinix’s Bare Metal as a Service
International telco Orange and data center operator Equinix this week announced a collaboration that sees Orange deploying its New Generation International Network - eNGINe - using Equinix’s Bare Metal as a Service.
The new partnership promises on-demand...
The number of authorized 5G sites across France during July increased by 2.2% compared to the previous month
France had a total of 35,311 authorized 5G sites as of August 1, of which 26,093 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to...
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...
Orange Belgium, Proximus and Telenet Group have secures spectrum in the 1,400MHz band
The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) concluded the final phase of the radio spectrum auction, which raised 216.5 million euros ($221.2 million) bringing the total amount for the two...
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced a deal with France-based outfit IDEMIA, a supplier of identity-related security services, to offer enterprise customers an optimised low-power embedded SIM (eSIM) with its power-constrained cellular IoT products in North America and Europe.
IDEMIA’s eSIM proposition, called DAKOTA...
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...
France had a total of 34,539 authorized 5G sites as of July 1
France had a total of 4.13 million 5G lines as of the end of the first quarter, according to a recent report by the country’s telecom regulator Arcep. During the first quarter,...
The passive optical LAN solution will connect more than 5,000 end points including Wi-Fi and hard-wired terminals across more than 20 sites in France
Nokia is deploying a passive optical LAN (POL) solution for Orange at its headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, as well as more than...
New entrants Citymesh Mobile and Network Research Belgium secured 5G frequencies in the process
Belgium’s 5G spectrum auction raised a total of 1.2 billion euros ($1.26 billion) from five bidders, according to the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT).
In a release, BIPT stated...
Open RAN as one of many vectors for closing the digital divide
In my conversations at the recent Cisco Live event in Las Vegas, there were several recurring themes but for the purposes of this piece I’ll focus in on two: the relationship between innovation...
Operators in France are currently using 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 3.5 GHz bands for 5G
France had a total of 34,061 authorized 5G sites as of June 1, of which 24,949 were declared technically operational by the local mobile carriers, according to the latest monthly...
Orange said that the main goal of the 5G test was to detect the presence of people in unauthorized areas
The Port of Vigo, in Spain, recently hosted a demonstration of the use of a 5G network with a surveillance system that includes the deployment...
Orange previously said it was planning to introduce 5G Standalone (SA) services for the general public in 2023
Ericsson and Orange France have signed a five-year agreement which will make Ericsson Charging the strategic monetization platform for Orange France’s 5G subscribers.
The cloud-native Ericsson Charging solution...
