Alphabet's Loon, which focuses on bringing balloon-based connectivity to remote areas, is adding former telecom executives from some of the largest mobile operators to a new advisory board focused on commercialization and network operator partnerships.
The three founding members of Loon's new advisory board include...
The Spanish carrier’s CEO said he was not satisfied with the growth levels experienced by the company over the last years
Spanish telecom giant Telefonica has unveiled “Reconnect”, an internal program aimed at boosting growth over the next three years.
Telefónica's Chairman and CEO José María...
700 MHz auction originally set for Q1 next year
The Spanish government confirmed that the auction to award spectrum in the 700 MHz band in will take place in the first months of 2020 and not in the first quarter of 2019 as it had...
The Spanish government had already awarded frequencies in the 3.6 GHz-3.9 GHz range last year
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed that the government plans to auction spectrum in the 700 MHz band in the first quarter of 2019, Spanish press reported.
The 700MHz band is...
Vodafone, Telefónica to pilot disaggregated RAN
The broad goal of the Telecom Infra Project is to take the cost out of crucial network infrastructure by disaggregating hardware and software and moving functionality onto commercial-off-the-shelf hardware. By pushing open interoperability between vendors, along with the move...
The German regulator also urged existing carriers to open up network infrastructure to MVNOs
Germany’s antitrust regulator called for a fourth mobile carrier to enter the domestic market when 5G licenses are auctioned in 2019, Reuters reported.
The Federal Cartel Office’s head Andreas Mundt suggested that...
Spanish operators Telefonica, Orange and Vodafone have secured 200 megahertz in the 3.6 GHZ-3.8 GHz band
The Spanish government raised a total of EUR 438 million ($510.2) for the sale of 5G frequencies, the country’s Ministry of Economy and Enterprise reported. The Spanish government auctioned...
The government confirmed Spain’s four mobile carrier are participating in the spectrum auction
Spain's 5G spectrum auction has already raised more than EUR 402 million ($469 million) after four days of bidding, according to the latest update from the country's economic ministry.
The Spanish government is...
Mobile operators from every region have backed the GSMA’s new IoT security guidelines. AT&T is the only US operator so far to have committed to the GSMA measures; it is joined by the leading operator brands in Europe and China.
The GSMA guidelines make 85...
Telefonica said carriers launching the technology before that year will probably need to update software and equipment
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica is unlikely to announce the commercial launch of 5G services prior to 2020 since any equipment used would have to be changed and the...
Casa System’s CEO Jerry Guo said the firm is in negotiations with these telcos to expand to new product areas
Casa Systems is in the process to deploy of small cell solutions for Sprint, Telefonica and China Mobile, the company’s CEO Jerry Guo recently said...
Nuage Networks projects highlight progress toward network slicing with data center SDN
The long-term vision of 5G includes network slicing--using virtualized network functions and software-defined networking (SDN) to enable operator networks to automatically create service-specific data pipes that precisely meet the needs of a particular...
Data from the sensors is sent to Huawei's OceanConnect IoT platform through Telefonica’s network
Huawei, Telefónica Germany, and IoT provider Q-loud have jointly launched a smart meter proof-of-concept (POC) based on NB-IoT technology for Munich airport.
The partners said that insufficient wireless signals in buildings and...
French automotive maker Groupe PSA has unveiled the first connected car from its burgeoning connectivity partnership with Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei. The new DS 7 Crossback, on display at Hannover Messe and launched in China, is based on Groupe PSA's new 'connected vehicle modular...
Software AG's Cumulocity IoT platform is to be retro-fitted to 5,000 London buses by 2021, as part of plans by the Greater London Authority to reduce carbon emissions from its public transport services. The German software company’s platform has also been added to Spanish...
Singtel, SoftBank,Etisalat and Telefónica join forces on cybersecurity
Singtel, SoftBank, Etisalat and Telefónica have joined forces in a global telco security alliance.
The companies collectively boast over 1.2 billion customers across 60 countries. The alliance’s founding members oversee 22 security operation centers, which employ more than...
Telefonica carried out the 5G trial using an autonomous minibus and technology from Ericsson
Spanish telecommunications firm Telefónica has showcased a 5G use case in Talavera de la Reina, Spain, with an EZ10 autonomous-driving, electric minibus, as part of the company’s 5G Technological Cities project...
UK carriers have paid £1.35 billion ($1.9bn) in the first stage of bidding for new 3.4 GHz radio spectrum, for use with 5G services, including high-bandwidth IoT-based concepts like autonomous driving. The new 3.4GHz allocation is the first bandwidth to be made available for...
Telefónica is offering tighter control and integration with Microsoft’s Azure IoT suite, to enable its enterprise customers using public clouds to more easily connect and manage their IoT devices.
The Spain-based carrier said customers connecting IoT devices to the Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft’s IoT management...
European network operators are prioritizing connected cars over other sectors and assets when it comes to internet of things (IoT) technologies, they have said. Both Orange and Telefónica said the opportunity and focus for them is on cars, ahead of factories and cities.
Emmanuel Routier,...
The hype surrounding the potentially transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on the telecoms industry is impossible to ignore. AI was the talk of the town at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, again, at the end of last month, as...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial sub-text in the evolution of LTE and IoT networks. The deployment of AI-driven applications among the carrier community is limited so far.
“We are at the beginning,” says Luc Bretones, executive vice president of the France-based Orange’s Technocentre...
The categorization of artificial intelligence (AI) in telecoms can be cut any number of ways. Spanish telecoms group Telefónica identifies four business needs: in business optimization, market insights, customer engagement, and business innovation. Francisco José Montalvo, director of its ‘fourth platform’ business, says these...
Blockchain, 5G and private LTE are key to Telefónica industrial digitalization strategy
Telcos like Telefónica are in the interesting position of going through internal digital transformation while simultaneously turning those key learnings into new products offered on top of operators' networks. Whether internal- or external-facing...
