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Telefónica installs 500 5G transmitters to reach 97% coverage in Germany

O2 Telefónica now reaches more than 97 percent of the German population with its 5G service. German carrier O2 Telefónica said it has deployed a total of 500 5G transmitters across Germany in the first quarter of the year, the telco said in a release....

RCR news brief: Ericsson, Telefonica, Nokia and more

  Editor’s note: The telecommunications sector continues to evolve rapidly, driven by advancements in 5G, the emergence of 5G Advanced, the growing adoption of Open RAN and the integration of AI into network operations. Given the high volume of industry developments, RCR news brief highlights...

Telefónica sells Colombian unit to Millicom for $400 million

Telefonica recently sold its Argentine operation as part of its strategy to reduce its exposure in Latin America Spanish telco Telefónica has finalized an agreement to sell 67.5% of its Colombian unit Coltel— which it operates under the Movistar brand — to Millicom for approximately €368...

O2 Telefónica Germany selects AWS to expand 5G Core

O2 Telefónica will also use a unified set of AWS services, including Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana, to monitor its entire 5G network German telco O2 Telefónica Germany, owned by Spanish operator Telefónica, has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

Telefónica urges Europe to allow telecom consolidation

The CEO of Telefónica said it is time to allow major European telecom companies to consolidate and grow to build technological capacity BARCELONA—Spanish telco Telefónica has urged European authorities to enable consolidation in the telecommunications sector, allowing operators to scale up and strengthen their technological...

Telecom Argentina acquires Telefónica’s Argentine operation

The Argentine government announced that it will investigate the acquisition of Telefónica by Telecom to determine whether it creates a monopoly Telecom Argentina (Telecom) has finalized the acquisition of rival Telefónica de Argentina for $1.245 billion, local press reported. Telefónica operates in Argentina and other Latin...

Telefónica seeks buyer for its Mexican business: Report

Telefonica aims to finalize the sale before its annual shareholders' meeting, typically held in April or May Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica has hired investment bank JP Morgan to oversee the sale of its Mexican business, according to a report by financial newspaper Cinco Días, which...

O2 Telefónica trials 5G RedCap for German energy firms

O2 Business, the company’s enterprise division, is running live network tests of 5G RedCap in collaboration with Power Plus Communications German telco O2 Telefónica, owned by Spanish operator Telefónica, said it has become one of the first telecommunications providers to conduct a nationwide trial of...

Saudi telco STC notifies SEC it controls 9.97% of Telefónica

With this stake, STC becomes Telefónica’s second-largest shareholder in terms of voting rights The Saudi Telecom Group (STC) has informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it now controls the 9.97% stake in Spanish carrier Telefónica that was previously approved by the Spanish...

Port of Valencia kicks-off major in-house private 5G project to connect 25,000 devices

The Port of Valencia (Valenciaport) in Spain is in the process of deploying a private 5G network to connect more than 25,000 handsets, tablets, vehicles, cameras, sensors, drones, and other devices, applications, and services. It has taken a 20 MHz chunk of the local...

Telefonica achieves more than 90% 5G coverage in Spain

Telefonica said that 1,500 municipalities are currently benefitting from its 3.5 GHz coverage Spanish telco Telefonica said it currently delivers 5G coverage to more than 90% of the Spanish population. Since launching 5G in September 2020, the operator said it has been expanding its reach, ensuring...

Vivo and Nokia bring private LTE to 30 Ambev sites in Brazil

Talk about scale, right out of the gate; Vivo, the Brazilian unit of Spain-based Telefónica, has recruited Nokia to deploy private LTE (4G) networks at 30 locations belonging to Brazilian brewing company Ambev. These include factories, warehouses, and other logistics and distribution centres, it...

What does a programmable data plane mean for telco AI?

Telefonica: “I think one of the killer apps of network programmability can be ML”  Before diving into the role of a programmable data plane in supporting telco AI applications, Telefonica Research’s Senior Research Scientist Eduard Marin Fabregas provided a bit of a history lesson to...

Nokia and Vale to make private 5G data intrinsic to ‘cognitive’ OT production in mines

Nokia is putting major R&D focus on the mining industry, having won a number of deals for private 4G/5G infrastructure in the sector. Its research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, is working directly with Brazil-based mining company Value to create a “cognitive monitoring network service”...

1NCE claims record year – adds 8m IoT devices, sails past 30m

Germany-headquartered IoT MVNO 1NCE has claimed another record year, outrunning its 2023 total with eight million new cellular IoT connections in the first three quarters of 2024. The firm added seven million new “endpoints” (connected devices) in 2023, it said. It counts 30 million...

O2 Telefonica, Nokia achieve speeds of 1.7 Gbps in 5G SA test

O2 Telefonica carried out the test in the so-called Innovation Cluster in Potsdam German carrier O2 Telefonica, owned by Spanish operator Telefonica, has achieved peak download speeds of more than 1.7 Gbps by bundling four frequency bands in 5G Standalone (5G SA) mode, the telco...

O2 Telefonica deploys 1,900 5G transmitters in Germany

O2 Telefonica now reaches more than 96% of the German population with its 5G service German carrier O2 Telefónica said it has deployed a total of 1,900 transmitters across Germany since the beginning, the telco said in a release. The carrier, owned by Spanish telco...

Big-talking Sateliot raises €10m from flagship VC firm on way to €30m Series B round

Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot has raised €10 million from venture capital group Global Portfolio Investments as part of a continuing €30 million Series-B funding round, as covered here, which has also seen interest from IT and defense firm Indra Sistemas, telecoms tower company...

The top five telco-born ‘tech-cos’ in the world

Prompted by some late opportunism by Spain-based Telefónica, which has just issued a press note (widely covered) to declare itself the best telco-born ‘techco’ in Europe, six months after the research was first released, RCR Wireless has returned to the original assessment by analyst...

America Movil, Telefonica explore alliance to buy WOM

Chilean telco WOM had filed for bankruptcy in April after failing to refinance its debts América Móvi, through one of its subsidiaries, and Telefónica signed a non-binding agreement to jointly explore their potential participation in the sale process of the assets of Chilean operator WOM...

MasOrange to transfer 5G spectrum to Telefonica

Following the merger of Orange and MasMovil, MasOrange had a total of 190 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band, which exceeded the spectrum cap of 140 megahertz for that band MasOrange, Spain’s largest mobile operator as a result of the merger between local...

Millicom announces potential acquisitions in Colombia

Millicom noted that the discussions include the potential acquisition by Millicom of Telefonica’s stake in Coltel for approximately $400 million in cash Millicom and Telefonica announced that they have entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the potential combination of local carriers Telefonica...

What do brownfield operators want from Open RAN?

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone detail Open RAN interests—SMO, RIC, RAN hardware acceleration are focus areas As Open RAN has becomes mainstream, the industry focus has shifted from supplying greenfield network builds to integrating new, open radio systems into brownfield networks. For Open...

O2 Telefonica activates first energy-autonomous mobile mast

O2 Telefonica said that the new site has been deployed in Bavaria German operator O2 Telefónica has put into operation the first mobile site that operates completely independently of the general power supply. The site has been deployed in the small town of Sindlbach, in the...