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...
Under the new deal, enterprise customers of Telefonica and China Unicom will be able to offer IoT services in China, Europe and Latin America
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica and China Unicom have signed an agreement in the field of internet of things (IoT). Under the...
Furthering the Industry 4.0 movement, Telefónica has teamed up with car maker SEAT and car-parts maker Ficosa to showcase an IoT-based supply-chain and manufacturing concept for the automotive industry.
The demo, one of many industrial IoT concepts from telecoms operators and vendors at Mobile...
Huawei highlighted the testbed is a step forward towards the commercialization of 5G services
Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica and vendor Huawei have completed what the companies claim to be the world’s first proof-of-concept (PoC) testbed for 5G based vehicle communication networks (5G-V2X) in their joint...
Nokia said key technologies including Massive MIMO and URLLC will be tested at the new center
Nokia and Telefónica Germany have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a joint 5G innovation cluster. The two partners said this initiative will allow them to test...
The telco will deploy 5G capabilities in two Spanish cities in cooperation with Nokia and Ericsson
Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica has unveiled its 5G technological cities project, which will pave the way for the future deployment of 5G technology in Spain. Under this initiative, Telefonica has...
Huawei and Telefónica finish T-SDN tests
Spain-based telecom provider Telefónica and Chinese smartphone maker Huawei announced they have successfully finished laboratory tests on the T-SDN (Transport Software-Defined Network) solution. The aim of the test was to demonstrate that the controller can incorporate improvements for the...
After launching its 5G modem chip early this year, Intel has announced plans to commercialize the technology in 2019. The company said its XMMTM 8060 modem is already making 5G calls using spectrum in the 28 GHz band.
The XMMTM 8060 will support both sub-6GHz...
In Argentina Movistar tests 5G in 28 GHz band
Continuing to work with global operators to test 5G networking technologies, Ericsson is working with Argentinian operator Movistar to understand 5G propagation characteristics in the 28 GHz millimeter wave frequency band.
Based on a test conducted in...
Deal with Spanish car maker Seat will focus on 5G for enablement of smart manufacturing processes for automotive
Spanish telco Telefonica has signed an agreement with compatriot car maker SEAT to develop innovative initiatives in the automotive industry. The agreement reached, which makes Telefónica a...
Telefonica Chile chooses Ericsson to complete virtualization of core network
Telefonica, the biggest mobile network operator and internet service provider in Chile, announced it has chosen Ericsson to finish the virtualization of the operator’s core network.
Telefonica said completely virtualizing its core network will help the...
Under the 'Thinx’ program, the Spanish telco plans to open IoT labs in Europe and Latin America
Spanish telecom operator Telefonica has launched what it calls "The Thinx," an initiative to promote an open ecosystem for the development of internet of things (IoT) through experimentation...
The two companies said they will also focus on the verification of end-to-end 5G solutions
Chinese vendor ZTE and Spanish telecoms groupTelefonica announced the successful completion
of the first phase of a 5G transport test at the Spanish operator's Future Networks Lab in Madrid.
In the test,...
Project will test 5G for verticals
Nokia and Russian telecommunications operator Rostelecom have signed an agreement to set up a 5G pilot zone in Russia The 5G pilot zone will be located within the Skolkovo Innovation Center, which is a high tech business area that is...
Mobile network operators will assist Alphabet
Project Loon, the ambitious project launched by Google parent Alphabet to use balloons to deliver internet service, will get a real-life test in Puerto Rico. The Federal Communications Commission has given Alphabet the green light to use the balloons...
SÃO PAULO –“While we are celebrating 20 years in Brazil, we should prepare for the next 20 years, in a scenario where data traffic doubles annually. Therefore, we need to reinvent ourselves to become a digital telco, looking at digitalization, big data, cloud computing,...
The firm has integrated IBM's Watson IoT platform and IBM Cloud services into its service offering
Arrow Electronics has integrated IBM's Watson internet of things (IoT) platform and IBM Cloud services into Arrow's ideation-to-production services. With this new offering, Arrow's customers in Asia Pacific will...
Telefonica CTO talks NB-IoT, LTE-M, smart city deployments, and notes, "5G will be triggered by IoT
SHANGHAI--Spanish telecoms group Telefonica is seeing growing opportunities in a number of specific IoT uses cases in the domestic market including smart cities and e-health, among others, the operator’s...
The Spanish telco said initial 5G launch in the United Kingdom will be followed by deployments in Spain and Germany
SHANGHAI--The U.K. will likely be the first market to see 5G services from Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica, the operator’s global CTO Enrique Blanco told reporters...
ZTE sees growing opportunities in the virtualization space in emerging markets
SHANGHAI- Chinese vendor ZTE expects to end 2017 with approximately 300 commercial/POC virtualized networks globally, the company’s Principal Scientists of NFV/SDN solutions, told reporters during a press conference at Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
The executives...
Cloud RAN is 'ultimate end-game' of centralized RAN
Deciphering the alphabet soup of acronyms used to described telecom networks is a daunting task made no less difficult by the introduction of the term C-RAN, used to described both a cloud-based radio access network and a...
Under the deal, the NetComm will supply a range of 3G/4G M2M/IoT devices to Telefonica
Australian company NetComm Wireless and Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica have signed an IoT device supply agreement. The deal will allow NetComm to further strengthen its presence in the U.S. and...
